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- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
- Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.
- Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.
- In 1930s Shanghai, a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd--and sometimes illicit--jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
- A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for two million dollars.
- Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of one of the most daring operations of World War II - the Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire in France on 28th March 1942. It was an operation so heroic that it resulted in the award of five Victoria Crosses and 80 other decorations for gallantry.
- A documentary charting the birth and growth of the Scottish nation.
- The final two months of the life of media tycoon Robert Maxwell.
- David Attenborough explores Charles Darwin's controversial theory of evolution by natural selection.
- A docudrama biopic of the 19th-century author Charles Dickens
- In late 1944, a lone German unit is forced to take refuge in an old fort. But there is no rest from war.
- Drama about domestic violence in a cosy middle-class relationship starring Hermione Norris and Mark Strong. First aired on Channel 4 won Bafta awards for Best New Writer and Best New Fiction Director.
- Rachel's developing adolescent shape is a problem at a top ballet school. Michael, a local schoolboy, is struggling with his exams. Their chance encounter leads Michael on a mission that takes him where adult analysis is all that counts.
- Stonehenge Decoded presents world-renowned archaeologists as they reveal a revolutionary new theory about who built Stonehenge and why.
- Lucy Worsley gets into bed with our past monarchs to uncover the Tales from the Royal Bedchamber. She reveals that our obsession with royal bedrooms, births and succession is nothing new. In fact, the rise and fall of their magnificent beds reflects the changing fortunes of the monarchy itself.
- Series which uses archaeology to shed light on history.
- A British Army Captain's struggle to find a French prisoner, illegally captured in the recently ended Seven Years War. However, he must first overcome other, more personal, trials before confronting the truth.
- The TV series investigates whether 21st century science supports the case for a creator or, instead, removes it. Atheists and theists battle for the truth and ultimately the viewer decides.
- Art historian Dr Janina Ramirez and angler John Bailey go in search of the origins and ethos of the 18th-century English Landscape movement along a 12-mile stretch of the River Thames.
- Documentary taking a fresh look at the murder of the medieval bishop, and suggesting that established historical treatments of the killing fall short of explaining why Becket was murdered, and on whose orders. Featuring powerful dramatisations and contributions from eminent scholars, the film tells a compelling story of the battle between State and Church.
- It's one of the wonders of the prehistoric world, but its purpose remains a mystery. Follow one ambitious team's attempt to replicate Stonehenge as it was 4,000 years ago to understand how the ancient stone circle was built and why.
- The untold story of a legendary cinema.
- In a secret facility long forgotten by the Government, a determined Scientist experiments with a new way of rehabilitating prisoners...
- Es ist die Geschichte eines historischen Verrats und seiner blutigen Folgen: Der filigran bestickte Teppich von Bayeux zeigt minuziös das Geschehen, das 1066 zur Schlacht bei Hastings führt, bei der der normannische Herzog Wilhelm den angelsächsischen König Harald II. besiegt und den englischen Thron erobert. Bestsellerautor Ken Follett, der den Teppich für seine historischen Romane eingehend studiert hat, sieht in der lebendigen Darstellung den ersten Zeichentrickfilm der Geschichte - entstanden in einer Zeit, als in Europa die Königreiche der Ritter erblühten. Der bald tausend Jahre alten textilen Geschichtsstunde - eine National-Ikone Frankreichs - werden zusehends fast magische Qualitäten zugesprochen: Schon Napoleon wollte seinen Generälen anhand des Teppichs beweisen, dass die Eroberung Englands weiterhin möglich sei. Weitgehend unbekannt hingegen ist, dass die Nazis es auf den Teppich abgesehen hatten, nachdem Hitlers Armee 1940 Frankreich besetzt hatte. Für sie galt Wilhelm der Eroberer als Verkörperung des eigenen Heldenideals. Der D-Day der Alliierten im Juni 1944 vereitelte in letzter Sekunde den Plan, den Teppich nach Deutschland zu entführen. Der vor dem neusten Stand der Wissenschaft mit aufwendigen Spielszenen und neu entdecktem Archivmaterial realisierte Film des preisgekrönten Dokumentarfilmers Wilfried Hauke spielt über Ort und Zeit verteilt: in der Normandie zur Zeit Wilhelms und seiner Frau Mathilde von Flandern, auf dem Schlachtfeld von Hastings 1066, in der napoleonischen Ära und im Zweiten Weltkrieg, als sich in Frankreich das Ende von Hitler-Deutschland anbahnt.
- It is 500 years since the Reformation, when England broke away from the authority of the Catholic Church. This is the story of three books at the heart of the schism. Presented by Dr Janina Ramirez.
- Giving is the story of Lewis Taylor, an icon in his own mind who sets out to do something creative, something good. After he is inspired by a giant street-art mural, Lewis is gripped by an artistic drive which causes him to run away and start work on his piece, leaving his girlfriend Josie standing in open-mouthed astonishment. What follows is a look at the importance of intention in art and the difficulty of getting outside yourself as the centre of the universe in order to see the water in which you swim.
- The British history series continues with the story of Edward I - known by many as the villainous king in the Hollywood film Braveheart - who tried to force English rule on Scotland and Wales.
