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- An oddball couple of private detectives named Luella Shakespeare and Frank Hathaway investigate crime in Stratford-upon-Avon.
- Four creatures with televisions in their stomachs have fun in their magical world.
- Three ex-dads quickly discover how empty life is without their little lady, and go to outrageous lengths in their efforts to win their daughter back in this critically acclaimed and equally charming sequel.
- Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.
- An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
- Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.
- Olivia and Alex are a lesbian couple who, despite their age difference, are very much in love. As the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbor John befriends them, they both start making some truly disastrous decisions.
- Two teams go head to head in a bid to sell their recently acquired items for a profit at auction
- Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III."
- The life and times of a small-town family practitioner and police surgeon.
- The character from Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe (2013) presents a mockumentary about William Shakespeare, talking us through his life and works in her own unique style.
- The true love between a couple in 1910, 1960 and 2012. Their love is so strong that even destiny wants to bring them together.
- A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
- A worried new teacher has to juggle a pregnant wife and a class of children on a road trip to the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition.
- Three rag doll puppets live together in a countryside cottage: Tilly, a French girl, with red hair, who speaks in basic French; Tom, a blue haired boy with glasses; and Tiny, the green-haired youngest Tot.
- Unwanted antiques are valued by experts, and then sold in a real-life auction.
- A Royal Marine awakens to find himself imprisoned and forced to fight to the death against inhuman opponents again and again.
- Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
- A woman travels to Portugal in an attempt to orchestrate a reconciliation between her parents.
- A psychologist is gradually broken down to the point of no return in his life; but was it his work or his past that sends him over the edge, to do the most unthinkable things. All of this happens to him in the middle of chaos breaking out during the London riots.
- A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
- The second play in Shakespeare's series of histories covering the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V. Shakespeare muses on the consequences of actions, the role of princes and the realities of wielding power.
- Summer 1914. In order to dedicate themselves to a life of study, the King and his friends take an oath to avoid the company of women for three years. No sooner have they made their idealistic pledge than the Princess of France and her ladies-in-waiting arrive, presenting the men with a severe test of their high-minded resolve.
- A celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, broadcast live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
- This documentary explores the ongoing debate about the authorship of the works attributed to Shakespeare. Writers and critics, actors and scholars, including Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, and many others have struggled to reconcile England's "Star of Poets" with the grain dealer from Stratford. Why?
- Tourist bus driver Will longs to move to Shakespeare's birthplace Stratford-upon-Avon and open a restaurant.
- Autumn 1918. A group of soldiers return from the trenches. The world-weary Benedick and his friend Claudio find themselves reacquainted with Beatrice and Hero. As memories of conflict give way to a life of parties and masked balls, Claudio and Hero fall madly, deeply in love, while Benedick and Beatrice reignite their own altogether more combative courtship. Set amidst the brittle high spirits of a post-war house party, where youthful passions run riot, lovers are deceived and happiness is threatened - before peace ultimately wins out.
- Gregory Doran directs Shakespeare's epic pair of plays with a cast including Antony Sher as Sir John Falstaff, Jasper Britton as King Henry and Alex Hassell as Prince Hal.
- Michael Wood tours the English locations important to William Shakespeare as he explores the playwright and poet's life and work.
- Following his enormously successful book "Notes From a Small Island", American travel writer Bill Bryson sets off on a new tour of Britain. Starting at Dover, where he recalls his first disembarkation in 1973 to a land of rain, sweet tea and disagreeable land-ladies, his travels take him from Poole in the South to the Western Isles of Scotland. Along the way he encounters such colourful characters as the pipe smokers of Solihull, ballroom dancers in Blackpool and the caber tossers of Glenfinnan. Bryson brings all his perspective eye, dry wit and outbursts of comic exasperation to this affectionate survey of the British way of life.
- HYPO is the real life story of Jon-sel Gourkan, an ex professional footballer whose career was cut short because of the ignorance shown towards his diabetes.
- Property programme in which prospective house buyers are shown around two properties selected by the presenters and a 'wild card' selection in a bid to find them an ideal new home.
- Richard the Lionheart is dead. His brother John is King of England. Threatened from all sides by Europe, the English noblemen and even his own family, King John will stop at nothing to keep hold of his crown.
- Document of Alanis' greatest tour, Jagged Little Pill, after an 18-month international world trek.
- Profile of Helen Mirren, the youngest actress at the RSC.
- In the Year 3021, a Cygnus incorporated shipping vessel "The Meridian" is set to complete it's voyage from Kalden spaceport to Fera. However, the increase of piracy attacks diverts their route around a "Red Zone". Follow their journey as they encounter numerous problems.
- A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theatre.
- To the world, Shakespeare left a lasting legacy and an awful lot of unanswered questions. Follow John Nettles as he recounts the life of William Shakespeare.
- A one-off special in which the renowned chef Gordon Ramsay challenges Hell's Kitchen winner Jennifer Ellison and runner-up James Dreyfus to prepare a meal for 250 of Gordon Ramsay's former high school pupils in 5 days.
- Cultural historian Dr. David Parker and Thelma Grove of the International Dickens Fellowship discuss characters, themes and the plot, as well as the importance, of Dickens's novel Great Expectations. Key scenes from the novel are dramatized. Parker and Grove point out the associations of the characters with actual people and events in Dickens' hometown of Rochester, England, and offer different views on Pip's relationships with the characters Mrs. Havisham, Estella, Jaggers, Joe Gargery, and Magwitch. Themes discussed include penal reform, chains of events leading to catastrophic and unforeseen circumstances, unrequited love.
- Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II.
- Three stories of greed, love and comic books intertwine.
- Calling the Tune is set in 1980 in the Loire Valley, mid-western France, with flashbacks to the 1940s.
- On Friday 22nd April Discovery Education celebrated the life and legacy of the greatest writer of English language and literature, with a broadcast for teachers and students across the globe.
- Where Words Prevail explores the widely acclaimed work of Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Berry's voice techniques are invaluable to the actors and directors who are performing both classical and modern plays in today's theaters. From rehearsals at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, to workshops in Moscow, New York, Seoul, and the Favellas of Rio de Janeiro, Berry's work is documented in diverse languages, producing new understanding of the power of voice, language, and communications.
- The Shakespearean academics in 'Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Guide' address, among others, the following questions: Why has Romeo and Juliet proved such a popular play? Twin suicides - does this secure the play's mythic status? Is the balcony scene 'the core and heart of the play'? Should modern audiences feel uncomfortable at both the lovers' extreme youth?
- It's the year 1942 and the world is at war. John Mathew who has just celebrated his 16th birthday has been told that he is to fight for the country. Emotions are strong as John heads off to fight leaving him mother and younger brother behind.
- The text of ten Shakespeare sonnets spoken off-screen provides a counterpoint to a wordless drama played out in a modern setting: an ageing poet witnesses a bond developing between the woman he loves and his young friend.
- A struggle for power begins as a virus mutates its victims into vampires.