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• Wed 29 May

  • 19:05
    

    Na Drobhairean Episode 5

    5/6 Sreath air na Drobhairean Albannach. The drovers and drove roads of Scotland.

    BBC ALBA

  • 20:00
    

    Dan Cruickshank's Written in Stone Forts and Castles

    1/4 How invasion and conflict shaped Ulster's landscape until the end of the 17th century.

    BBC Four

  • 20:30
    

    Dan Cruickshank's Written in Stone Country Houses

    2/4 Dan Cruickshank explores the rise of the country house in 18th century Ulster.

    BBC Four

  • 21:00
    

    Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome Episode 1

    1/3 How Augustus's wife Livia's influence was felt across the Roman world for over 60 years.

    BBC Four

  • 21:00
    

    The Iraq War Regime Change

    1/3 How did the US and Britain become convinced that Saddam possessed WMD's?

    BBC Two except Scotland

  • 22:00
    

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    The People's Songs Can't Get You Out of My Head - Manufactured Pop and Svengalis

    How a diminutive Aussie soap star went from actress to diva and reinvented bubblegum pop.

    BBC Radio 2

  • 22:45
    

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    The Essay Life in Fragments: Stories from the Cairo Genizah, Women

    3/5 Melonie Schmierer-Lee discovers the varying fortunes of women in medieval Cairo.

    BBC Radio 3

  • 23:15
    

    The Golden Age of Steam Railways Branching Out

    2/2 How volunteers got together to save some of the tracks and the engines that ran on them.

    BBC Four

  • 23:20
    

    The Iraq War Regime Change

    1/3 How did the US and Britain become convinced that Saddam possessed WMD's?

    BBC Two Scotland only

• Thu 30 May

  • 00:15
    

    The Dark Ages: An Age of Light The Clash of the Gods

    1/4 How Christianity emerged into the Roman Empire as an artistic force in the third century.

    BBC Four