Schedule

Beautiful Serengeti: Blood Kin

Revealing more family strategies at work, and the heavy price the young pay in hostile takeovers. Part 6 of 12.

In Search of Medieval Britain: West Country

In the West Country, Dr Alixe Bovey explores the myths and legends depicted on the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain - the Gough Map. Part 6 of 6.

Elizabeth I's Secret Agents:

England is alone - a Protestant nation in a largely Catholic Europe. Then, 12 years into Elizabeth's reign, the pope declares her a heretic, which in the hearts of England's Catholics gives them permission to kill her. Queen Elizabeth looks to her spymaster William Cecil to stop the Catholic assassins getting through. Cecil establishes a huge espionage network - England's first secret service. His spies break Catholic conspiracies at home and abroad. Part 1 of 3.

Young Victoria

We think of Queen Victoria as a respectable matron, the epitome of duty, a beloved monarch. But Victoria's path to the throne was by no means easy. Britain in the 1830s was a country on the brink of revolution. The people could not have borne another debauched son of George III as King. Fortunately, they were able to invest their hopes in the innocent Princess Victoria. But there were those determined to grab power for themselves - not least her mother. Intrigue, deception, death threats... This is the true story of the young queen.

The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song: The Freedom Faith

Enslaved Africans, shipped to the shores of North America, found ways to preserve their culture and beliefs as a way to sustain them through the atrocities of slavery. From hush harbours to praise houses to brick-and-mortar structures that stand today, host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals the historic beginnings of the Black Church. Part 1 of 4.

Beautiful Serengeti: Blood Kin

Revealing more family strategies at work, and the heavy price the young pay in hostile takeovers. Part 6 of 12.

In Search of Medieval Britain: West Country

In the West Country, Dr Alixe Bovey explores the myths and legends depicted on the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain - the Gough Map. Part 6 of 6.

Elizabeth I's Secret Agents:

England is alone - a Protestant nation in a largely Catholic Europe. Then, 12 years into Elizabeth's reign, the pope declares her a heretic, which in the hearts of England's Catholics gives them permission to kill her. Queen Elizabeth looks to her spymaster William Cecil to stop the Catholic assassins getting through. Cecil establishes a huge espionage network - England's first secret service. His spies break Catholic conspiracies at home and abroad. Part 1 of 3.

Young Victoria

We think of Queen Victoria as a respectable matron, the epitome of duty, a beloved monarch. But Victoria's path to the throne was by no means easy. Britain in the 1830s was a country on the brink of revolution. The people could not have borne another debauched son of George III as King. Fortunately, they were able to invest their hopes in the innocent Princess Victoria. But there were those determined to grab power for themselves - not least her mother. Intrigue, deception, death threats... This is the true story of the young queen.

The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song: The Freedom Faith

Enslaved Africans, shipped to the shores of North America, found ways to preserve their culture and beliefs as a way to sustain them through the atrocities of slavery. From hush harbours to praise houses to brick-and-mortar structures that stand today, host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals the historic beginnings of the Black Church. Part 1 of 4.

Beautiful Serengeti: Blood Kin

Revealing more family strategies at work, and the heavy price the young pay in hostile takeovers. Part 6 of 12.

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