Forbidden History
Experts investigate the methods that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis used to indoctrinate a peaceful population, turning it into a finely-tuned war machine.
2025-12-21 06:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-21 06:53:58 +0000 UTC(53m)
Live & Upcoming Programmes
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Professor Alice Roberts explores the Georgian era in her hometown of Bristol, from architectural gems to the world's first chocolate factory.
2025-12-21 05:06:21 +0000 UTC→2025-12-21 06:00:00 +0000 UTC(53m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Professor Alice Roberts explores British history through the stories of individual towns. Alice examines Britain in wartime by looking at the coastal town of Dover.
2025-12-21 04:13:59 +0000 UTC→2025-12-21 05:06:21 +0000 UTC(52m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Professor Alice Roberts tells the story of Edwardian Britain by visiting Cardiff, which grew rich selling the coal that powered the Empire.
2025-12-20 21:49:54 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 22:45:44 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Professor Alice Roberts explores the Georgian era in her hometown of Bristol, from architectural gems to the world's first chocolate factory.
2025-12-20 20:53:59 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 21:49:54 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Professor Alice Roberts explores British history through the stories of individual towns. Alice examines Britain in wartime by looking at the coastal town of Dover.
2025-12-20 19:58:07 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 20:53:59 +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.
2025-12-20 19:02:15 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 19:58:07 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
In Cheltenham, Britain's most Regency town, Professor Alice Roberts attends a period society ball.
2025-12-20 18:06:24 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 19:02:15 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Professor Roberts learns about religious intolerance in the United Kingdom's most Tudor city.
2025-12-20 17:10:27 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 18:06:24 +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.
2025-12-20 16:14:36 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 17:10:27 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
In Cheltenham, Britain's most Regency town, Professor Alice Roberts attends a period society ball.
2025-12-20 09:43:32 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 10:39:23 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Professor Roberts learns about religious intolerance in the United Kingdom's most Tudor city.
2025-12-20 08:47:35 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 09:43:32 +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.
2025-12-20 07:51:44 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 08:47:35 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Professor Roberts participates in a Viking battle in York, gets her hands on Viking poo.
2025-12-20 06:55:51 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 07:51:44 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Alice enjoys a Roman feast in Britain's most Roman city, Chester. She examines a radical theory on the Romans' plans for the city.
2025-12-20 06:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 06:55:51 +0000 UTC(55m)
Digging For Britain
A look at the camp from which Vikings invaded Britain, and groundbreaking evidence that the world-famous Avebury stone circle isn't just a sacred site but a place where people lived and worked.
2025-12-20 05:03:28 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 06:00:00 +0000 UTC(56m)
Digging For Britain
War of the Roses: In the East of Britain, Dr Alice Roberts finds new revelations from 'Britain's Pompeii' and the theatre where Shakespeare premiered Romeo and Juliet.
2025-12-20 04:07:22 +0000 UTC→2025-12-20 05:03:28 +0000 UTC(56m)
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.
2025-12-19 21:42:13 +0000 UTC→2025-12-19 22:37:59 +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.
2025-12-19 20:46:27 +0000 UTC→2025-12-19 21:42:13 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
Alice is in Lincoln, getting to grips with life in medieval England. She visits the magnificent cathedral that was once the tallest building in the world and re-lives the battle at Lincoln Castle.
2025-12-19 19:50:35 +0000 UTC→2025-12-19 20:46:27 +0000 UTC(55m)