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Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies - subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.
The Real Spies Among Friends
Professor Jim Al-Khalili looks at how we have created machines that can simulate, augment, and even outperform the human mind - and why we shouldn't...
The Joy of AI
In medical science, there’s been no longer harder fight than against malaria. This is the inside story of a historic new vaccine - from the...
The Battle to Beat Malaria
This animation takes place in a ravaged London street in the midst of war. Between mounds of rubble and bomb craters stands the house of a lonely old...
The Three Crow Boys
An animation about a disabled penguin who lives on a rocky island in the southern seas where she feels isolated from the rest of her colony. She is...
The Penguin Who Couldn’t Swim
A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech romp reveals what data is and how it is captured,...
The Joy of Data
The illustrator and author paints scenes from a 70-year-long career, including his work with Roald Dahl. With David Walliams, Joanna Lumley, Peter...
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
Michael Grade reveals the story of General Tom Thumb, the world's first global show business celebrity who went from humble beginnings in America to...
The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest Superstar
In a post-pandemic world, a grieving young widow struggling with her own self-destruction, fights to save people as part of a crisis response team....
Bridge to the Other Side
How to have a happier life and a better world all thanks to maths, in this witty, mind-expanding guide to the science of success with Hannah Fry. ...
The Joy of Winning
As Brexit Britain prepares to draw up new rules on who is welcome here, Ian Hislop takes an entertaining and provocative look at the decades from the...
Who Should We Let In? Ian Hislop on the First Great Immigration Row
A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with Computer Scientist Dave Cliff. Following in the footsteps of the...
The Joy of Logic
Tody is a lonely bird slaving his life away in a packaging factory. He dreams of a better life in the sunshine with someone there who actually cares...
Outside the Box
The extraordinary story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine-year-old girl. Jennet Device,...
The Pendle Witch Child
Ian Hislop presents this film about the colourful, seriously wealthy Victorian financiers whose spectacular philanthropy shows that banking wasn't...
Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good
The story follows Spudling, a sheltered character whose parent runs the factory manufacturing light for the city's inhabitants. When finally granted...
Meteorlight
Professor Hans Rosling shares his excitement with statistics, and shows how researchers are handling the modern data deluge.
The Joy of Stats
We watch one young woman’s unconventional attempt to take control of her own love life by growing the perfect partner - a beautiful giant slug....
Slug Life
An audio-driven animated documentary covering a day of life in Yorkshire.
That Yorkshire Sound
//_sleeper is a short animation set in a dying, industrial town both familiar and unfamiliar. This is neither future nor past, but rather somewhere...
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