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

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    Julian Richards returns to the excavation of two early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries.

    60 mins
    20:00 - 21:00

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    20:00 - 21:00 Stories from the Dark Earth: Meet the Ancestors Revisited

    The First Anglo-Saxons

    20:00 - 21:00

    Julian Richards returns to the excavation of two early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries.

  • Love and Death in City Hall

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    The ins and outs of Belfast City Hall's registry of births, marriages and…

    59 mins
    Love and Death in City Hall

     

  • TV blog - Love and Death in City Hall

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    Director Guy King: "Registrars are remarkable people – ticket inspectors on life’s rollercoaster."

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    Love and Death in City Hall 

  • The Flying Archaeologist, 4. The Thames: Secret War

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    Ben Robinson reveals the newly discovered network of trenches on the Hoo…

    30 mins
    The Flying Archaeologist

    4. The Thames: Secret War

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

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    Three map lovers take on a team from Wales.

    30 mins
    Only Connect

    Series 7 - 2. Cartophiles v Celts

  • Archaeology Collection - The BBC's first steps into archaeology

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

    Archaeology Collection

    The BBC's first steps into archaeology 

  • The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars

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    Archaeologists examine a labyrinth built by British troops beneath the Somme…

    60 mins
    1
    The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars

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

    Episode

    Three map lovers take on a team from Wales.

    30 mins
    2
    Only Connect

    Series 7 - 2. Cartophiles v Celts

  • The Damned United

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    The story of Brian Clough's 44-day stint as manager of Leeds United Football…

    90 mins
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    The Damned United

  • Arne Dahl, Many Waters - Part 1

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

    90 mins
    4
    Arne Dahl

    Many Waters - Part 1

  • The Man Who Shot Beautiful Women

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    Documentary about the influential 20th-century fashion photographer Erwin…

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    The Man Who Shot Beautiful Women

  • I, Claudius, 10. Fool's Luck

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    To his astonishment, Claudius has been proclaimed emperor by the Praetorian…

    55 mins
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    I, Claudius

    10. Fool's Luck

  • Smokey Dives

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    Documentary showing how drab post-war Britain was enlivened by the trad-jazz…

    60 mins
    22:40 - 23:40

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    22:40 - 23:40 Smokey Dives

     

  • Jazz 625

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    New Orleans clarinettist George Lewis with Acker Bilk's Paramount Jazz Band.

    40 mins
    22:00 - 22:40

    On Friday 22:00

    22:00 - 22:40 Jazz 625

     

  • Arne Dahl, Many Waters - Part 2

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    Kerstin Holm tries to track down missing police officer Dag Lundmark on her own.

    90 mins
    21:00 - 22:30

    On Saturday 21:00

    21:00 - 22:30 Arne Dahl

    Many Waters - Part 2

  • Top of the Pops, 25/05/1978

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    With Blondie, Heatwave, Tavares, Black Sabbath, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and…

    30 mins
    19:30 - 20:00

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    25/05/1978

  • British Masters, In Search of England

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    James Fox examines British art in the interwar years.

    60 mins
    20:00 - 21:00

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    20:00 - 21:00 British Masters

    In Search of England

  • Symphony, Genesis and Genius

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    Simon Russell Beale takes a look at the symphonic works of Haydn, Mozart and…

    60 mins
    20:00 - 21:00

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    Genesis and Genius

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