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Hugh Dennis and a team of archaeologists and historians descend on a suburban road in Kent where they believe a Roman settlement is hidden beneath the back gardens. With just one week to discover the history that may lie below the terraced houses of Florence Road, Maidstone, Hugh goes door-to-door to recruit willing locals to help Richard Taylor, Chloe Duckworth and Simon Elliott dig up their gardens in the search for remains.

We pay homage to the first five winning bakers, including Edd and surprise-winner Nancy, and relive their epic highs and lows, from their first Signature challenge to their final Showstopper

An investigation into British railways, which can be slower and more expensive than flying, have had harmful pathogens detected on them and aren't immune to accidents. Plus, hearing from experts and insiders who blow the whistle on the inadequate state of the rail industry.

The UK's in the grip of a major shortage of lorry drivers. At a training school in Croydon, folk from all walks of life have just five days to learn to drive an HGV and save our Christmas.

The Queen Mary began as a floating gentlemen's club, set a record for the fastest Atlantic crossing, became a WWII legend and finally became an American passenger ship.

Michael Portillo explores Canada, armed with his Appleton's 1899 Guidebook.

With military historian Norm Christie as our guide, we explore the battlefields, cemeteries and monuments of the First World War. The men who fought tell their stories, and we discover how the naive, amateur soldiers of 1914 became, by 1918, perhaps the most feared, efficient and deadly Allied fighting machine on the Western Front: the "Canadian Corps."
FOR KING AND EMPIRE tells the stories of ordinary Canadians who fought extraordinary battles during the First World War. Six episodes represent a turning point in the Great War: Ypres, the Somme, Vimy, Passchendaele, the Battles of the Last Hundred Days, and the Legacy of the War.

Stabbings, shootings, genocide, torture, abduction, robbery, serial killing and mass suicide are just a few of the horrific crimes explored in Great Crimes and Trials. True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage. Cases which have become almost legendary in the annals of crime and detection.

For everyone who believes that fact is stranger than fiction there can be nothing in the world more fascinating than the search for the truth behind the most extraordinary mysteries and myths of the Twentieth Century.

The history of Canada's involvement in the First World War. Narrated by Paul Gross.