Schedule

Teleshopping

Grand Tours of Scotland: A Bed for the Night

Paul Murton travels from the Firth of Forth estuary into the depths of rural Perthshire in central Scotland. (Part 4 of 6)

The Ottoman Empire: Battle for the Mediterranean: Part 1: Empire Builders

Julian Davison begins his journey in Istanbul, the gateway between East and West and former epicentre of the Eastern Christian Empire of Byzantium. Julian charts the rise of the Ottomans and their momentous conquest of Constantinople. Part 1 of 3.

KGB - The Sword and the Shield: Putin & Co.

Coup d’etats, assassinations, sex scandals, radioactive poisoning... it’s the stuff of a Bond movie. But in today’s Russia, it’s all very real. Under Vladimir Putin, the KGB (or FSB, as it’s now called) rules Russia with an iron rod directly from the Kremlin. To challenge its authority, even from apparent safety abroad, means risking your life. The KGB has even managed to outlive communism itself. Today, Russia is no longer a State with a Security Service: instead, the Security Service has a State. Part 3 of 3.

The Korean War: Korea: The Forgotten War

Our story begins with 35 years of brutal Japanese occupation, a sudden and arbitrary division of the 1000 year-old nation in 1945, followed by three more years of occupation by the U.S.S.R. in the North and the U.S. in the South. Part 1 of 2.