- 1989–199424m7.6 (39)TV EpisodeMarian arrives in medieval Worksop and tries to sell her pet tadpole Edwina to vain tailor Robin of Kensington who has just finished making the Royal Underpants for King John. Rastafarian Barrington and grubby Rabies are being punished by the sheriff and in the confusion the tadpole ends up in Rabies' nose. Along with violent dwarf Little Ron Marian persuades Robin to use the Royal Underpants to get them into John's castle to save Rabies, Barrington and Edwina - which they do. However Robin has to pull his hood over his face as the king recognises him. He earns himself the name of Robin Hood but the group are now outlaws and as such, Marian tells them, it is their duty to rob the rich and help the poor. They are not wholly convinced.
- It's Pancake Day in the land, and every seems to be celebrating, except King John, who is relentlessly in pursuit of Robin Hood.
- Fed up with the merry men's sexist attitudes Marian quits the gang and teams up with Rose, who is selling home improvements, including a flat pack extension for the castle in which John can put Guy's many toys. Rose, of course, is planning to deliver Marian and her men to the sheriff and lures them into the dungeons. However Marian escapes and ends up in the extension, which promptly collapses. Feeling ashamed of themselves the lads invite Marian back as their leader though Rose prefers to stay in the dungeons rather than become their au pair.
- Marian is alarmed when her Mum comes to visit as she has led her to believe that she is a dental receptionist so the merry men dress as dentists and turn their den into a surgery. The sheriff sends Mum a note to meet him for a date, hoping to capture her and use her as bait to trap the outlaws. However a suspicious Marian goes instead and is promptly caught. The Countess of Luxemburg has arrived to marry Guy so the merry men seize her and replace her with Mum, to gain bargaining power and secure Marian's release. Mum is actually taken by the sheriff but eventually she has to go back to Scarborough, where she is a member of the local freedom fighters' band.
- When the villagers catch colds the sheriff takes them to the seaside but, once there, forces them to build him and the king a holiday camp in time to celebrate High Forks Night. This commemorates a failed attempt to kill the Royal family which caused forks to go flying up in the air. The merry men are holidaying nearby and so Marian dresses as the food inspector, allowing her and her gang to infiltrate the camp, where they tell the villagers to feign having the Multi-Coloured Pimple Plague in order to escape. The sheriff intervenes, accidentally causing an explosion which sends the forks flying all right but also burns down the camp, allowing the outlaws and the villagers to return to Worksop.
- 1989–199424m8.1 (33)TV EpisodeRobin accidentally fires an arrow into the sheriff's hat,leading him to believe that he is a fine archer and so King John arranges an archery contest in Worksop to flush Robin out. Against Marian's advice he goes- but in disguise,as Robert the Giant Chicken. His archery is rubbish but he gets captured anyway and it is down to Marian to win the contest -scoring 180 with three arrows - and use her prize,the silver arrow, to get Robin released. Back in the forest though the Merry Men still feel that her place is in the kitchen and that Robin should be leader.
- Marian is unsettled to see her sneaky ex-schoolmate 'Rotten' Rose Scargill cosying up to Robin and tells Rose the reality of their situation as outlaws. Rose then betrays both Marian and Robin to the sheriff and they are caught and imprisoned. From the window of the torture chamber Robin sees Marian appearing to be friendly with Guy. In fact Guy has a crush on her and is trying to force himself on her but Robin misunderstands the situation and believes Marian has betrayed him.
- A rival gang arrives in Worksop, led by the Australian Beast of Bolsover and his nephew the Nuisance of Nuneaton. They refuse to leave unless they are paid twenty five gold pieces or someone defeats the Beast in a fight. The merry men capture the sheriff, who is suffering from amnesia, and when John refuses the ransom, Marian persuades the sheriff that he is one of her gang and gets him to fight the Beast.When Rabies accidentally knocks Robin's wardrobe out of a tree it falls on the sheriff,who remembers who he is as a result and arrests the Beast and his mob.
- The sheriff has a giant jelly baby in the likeness of King John made to give him as a present but the merry men steal it. In order to cut his losses and find another gift for the king, the sheriff tells the villagers that it is the festival of Bloopie when they must give presents to Father Bloopie, alias King John. When he has them all in the castle the sheriff plans to keep them until he gets presents from them but they are rescued by the merry men, using the jelly baby as a battering ram before they eat it.
- 1989–199424m8.2 (26)TV EpisodeKing John's uncle dies but all he leaves him is a hot water bottle which John unsuccessfully tries to auction in Worksop. The king loses the hot water bottle when he falls in the river and it is found by Robin. Back at the castle the sheriff finds a note from John's uncle in his tights,revealing that the hot water bottle contains gold pieces but by the time he has retrieved it Robin has removed all the money.
- 1989–199424m8.6 (19)TV EpisodeThe gang are suffering from insomnia and keeping everybody else awake so Gladys gives them a cure, Sleepy Cake, though it only succeeds in making them look like the Beatles. Gladys says her father knows a cure but he is a prisoner in King John's castle so the merry men set out to rescue him.They get him out, though not only do Marian and Robin get caught in the process but the old boy wants to go back to the castle as he is used to being a prisoner. He does however give them the antidote and Rabies and the remaining merry men, posing as Pixie Paul and His Little Wife Linda, give Guy a Sleepy Cake and exchange Marian and robin for Gladys's father. Once they have used the antidote they all return to normal except for Robin who uses it incorrectly and turns into a dog.
- It's time for Isabel to break her tragic news to Beth. Can Will divide his personal and professional views when he asked to stand for the local council?