2: Power | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

5: New Britannia | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

In the final part of Andrew Marr's national saga, Britain enters the post-Thatcher era. Many have done well during...

4: Revolution | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the British nati...

2: Under Pressure | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook looks at a dynamic decade. By the mid-80s, Britain felt like an embattled nation, struggling to establis...

1: The Sound of the Crowd | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook takes a look at a dynamic decade. This episode looks at how the early 80s saw new forces of choi...

3: Enemies | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher confronts her enemies, leading the country to war, taking the economic fight to her opponents in the trade unio...

1: Building a New Society | New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr examines the way in which Britain went from a rigid, class-obsessed society in the 1950s toward a m...

4: The Winner Takes It All 77-79 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the final years of the decade, marked by concerns that appear startlingly current.

5: Downfall | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher's leadership style and judgement on Europe and the poll tax create splits in her cabinet and public anger, lea...

S2E4: The Great Train Robbery | Days That Shook the World

The Great Train Robbery on August 8, 1963.

1: Making Margaret | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Margaret Thatcher's inner circle reveals how she managed to overcome her outsider status to become a prominent polit...

2: Doomwatch 73-74 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the impact of a fast-changing world on British life and the effects of the oil price hike of the 70s.

Liverpool in the sixties | A House Through Time

David Olusoga explores the boom in art, music and culture in Liverpool during the swinging sixties.

2: A Brave New World | New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr explores how Britain since 1952 has coped with the loss of empire, America's cultural and political hege...

3: Made in Britain | New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr

During the Queen's long reign, Britain's heavy industries have faced devastating decline. Andrew Marr picks the 'New E...

S3E1: The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean | Days That Shook the World

Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess's escape to Moscow in 1951.

1: Leaders | Icons

Trevor examines the lives of Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. He discovers exactly what made each of th...

Episode 2 | The Major Years

Tonight looks at Black Wednesday and the damage it did to Major's leadership. Both Major and Norman Lamont speak very frankly about their roles i...

Episode 3 | The Major Years

In November 1994, John Major ordered the whip to be withdrawn from eight rebel backbenchers. By the following summer the cabinet itself was divid...

I Hate the Sixties: The Decade That Was Too Good to Be True

Documentary exploring the myth of the 1960s and "Swinging Britain." The decade's social revolution led to a fragm...

S10E2: The Comet Cover-Up | Secret History

Documentary about the world's first jet passenger airline, the Comet, which, two years after its launch in 1952, was grounded inde...