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Episode 2 The Legend under Siege
Homer wrote his epicThe Iliad, in 700 BC 500 years after the Trojan Wars were supposed to have taken place. Did the Trojan war...
The Golden Gate Bridge
Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuityinvention and imagination found in the world around us. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and...
Episode 1 Engines of Change
At the time of Queen Victoria's birth in 1819England was an agrarian society. Within a few short decades it would be transformed into an...
Lost Ships of Rome
In 2009a team of marine archaeologists carrying out a sonar survey of the seabed around the Italian island of Ventotene made an astonishing discovery....
Episode 1 Birth of a Language
The life story of a remarkable language. Melvyn Bragg and a host of experts explore the vibrant 1,500 year history of the English language....
Episode 8 Dark Future of the Sun
We are in the midst of the greatest era of space discovery. Twenty first century spacecraft and sophisticated imaging technology are venturing into uncharted...
Episode 4 Arteries of the Empire
This is where it all beganAdam Hart-Davis first foray, directly inspired by the Monty Python sequence from The Life of Brian where the People's...
Clarissa and the King’s Cookbook
Clarissa Dickson-Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbookKing Richard II's 700 year old scroll The Forme of Cury, and compares its contents with the...
Light More Than Meets the Eye
Science has advanced more in the last few decades than all of previous human history but that pales in comparison to what lies ahead....
The Fall Of Constantinople Russian English Subtitles
With the conquest of Constatinople in 1204 during the 4th crusade the fall of the Byzantine Empire began. After 1430 the empire included only...