Canals: The Making of a Nation
Canals: The Making of a Nation
2/6. Liz McIvor recounts the tales of the men who built the canals - the navigators or navvies - focusing on their work on the Manchester Ship Canal. [S] [HD]
23 sept. 2026
Times in Europe/London
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2/6. Liz McIvor recounts the tales of the men who built the canals - the navigators or navvies - focusing on their work on the Manchester Ship Canal. [S] [HD]
2/3. Anne has grown into a real beauty. She is dazzling, and the king is caught in the glare. Her family play the long game to catch a king. [S,AD] [HD]
3/4. Four-part series about the Lake District. In Coniston, Paul Rose enters a cycling event on a penny farthing and climbs the Old Man of Coniston. [S]
2/2. Dr Helen Czerski examines the extraordinary messages sound waves carry and how they help in understanding the world around us. [S,AD,SL] [HD]
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
Programmes start at 7.00pm. [HD]
3/6. Liz McIvor explores how the nation's canals were saved following years of postwar neglect, becoming places of tranquillity and popular for boating holidays. [S] [HD]
4/4. Eskdale is the final destination in Paul Rose's trek through the Lake District. He has the summit of Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain, in his sights. [S] [HD]
A documentary telling the story of the extremely rare discovery of evidence of Roman crucifixion, unearthed in a routine archaeological dig in the Cambridgeshire Fens. [S,AD] [HD]
1/3. Chris and Xand van Tulleken explore the latest understanding of how we all grow. [S,AD] [HD]
3/6. Fred Vincy is anxious to know to whom Featherstone will leave his fortune. Casaubon is furious when Ladislaw visits Dorothea. Lydgate and Rosamond's wedding goes ahead. [S]
4/6. Dorothea is now a widow, but she vows never to finish Casaubon's book because of the vindictive codicil to his will. Will Ladislaw is out of a job. [S]
1/3. Military historian Saul David looks at how to keep an army fed and housed. [S] [HD]