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  • 2024
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    Arena

    Arena

    6.71 2024 HD

    Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2017
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    Timeshift

    Timeshift

    7.00 2017 HD

    Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2024
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    Shetland

    Shetland

    7.53 2024 HD

    Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Ashley Jensen

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  • 2025
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    Only Connect

    Only Connect

    6.40 2025 HD

    The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where...

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    Cast: Victoria Coren Mitchell

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  • 2025
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    BBC Proms

    BBC Proms

    7.70 2025 HD

    The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...

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  • 2011
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    Legends

    Legends

    5.00 2011 HD

    The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 1998
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    Performance

    Performance

    6.00 1998 HD

    An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

    Genre: Drama

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  • 2024
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    Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

    Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

    5.10 2024 HD

    The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2024
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    Tales of the Tardis

    Tales of the Tardis

    4.40 2024 HD

    Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time.

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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  • 2011
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    Lead Balloon

    Lead Balloon

    7.63 2011 HD

    Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jack Dee

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  • 2013
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    Transatlantic Sessions

    Transatlantic Sessions

    10.00 2013 HD

    Folk musicians from both sides of the Atlantic come together in what have been called “the greatest backporch shows ever.” Collaborative...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Aly Bain

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  • 2006
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    Days That Shook the World

    Days That Shook the World

    6.30 2006 HD

    Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2013
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    Spies of Warsaw

    Spies of Warsaw

    6.60 2013 HD

    A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: David Tennant

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  • 2015
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    Up the Women

    Up the Women

    6.30 2015 HD

    It's 1910 and we're in Banbury church hall at the Banbury Intricate Craft Circle. Margaret has been to London and discovered the Women's Suffrage...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jessica Hynes

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  • 2025
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    The Sky at Night

    The Sky at Night

    8.31 2025 HD

    Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy with the latest thinking on what's out there in space and what you can see...

    Genre: Documentary

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  • 2017
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    Detectorists

    Detectorists

    8.16 2017 HD

    The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Mackenzie Crook

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  • 2010
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    We Need Answers

    We Need Answers

    8.00 2010 HD

    We Need Answers is a British television panel game presented by comedians Mark Watson, Tim Key and Alex Horne. The show features a pair of...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tim Key

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  • 2012
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    The Thick of It

    The Thick of It

    8.01 2012 HD

    Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Capaldi

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  • 2016
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    The Code

    The Code

    7.11 2016 HD

    The Code is a drama series which tells tells the story of two brothers who discover some information that those at the highest levels of political...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Dan Spielman

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  • 2017
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    Queers.

    Queers.

    6.00 2017 HD

    A series of eight monologues set in the same pub over many years of gay history in response to the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alan Cumming

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