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Newly arrived in Bath, highly ambitious Londoner DCI McDonald (Tala Gouveia) intends to lake the city's police force by storm.

But when she's partnered with veteran Sergeant Dodds (Jason Watkins), the unlikely pair must find a way to work together as their different approaches to policing - and to life - come to the fore, Together, in two new feature length episodes, they investigate intriguing crimes, set against the backdrop of the contemporary changing face of Britain's most traditional city. From the secret lives of the rich and entitled, to the undercover world of addiction treatment clinics, McDonald and Dodds come to realise not all is at it seems in the seemingly sleepy city of Bath.

"The Post" tells the incredible true story of the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as they strive to expose a massive cover-up of devastating government secrets, risking their careers and very freedom in a fight for the truth.

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Discover secrets you were never supposed to know! Travel to places you were never supposed to see! Three Reader's Digest investigations take us into; Britain's subterranean caves, rivers, tunnels and bunkers from ancient times to the modern era; plus the shelters, secret weapons sites and hidden

command centres of WW2; and the bunkers, citadels, and hidden nuclear command centres of Cold War Britain.

Hidden History
Be amazed by tales of Britain's hidden caves, forgotten catacombs and mysterious tunnels. Unearth the tale of Edinburgh's secret underground city and uncover the mysteries of the Hell Fire Caves. Travel beneath the City of Liverpool; Journey to Brighton's hidden network of Victorian sewers; and discover Britain's smuggling secrets scattered around our coves and coasts.
Wartime Secrets
From Liverpool to Dover, Westminster to Woolwich, there are hidden secrets beneath our feet. Underground hideouts that would hide a secret army - ready to attack if Germany landed troops during WW2; The wartime bunker Churchill refused to use in North-West London; London's secret tunnels and secret stations; walkways beneath the Thames and many other bunkers and tunnels that exist under our towns and cities.
Modern Mysteries
Lift the lid on Britain's Cold War bunkers. Journey deep underground to Veryan, one of the few remaining Royal Observer Corps posts; Kelvden Hatch in Essex; Corsham ammo depot and underground aircraft factory; the mysterious Pear Tree House hiding in a regular housing estate; right to the present day with a visit to a secret seed store designed to protect our crops from ecological or biological attack!

In 1934, four brilliant, but seemingly conventional young men at Cambridge University are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union. Fuelled by youthful idealism, a passion for communism, a talent for lying and a hatred of Hitler and fascism, they began a 20-year career of deceit and treachery.

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It is 1941 and the terrors of war-torn Europe seem a long way away for the small expatriate community living in Singapore. Dosed on real life experiences this is the powerful story of women whose lives are changed forever.

It is 1942 and the women are finding camp life worse than they could have imagined. Morion Jefferson, the spokeswoman is interrogated by the secret police leaving her mentally drained. Work on the sick bay continues and malaria is rife.

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The BAFTA-winning hit returns, as Cassie (Nicola Walker) and Sunny (Sanjeev Bhaskar) investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force. A corpse is discovered in a scrap yard, his features frozen in time. Four suspects emerge.

All four have links to the law and attended the same police training course back in 1989. Since then their lives have gone in very different directions. The volatile chief superintendent with a point to prove and a past to forget. A seemingly successful businessman with a criminal past. A Cambridge-educated high-flying cop in a toxic relationship with her mother. And the daughter of a policing family, pushed into a career she cannot stand. All now in their late forties, the police investigation has the potential to shatter their reputations, family relationships and the lives they've built over the last 30 years.

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When human remains are found on the central reservation of a motorway near London, Cassie and Sunny are called to the scene. Dogged work leads the team to Hayley Reid, a 16-year-old girl who went missing on the eve of the millennium.

The police's failure to find out what happened to Hayley wrecked her family's life. Cassie's compassion makes her determined to correct the mistakes made by the original investigation team - whatever the cost to herself. A close-knit group of old school friends hold the key to what happened. Doctor Tim Finch, television presenter James Hollis, failing salesman Pete Carr, and artist Chris Lowe. As the four suspects find themselves under the spotlight, their tight bond is put to the test. They all have secrets in their past - events that have pulled their lives apart. None of them are quite who they first seem to be, but is one of them capable of murder?

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"Manhunt II: The Night Stalker", a four-part drama, is the real-life story of the police pursuit of a notorious serial rapist whose 17-year reign of terror left thousands of elderly people in south east London living in fear.

