Tom Dyckhoff explores the impact the design of buildings can have on us - on our identity and self-esteem, and on relationships, our chances at school, and even our weight and immune system

In a major re-calibration of 20th-century British paintings, art historian James Fox argues that British painting from 1910 to 1975 was an extraordinary flowering of genius. He predicts that art historians of the future will rank the period alongside the Golden Ages of Renaissance Italy and Impressionist France.

Documentary series charting the visual appeal and historical meaning of maps.

Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists

After showing how fundamental mathematics is to our lives, Marcus du Sautoy explores the mathematics of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece.

A mysterious code underpins the world. But what does it mean and what can we learn from it? Marcus du Sautoy takes us on an odyssey to uncover the code and reveal its meaning

Series which looks at important thinkers through the TV and radio broadcasts they made for the BBC. Includes rare and never-seen archive of Freud, Jung and Bertrand Russell.

Jonathan Dimbleby travels to South America to report on dramatic changes in one of the world's least understood continents

Stephen Fry explores language, coming to understand how we learn it, write it and sometimes lose it, and why it defines us.

Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of our quest to master the power of electricity.

The previously untold history of Britain's mixed-race community and the many love stories that created it.

Compilations of performances by singer-songwriters from the BBC vaults, using archive from programmes such as The Old Grey Whistle Test, In Concert and Top of the Pops

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

Professor Stephen Hawking examines how science is striving for humankind's next leap forward

Andrew Graham-Dixon embarks on his most ambitious journey yet, an exploration of the rich, exciting and diverse art history of the United States of America

Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a three-part series illuminating the history of the sacred and peerlessly beautiful city of Jerusalem.

In this series Professor Iain Stewart tells a stunning new story about our planet. He reveals how the greatest changes to the Earth have been driven, above all, by plants.

Barrister Harry Potter tells the remarkable story of English justice

Nature documentary that takes a breathtaking flight on the wings of birds across six continents and experiences some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view.

Documentary series which unearths lost civilisations and reveals the wonder of some of the world's greatest lost cities.

David Attenborough travels to the end of the earth, taking viewers on an extraordinary journey across the polar regions of our planet.

Series exploring how a violent and racist government was destroyed by the concerted efforts of men and women working on multiple fronts inside and outside South Africa for more than three decades

British art historian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford explores the pre-colonial history of some of Africa's most important kingdoms

The story of the Crusades is remembered as a tale of religious fanaticism and unspeakable brutality, but using fresh evidence, Dr Thomas Asbridge re-examines this medieval drama

Professor Richard Fortey travels across the globe to find the survivors of mass extinction events

Melvyn Bragg explores the relationship, from 1911 to 2011, between class and culture

Jeremy Paxman travels the world exploring many different aspects of the British Empire

In this programme, divided into short chapters for use in the classroom, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch explores what it means to be English and what has shaped English identity.

Series of lectures on a single topic, presenting scientific subjects to a general audience in an informative and entertaining manner

Stories of extraordinary athletes who have pushed performance to the limit and beyond in pursuit of gold, over more than a 100 years of Olympic competition