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- A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.
- Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?
- A New York detective investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon in London; he recruits the help of a Scandinavian journalist when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate.
- Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.
- An intimate and candid look at the life and art of the legendary composer-lyricist.
- The Burning Times is a Canadian documentary about the witchcraft trials & persecutions that swept through Europe in the 15th-17th centuries. This was a period when those accused of being heretics or witches were tortured & executed, often by fire.
- A day in the life of Jane Grey, a struggling Black actress living in London's hard, beautiful city, grappling with unemployment. Her affair with a married man in flames, she slips unnoticed down between the cracks in the pavement.
- Documentation of discovery and deciphering of Antikythera Mechanism: the 2000 years computing device to find positions of astronomical objects and events.
- An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from Madame Bovary, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artists' village at Mont Sainte-Victoire.
- The film is a collaboration with The National Gallery, London on 'Transcriptions: LFS Shorts.' The film is based on the painting "Judith in the tent of Holofernes," which was made by Johan Liss. It tells the story of a woman who brutally avenges her husbands murder.
- Twelve elderly Canadian women discuss how they were munitions factory workers during World War I.
- Viola's encounters with older painting and theories of emotional expression, codified in the 17th century by French painter Charles Le Brun, led him to the challenge of showing inbetween states: transitions and ambiguous or mixed emotions.
- A husband and his wife want to kill each other. The wife's mad brother is being used for this task. Who will win?
- A drama about a love story between two Vampires in a modern times.
- One man, his dog and a trail of broken women. He's filthy and gorgeous, cruel and mean, and irresistible to women with low self-esteem. A satirical and comic portrait of Don Justino, a beautiful, stylish and truly nasty man.
- Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.
- 2001– 49m7.6 (20)TV EpisodeJane Seymour The luckless Jane Seymour managed to escape Henry's wrath by giving him his only surviving son, Edward. Unfortunately she died during childbirth. Anne of Cleves The 'Flanders Mare' as she was affectionately known, Anne of Cleves did not please her husband in bed. Somehow though, she earned herself a pay-off guaranteeing her a life of luxury.
- In 1568, the Counts Egmont and Van Horne are beheaded in Brussels. It is the escalation of tensions between Dutch nobility and their Spannish king and the start of a war that would last 80 years.
- The Spanish army takes revenge when towns and villages switch sides to Orange. The struggle is hardening, also between civilians in the Netherlands. Some side with the legitimate authority, the Spanish king, while others join the revolt.
- Sara Pascoe is joined by comedians Ahir Shah, with his lecture 'You Don't Have To Be An Expert To Solve Big Problems', Harriet Kemsley and Bobby Mair with their 'Recipe For A Good Marriage', and Jo Brand saying 'Older People Are Happier'.
- Toussaint Douglass delivers a lecture on 'How To Find The Right Partner', Elf Lyon gives an 'Introduction to Economics' and Frankie Boyle an 'Introduction to Power and Politics in Today's World'.
- 2020–202144m7.1 (12)TV EpisodeAndrew tells the story behind the National Gallery's treasured Sunflowers, and the troubled genius behind its creation, Vincent Van Gogh.
- 2020–202144m8.2 (9)TV EpisodeAndrew explores the more chaotic aspects of a seemingly idyllic piece of work from artist John Constable known as "The Hay Wain".
- 2020–202144m8.7 (10)TV EpisodeAndrew travels to Amsterdam to learn details about The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn, including how the young artist was desperate to find fame.
- Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate a painting that depicts the terrible aftermath of a battle. Owned by Kathy and Barry Romeril, who bought it in 1987, there are suspicions it may be a work by Victorian artist Edwin Landseer that was previously thought to have been destroyed by a flood in 1928. If so, the painting could be worth as much as £80,000.
- James designs and builds a garden where all the flowers, trees and garden furniture are made of plasticine. He enters it in the Chelsea Flower Show, much to the disdain of the event's organisers.
- Nick Helm gives a lecture entitled "Inside The Mind Of A Master Procrastinator", Janine Harouni with "A Millennial's Unexpected Secret To Success" and Marcus Brigstocke on "Fat Matters: Myths And Reality Of Weight Loss".
- Sara Pascoe welcomes Babatundé Aléshé to the stage to deliver a lecture entitled "Are The Illuminati Real?", Jessica Fostekew on "The Brain-Changing Benefits of Exercise" and Josh Widdicombe asks "Is Living In The Countryside For You?".
- The second series concludes with Geoff Norcott delivering a lecture on "Gender, Class and Work", Fern Brady on "What Brexit Means For Scotland" and Tez Ilyas with "The Human-Animal Bond".
- Henning Wehn asks "'Should We Trust The Scientists?", Erika Ehler ponders "Is Humanity Naturally Good?" and Joe Thomas' lecture is "The History of Hair". Hosted by Sara Pascoe.
- The penultimate edition of the second series sees Chris McCausland deliver a lecture on "How I Define Beauty", Sophie Duker's is "Stop Caring What Other People Think" and Ellie Taylor's is "Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are".
- In the 17th century, the people of Britain learnt to question everything. The result was Civil War, in which everyone, including artists, had to take sides. But out of it came a re-invented monarchy, a scientific revolution and, ultimately, the great Cathedral of St Paul's. Highlights include the courtly portraits of Rubens, Van Dyck and Peter Lely, and the fabulous creations of the Royal Society. Programme includes: Charles I's execution shirt and painting of Charles with his head sewn back on (Museum of London); Rubens' Apotheosis of James I (Banqueting House); Van Dyck portraits (Tate Britain); Puritan tracts; Civil War re-enactment; Verney family tomb (Claydon House); Thomason Collection (British Library); portraits of Cromwell (National Portrait Gallery); Grinling Gibbons' golden statue of Charles I (Royal Hospital Chelsea); Peter Lely's Windsor Beauties (Hampton Court); Royal Observatory (Greenwich); Hooke's microscope and Micrographia (Science Museum); Wren's plan for London; St Paul's Cathedral.
- Some believe that the earth was created by God. Others believe that it was created by the Big Bang. Each side is adamant in their views, and refuses to entertain the other. But, is there a common ground? Host Howard Jacobson seeks to find a common ground where both the sciences and religion could be considered right.
- There is no doubt that the bible spells trouble for women. Some parts are absolutely ripe with sexism and misogyny. However, historian Bettany Hughes preposes that it is actually very interesting what happened to women in the bible, and that it marked a turning point in the history of the gender.
- 1994– Not Rated8.2 (12)TV EpisodeIn the 18th century, the Royal Navy urgently needed better ways of looking after its sick and wounded. It built the best hospital the country had ever seen. For over 250 years Haslar treated casualties from the Battle of Trafalgar to the Gulf War. Thousands of men are believed to have been buried in unmarked graves in the hospital's cemetery between 1757 and 1826. As the hospital closes its doors for the last time, an archaeological dig to exhume their remains uncovers shocking insights into life and death in the Georgian Navy.
- The Turin Shroud - a revered catholic icon since the Renaissance - is examined by historian, photographic, and christian perspectives.
- An examination of Christianity's perception of disability, including a visit to Lourdes to see if healing will happen.