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It is June, and the team need to give the sheep a good wash in a local stream. (R)

Rosie Newman, who shot some of the most important colour documentary footage of the 1930s. (R)

How Spain is exhuming bodies from mass graves, the legacy of Franco's dictatorship. (R)

Traditions of the family and friends who visit the graves of Americans killed in combat. (R)

Simon Russell Beale visits Notre Dame and finds the key to the development of polyphony. (R)

Simon Russell Beale explores Renaissance Rome and the music of the enigmatic Palestrina. (R)

Thomas Tallis and William Byrd were important composers in England's musical Renaissance. (R)

How Martin Luther had a profound effect on the development of sacred music. (R)

How Spain is exhuming bodies from mass graves, the legacy of Franco's dictatorship. (R)