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TV episodes broadcast for the first time on BBC channels
January 20, 2017
Subjects include Asterix, the periodic table, Nick Hornby novels and Richard Feynman.
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January 13, 2017
Subjects include Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads and Steve Ovett.
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January 6, 2017
Subjects include Charles Laughton, the de Havilland Mosquito and the Punisher Max series.
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December 16, 2016
Subjects include Steve Jobs, Farscape, the history of Hungary and black metal music.
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December 9, 2016
Subjects include Andy Warhol, Septimus Severus, Nicholas Hawksmoor and the X-Files.
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December 2, 2016
Subjects include Eric Clapton, Tintin and the life and broadway stories of Damon Runyon.
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November 25, 2016
Subjects include David Bowie, Edvard Munch and postwar British motorcycles.
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November 18, 2016
The subjects are EastEnders, Puccini, Bill Shankly and the Battle of Trafalgar.
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November 11, 2016
Subjects include islands of Scotland, Laurie Lee and the films of David Fincher.
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November 4, 2016
Subjects include Hans Christian Andersen, the Russian Civil War and Ipswich Town FC.
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October 28, 2016
Subjects include David Niven, the Soviet space programme and the human body.
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October 21, 2016
Subjects include the films of Ewan McGregor and British race courses.
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October 14, 2016
Subjects include Kurt Cobain, Empress Elisabeth of Austria and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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October 7, 2016
Subjects tonight are Queen, Dame Laura Knight, Anita Roddick and Don Revie.
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September 30, 2016
The subjects are Bath, The Faces, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose and Ayrton Senna.
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September 23, 2016
The subjects include Formula One Grand Prix circuits and Oliver Cromwell.
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September 16, 2016
The subjects include Nick Drake, Emil Zatopek and Band of Brothers.
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September 9, 2016
Subjects include the films of Peter Sellers and astronomy.
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September 2, 2016
Subjects are Coen brothers films, Tom Waits, Transatlantic Liners and Flanders and Swann.
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August 26, 2016
Subjects include James Bond films and Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street novels.
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August 19, 2016
The subjects are REM, Harry S Truman, the World Cup and the drama series Borgen.
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August 12, 2016
Subjects include Wilfred Owen, Sir Michael Caine, Mad Men and the rock band Faith No More.
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August 5, 2016
The subjects include Benny Hill, the Mitford sisters and Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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July 27, 2016
Subjects include beekeeping and the Royal Navy in the Second World War.
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July 20, 2016
Subjects are rock band Yes, Ernest Rutherford, the films of Werner Herzog and MC Escher.
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