Duration: 29'17''
Comparing exhaustive footage of London in the 40s with the city of today.
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1: 24 Hour Britain | Britain from Above
Andrew Marr goes on a journey through a day in the life of Britain as seen from the skies.
3: Man Made Britain | Britain from Above
Andrew Marr discovers how some of Britain's greenest landscapes were shaped by humans.
4: The Land | Britain from Above
Comparing exhaustive footage of East Anglia in the 1940s with the countryside of today.
5: Untamed Britain | Britain from Above
Andrew Marr microlights and paraglides to get a bird's eye view of our untamed landscape.
6: The Industrial Landscape | Britain from Above
Comparing footage of Britain's industrial landscape in the 1940s with today.
Docklands regeneration | Britain from Above
Andrew Marr details how the London Docklands went through regeneration, turning it into a financial centre of the globe.
02: The Last Stand at Stratford | Building the Olympic Dream
The ambition and scale of the project is huge. Resistance to the plans comes from unexpected quarters.
HS2: The Railway that Blew Billions | Panorama
HS2 was meant to be the railway of the future, but more than a decade on, the project is mired in uncertainty. Richard Bilton ...
Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom
Documentary series meeting the people living and working in the eye of Manchester's remarkable housing boom.
S8E8: The North-South Divide | Timeshift
Journalist John Harris travels around England to find out why the north-south divide is still an economic reality following the decl...
Mind the Gap: London v the Rest
While much of the UK still struggles after the financial crash, London is thriving like never before. In the first of two programmes, Evan Da...
HS2: End Of The Line?
The controversial train line has cost billions and left those along the route stranded. What next for HS2? BBC News Transport correspondent Katy Austin...
03: Laying the Foundations | Building the Olympic Dream
With nine billion pounds to spend on creating an Olympic Park, London 2012's bosses face some big challenges.
Episode 2 | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom
Property developer Tim hits a million-pound problem in the mill he is converting into apartments, while less than a mile a...
Hong Kong's growth | World's Busiest Cities
Dan Snow views Hong Kong from the sky and witnesses how the city's growth is slowly connecting it to mainland China.
Urbanising rural environments in China | This World
Life in a rural community in China, that will soon become a city due to government urbanisation plans.
Bidding for housing | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom
After being evicted, a mother bids on the affordable housing website and hopes to win a suitable home for her kids.
Episode 1 | Commonwealth City
It's 2010 - four years to go to the Commonwealth Games, much of which will take place in Dalmarnock in the East End of Glasgow.
Episode 1 | The Tower
Five years after Lewisham council sold off one of its riverside tower blocks to be turned into chic apartments, the transformation of the Tower is due ...
Episode 2 | Commonwealth City
The fortunes of the community in Dalmarnock. Steven's future looks uncertain when his job comes to an end. And Darren receives some devastating...
Episode 2 | The Tower
The last tenant has been removed from the ex-council tower block and the developers can now start the renovation.
Episode 3 | Commonwealth City
The fortunes of the community in Dalmarnock. After securing funds for a new community centre, councillor Yvonne must find available land for it...
Episode 3 | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom
As towers rise on the skyline, homeless people and low-income earners are often forced into shelters when the city's affor...
Episode 3 | The Tower
Inside the Tower, the interior designers are hard at work creating the dream of sky-high modern urban living.
Episode 4 | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom
At a consultation event, Anne and Donna learn a tower block is proposed near their homes. Donna's elderly father is desper...
Episode 4 | The Tower
With the show flats in the Tower selling fast, two prospective purchasers are excited by the dream of modern living.
3: Sustaining the City | Andrew Marr's Megacities
Andrew Marr looks at transport routes and finds out how the world's megacities stay fed, and he joins Mexico City's traffic...
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...
Adolf Hitler's rise to power | Andrew Marr's History of the World
Andrew Marr discusses Hitler's rise to power from the end of the first world war.
3: Life and Death | Andrew Marr on Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Andrew Marr discovers how Darwin's ideas are helping mankind to save life on earth from extinction. He explains Da...
1: A New Dawn | Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr revisits Britain at the dawn of the 20th century. He finds the country mourning the death of Queen Vic...
2: The Land of Lost Consent | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain
The 1950s were a period of apparent calm, order and prosperity for Britain, but much of the populace wa...
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