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In Morriston Hospital in Swansea in 1994 a group of ordinary middle-aged Welsh men stepped into the unknown by taking part in the world's first medical trials for the drug that became Viagra.
Oct 2024
Archive footage of interviews, concerts and personal material bring to light the solo performance work of Mercury, the lead singer of Queen.
Sep 2012
Busker Fred and his cat Tabby McTat entertain and delight passersby with music across London. One day, Fred falls, injures his leg, and is whisked away in an ambulance, leaving Tabby alone on the city's streets.
Feb 2024
Set and filmed in North Norfolk, Rhys plays Tony Evans, the deputy head of a local primary school. Laura stars as Emma Dretzin, a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters. Neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives: on the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s.
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A small fish with a big imagination gets lost in the deep wide ocean, until he is saved by his own storytelling.
Dec 2024
imagine... follows celebrated British TV writer Russell T Davies as he prepares to return as the showrunner of Doctor Who – with two Doctors and bigger ambitions.
Dec 2023
Michael Sheen faces the interview of a lifetime with The Assembly, a group of autistic, neurodivergent, and learning disabled people. Expect revelation, chaos, and a lot of laughs.
Apr 2024
The spaceship Altares, with a photon drive capable of accelerating it to the speed of light, leaves an Earth-orbiting space station. The Altares crew, two families of scientific specialists, journey at light speed with time-dilation to Alpha Centauri, where they launch several satellites to transmit information on the Centauri star system back to Earth and guide future manned vessels in exploring. The Day after Tomorrow (also known as Into Infinity in the United Kingdom) is a 1975 British science-fiction television special produced by Gerry Anderson between the two seasons of Space: 1999. It stars Brian Blessed, Nick Tate, Joanna Dunham, Katherine Levy and Martin Lev. It aired in the United States on NBC as part of the network's Special Treat childrens series in December 1975, and in the UK on BBC1 in December 1976.
Dec 1975
Over an extraordinary acting career spanning a decade, Stephen Rea has shown himself to be a versatile, prolific and mercurial talent. With unprecedented access to an internationally renowned creative figure, this intimate documentary explores the development of his radical outlook through the actor’s life and work.
Feb 2025
The english villages are under siege by Viking invaders, leaving destruction and fear in their wake.
Dec 1976
Part 1 of a documentary about when Alexander Korda was asked about who might replace him when he has resigned as a chief of the production of the British Lion.
Oct 1993
Nov 2012
Jason Manford hosts a glittering musical celebration, with spectacular performances and special guests, including Beverley Knight, Nicole Scherzinger and Alfie Boe. Daniel Mays takes to the stage with Guys & Dolls, Alfie Boe returns to Les Misérables for a special one-off performance, Beverley Knight performs with some of the next generation of musical theatre stars, and the cast of Broadway sensation Hadestown present a UK television exclusive ahead of its West End debut.
Jan 2024
On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.
Feb 1981
On the occasion of his 80th Birthday, a celebration of Britain's longest-serving all-round television entertainer Bruce Forsyth.
Feb 2008
Jane Corbin presents an investigation into the activities of the Wonderland Club global paedophile ring, which used computer technology to exchange child pornography. Including interviews with club members and with parents of their victims.
Feb 2001
Cameras gain exclusive access to Sir Peter Blake as he completes his groundbreaking art works inspired by Under Milk Wood, which will be displayed at the National Museum of Wales.
Nov 2013
Val, at home and in the studio, prepares for a traditional Christmas with music and fun to start the holiday in a relaxing mood with his guests, including snooker star Dennis Taylor and Scots percussion virtuoso Evelyn Glennie.
Dec 1986
The nation's grief, told through personal stories. With over 220,000 dead, for some it's a fight for truth and justice, for others it's a journey to adjust to a new normality.
Mar 2025
Set in 1923, a British author named Marie Stopes is having quite the tumultuous life until one day she attempts to sue Dr. Halliday Sutherland for libel, since she thinks he criticized her birth control clinic. A lawyer named Patrick Hastings comes to represent Stopes, and judge Ernest Charles comes to represented Dr. Halliday Sutherland.
Jun 1970