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First broadcast: Thursday 10 November 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
Nowadays, London's East End is synonymous with the 2012 Olympic Games. Cutting-edge engineering and design have transformed the Olympic Park. But 150 years ago, the world was watching for a very different reason, although the spectacle on display was as high-tech as anything on offer today.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 02 November 2011, 10PM on More4
Tony Robinson and Kevin McCloud take a journey into the world of architect and designer Augustus Pugin and follow the renovation of his former home, The Grange in Ramsgate.
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First broadcast: Sunday 08 May 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
Tony Robinson and Mick Aston dig out the best bits of over 200 Time Team episodes to tell the story of how our domestic lives have changed over 10 millennia.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 04 May 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
Boudica is revered as one of the greatest female warriors in history. Tony Robinson traces her story and follows a major excavation in Norfolk that may hold the key to uncovering what happened to Boudica's tribe after they were defeated by the Roman army.
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First broadcast: Sunday 01 May 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
Tony Robinson and geophys boffin John Gater look back over 200 digs at the extraordinary achievements of cutting-edge geophysics technology, which has uncovered lost Roman villas, tombs, temples and ancient monuments, as well as a host of old broken tractor bits and enigmatic ditches.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 20 April 2011, 10PM on More4
After three years of painstaking work just outside Colchester's Roman walls, archaeologists knew they had found something unusual. Around the parallel walls that had enclosed a huge structure they discovered hundreds of burials, some containing charioteer coins and others piles of horse jawbones.
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First broadcast: Thursday 14 April 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
In the half-light of dawn, on the frontline of the Somme battlefield on 1 July 1916, a small metal nozzle pushed its way up through the ground in No Man's Land to point at the German front line.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 30 March 2011, 10PM on More4
Time Team came to Liverpool for this special documentary as the city celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2007 and prepared for its role as European City of Culture in 2008.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 16 March 2011, 12AM on Channel 4
The Battle of Bosworth was the decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses. It was the beginning of the end of three decades of treason, rebellion and dynastic warfare. Against huge odds, Henry Tudor won the day to take the English Crown. It was a turning point in English history, the end of the Middle Ages and the savage beginnings of the country we recognise today. For five years, a team of archaeologists have been combing this blood-stained ground. What these archaeologists have found is changing the entire understanding, not just of this iconic battle, but the very nature of warfare at this time.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 15 December 2010, 10PM on More4
Thirteen years before the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth in the Mayflower, 105 men in three ships established the first permanent English settlement on the American continent. They named it Jamestown, after James I, who was king of England at the time.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 08 December 2010, 10PM on More4
Behind the elegance of the stately gardens that now define the British landscape lies a story that combines exotic exploration, scientific innovation and revolutionary thought, not to mention an unexpected helping of sexual innuendo.
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First broadcast: Monday 11 October 2010, 8PM on Channel 4
Tony Robinson, Mick Aston and Phil Harding follow digs around the UK that uncover a vast array of archaeology and provide fascinating insights into our Viking past.
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First broadcast: Monday 28 June 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
Tony and the Team go behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey to explore the story of the Cosmati pavement: the mosaic floor being uncovered for the first time in 100 years.
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First broadcast: Monday 17 May 2010, 12AM on Channel 4
In the 18th century the Royal Navy was the most successful fighting force in the world. To maintain this status it desperately needed better ways of looking after its sick and wounded, so in 1746 it decided to build the best hospital the country had ever seen, near the Portsmouth dockyard at Haslar.
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First broadcast: Saturday 19 December 2009, 8PM on Channel 4
Dover Castle has dominated the White Cliffs since it was built in 1180 by Henry II. But building it had nothing to do with defending Britain's shores; the story behind its vastly expensive construction is one of royal embarrassment and political prestige.
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First broadcast: Sunday 29 November 2009, 12.30AM on More4
Ten thousand years ago, before sea levels rose at the end of Ice Age, a huge area of land connected Britain to the European continent.
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First broadcast: Friday 11 September 2009, 12AM on Channel 4
Tony and the Team help investigate the Saxon roots of Bamburgh Castle, high on rocky cliffs in Northumberland above the vast North Sea beach and with the magical island of Lindisfarne visible in the distance.
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First broadcast: Monday 01 June 2009, 9PM on Channel 4
Stonehenge is the nation's most famous monument. For centuries, its age and purpose have been subject to speculation, excavation and fantasy. But over the last six years, a huge new team of archaeologists have been digging not just the monument but the entire prehistoric landscape that focuses on Stonehenge, to reveal the truth about this near-mythical place and crack its secrets.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 06 May 2009, 9PM on More4
While digging a huge site in the middle of London, archaeologists uncovered two extraordinary Roman cisterns. At the bottom of each lay the remains of a complex mechanism for drawing water out from these five metre-deep containers.
