Documentaries
Documentaries is a documentary on BBC1. Vicky McClure stars in this thriller as a woman whose dream life turns into a nightmare. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 294 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2025.
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A look back at grand slam glory for Wales in 2005 and Ireland in 2009, plus Mike Phillip’s controversial try in 2011.
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1:00:00Grown-up comedy for the younger adult viewer. Jonny played by Ralf Little, falls for Janet's friend Louise, until his obsession is cured in a revolting manner.
1:05:00Shane Williams, Sergio Parisse and Ben Kayser talk us through a historical moment at Croke Park in 2007 as Ireland hosted England. Plus France’s record-breaking performance at Twickenham in 2023.
Dame Diana Rigg explores the enduring popularity of The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The work was recently chosen as Britain's favourite piece of classical music.
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1:00:00Sam Warburton and Tommy Bowe share their memories of the most nail-biting final day in the tournament's history, Super Saturday.
1:00:00Michael Parkinson looks back at his 1974 interview with Richard Burton. Parkinson persuaded him to talk candidly about his career, love life and drink problems.
1:00:00Rick Stein explores the food of Shanghai - Shanghai is one of the biggest cities in the world and is rapidly expanding, but has it hung on to its culinary roots?
Nigel Planer narrates the story of the struggle to make programmes for children in the days before everything went digital.
Hosted by Jo Whiley, Jeff Lynne's ELO continues Radio 2's In Concert 2019 season. Here's your chance to hear some of his best-known tracks including the incomparable Mr Blue Sky.
Comedy about a teacher (Cary Grant) whose playboy antics are curbed by a judge who insists that he romance a girl (Shirley Temple), until her crush on him wears off.
Powerful drama that tells the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny's death in the 7 July bombing at Edgware Road tube station.
Mark Rothko believed that tradition was all used up and that figurative art could no longer connect us, viscerally, to the human tragedy. So he set himself - and New York - a test.
Dougie and the team present highlights from this year’s Royal Highland Show. Cammy joins the annual Grand Parade to celebrate the show winners.
Simon Schama on the making of eight great works of art. The story of Picasso's Guernica, from the bombing massacre that inspired it, to Picasso's artistic response.
Dougie is in the Howe of Alford to meet a top Aberdeen Angus breeder, while Cammy attends a farm sale where a lifetime of machinery and tools are going under the auctioneer’s hammer.
In 1953, the BBC made a point-of-view film from the London-Brighton train. In 1983, they did it again. This film shows both concurrently, with every bridge, tunnel and station.
Simon Schama investigates what drove Van Gogh to paint his great masterpiece Wheatfield with Crows in 1890.
Dougie is in Motherwell to visit Baron’s Haugh Nature Reserve, an urban wetland along the River Clyde. Elsewhere, Shahbaz visits one of Wester Ross's ancient Caledonian pine forests.
A biographical drama about the life and rise to fame of the American soul singer Aretha Franklin.