The Story of Musicals

With Musical Theatre hits streamed straight to your living room, grab your popcorn and watch a star-studded line up perform your West End favourites as you’ve never seen them before. If you’ve missed the magic of theatre this year, look no further!

One unsuspecting London high school is presented with the challenge of a lifetime: to audition, rehearse and perform a West End worthy performance of 'Hairspray' in one summer holiday.

Celebrating the beauty and heartbreak of the Broadway theater, following a cross section of dreamers and schemers who all have one common desire - to be a "Smash."

Jason Manford hosts a celebration of musical theatre, full of showstoppers from the nation’s best-loved shows.

Annual awards ceremony presented by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London.

The curtain rises on Sarasa Watanabe, a starry-eyed 5'10" student who hopes to perform as a male lead role in the all-female Kouka Acting Troupe. She forms a friendship with her new roommate, a former idol. Together, they’re in for the role of a lifetime.

East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I; his romantic adventures during the twenties; the escape of the Nazi regime; the return from exile. The life of a timeless classic, a class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit, a committed artist.

Short films with big ideas. Take a break and learn more about everything from faith, hope, and love to war and death. Talented film directors interpret research from Denmark's brightest minds.

Vida en Pompeya con Dan Snow

大型建筑回收

An Apache and a Northerner on a voyage of discovery towards the year 2000. Erik Bye and his Apache friend Bob Haozous embark on a reverse voyage of discovery in the Columbus year. The series begins in Apache country by the Rio Grande and takes us to South and North America, Siberia, and Norway.

India on Four Wheels is a documentary shown in the UK on BBC Two where Justin Rowlatt and Anita Rani travel around India sampling the changes and problems that growing car usage has brought to the country in the last two decades.

In-depth look at incredible moments in baseball that built careers, reputations and myths.

Une fleur dans le Pacifique

Observational documentary series following life at one of Britain's 'Big Six' energy companies, SSE. Filmed over a year, it tells the story of an army of workers battling to keep our power flowing.

Ian Nairn travels through Britain and takes a critical look at the townscapes and landscapes in which we live.

Virkelighedens rejsehold

Art historian Dr James Fox traces the momentous impact of the west's contact with the peoples and cultures of the Pacific. It is a story of exploration, encounter and exploitation.

Dr Jago Cooper explores the extraordinary and resilient culture of the American Northwest, revealing one the most inspiring stories in human history.

Writer and environmentalist, Peter Owen-Jones spends a year in the enchanting landscapes of the New Forest, exploring its wildlife, history and meeting the Commoners, the people whose ancient way of life has helped shape the land since Neolithic times.