Dr Xand van Tulleken tells how an extraordinary heatwave struck London in the summer in 1858 and a terrible stench began to rise from the River Thames.
Last year, the UK's armed police officers out more than 16,000 operations in England and Wales, dealing with marauding fugitives, organised criminals, tense hostage situations and the ever-increasing threat of terrorism. This programme follows operations carried out by armed response teams, combining real footage from the missions with news coverage of the aftermath, and testimony from the officers themselves
We meet some of the UK’s most unequal households, in which one partner – usually the woman – is taking on more of the domestic load than anyone else in the home.
When Paddy Met Sally is a two-part television documentary shown on Channel 5 in the UK featuring Irish Traveller and Celebrity Big Brother 2011 winner Paddy Doherty and Sally Bercow, wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons. The show is similar to Wife Swap.
The pair met in the Big Brother house in August 2011 and became unlikely friends. For the two one-hour episodes of When Paddy Met Sally, Bercow moved in to Doherty's chalet on his travellers' site in north Wales, living by his rules in episode one and hers in episode two.
The programmes first aired on 9 and 16 January 2012. The series aired on 3e in Ireland in November 2012.
Undercover Girlfriends follows five girls who decide to go undercover in an effort to discover whether their man is really the one.
For one week, their boyfriends will be whisked away on a VIP trip to sun soaked Marbella where they think they're making a TV show about lads on holiday. What they don't know is that their girlfriends are in the villa right next door watching their every move.
Everywhere the boys go and everything they do is controlled by their girlfriends. Using stealth, technology and a range of disguises, the girlfriends will go undercover to put their boyfriends to the test in order to answer some important questions about their relationships. Will the undercover girlfriends get rumbled? Are they really ready for what they might uncover? And when the girls come clean at the end of the week will it bring the couples closer together or push them further apart?
Bad Habits, Holy Orders is a series that sees young women swapping their modern lives to spend a month living in a working convent in East Anglia where home comforts, smartphones and alcohol are banned.
Five "celebrities" go to a farmhouse in Tuscany where they will see the sights and learn about the culture and cuisine of Italy while living in a villa together.
Series venturing behind the doors of one of the greatest museums in the world. Visitors to the museum see only a fraction of the staggering 80 million items in the collection. This programme reveals the unique and rare pieces too valuable to exhibit.
Builder Mark Millar helps families around Britain who are taking the extraordinary step of building their own dream homes. The dream homes cover a wide range of budgets from as little as £10,000, and all types of homes in beautiful country locations.
A fresh examination of events between September '38 and March '39. Hitler was intent on invading Czechoslovakia, but even then the tyrant was already looking to his next goal.
Ground-breaking two-part documentary. An unprecedented insight into the lives of London's most notorious street gangs, following young people exposed to murder, drug deals, guns and knives on a daily basis, showing the real-life events taking place every day in London's toughest neighbourhoods
Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver was a British game show, part of the Worst Driver television franchise, in which six British celebrities had to perform various challenges to prove their driving prowess. The show was presented by Quentin Willson for both series, with Jenni Falconer joining as co-host for the second.