David Dimbleby journeys through Britain, and through 1,000 years of its history, to discover the buildings that made the nation what it is

Britain's engineering companies reveal how they build the world's most amazing machines

The secret alchemy of material science revealed - how we transform materials, and materials transform the world

Professor Iain Stewart uses spectacular images to tells the epic story of how geology, geography and climate have influenced mankind.

Series featuring the challenges faced by people designing and building their dream houses. Includes house profiles, designs and show information.

Documentary series about American folk music from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Aubrey Manning explores our understanding of the planet.

Documentary series that follows director Werner Herzog uncovering the stories of inmates in America as they await execution

Andrew Marr explores how Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has taken on a life of its own far beyond the world of science

Danny Baker showcases the best of British rock from three decades.

Nick Crane and the team take a fascinating journey around the coast of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today.

Dr Jonathan Foyle, architectural historian and novice climber, scales Britain's most iconic structures to reveal the buildings' secrets

Series in which Jim Al-Khalili traces the story of how the elements, the building blocks that make up our entire world, were discovered and mapped

Alan Titchmarsh travels Britain to discover why our islands are so diverse, beautiful and extreme.

Featuring glorious underwater photography revealing Britain's native waters to be as dramatic, colourful and surprising as the other oceans of the world.

Influential and respected scientists explain how their unique scientific perspectives have redefined how we think about the world around us

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak explores the Baroque tradition in its key locations

The first of three programmes in which nuclear physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the greatest scientific discovery ever - that everything is made of atoms.

Documentary series presented by Dan Cruickshank revealing the most beautiful and precious things in the world

Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide to faith on earth, with eighty rituals across six continents in the space of a year

Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles explores the roots of civilisation in an epic series that runs from the creation of the first cities in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire

A series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computer

Poet and author Owen Sheers presents a series in which he explores six great works of poetry set in the British landscape.

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch - one of the world's leading historians - reveals the origins of Christianity and explores what it means to be a Christian

In nine short hours, William the Conqueror triumphed at the Battle of Hastings - and England was changed forever. Simon Schama recounts the saga of blood, betrayal and ambition that led up to this pivotal battle and describes the profound consequences that followed.

Professor Michael Sandel presents a series of lectures from his Harvard undergraduate course in Political Philosophy

Documentary series in which Andrew Marr finds out how some of the world's biggest cities feed, protect and move their citizens.

Bettany Hughes explores the history of Britain from a fresh perspective: through the lives and aspirations of the ordinary citizens

Series which tells the story of how people came to understand the natural order of the plant world, and how the quest to discover how plants grow uncovered the secret to life on the planet.

Series looking at three of the world's most iconic wild places and how they have been shaped over time by man.