BBC high definition shows

The Secrets of Quantum Physics

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Professor of physics Jim Al-Khalili investigates the most accurate and yet perplexing scientific theory ever - quantum physics.

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Little Dorrit

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed...

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Last Chance to See

Series Age rating: 4 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 8.2

A follow-up to the 1990 Radio 4 series in which the late Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine travelled around the world in search of endangered species. 20 years later Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine go...

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Galapagos

Series Age rating: 4 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 8.2

The history of these beautiful Islands from their creation as uprising lava to their being studied by Darwin to their modern day inhabitants.

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37 Days

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 8.1

This three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World War I from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 to Britain's declaration of war...

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Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Documentary series delving into a rarely seen South American wilderness, home to surprising creatures who survive from the mighty Andes Mountains to Cape Horn.

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Ocean Giants

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Ground-breaking documentary granting a unique and privileged access into the magical world of whales and dolphins, uncovering the secrets of their intimate lives as never before.

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Rise of the Continents

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 8.1

The Earth’s continents are instantly recognizable. These iconic landmasses seem permanent and unchanging, yet they are merely the wreckage of a much larger long-lost supercontinent – Pangaea. In thi...

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Emma

Series Age rating: 5 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Nothing delights Emma more than meddling in the love lives of others. But when she takes protege Harriet Smith under her wing, her plans can only end in disaster...

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