The River Hunters hit Colchester, the oldest town in Britain, searching its historic waterway for evidence of the Siege of Colchester.
The River Hunters head to the cathedral city of Canterbury in Kent, where they are granted special permission to undertake the first official search of this section of the River Stour.
Three remarkable Victorian sisters and their dissolute brother grew up and died relatively young in a small Yorkshire village but their stellar literary success created a posthumous personality cult that still exists today.
The last imperial dynasty, the Qing expanded the empire to its greatest extent, presided over the Chinese Enlightenment and left behind iconic sites such as the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven
China is one of the oldest civilizations on earth and one of unparalleled continuity. Confucian values still underpin much of society despite the Communist Revolution of the middle of last century which signaled.
The Cold War Code: A look at America's Cold War codebreakers charged with unravelling a seemingly uncrackable Soviet code and the uncovering of the Manhattan Project.
The Gang Code: Experts reveal the highly encrypted phones that criminal gangs use to stay under the radar, and explain how the police are turning the phones against the crooks.
West: Alice Roberts and Matt Williams visit sites in the west of Britain, including one uncovering the rituals of Stonehenge.
Archaeology from the north of Britain neolithic Orkney a Roman altar wild horses at Flixton feasting hall Pictish treasure.
The archaeologists get more than they bargained for while exploring the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey.
Dr Alice Roberts explores a secret location in the Cotswolds, which gives up a very precious and fragile artefact.
The Code That Won the Great War: Revealing the encrypted German telegram could save Britain in its darkest hour. Can a team of geniuses decode the message in time?
The Japanese Super 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.
Alice Roberts visits Elizabethan Plymouth, exploring the story of England's `Golden Age', from Sir Francis Drake to the Spanish Armada, piracy, theft, and the slave trade.
In Portsmouth, Alice Roberts learns about Nelson's dark side, the heat of the battle at Trafalgar, the role of the Navy in the British Empire, and the lives of sex workers.
The River Hunters head to the River Lochy in search for evidence of the clashing Scottish clans embroiled in the 17th century civil war.
Tony Robinson sets off on his most curious walk yet, across the ancient and turbulent kingdom of Northumbria In the seventh century, at the height of the Dark Ages, the rule of Northumbria stretched from Edinburgh to York.
A chance archaeological discovery in Germany's Tollense Valley unearthed thousands of bones, skulls, and weapons from the Bronze Age.
A chance archaeological discovery in Germany's Tollense Valley unearthed thousands of bones, skulls, and weapons from the Bronze Age.
Unlike many legends, we know exactly when and where the story of Atlantis first appeared. It was first told in two of Plato's dialogues written about 360 B.C. The Atlanteans became wicked and impose, and their island was swallowed up by the sea!