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In this moving feature length documentary for BBC4 Penny Woolcock gives the seen but unheard residents of London's streets a voice.
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This unique and entertaining series for BBC 2 takes us into the world of women learners and their instructors, telling their stories from home as well as their cars over the weeks and months as they build towards their driving test.
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Families make us what we are. They are our past, our present, our future. They define us, they identify us. And they present a public face of who we are to the world. But scratch the surface and what do you see?
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Childhood insomnia is a growing problem in Britain. Children are getting less sleep than they used to. One in 5 parents believe that their children aren’t getting as much sleep as they should.
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On 14th November 1940 the Luftwaffe launched the most devastating bombing raid so far on Britain. The target was Coventry; deep in the heart of England.
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It’s 200 years since Byron embarked on his legendary travels around Europe and the Mediterranean and, in honour of the occasion, Rupert retraces the great romantic poet’s journey to understand the man...
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Across the world, brave women are choosing to ignore their body clocks, their mortality, their country’s regulations and their army of critics in their quests to become Mums when most people are collecting their pensions.
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What makes the love of a grandparent so unique? What makes the experience of becoming a grandparent so overwhelmingly powerful? And how does it change our experience of getting older - making us feel differently about mortality and ageing?
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The Highway, London E1, runs through the heart of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which has twice the national average for violent crime. As part of BBC Two’s Violence Season, The Violent Highway looks at the history of violence in this single British street.
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This high octane documentary gives a revealing insight into how the new generation of young paparazzi are keeping London’s celebrity culture afloat and nearly breaking their necks to try keep up with them - and asks the hard questions about the morality of the modern papping game.
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Paul Parker is a hunter with a single mission – to rid Britain of the plague of grey squirrels. The problem is there’s 2 million of them – and only one of him.
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Each year in Britain around two and a half thousand people are buried alone and unmourned. In our crowded hectic world of mass communication, how can some people slip between the cracks and disappear?
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Told entirely from the perspective of children, this three part series looks at one of the biggest moves of our lives - from primary school to secondary school.
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Hollywood actor and heartthrob, Rupert Everett, takes us on a revealing and witty journey through Victoria’s Empire, as he re-traces the steps of the infamous explorer and sexual whirlwind, Sir Richard Burton.
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Serving over one and a half million patients every day, the NHS is universally regarded as a national treasure. Yet, surprisingly, it very nearly didn't happen at all.