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Fred Dibnah takes his series on the building of Britain to his home turf, Lancashire, so he can wax lyrical over the roots of the nation's canal network. He visits Worsley to see where it all began and, in his own back garden, demonstrates the early canal-building process. Fred...

Explorer Paul Rose digs out his rucksack and heads for Windermere. The National Park attracts 18 million visitors each year, and is now a World Heritage Site. Paul joins the crowds and finds out why the early tourists thought the Lakes was one of the most dangerous spots in the...

Richard offers Ned's services to Audrey in Brabinger's absence, but Ned thinks it is all a plot to remove him from his tied cottage so that the new farm manager can move in. Audrey decides to take her revenge.

When Hyacinth and the long-suffering Richard spend their first day in their new weekend residence, it proves to be less than adequate. Hyacinth invites Elizabeth and Emmet round for country tea, but both this and her plans to fit in with the local way of life go terribly wrong.

Thomas Boleyn, the patriarch of the Boleyns, is determined to elevate the family name. His ambitions for his three children will take them to the heart of the Tudor court.

Professor Jim Al-Khalili goes back in time to tackle the greatest question in science: how did the universe begin? Uncovering the origins of the universe is regarded as humankind's greatest intellectual achievement. By recreating key experiments Jim unravels the cosmic mystery...