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The day after London won the Olympic bid, terrorists attacked the transport network killing 52 people. 7/7: One Day in London gathers the testimony...

A look at the famous director written and presented by Lindsay Anderson.

In 1960, Ken Russell visited Bedlington Colliery, Northumberland to make one of his first documentary films, following life in the mining community.

Marcelle de Barthas is young French widow, who since her husband’s death some seven years previously, has lived a secluded life in her country...

Billy is a rather withdrawn little boy, untalkative for even a four-year-old. Who cares what happens to Billy when his father hits him?

Documentary about British author Graham Greene, first presented on the BBC-TV program Omnibus.

One of the greatest poets of his generation, Norman MacCaig (1910-96) was also an expert fly-fisher. His favourite loch, the Loch of the Green...

Undercover reporter Mark Daly reveals racism among police recruits in Manchester, England.

Stephen Smith uncovers the secret history of the humble fig leaf, opening a window onto 2,000 years of Western art and ethics. He tells how the work...

Mac the busker talks about his life, as a painter and entertainer of theatre queues in Soho for twenty years.

Kirsty MacColl's last television concert, filmed in Glasgow in March 2000. With songs from MacColl's last album, Tropical Brainstorm, alongside such...

Documentary in which Leicester's Riaz Khan explains why looking after his gravelly ill father and bedridden mother under their roof is a family duty...

An interview with film director Roman Polanski, recorded for BBC TV in 1967.

Rock Goes To College (RGTC) was a BBC series that ran between 1978 and 1981 on British television. A variety of up-coming rock oriented bands were...

Elaine Morgan’s imaginative sequel to The Taming of the Shrew.

On his sixth birthday Robert receives three beautiful broken old birds in his mother's sitting room. A memory of an afternoon with tea and cake, lacy...

The father of an RAF reservist killed in Basra in 2007 travels to the Iraqi city to discover the impact of the war and the subsequent occupation on...

Helen Castor presents an in depth and insightful series covering England's early Queens, from the High Middle Ages with Eleanor and get...

An original and compelling documentary depicting one father’s long-term struggle with heroin addiction told through the uniquely intimate...

'Once Were Lions' follows the GB Lions as they tour New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Given unprecedented and unfettered access to the Lions’...