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• Wed 22 May

  • 23:15
    

    The Golden Age of Steam Railways Small is Beautiful

    1/2 How a band of visionaries rescued narrow gauge railways that once served our industries.

    BBC Four

• Thu 23 May

  • 01:10
    

    Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

    2/3 Explores the medical histories of the later Stuarts to the rise of the Hanoverians.

    BBC Two except Northern Ireland

  • 01:40
    

    Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

    2/3 Explores the medical histories of the later Stuarts to the rise of the Hanoverians.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland only

  • 01:45
    

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

    4/4 Julian Richards returns to the excavation of two early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries.

    BBC Four

  • 09:00
    

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    In Our Time Levi-Strauss

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.

    BBC Radio 4

  • 08:06 GMT
    

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    Assignment Guns and Mental Health in America

    The toxic mix of gun addiction and mental health in America.

    BBC World Service

  • 14:15
    

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    Cosmic Quest The Milky Way

    17/30 Heather considers the struggle to develop knowledge about our own galaxy.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  • 14:32 GMT
    

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    Assignment Guns and Mental Health in America

    The toxic mix of gun addiction and mental health in America.

    BBC World Service

  • 19:06 GMT
    

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    Assignment Guns and Mental Health in America

    The toxic mix of gun addiction and mental health in America.

    BBC World Service

  • 21:00
    

    The Last Days of Anne Boleyn

    Documentary exploring the dramatic downfall and execution of Anne Boleyn in 1536.

    BBC Two