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Series exploring the expansion of railways in the Victorian era. Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn help get the most famous locomotive in the world, the Flying Scotsman, into steam. Part 4 of 6.
Series exploring the expansion of railways in the Victorian era. The team visit the South Devon Railway to explore the life of the branch line before the Beeching cuts of the 60s. Part 5 of 6.
Series exploring the expansion of railways in the Victorian era. The team find out how more leisure time and cheap rail transport meant more freedom for working-class Victorians. Part 6 of 6.
Uncover the hidden history of WWII with never-before-seen interviews from American women who held the rivet guns, flew the B-17s and broke the codes. Learn how these unsung heroes inspired – and empowered – future generations by winning the war.
A fascinating journey of discovery, walking in the footsteps of those Australians and Papua New Guineans who, in 1942, against all odds, withstood Japan’s previously unstoppable Pacific invasion force to preserve Australia’s freedom.
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.
In 1945 when the German third Reich surrendered. Europe was on its knees. The war had not only destroyed bridges, hospitals and churches, but it had destroyed families as well. With all the bombings, military service, deportations, forced labour, ethnic cleansing and murders, a historic number of children were being separated from their parents. There were hundreds of thousands of orphans, lost children who were being abandoned and left to fend for themselves. The return to peace and stability in Europe long obscured this unprecedented story: a story of exploited and stolen children, who were selected in the name of these nation’s superior interests.
On the west coast of Scotland are a group of islands that are so remote they almost seem to have been forgotten by the rest of the world and are populated by just a few hardy souls. Part 3 of 6.
