Cracking The Code
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.
2025-12-16 19:51:47 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 20:47:43 +0000 UTC(55m)
Live & Upcoming Programmes
Cracking The Code
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.
2025-12-16 18:55:57 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 19:51:47 +0000 UTC(55m)
Digging For Britain
West: Alice Roberts and Matt Williams visit sites in the west of Britain, including one uncovering the rituals of Stonehenge.
2025-12-16 17:59:56 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 18:55:57 +0000 UTC(56m)
Digging For Britain
Archaeology from the north of Britain neolithic Orkney a Roman altar wild horses at Flixton feasting hall Pictish treasure.
2025-12-16 17:03:58 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 17:59:56 +0000 UTC(55m)
Digging For Britain
The archaeologists get more than they bargained for while exploring the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey.
2025-12-16 10:37:25 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 11:32:39 +0000 UTC(55m)
Digging For Britain
Dr Alice Roberts explores a secret location in the Cotswolds, which gives up a very precious and fragile artefact.
2025-12-16 09:42:50 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 10:37:25 +0000 UTC(54m)
Cracking The Code
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?
2025-12-16 08:47:05 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 09:42:50 +0000 UTC(55m)
Cracking The Code
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.
2025-12-16 07:52:01 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 08:47:05 +0000 UTC(55m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
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.
2025-12-16 06:56:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 07:52:01 +0000 UTC(56m)
Britain's Most Historic Towns
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.
2025-12-16 06:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 06:56:00 +0000 UTC(56m)
River Hunters
The River Hunters head to the River Lochy in search for evidence of the clashing Scottish clans embroiled in the 17th century civil war.
2025-12-16 05:08:52 +0000 UTC→2025-12-16 06:00:00 +0000 UTC(51m)
Walking Through History
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.
2025-12-15 22:41:46 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 23:37:31 +0000 UTC(55m)
World's First Battlefield
A chance archaeological discovery in Germany's Tollense Valley unearthed thousands of bones, skulls, and weapons from the Bronze Age.
2025-12-15 21:46:14 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 22:41:46 +0000 UTC(55m)
World's First Battlefield
A chance archaeological discovery in Germany's Tollense Valley unearthed thousands of bones, skulls, and weapons from the Bronze Age.
2025-12-15 20:50:04 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 21:46:14 +0000 UTC(56m)
Truthseekers
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!
2025-12-15 19:54:03 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 20:50:04 +0000 UTC(56m)
Truthseekers
With unimaginable wealth and power, Cleopatra was the greatest woman of her era and one of the most iconic figures of the ancient world.
2025-12-15 18:57:58 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 19:54:03 +0000 UTC(56m)
Digging For Britain
2014's exceptional archaeology Barrowclump Durotrigues Big Dig Winchester Bling Ipplepen.
2025-12-15 18:02:01 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 18:57:58 +0000 UTC(55m)
Digging For Britain
The meaning of new finds at Norwich Castle Museum Must Farm Colchester Basing House Silchester.
2025-12-15 17:06:05 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 18:02:01 +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.
2025-12-15 10:38:48 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 11:33:07 +0000 UTC(54m)
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.
2025-12-15 09:43:48 +0000 UTC→2025-12-15 10:38:48 +0000 UTC(55m)