It is based on the diaries of Colin Sutton (Martin Clunes) and is an important case that he became involved in just before his retirement from the Force. This inquiry has a very different emphasis to the Levi Bellfield case explored in Manhunt; the victims were elderly, and the crimes were unsolved for many years. The drama explores how Colin came late to the inquiry and helped solve it in a matter of weeks, taking an incredibly dangerous serial rapist off the streets.

Oflag IVC, situated in the supposedly 'escape proof' Colditz Castle, was where the Nazis incarcerated their most recalcitrant prisoners-of-war. For these Allied officers, many with an impressive record of attempting escape from POW camps; 'Colditz' was the ultimate challenge...

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Raffles is young, handsome, popular with the ladies and moves in the best social circles in turn-of-the-century England. He's in constant demand as a house guest at some of the grandest country estates and the darling of the cricketing fraternity.

But little do his social friends realise, he's also an accomplished burglar and safe-cracker. Anthony Valentine and Christopher Strauli star in this adaptation of E. W .Hornung's celebrated stories.

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In this series Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman and Tom Pinfold take the farm one stage further, attempting to recreate not just the historical context but also the spiritual context of life in the year 1500, in a society where the Christian faith was at the heart of everything.

They take on the role of the lay-folk who did the bulk of the farming and craftwork within monastic lands, as well as exploring the monastery's primary function - to pray and care for the spiritual welfare of all Christians, both living and dead. Under the reign of the first Tudor King, Henry VII, the country was enjoying a new dawn of peace and prosperity. And as the biggest landowner, other than the King, the monasteries dominated many of the thriving crafts of the era - from wine-making and cloth production to printing and bell casting. They were also places of technological innovation and improvement: farmers on monastic lands pioneered many crucial developments, from the waterwheel to sheep breeding.

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As a newly-qualified vet, James Herriot arrives at Skeldale House in the Yorkshire Dales, looking for his first appointment at Siegfried Farnon's surgery.

Pampered dog, Tricki Woo, gives James something to think about, followed by a tortoise, a bull with heat-stroke and Lord Hunter's favourite horse. James and trainee vet, Tristan relax with the locals down at the Darrowby pub.

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The unlikely detective duo return in this quirky crime drama, packed with corpses, comedy and cracking mysteries. Now that Lu has passed her private investigator exams and Frank's tidied himself up a bit, there's no stopping them.

But murder, kidnap, blackmail and infidelity still abound in the pretty tourist town of Stratford-upon-Avon. An ageing heavy metal star with a pact with the devil. A Shakespeare museum full of deadly secrets. A King Lear story set in a carpet warehouse. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard, where low-life criminals get caught up in deliciously high drama.

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Following his phenomenally successful series exploring the railways of Britain, Continental Europe and the USA, this captivating new series sees Michael Portillo embarking on a fresh adventure in India as he takes to the tracks of one of the world's largest and most exhilarating rail networks.

Steered by his 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, Michael experiences the thrill of Indian rail travel as he journeys through an extraordinary landscape of majestic mountains, scorching deserts and plains watered by holy rivers! He encounters Maharajas and Mughals, explores ornate palaces and golden temples and learns of the role that the rail network plays in India today. Along the way Michael learns what happened under British imperial rule and charts the movement towards independence for hundreds of millions of Indians - who now live in the largest democracy in the world.

1. Amritsar to Shimla
Travelling the routes used by millions of migrants during Partition, Michael helps to feed thousands at the world's largest free kitchen. He gives his trademark colourful wardrobe an Indian twist, and rides the epic Kalka to Shimla hill railway in the foothills of the Himalayas.
2. Jodhpur to New Delhi
Michael embarks on a stunning journey from the Thar Desert in Rajasthan to the Indian capital, taking in desert landscapes and dazzling historic palaces.
3. Mysuru to Chennai
Michael journeys through the modern south Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, from the former princely state of Mysore to the first stronghold of the East India Company in Chennai, formerly Madras.
4. Lucknow to Kolkata
On an epic journey from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh to Kolkata in West Bengal, Michael charts a course through India's history from the days of The East India Company to the dawn of independence.

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There's only no way out...'Catch-22' follows the adventures and misadventures of a U.S. air squadron in Italy during World War II. Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) is a bombardier, whose frantic obsession every time he goes up on a mission is "to come down alive".

The real enemy for Yossarian and his rag-tag bunch of friends is the bureaucracy of the military, inverting logic at every turn. The pinnacle of this is Catch-22, a military by-law which states that if you fly your missions, you're crazy, and don't have to fly them; all you have to do is ask. But if you ask not to, then you're sane, and so you have to fly them.