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- Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
- Encompassed by violent street gangs, neglectful parents, bullying teachers and a dearth of positive role models, a studious but emotionally abandoned kid turns thug.
- Two retired gentleman share a house together , always competing for the affections of their attractive neighbour Sally
- A documentary charting the birth and growth of the Scottish nation.
- A black comedy sketch show written by some of the newest names, performed by some of the oldest talent. Cast members include Melvyn Hayes, Roy Barraclough, Julie Goodyear and Nicholas Smith.
- Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.
- A history of the growth and development of art in Scotland, focusing on the most famous figures from David Wilkie and Robert Adam through Charles Rennie Mackintosh and others
- Archaeologist and writer Neil Oliver presents a series on the golden age of exploration, charting the routes of contact that drew together the farthest reaches of the world. Neil Oliver follows in the footsteps of four Scottish explorers who planted ideas rather than flags - ideas that shaped the modern world we know today.
- A stylish 3 part series about millennial living in contemporary homes
- Cannon and Ball feature as two soldiers in the war, plus there's a series of regular characters: a movie-obsessed farmer; a kinky antiques dealer; incompetent chatshow host Dave Davids; Sheila, the demanding mother; and a man buried alive.
- Featuring Maddie, the wife who has to know every detail; the prisoner who's desperate to break out; the most unsuccessful parachute organisation; the man with a lost wife; and a funeral for a ventriloquist.
- Featuring Ron, the world's worst shoulder to cry on, along with a priest who doubts all evidence of Christ. Also appearing are special guests Michael Redmond, and Anna Karen as a gonk-obsessed office worker.
- Featuring a heated battle between two halves of a pantomime horse, the reminisces of two homeless drunks and a modern day Sisyphus. Meanwhile, the farmer introduces his sheep to the rules of "Farm Club".
- Included this week are a man haunted by visions of the grim reaper, a barrister who can't stop falling asleep, and a man who wants to end it all - if only he can find a pen for his suicide note.
- Tom and Roy are two grumpy pensioners sharing a house and lusting after next door neighbour Sally, though the feeling is not mutual. When Sally throws a party hoping to match her son with Tom's daughter Amber, the gents are happy to help in the hopes that this will ingratiate them with Sally, But then Tom falls over and Roy's time is occupied in looking after him, and when they actually make it to the party,both are caught short and discovered in an embarrassing situation by Sally.
- A depressed Roy goes to see a therapist and tells him about his frustrating unrequited love for Sally. Unfortunately the therapist, Ned, and Sally actually meet and are attracted to each other. To make matters worse,Roy has been acting as Sally's campaign manager in her bid to save the local post office from closing and at the celebratory party who should turn up to take Sally's attention from him but Ned?
- Amber is anxious to get in with her new boss,Marianne, who is a keen cyclist but she never learnt to ride a bike as a child so Roy agrees to teach her. Tom is of course jealous but discovers that a lump sum would be added to his pension if he was married. Since none of the women from his past offer any hope he bribes Sally to marry him. Things start well but inevitably he ends up single again.
- When Mark, an old flame of Sally's, moves in with her Tom feels doubly isolated as Roy gets on very well with him and to make matters worse his daughter Amber wants to know why he has never said he loves her. Sally and Amber discover that they are both fans of the poetry of W.H.Auden whose 'Funeral Blues' Tom claims to know off by heart. Unfortunately this is about to be put to the test.
- Sally suggests the old guys might like to have a holiday away from it all in a Scottish croft she would have stayed in with Mark had he not died. Tom is bored to tears and asks Amber to visit them and bring some DVDs. Having just split with her boyfriend Steve, Sally's son, Amber picks up Malcolm, a local ,in the pub and brings him back to the croft. However Sally and Steve arrive unexpectedly and Roy has to ensure Steve does not find out about Malcolm - as well as coping with the fact that he thinks the croft is haunted. Roy makes his play for Sally, asking her to move to the country permanently with him but she only sees him as a friend.
