TV Schedule

  • 00:10

    16 Apr

    The Night of the Long Knives: Hitler's Rise to Power - Season 1

    The Night of the Long Knives is considered the first act of horror committed by the Nazis; this first episode sheds light on the sequence of events that led to this night of unprecedented violence.

  • 01:05

    16 Apr

    The Night of the Long Knives: Hitler's Rise to Power - Season 1

    For three nights from the 30th of June to the 2nd of July, 1934, Hitler set no limits to his demonstration of power; this second episode reconstructs how those three murderous nights unfolded.

  • 02:10

    16 Apr

    Ambassadors in Berlin: The Whistleblowers of WWII

  • 03:05

    16 Apr

    Decoding Saqqara

  • 04:00

    16 Apr

    Cracking The Code - Season 1

    Can a team of eccentric geniuses decode an encrypted German telegram in time, and will revealing its contents damage Britain's relationship with its ally America forever?

  • 04:55

    16 Apr

    Mysteries at the Museum - Season 12

    Don examines a painting at the centre of an art world scandal, a 19th-century medallion, and a blunderbuss that recalls a pirate who terrorised the high seas.

  • 06:00

    16 Apr

    Mysteries at the Museum - Season 12

    Don Wildman examines a statue created by the world's best-known art forger, a mysterious cache of buried gold coins, and a woman whose sales technique made Tupperware a household name.

  • 06:50

    16 Apr

    Tutankhamun: The Last Exhibition

  • 08:25

    16 Apr

    Secrets of the Six Wives - Season 1

    Lucy examines the marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, his first wife. Despite her skill and devotion as queen, she fails to give Henry the son he desires and he falls for Anne Boleyn.

  • 09:35

    16 Apr

    Secrets of the Six Wives - Season 1

    Henry breaks with the Roman Catholic Church to marry Anne Boleyn, but he grows tired of her and falls for Jane Seymour. Anne's fate is sealed; when she is executed, Henry marries Jane immediately.

  • 10:45

    16 Apr

    Secrets of the Six Wives - Season 1

    Lucy Worsley examines Henry VIII's last three wives: Anne of Cleves (called 'ugly'), young Catherine Howard - whose tragic childhood was abusive - and the far from saintly nurse Catherine Parr.

  • 11:50

    16 Apr

    Normandy: Land of Warriors - Season 1

    William the Conqueror becomes Duke of Normandy and attracts the wrath of envious barons; he has to fight his enemies to conquer an even larger land across the English Channel.

  • 12:55

    16 Apr

    Vikings: The True Story - Season 1

    This episode explores the 'Vikingopolis' - the mounds around the fjords at Borre - the truth behind the fabled 'Fimbulwinter', and whether Thor and Odin actually existed or not.

  • 13:50

    16 Apr

    Vikings: The True Story - Season 1

    In this episode, we discover more about the slave trade in the Viking age, a second female skeleton found in the Oseburg ship, and an account of a survivor of a Viking slave raid.

  • 14:45

    16 Apr

    Decoding Saqqara

  • 15:50

    16 Apr

    Cracking The Code - Season 1

    Can a team of eccentric geniuses decode an encrypted German telegram in time, and will revealing its contents damage Britain's relationship with its ally America forever?

  • 16:55

    16 Apr

    History Uncovered - Season 2

    President Reagan: was he a B-list actor with limited intellectual capacity, or was one of the most popular and controversial presidents in American history nothing like the caricature of him?

  • 18:00

    16 Apr

    The Lost World of Angkor Wat - Season 1

    The team uses drones to explore one of the world's largest ancient water systems, and ancient weapons and traces of a colossal iron industry reveal the truth behind the power of the Khmer military.

  • 19:00

    16 Apr

    Secrets of the Lost Ark - Season 1

    Is the Biblical Ark of the Covenant in Africa? One book says that it was taken to Ethiopia and is still held in a remote chapel; experts also investigate rumours of the Ark in a cave in South Africa.

  • 19:55

    16 Apr

    Roman Megastructures - Season 1

    Lyon is the third-largest city in France; in ancient times it was the largest. At the time, the capital of the Gauls was called Lugdunum, a showcase for Rome in lands conquered by Julius Caesar.

  • 21:00

    16 Apr

    New Secrets of the Terracotta Warriors

  • 22:05

    16 Apr

    The Lost World of Angkor Wat - Season 1

    Laser surveys lead the team to undiscovered jungle temples, ground-penetrating radar reveals how kings took new territory, and could a huge jungle pyramid expose the makings of a mysterious cult?

  • 23:05

    16 Apr

    The Lost World of Angkor Wat - Season 1

    The team uses drones to explore one of the world's largest ancient water systems, and ancient weapons and traces of a colossal iron industry reveal the truth behind the power of the Khmer military.

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