Cracking The Code
The Killer Code: Uncover some of the world's most renowned encryptions, revealing how they were decoded, the minds who cracked them and the secrets they masked.
2025-12-09 08:47:08 +0000 UTC→2025-12-09 09:42:16 +0000 UTC(55m)
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Cracking The Code
The Mob Code: Uncover some of the world's most renowned encryptions, revealing how they were decoded, the minds who cracked them and the secrets they masked.
2025-12-09 07:51:43 +0000 UTC→2025-12-09 08:47:08 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Alice Roberts visits the shipyards that built the Titanic in Belfast, the UK's most Victorian city.
2025-12-09 06:55:51 +0000 UTC→2025-12-09 07:51:43 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
In Cheltenham, Britain's most Regency town, Professor Alice Roberts attends a period society ball.
2025-12-09 06:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-09 06:55:51 +0000 UTC(55m)
Walking Through History
In 1685, a rebel army landed at the pretty Dorset port of Lyme Regis and swept up through Somerset, pausing at Taunton to declare its leader, Duke of Monmouth, the rightful king.
2025-12-08 23:36:20 +0000 UTC→2025-12-09 00:32:06 +0000 UTC(55m)
Walking Through History
Nowhere is fact and fiction so entwined than in the stories of King John, Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Yet out of this legendary time came Magna Carta, a foundation stone of modern democracy.
2025-12-08 22:40:34 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 23:36:20 +0000 UTC(55m)
History's Greatest Myths
Episode 6 of History's Greatest Myths looks at the mystery that lies in vast and unexplored places. In the relics of ancient civilisations, whose truths are lost to time. In the secrets we keep, and the ones that are kept from us.
2025-12-08 21:45:51 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 22:40:34 +0000 UTC(54m)
History's Greatest Myths
Episode 5 of History's Greatest Myths looks at the leaders and legends who have shaped the course of history. Many become legends even in their own lifetime, others are history's greatest villains.
2025-12-08 20:49:56 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 21:45:51 +0000 UTC(55m)
Truthseekers
The Nazca lines were made by ancient people 2000 years ago and continue to exist without any damages to date. How were they formed? What purpose could they have served? Were aliens involved creating these monumental lines that form geometric designs?
2025-12-08 19:53:56 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 20:49:56 +0000 UTC(56m)
Truthseekers
The Ark of the Covenant, the ornate, gold-plated wooden chest that housed the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God. It now exists at a crossroads between myth and reality, and we intend to clearly signpost how we got here and where it may rest now.
2025-12-08 18:57:58 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 19:53:56 +0000 UTC(55m)
Digging For Britain
Alice Roberts follows the excavation of Iron Age Britain's most spectacular grave. A team of archaeologists in East Yorkshire have uncovered the remains of only the third upright chariot burial ever found in Britain.
2025-12-08 18:03:39 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 18:57:58 +0000 UTC(54m)
Digging For Britain
WWII and King Arthur: Dr Alice Roberts explores finds from the west of Britain, including the lost World War I training trenches on Salisbury Plain.
2025-12-08 10:39:52 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 11:35:41 +0000 UTC(55m)
Digging For Britain
North: In the north of Britain, a team discovers clues to Scotland's first kingdoms and metal detectorists unearth a Viking treasure hoard.
2025-12-08 09:43:50 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 10:39:52 +0000 UTC(56m)
Truthseekers
The Holy Grail is traditionally thought to be the cup that Jesus Christ drank from at Last Supper and that was used to collect Jesus's blood at his crucifixion. But what makes the Holy Grail so significant and alluring?
2025-12-08 08:47:50 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 09:43:50 +0000 UTC(56m)
Truthseekers
Though archaeologists have been trying to solve it for more than 200 years, we still do not really know how the ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid, what it was for, or what lies beneath its blocks today.
2025-12-08 07:51:48 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 08:47:50 +0000 UTC(56m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Professor Roberts learns about religious intolerance in the United Kingdom's most Tudor city.
2025-12-08 06:55:51 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 07:51:48 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Alice tells the story of Norman England by studying the history of Winchester, Britain's most Norman city.
2025-12-08 06:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 06:55:51 +0000 UTC(55m)
Digging For Britain
The archaeologists get more than they bargained for while exploring the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey.
2025-12-08 04:58:21 +0000 UTC→2025-12-08 06:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h1m)
Digging For Britain
Professor Alice Roberts explores 2018's best archaeological finds from the east of the UK: a monument as old as Stonehenge, a dig at the site of Britain's first tank battle, and some disturbing Roman burials.
2025-12-07 22:35:22 +0000 UTC→2025-12-07 23:30:22 +0000 UTC(55m)
Digging For Britain
Alice Roberts shares archaeological discoveries from the west of the UK, including the biggest maritime excavation since the Mary Rose, a Roman bath house and a German camp.
2025-12-07 21:40:11 +0000 UTC→2025-12-07 22:35:22 +0000 UTC(55m)