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.

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.