Directed By Cristopher Nupen Although he was still in his early thirties when this film was made, Itzhak Perlman's virtuosity was already something of a legend and he was soon to become one of the ...

In 2020, we said a sad farewell to Dame Vera Lynn. In a special programme, the BBC celebrates the "Forces Sweetheart" with a look back through the archives at some of her favourite performances and ...

Ross Kemp presents the high-stakes quiz, where in this edition, a team of comedians featuring Jessica Knappett, Jenny Eclair, Thanyia Moore and Maisie Adam get together to take on the Bridge of Lies ...

Armed with his early 20th-century Bradshaw's Guide, Michael Portillo continues his journey from Warrington to the Potteries in Stoke-on-Trent. In Manchester, at the magnificent Heaton Park, Michael ...

Play For Today was a series of single dramas broadcast by BBC Television between 1970 and 1984. These were years of crisis, a time when the consensus politics of Britain's postwar world had begun to ...

It was a manoeuvre that changed the course of the war and tested innovations in science and engineering for the first time. In this programme, engineer Rob Bell looks at the nuts and bolts which made ...

The Caribbean is filled with places where tourism is rare or close to non-existent. However, there is so much potential for ...

Writer Roy Clarke is the man responsible for some of the BBC's longest running and most popular sitcoms: Open All Hours, Keeping Up Appearances and Last of the Summer Wine. Despite the success of ...

In the 24 hours that followed, the troops of D-Day achieved the unthinkable, pushing the boundaries of ingenuity, bravery and sacrifice. Eighty years later, as night falls, a reflective and poignant ...

The story of D-Day has been told from the point of view of the soldiers who fought in it, the tacticians who planned it and the generals who led it. But that epic event in world history has never been ...

Eighty years after the order was given for the Normandy landings, TM the King and Queen and HRH the Prince of Wales will welcome our D-Day veterans and pay tribute to all those involved in this ...

He is the forgotten genius of Bletchley Park. Filmed extensively at Bletchley Park, the centre for codebreaking operations during World War II, this documentary features the abandoned buildings where ...