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First broadcast: Wednesday 15 April 2009, 9PM on More4
In 2001, divers discovered one of the most exciting naval artefacts ever found in British waters, part of the wreck of the 18th century warship The Colossus. This Time Team special follows Tony and the Team as they join divers fighting to recover the ship's treasure and piece together the history of this old warship.
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First broadcast: Monday 13 April 2009, 7.30PM on Channel 4
In this feature-length Time Team Special , Tony Robinson and the Team make their inimitable contribution to marking the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the throne.
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First broadcast: Monday 13 April 2009, 12AM on Channel 4
Tony Robinson and the Time Team mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the throne. He was the most prolific and talented palace builder in the history of this nation.
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First broadcast: Saturday 28 March 2009, 11.40PM on More4
Over the August bank holiday weekend in 2006, the Big Royal Dig saw Time Team exploring the royal palaces of Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh, Buckingham Palace, in London, and Windsor Castle, in Berkshire.
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First broadcast: Saturday 21 March 2009, 7.55PM on More4
Hidden away in Kent is an architectural gem, a building that is important not because it's bigger or better than any other but because it has survived, complete with all the many changes and bodges made to it over the course of seven centuries.
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First broadcast: Saturday 14 March 2009, 7.55PM on More4
In the summer of 2003, a small crew from Time Team spent eight weeks in the beautiful setting of Loch Tay, Perthshire, in Scotland. They were filming the ongoing underwater excavation of Oakbank crannog, an Iron-Age lake dwelling, which was first surveyed in 1979 and is the subject of a full-scale crannog reconstruction at the Scottish Crannog Centre on Loch Tay.
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First broadcast: Saturday 07 February 2009, 9PM on More4
In a major excavation, archaeologists link the henge at Durrington to its more famous neighbour, Stonehenge, and uncover an extraordinary picture of Stone Age life.
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First broadcast: Saturday 24 January 2009, 11.05PM on More4
During World War II, the Blitz destroyed countless homes, factories and civil defences. Dorchester Street in Shoreditch was one of thousands of streets in London that were bombed constantly, and was finally hit by a V2 long-range rocket bomb.
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First broadcast: Friday 26 December 2008, 7PM on Channel 4
Somewhere in the Roman empire at the end of the 4th century lived a very rich man. The man's name was Sevso. How he got his wealth and what he did during his life are lost in the mists of time. But his name endures. Why? Because he left behind one of the greatest treasures the world has ever known.
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First broadcast: Friday 19 December 2008, 9PM on More4
They are among the most striking features of the British landscape. Moulded to the contours of some of our highest hills and most dramatic scenery, perched on clifftops and ridges, and dominating the landscape, they can be found throughout the British Isles. More than 2000 'hillforts' have been identified in Britain, the construction and occupation of which spanned almost a millennium.
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First broadcast: Saturday 22 November 2008, 10.45PM on More4
Three thousand years ago the banks of the River Witham, just outside Lincoln, were bustling with activity. Archaeologists knew that buried just below the surface of this fenland would be some of the best preserved, yet fragile, evidence of a major Bronze Age settlement.
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First broadcast: Saturday 15 November 2008, 9.25PM on More4
On the morning of 6 June 1944 Allied troops landed in France to attack Hitler's 'Fortress Europe' and begin the liberation of the continent.
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First broadcast: Monday 10 November 2008, 9PM on Channel 4
Tony Robinson joins an unprecedented archaeological expedition in Belgium to search for a bunker, or dugout, from the Great War known as the Vampir.
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First broadcast: Sunday 08 January 2006, 12AM on Channel 4
The story of the biggest villa excavation in this country for 50 years, some of the finest mosaics ever discovered and a classic story of the growing wealth and opulence of the Romans in Britain is recounted here as Tony Robinson brings together the whole history of the villa in this special film.
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First broadcast: Monday 13 June 2005, 12AM on Channel 4
A chance discovery by archaeologists in Southend reveals an Anglo-Saxon tomb crammed with such impressive gold artefacts that the tabloids dubbed the occupant 'the King of Bling'.
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In late 2003 two metal detectorists were working in a field in Yorkshire. They found 'treasure' buried just beneath the surface - a collection of Viking material next to a body.
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Tony Robinson presents this seasonal episode of Time Team from York's Barley Hall, where an extravagant Medieval Christmas celebration is in full swing.
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Tony Robinson and Phil Harding hit the highways of America on a road trip to some of the dinosaur capitals of the world.
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The team follow ARCUS, the Archaeological Research and Consultancy at the University of Sheffield, on some of its excavations into Sheffield's industrial past.
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