Documentaries
Documentaries is a documentary on BBC1. Powerful drama that tells the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny's death in the 7 July bombing at Edgware Road tube station. A moving film that explores the impact of violence on one woman and her family. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 294 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2025.
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July 2, 2025
Powerful drama that tells the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny's death in the 7 July bombing at Edgware Road tube station.
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8. Rothko
Mark Rothko believed that tradition was all used up and that figurative art could no longer connect us, viscerally, to the human tragedy. So he set himself - and New York - a test.
June 2025
Dougie and the team present highlights from this year’s Royal Highland Show. Cammy joins the annual Grand Parade to celebrate the show winners.
Simon Schama on the making of eight great works of art. The story of Picasso's Guernica, from the bombing massacre that inspired it, to Picasso's artistic response.
Dougie is in the Howe of Alford to meet a top Aberdeen Angus breeder, while Cammy attends a farm sale where a lifetime of machinery and tools are going under the auctioneer’s hammer.
In 1953, the BBC made a point-of-view film from the London-Brighton train. In 1983, they did it again. This film shows both concurrently, with every bridge, tunnel and station.
1:00:00Rick Stein explores the food of Shanghai - Shanghai is one of the biggest cities in the world and is rapidly expanding, but has it hung on to its culinary roots?
Simon Schama investigates what drove Van Gogh to paint his great masterpiece Wheatfield with Crows in 1890.
Dougie is in Motherwell to visit Baron’s Haugh Nature Reserve, an urban wetland along the River Clyde. Elsewhere, Shahbaz visits one of Wester Ross's ancient Caledonian pine forests.
A biographical drama about the life and rise to fame of the American soul singer Aretha Franklin.
Simon Schama tells the extraordinary story of how Britain's greatest painter, JMW Turner, created one of his most powerful paintings, The Slave Ship.
Dougie is in Skye to find out how crofters are providing a summer home for corncrakes. Meanwhile, Shahbaz sails to Ailsa Craig to see how conservationists are protecting the island's seabird colony.
In his favourite city, Alexander Armstrong explores the secret underground treasures that made Rome the powerhouse of the ancient world.
Engineer Rob Bell explores the new inventions - from giant troop-carrying gliders to tanks that could operate on water - that made the Normandy invasion in 1944 possible.
Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of drama in the making of eight great works of art. He looks at Jacques Louis David's revolutionary painting Death of Marat.
Dougie reports on the bluetongue virus and meets the Scottish scientists studying its spread. Meanwhile, Shahbaz meets Belgian vet students getting hands-on experience on Scottish farms.
Pulp perform an intimate and exclusive show for BBC Radio 2 In Concert, playing some of their most-loved classic hits as well as exclusive tracks from their album More.
May 2025
Why did one of the world's greatest artists cut up his own masterpiece? Simon Schama tells the story of Rembrandt van Rijn's rise and fall in glittering 17th-century Amsterdam.
Dougie is in Glen Clova to find out how a shooting estate is balancing biodiversity and flood resilience. Meanwhile, Anne joins a team of firefighters learning how to tackle wildfires with fire.
Jason Mohammad presents all the latest scores, results and reaction from the final day of the Premier League season, including the game between Nottingham Forest and Chelsea.