- Having been celibate for many years and appreciating that he will get nowhere with Sally, Roy goes to Soho and visits Katia, a prostitute from Belarus. Amber has a crush on Phil, the handsome vicar, and takes Tom to church with her. Tom has also started seeing Katia and finds it hard to balance with being a church-goer. Eventually Roy and Tom each discover that Katia has been pleasuring them both. Will they fall out over her or will they carry on living together as two ill-matched old guys?
- Investigating how the psychological state of Dennis Nilsen, who killed at least 15 men and boys, was approached by the judiciary and media, after the serial killer claimed he committed the murders in a trance.
- Michael begins with the story of one of the great upheavals in human history - how we came to understand that our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos, but just one of billions of bodies in a vast and expanding universe. He reveals the critical role of medieval astrologers in changing our view of the heavens, and the surprising connections to the upheavals of the Renaissance, the growth of coffee shops and Californian oil and railway barons. Michael shows how important the practical skills of craftsmen have been to this story and finds out how Galileo made his telescope to peer at the heavens and by doing so helped change our view of the universe forever.
- We are the most power-hungry generation that has ever lived. This film tells the story of how that power has been harnessed - from wind, steam and from inside the atom. In the early years the drive for new sources of power was led by practical men who wanted to make money. Their inventions and ideas created fortunes and changed the course of history, but it took centuries for science to catch up, to explain what power is, rather than simply what it does. This search revealed fundamental laws of nature which apply across the universe, including the most famous equation in all of science, e=mc2.
- The question of our human origins is one of the most controversial science has wrestled with. This is the story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and reveal how its evolution is connected to the long and violent history of our planet. Featuring ocean adventurers, eccentric French aristocrats, mountain climbers, a secret Victorian publisher with 12 fingers, a ridiculed German meteorologist, and only a brief hint of Charles Darwin.
- The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the prism of the most complex organism known - the human body. It begins with attempts to save the lives of gladiators in Ancient Rome, unfolds with the macabre work and near-perfect drawings of Leonardo in the Renaissance, through the idea of the 'life force' of electricity, to the microscopic world of the cell. It reveals how a moral crisis unleashed by work on the nuclear bomb helped trigger a great breakthrough in biology - understanding the structure and workings of DNA.
- In this episode, Michael demonstrates how our society is built on our search to find the answer to what makes up everything in the material world. This is a story that moves from the secret labs of the alchemists and their search for gold to the creation of the world's first synthetic dye - mauve - and onto the invention of the transistor. This quest may seem abstract and highly theoretical. Yet it has delivered the greatest impact on humanity. By trying to answer this question, scientists have created theories from elements to atoms, and the strange concepts of quantum physics that underpin our modern, technological world.
- We now know that the brain - the organ that more than any other makes us human - is one of the wonders of the universe, and yet until the 17th century it was barely studied. The twin sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are. Now these sciences are coming together and in the process have revealed some surprising and uncomfortable truths about what really shapes our thoughts, feelings and desires. And the search to understand how our brains work has also revealed that we are all - whether we realise it or not - carrying out science from the moment we are born.
- In this first programme, Neil travels down the Zambesi river to reveal how David Livingstone took the faith of his nation to the ends of the Earth and exploited his celebrity to end the slave trade. His was a moral mission: to reshape British values and bring commerce, Christianity and civilisation to the African continent.
- Set in the spectacular Yosemite Valley in California, this is the story of the father of the modern conservation movement and one of the founders of America's National Park movement. John Muir was a 19th-century adventurer who explored the natural world and devoted his life and work to persuade others to see the sacred beauty of his discoveries.
- In the last of the series, Neil travels to Japan to uncover the extraordinary story of Thomas Blake Glover. Blending adventure with commerce, Glover was a rogue trader who helped rebel samurai clans overthrow the shogun and lay the foundations for one of the most aggressive and powerful economies in the world.
- Following in the footsteps of a scientific explorer who has become all but lost to history, Neil charts the remarkable story of William Speirs Bruce, one of Britain's greatest, but least-known, explorers. Bruce set out to conquer Antarctica, not for imperial glory, but to advance scientific knowledge in an era when exploration had become harnessed to national prestige.
- How, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, a Soviet submarine fleet commander and K-19 survivor, Vasili Arkhipov, kept his cool under enormous pressure and prevented his men from starting WWIII after being surrounded by the US fleet.