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- Former British Secretary of State for Defence Michael Portillo visits abandoned, iconic locations around the UK that were at the centre of relatively unknown historical events but which are not open to the public.
- Michael Portillo tells the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe built the biggest empire the world has ever seen.
- Documentary examining the rise in people entering relationships based on a financial agreement. For young people in a material world where financial security is often out of reach, 'sugar dating" can look like a solution to being skint.
- Jason Lewis hosts a mockumentary offering the viewer bizarre facts that are so surreal they just could actually be true.
- Observational documentary series following the work of Kash and Shabs, two brothers that own a supercar workshop in Essex which customises and revamps some of the most powerful sports cars in the world.
- Former senior Conservative Party politician Michael Portillo investigates why the issue of Europe has been tearing apart the party he loves for so long.
- Exploring the current lives of several gay men who came out at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in the UK.
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- Eleven-year-old Dylan's leg hurts so much with tumors that he wants the doctors to cut his leg off. Can he convince them that's the correct solution? And is it the right solution?
- Michael travels to India to uncover how the British East India Company - the world's first multinational corporation - raised a private army to create an empire.
- Michael visits Jamaica, the Caribbean capital of the Empire, to reveal how pirates, slaves and sugar allowed Britain to amass the wealth to conquer the world.
- In South Africa, Michael explores how the lure of riches led Britain into barbaric wars and dividing the country along racial lines, with devastating consequences.
- Michael travels to North America to explore how British rule led to armed rebellion in the USA, and a loyalty in Canada that lasted until the very end of Empire.
- Presenter Jason Lewis traces the six simple, often surreal, steps that connect what at first may seem to be totally unrelated people, places, animals, concepts or things in this faux-factual mockumentary.
- The story of the 140,000 Chinese workers who left their homes and came to war-torn Europe in 1917 and risked their lives for the Allied war effort, but whose vital contribution seems to have been airbrushed from history.
- 201845m7.1 (11)TV EpisodeMichael visits the Royal London Hospital in the East End which closed its doors in 2013 but pioneered medical breakthroughs and universal health-care for generations from its founding in 1740.
- 201845m6.8 (11)TV EpisodeMichael visits one of the most mysterious places in Britain. On the Suffolk coast lie a complex of bunkers, rusting towers and crumpled military hardware once home to an Anglo-American over-the-horizon radar system.
- Michael explores Shepton Mallet prison which over its 400-year history has seen executions and escape attempts, been used as a store for historical documents during wartime and became the U.S. military's WWII death-row.
- 201845m7.1 (11)TV EpisodeIn 1943, the village of Imber on Salisbury Plain began to be used as a Second World War training ground. The residents were ordered to leave by the War Office and, despite promises to the contrary, have never been allowed to return.
- 201845mTV EpisodeThe series returns as Michael visits the former Cambridge Military Hospital in the garrison town of Aldershot, Hampshire to learn of the far-reaching legacy of the medical innovations that took place there.
- 201845m8.4 (5)TV EpisodeMichael ventures inside the London Road Fire Station which was decommissioned in 1986. He learns how the devastating loss of life suffered by the brigade led to the profession being transformed.
- A top secret Cold War stronghold and a decommissioned Soviet nuclear submarine reveal just how close we came to nuclear armageddon, and the British military's plans if it should come.
- Michael visits the abandoned shell of the New Victoria in Bradford, once one of the most impressive entertainment complexes in Britain with a 3,000 seat cinema, grand ballroom and state-of-the-art technology that even 'washed' the air.
- 201845m7.8 (5)TV EpisodeMichael ends his journey in Sussex at the popular seaside resort of Brighton. He examines the Victorian engineering keeping the ruined West Pier standing. He then joins Britain's oldest swimming club for a dip in the sea.