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    Series 1, Episode 8, Codex

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    The Diets That Time Forgot

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All History Programmes (107)

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  • Next on: Wednesday 25 November, 9PM on More4

    In this popular and (literally) groundbreaking programme, Tony Robinson and a team of experts travel the country to investigate a wide range of archaeological sites of historical importance

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  • Next on: Saturday 28 November, 9.45PM on More4

    From the secrets of Stonehenge to the hidden tunnels and dugouts of World War 1, Tony Robinson and the Team take on a series of four very special archaeological assignments

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  • Next on: Saturday 28 November, 8.45PM on Channel 4

    Tony Robinson goes in search of Britain's Real Monarch. The result is a detective story that takes him from the Tower of London, via Debretts Peerage, to the other side of the planet...

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  • Last broadcast: Saturday 14 November, 2.20AM on More4

    This documentary explores how Egypt's two greatest pharaohs - Rameses II and Khufu - built their way to immortality through epic feats of engineering

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  • Last broadcast: Monday 09 November, 8PM on Channel 4

    Presented by Ian Hislop, the Not Forgotten documentaries use Britain's war memorials as a starting point for an investigation of the impact of the First World War on British society

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  • Last broadcast: Saturday 07 November, 8PM on Channel 4

    The extraordinary and compelling story of the Second World War suicide bombers, the kamikazes, Japanese pilots who crashed their planes into enemy ships

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  • Last broadcast: Monday 02 November, 9PM on Channel 4

    The true story of the 76 Allied airmen who famously escaped from Stalag Luft in 1944, and the subsequent hunt for the Gestapo officers who executed 50 of the re-captured airmen

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  • Last broadcast: Sunday 18 October, 12.45AM on More4

    An iceberg may have sunk the Titanic, but this documentary argues that it was actually a long chain of misjudgements, human errors and misfortunes that led to this maritime catastrophe

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  • Last broadcast: Monday 12 October, 8PM on Channel 4

    Innovative film drawing parallels between Anarchist attacks on Victorian London and today's radicalism, examining how feelings of oppression, persecution and anger can lead to extremism

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 01 October, 1.05AM on More4

    Documentary that throws new light on the spectacular and very public break-up one of the most iconic couples of the 1960s - Tony Snowdon and Princess Margaret

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 24 September, 1.10AM on More4

    Prince John was born in 1904 as the youngest child of George V and died in 1919 after a severe epileptic seizure. This is the story of the young prince's tragically short life.

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  • Last broadcast: Sunday 20 September, 7PM on Channel 4

    In WWII, merchant ships bringing vital goods across the Atlantic were Britain's crucial lifeline, one which German U-boats were determined to destroy in the longest and bloodiest campaign of the war

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  • Last broadcast: Saturday 19 September, 12.45AM on Channel 4

    Rupert Everett travels in the footsteps of Lord Byron - sex explorer, celebrity, and the original 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' hero of the Romantic movement

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 17 September, 1.05AM on More4

    This historical drama presents an alternative view of the Battle of Trafalgar, through the eyes of HMS Victory's surgeon, William Beatty, and his team

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  • Last broadcast: Sunday 13 September, 2.40AM on Channel 4

    Epic drama revealing the untold story of the Norman Conquest through the eyes of the ordinary villagers caught up in the chaos

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  • Last broadcast: Friday 11 September, 3.15AM on Channel 4

    This Georgian Underworld documentary tells the remarkable story of ex-slave Bill Richmond, and his rags-to-riches rise to fame through the violent and gruesome sport of bare knuckle boxing

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 03 September, 1.10AM on More4

    This documentary uncovers the tensions and conflict between the Queen Mother and Prince Philip in the build up to Princess Elizabeth's coronation in 1953

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  • Last broadcast: Monday 31 August, 9PM on Channel 4

    Kwame Kwei-Armah retraces Queen Elizabeth's 1953 Commonwealth Tour, a six-month journey across five continents to persuade the Colonies to stay attached to Britain as part of the Commonwealth

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 27 August, 2.50AM on More4

    Presenting a seldom seen side of Queen Victoria, this documentary examines her childhood and life as a young queen. Through diaries and letters it explores her intense and complex relationships with men.

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 27 August, 1.45AM on More4

    The story of how Attila the Hun almost conquered Western Europe, and how the tide of history eventually turned against him

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  • Last broadcast: Monday 17 August, 8PM on Channel 4

    She was a princess, at one time second in line to the throne, and he was one of London's most notorious and violent criminals. Together, they would create one of the biggest hidden scandals in royal history.

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 13 August, 3.15AM on More4

    Rupert Everett takes a revealing and witty journey, retracing the steps of one of his great heroes: the infamous author, explorer and sexual adventurer, Sir Richard Burton

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  • Last broadcast: Sunday 09 August, 3.15AM on More4

    After WWII, Britain was desperate to retain its status as a great power alongside the United States and the Soviet Union. Investing millions in increasingly powerful weapons seemed the only option.

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  • Last broadcast: Sunday 02 August, 1.10AM on More4

    Dr David Starkey's complete history of the British Monarchy, which reveals the epic and bloody stories of our Kings and Queens and charts the course of the oldest surviving political institution in Europe

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  • Last broadcast: Thursday 16 July, 2.10AM on More4

    A team of experts from the fields of shipbuilding, science, history and archaeology gather to try and pin down why Henry VIII's flagship, The Mary Rose, capsized and sank without warning in 1545

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