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    Three map lovers take on a team from Wales.

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  • Love and Death in City Hall - Preview: Sammy registers his father's death

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    The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars

     

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    A collection of programmes dating back to the 1950s, available online to watch in full.

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    An illegal African immigrant is shot dead by a policeman who then disappears.

    90 mins
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    60 mins
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    The Man Who Shot Beautiful Women

  • Only Connect, Series 7 - 2. Cartophiles v Celts

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    Three map lovers take on a team from Wales.

    30 mins
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    Only Connect

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  • 50s Britannia, 1. Rock 'n' Roll Britannia

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  • Concerto at the BBC Proms, Mendelssohn Violin

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    Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, performed by violin soloist Janine…

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    Documentary looking at Britain's post-war infatuation with old New Orleans jazz.

    60 mins
    21:00 - 22:00

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    Classic moments brought to the screen by Kenny Everett's stable of wacky…

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  • Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited, The First Anglo-Saxons

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