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New Zealand was one of the last land-masses to be found and settled by people. Lush and fertile, almost everything brought here flourishes, often with surprising consequences. Told through the experiences of its native species - in particular, a charismatic and peculiar giant,...

In 1822, Jean-François Champollion became the first person to decipher hieroglyphs in over a thousand years. Now, a new generation of Egyptologists is learning more about the people who wrote them.

Magnus Magnusson presents the quiz programme from Bradford University. The specialist subjects are Captain Bligh, King Richard III, Shakespeare's English Kings and George Stephenson.

Game show in which two teams of three celebrity contestants take turns to provide definitions of an obscure word, and try to guess which one is correct and which is a bluff.

1996 saw the peak of Britpop, the divorce of Charles and Diana and England hosting the European Football Championship. It also saw the beginnings of a new TV genre, 'docu-soap', with Chris Terrill's series Soho Stories. Armed with a single camera, Chris embedded himself in the...