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Historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn explore how the introduction of steam railways in the early 19th century changed Britain. Part 1 of 6.
Neil Oliver travels back to ice age Britain as he begins the epic story of how our land and its people came to be over thousands of years of ancient history. The ice age saw a struggle for survival in a brutal world of climate change and environmental catastrophe. Part 1 of 4.
January 17th 1991 - the UN passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq an ultimatum to leave Kuwait following their invasion. Desert Storm - a war costing 61 billion USD would be over in a matter of weeks, but the consequences are still felt today. Part 6 of 6.
On June 10, 1944 a German SS division arrived in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and massacred 643 innocent civilians. Oradour remains a monument to the brutality of war and how civilians paid the price when the battle passed through their village.
There are seventy islands in the Orkney archipelago but just how much of a challenge is it to keep all these islands connected? To explore what keeps all these remote places together, Paul is island hopping. Part 5 of 6.
What happens when the president is unable to serve? Explore the dramatic period between 1963 and 1976, when a grief-stricken, then scandal-stricken America was forced to define the role of the vice president and the process of succession.
