BBC Knowledge (BBC4)

Series following in the footsteps of Nikolaus Pevsner, author of a 46-volume guide to the buildings of England. Jonathan Meades makes a personal journey through Worcestershire. He visits the model for Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Brideshead Revisited’, Madresfeild Court, traces the picturesque movement through Worcestershire’s follies, and reassesses the churches of the county

Profile of one of the world’s most celebrated photographers. Eve Arnold’s subjects range from poverty and unrest in the South Africa of the apartheid era to studies of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe. This programme tells the story of a long and eventful life

Three-part documentary charting the development of the wartime relationships between the three leaders of the Allies - Churchill, de Gaulle and Roosevelt. In early 1943, relations reached their lowest ebb, with Roosevelt pouring scorn on the Free French leader. Churchill found himself caught in the middle, and on the very eve of D-Day, a last-minute row threatened to jeopardise a vital part of the naval operation

Colonel John Hughes-Wilson takes a counterfactual look at the evacuation of Dunkirk, asking what would have happened had the Germans won the Battle of Britain. How would Churchill have reacted and what would life have been like under the Nazis?

Patrick Wright presents a documentary series which follows the 210-mile course of the River Thames as it winds its way through national landscape, memory and imagination. This programme looks at the visionary idealism that has inspired so much of the politics, art, literature and drama that have played out along its banks

Series following in the footsteps of Nikolaus Pevsner, author of a 46-volume guide to the buildings of England. Philippa Gregory visits Bristol and Somerset, exploring the wealth that Bristol accrued as a result of the slave trade and the architectural boom it produced. She also looks at Brunel’s Clifton suspension bridge, the Goldney House grotto and the pseudo-Gothic castle at Arnos Court

A series that chronicles the turbulent changes of the 20th century from the perspectives of ordinary people. The story of postwar recovery is told by families who managed to forget the struggles of 1945 and look forward to a new, previously unimaginable prosperity

Poignant series of ten-minute shorts, telling the story of the First World War through the words of the last survivors of the Western Front, who are now among the oldest men in Britain. Combining their vivid memories with archive photos and film, the series provides an intimate, first-person account of a war that can never be forgotten

Three-part documentary charting the development of the wartime relationships between the three leaders of the Allies - Churchill, de Gaulle and Roosevelt. In early 1943, relations reached their lowest ebb, with Roosevelt pouring scorn on the Free French leader. Churchill found himself caught in the middle, and on the very eve of D-Day, a last-minute row threatened to jeopardise a vital part of the naval operation

Colonel John Hughes-Wilson takes a counterfactual look at the evacuation of Dunkirk, asking what would have happened had the Germans won the Battle of Britain. How would Churchill have reacted and what would life have been like under the Nazis?

Patrick Wright presents a documentary series which follows the 210-mile course of the River Thames as it winds its way through national landscape, memory and imagination. This programme looks at the visionary idealism that has inspired so much of the politics, art, literature and drama that have played out along its banks

Series following in the footsteps of Nikolaus Pevsner, author of a 46-volume guide to the buildings of England. Philippa Gregory visits Bristol and Somerset, exploring the wealth that Bristol accrued as a result of the slave trade and the architectural boom it produced. She also looks at Brunel’s Clifton suspension bridge, the Goldney House grotto and the pseudo-Gothic castle at Arnos Court

Series chronicling the turbulent changes of the 20th century from the perspectives of ordinary people. The story of postwar recovery is told by families who managed to forget the struggles of 1945 and look forward to a new, previously unimaginable prosperity

Poignant series of ten-minute shorts, telling the story of the First World War through the words of the last survivors of the Western Front, who are now among the oldest men in Britain. Combining their vivid memories with archive photos and film, the series provides an intimate, first-person account of a war that can never be forgotten

Colonel John Hughes-Wilson takes a counterfactual look at the evacuation of Dunkirk, asking what would have happened had the Germans won the Battle of Britain. How would Churchill have reacted and what would life have been like under the Nazis?

Jonathan Meades offers a portrait of Niklaus Pevsner, who fled his native Germany in 1933 and introduced the British to their own architecture. In 1945, Allen Lane of Penguin took up Pevsner’s idea of a guide to every building in England, and the project took Pevsner nearly 30 years

Stephanie Hughes presents this recreation by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra of a concert programme originally performed in Vienna in 1808 and conducted by Beethoven. The evening was an eventful one as Beethoven had earlier fallen out with the orchestra and they were to premiere his fifth and sixth symphonies and perform his fourth piano concerto

In the first of two programmes about 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt, Simon Schama examines the painter’s meteoric rise to fame and fortune, from humble miller’s son to internationally acclaimed artist by the age of 30. Visiting Amsterdam, Schama appraises masterpieces like ‘The Night Watch’, arguing that his unique talent was to tackle and capture the public image and private thoughts of his subjects

French drama about a man whose brief extra-marital liaison with a neurotic young woman threatens to destroy everything he has worked for. While his wife and son are on holiday, Julien Bernier has a date with a girl whom he notices has been watching him. Once his family has returned, she seems determined to hound him relentlessly, apparently obsessed

Drama exploring the intrigues, prejudices and rigid class system that led to the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian empire in the First World War. Despite his lack of wealthy friends or aristocratic connections, an ambitious officer manages to progress through the ranks of the military elite. Yet his desire for success creates more enemies than friends, and he is forced into compromise and betrayal