Browse

The story of the Black Loyalists, Jamaican Maroons and Black Refugees begins in Nova Scotia in the 1700s and challenges our understanding of what should be considered a distinct society.

Through protest, policy and advocacy, the impact of returned soldiers on Australia's political and cultural landscape has been immense.

Mariella heads to the Lake District to discover how its unique landscapes inspired Beatrix Potter to create her beloved animal stories.

Afua explores how a younger generation of Moroccans are updating old traditions in often surprising ways, creating exciting and daring new art, music, weaving and photography.

London is full of remarkable stories, from the Victorian gas lamp that helped save the city's sewage problem to the surprising history behind Marble Arch.

Over the span of a few decades, China reinvented itself into a new centre of the world's economic gravity. But what are the repercussions of such rapid growth?

Readjusting to post-war life can be an extraordinary challenge for the men and women who have served the country. But return is also felt by those closest to them.

Mariella investigates why Daphne du Maurier was particularly drawn to the dangers and mysteries of Cornwall, which helped the novelist create her eerie tales.

San Francisco is America's ultimate boomtown, whose secret stories include a pair of giant Dutch windmills and an unassuming apartment block that was the location for a top-secret CIA experiment.

The opposing forces of openness and control in modern China are explored, as the dreams of the State and the people collide.

For those who've fought in Australia's wars, what is it like to come home? And what are the factors that determine the success or failure of that return?

Mariella Frostrup explores how Hampshire's distinctive landscape influenced Jane Austen's writing and uncovers what life was really like here during her time.

In Birmingham the art detectives investigate two lost landscapes. Emma explores 18th-century land ownership, while Bendor uses science to discover more about the paintings.

In Cardiff, the art detectives tackle a fake restoration to reveal a Madonna. Emma explores the story of two wealthy Welsh sisters.

Bendor and Emma investigate a mysterious scholar in a painting that might be by one of the world's most famous artists.

At Petworth House in West Sussex, one of the great baroque treasure houses of England, Bendor finds two paintings he feels warrant an investigation.

Bendor and Emma travel to Tiverton, Devon, to investigate a small portrait of Rembrandt in the collection of a National Trust house, Knightshayes Court.

Bendor and Emma visit Manchester Art Gallery. There, Bendor finds the painting A Country Gentleman from the 1770s, which he believes has been misattributed to Nathaniel Dance.

In Hospitalfield House on Scotland's east coast, could a mysterious 16th-century portrait by one of the great Old Master artists lie waiting to be discovered?

Dr. Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri travel to Carmarthenshire to investigate two intriguing portraits of a local nobleman and his wife, possibly painted by a great 17th-century artist.

Dr. Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri travel to Derby to investigate a painting that suffered industrial-scale restoration in the 1970s. Can it be saved and carefully restored now?

Dr. Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri travel to Glasgow to investigate a lost picture of one of the most famous gay men in history, possibly painted by one of the most famous artists in history.

In a deep pit on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, five bodies dating from the Bronze Age are found. Among them is an old woman positioned so she appears to be pointing at something. But at what? And why?

Tucked away in a corner of a Runcorn industrial park is the most excavated monastic site in Europe. Stories of medieval knights, brutal murder and ancient diseases are revealed.

One after another, archaeologists reveal eight Roman cemeteries on the site of a planned housing estate near Amesbury in Wiltshire.

In what appeared to be an ordinary 19th-century Bristol graveyard, archaeologists discovered the bodies of 13 people whose skulls had been cut open.

Beneath an upmarket shopping arcade in Leeds city centre, archaeologists discovered the remains of children and teenagers.

The jumbled remains of over 100 young men are found on the site of a proposed car park outside Andover in Hampshire. The first dating tests reveal that they are Anglo-Saxons denied their burial rites.

During routine roadworks on the A9 in the far north of Scotland, the remains of a young early Bronze Age woman are found. In her grave are clues to who she might have been.

The RSS Discovery took Scott and Shackleton to Antarctica to conduct scientific and geological research. Rob travels to Dundee to visit the original RSS Discovery and uncover the secrets of the ice ship.

Captain James Cook led the HMS Endeavour on a voyage that would change the course of history and enable the European "discovery" of Australia and New Zealand.

The Titanic became the most infamous ship in history when it crashed into an iceberg and sunk in icy Atlantic waters. Rob travels to Belfast to discover the story of the Titanic's design and construction.

Rob joins a team of mariners and historians who are restoring a full-scale replica of the Mayflower - a three-masted sailing ship that carried the first European settlers to the North American coast.

The RMS Queen Mary was the pinnacle of luxurious ocean-crossing liners, and its first-class accommodations attracted such luminaries as the Queen, Winston Churchill and Elizabeth Taylor.

The construction of the HMS Ark Royal influenced every new aircraft carrier vessel built after it.

Local experts search out some of New York's most remarkable hidden stories, from a 1916 terror attack's impact on Lady Liberty to a secret in the basement of the famous 21 Club.

Monty Don journeys from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean coast, taking in the "Galician Versailles," a popular wildlife sanctuary and spectacular home gardens.