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  • 2019
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    Cyprus Avenue

    Cyprus Avenue

    9.00 2019 HD

    David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old granddaughter for Gerry Adams.

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  • 2002
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    Ragtime

    Ragtime

    1 2002 HD

    A new production of EL Doctorow's historical novel, recorded at the Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre. Broadcast as part of BBC4's America Night.

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  • 2008
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    Hancock & Joan

    Hancock & Joan

    4.10 2008 HD

    Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career.

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  • 2016
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    Bricks!

    Bricks!

    8.00 2016 HD

    In 1976, the Tate Gallery exhibited an experimental artwork that became a national sensation - Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII, or, to its detractors, 120 bricks laid on the floor. This documentary explores the origins of Andre's work and the extraordinary fallout from its exhibition.

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  • 2009
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    Synth Britannia

    Synth Britannia

    7.90 2009 HD

    Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.

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  • 2012
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    Punk Britannia at the BBC

    Punk Britannia at the BBC

    1 2012 HD

    An archive celebration of studio performances from the British bands that broke through courtesy of punk between 1975 and 1982. Starting with Dr Feelgood and Eddie and the Hot Rods and culminating in Gang of Four, with performances from Top of the Pops, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Something Else and other shows by The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, The Damned, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many more. Hey ho, let's go!

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  • 2018
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    The Dead Room

    The Dead Room

    5.70 2018 HD

    Set and filmed at the iconic Maida Vale studios, The Dead Room tells the story of a long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter and national treasure Aubrey Judd. But times are changing. Tastes are shifting. There’s a new young producer. Whatever happened to the classic ghost stories? The good old days? Aubrey soon discovers that all is not quiet in the eerie radio studio and that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped…

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  • 2013
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    4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog

    4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog

    1 2013 HD

    Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a 4,000-year-old body that was preserved in a peat bog in Cashel in the Irish midlands

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  • 2008
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    Memento Mori

    Memento Mori

    1 2008 HD

    Profile of the band who has helped to save Irish traditional music from disappearing, spreading its sound and popularity across the world for more than four decades. Featuring interviews with the current four members - fiddler Sean Keane, vocalist and bodhran player Kevin Conneff, flautist Matt Molloy and band leader Paddy Moloney, who plays pipes and whistle - and tributes from fans including Keith Richards, Sting, Elvis Costello, Sir James Galway and Andrea Corr.

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  • 2014
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    Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II

    Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II

    7.40 2014 HD

    Deep Purple is one of the most influential and important guitar bands in history, one of the godfathers of the heavy metal genre, with over 100 million album sales worldwide to their name. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Deep Purple's groundbreaking double live album Made in Japan, this documentary explores these recordings and Deep Purple Mark 2, the line-up between 1969 and 1973.

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  • 2018
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    Synth & Beyond

    Synth & Beyond

    1 2018 HD

    New Order's Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert unpack a playlist of electro, pop and new wave classics spanning four decades. Stephen and Gillian have been married for 24 years and have been in New Order together for even longer, but they still manage to surprise one another with their musical tastes. While Stephen declares Captain Beefheart an early influence, Gillian confesses her teenage love for a disco classic. During an hour of top tunes, Stephen also reveals the moment he was mistaken for Stevie Wonder, and Gillian recalls how her Dad was a fan of punk. From Kraftwerk to Can, David Bowie to Kate Bush, Magazine to Grace Jones and many more, this stellar playlist by Stephen and Gillian is brimming with iconic performances.

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  • 2013
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    The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution

    The Genius of Turner: Painting the Industrial Revolution

    7.00 2013 HD

    A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his sublime landscapes - he also painted machines, science, technology and industry. Turner's life spans the Industrial Revolution, he witnessed it as it unfolded and he painted it. In the process he created a whole new kind of art. The programme examines nine key Turner paintings and shows how we should re-think them in the light of the scientific and Industrial Revolution. Includes interviews with historian Simon Schama and artist Tracey Emin.

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  • 2006
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    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

    Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

    6.10 2006 HD

    Kenneth Williams was the star of the Carry Ons and Round the Horne. Despite his fame, he led a life full of mental torture as he tried to overcome his homosexuality in 1950s Britain. This film follows his life and eventual death based on the many diaries he kept

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  • 2013
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    Planet Ant: Life Inside The Colony

    Planet Ant: Life Inside The Colony

    8.83 2013 HD

    Ant colonies are one of the wonders of nature: complex, organised… and mysterious. This programme reveals the secret, underground world of the ant colony, in a way that’s never been seen before. At its heart is a massive, full-scale ant nest, specially designed and built to allow cameras to see its inner workings. The nest is a new home for a million-strong colony of leafcutter ants from Trinidad. For a month, entomologist Dr George McGavin and leafcutter expert Prof Adam Hart capture every aspect of the life of the colony, using time-lapse cameras, microscopes, microphones and radio tracking technology. The programme explores how these tiny insects can achieve such spectacular feats of collective organisation. It also reveals the workings of one of the most complex and mysterious societies in the natural world – and shows the surprising ways in which ants are helping us solve global problems.

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  • 2016
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    The Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue at Royal Albert Hall

    The Kacey Musgraves Country & Western Rhinestone Revue at Royal Albert Hall

    9.00 2016 HD

    Kacey Musgraves performing her Country & Western Rhinestone Revue Tour at the Royal Albert Hall.

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  • 2013
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    The World's Most Beautiful Eggs: The Genius of Carl Faberge

    The World's Most Beautiful Eggs: The Genius of Carl Faberge

    5.00 2013 HD

    Stephen Smith explores the extraordinary life and work of the virtuoso jeweller Carl Faberge. He talks to HRH Prince Michael of Kent about Faberge items in the Royal Collection and to Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, who spent $100 million acquiring nine exquisite Faberge eggs. The bejewelled trinkets Faberge made for the last tsars of Russia in the twilight of their rule have become some of the most sought-after treasures in the world, sometimes worth millions. Smith follows in Faberge's footsteps, from the legendary Green Vaults in Dresden to the palaces of the tsars and the corridors of the Kremlin museum, as he discovers how this fin de siecle genius transformed his father's modest business into the world's most famous supplier of luxury items.

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  • 2004
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    The Making of King Arthur

    The Making of King Arthur

    8.70 2004 HD

    Short documentary of the making of Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2004).

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  • 2014
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    Under Milk Wood

    Under Milk Wood

    6.00 2014 HD

    An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with National Theatre Wales, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth. The plot reveals the innermost thoughts of the residents of the small, Welsh fishing village Llareggub as it delves into the dreams of various townspeople including blind sailor Captain Cat, who is haunted by visions of drowned shipmates, Mog Edwards and Myfanwy Price, who dream of each other, and Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard, who dreams of her former husbands.

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  • 2019
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    Martin's Close

    Martin's Close

    5.60 2019 HD

    A young squire accused of murdering a young girl that did not return his feelings of love reveals a supernatural secret at his trial.

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  • 2020
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    Tutankhamun In Colour

    Tutankhamun In Colour

    8.00 2020 HD

    The BBC version of "King Tut In Color" documentary. A century after the world’s most exciting archaeological find - the tomb of Tutankhamun - we can witness the dramatic scenes of its discovery and marvel at its extraordinary treasures exactly as they were then, in colour.

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