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Comedy that follows two brothers from London's rough Peckham estate as they wheel and deal through a number of dodgy deals and search for the big score that'll make them millionaires.

The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.

John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.

A group of archaeologists have 3 days to discover historical artifacts in different sites around Britain.

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.

A disgraced black ops agent is dispatched to a remote CIA broadcast station to protect a code operator. Soon, they find themselves in a life-or-death struggle to stop a deadly plot before it's too late.

Simon Schama journeys through 5,000 years of life in the British Isles.

A young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.

Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order him back to work to investigate the murder of the Director of the Steen Clinic, which specializes in psychiatric cases. Dalgliesh and his team can't quite figure out why they've been assigned to what seems to be a straightforward murder case but it's clear that his superiors want him to get in and out as quickly as possible. There is any number of possible suspects and as Dalgliesh is fond to say, the motive for murder is inevitably greed or love.

Michael Palin attempts to copy the exploits of fictional character Phileas Fogg, by trying to travel around the world (without flying) in 80 days.

Eight tales of ghostly encounters through the decades, manifesting amid the ruins of a once grand English hotel.

A local myth will be discovered to be true by a group of teenagers on a night out on remote farmland. Is there a bloodthirsty creature that has been wandering the land?

In 1949, during the Chinese Civil War, British warship H.M.S. Amethyst sails up the Yangtse river but on the return trip, finds its way blocked by a barrage of fire from the Communist Chinese shore batteries.

A has-been, alcoholic former soccer star determines to make a comeback. He gets help from his former girlfriend, now a rock star, and her partner.

The story focuses on multiple characters living in Suffolk as they navigate relationships, experiencing comedy, drama and romance. Through interconnected stories it explores love and human connection.

Haunted by the chemical attacks that claimed the lives of his family, a Kurdish sniper . Flees his homeland in search of a better life in the United Kingdom . But is caught up in a terrorist plot.

An anthology film on the theme of fairy tales - some lighthearted, some more serious in tone, but all with a sprinkle of magic - and all set in the East of England county of Suffolk!

Hamish (Alfred Molina), a former getaway car driver, has retired to the country to raise his baby daughter and look after the house while his wife goes out to work. Everything is going fine until Hamish receives a visit from his old gang who make him an offer he doesn't dare refuse. But who is going to look after the baby? Never mind, take the baby on the job with you.

Two soldiers from opposing sides confront one another after becoming trapped in a Belgian barn during the First World War.

Max goes for one of his usual walks and comes face to face with himself.

Halfway to Heaven A Fantasy Romance With Comedy Halfway To Heaven about a man who is visited by God and told he will be spending time at a "halfway house" when dead, until SHE can make up her mind where to put him. While in his suburban limbo he meets others in the same situation of which one could be the "Girl of his dreams", they plan to spend eternity together but God has other plans.

Each Saturday we have a highlights programme looking back over the matches of the day with expert analysis, computer graphics etc all to see how the day went. Des Lynam presents - there.

While delivering some goods from Poland to East Germany in 1986, a middle-aged Jewish man thinks he has seen a person who was responsible for mass murder during WW2. The DDR Police receive a request from their opposite numbers in The Polish Police to arrest the man and question him. When they do and get nowhere, UN-presciently for an Eastern Bloc Communist Country he is quietly extradited to Poland, to face their Detective Department. Not convinced by his alibi that he is the subject of mis-identity, and sure that they have the right person, the Polish Chief Inspector who has been assigned to the case takes the man to the site where the atrocities were committed. In his defense, Ivan tells the Poles to speak to the Soviet Authorities. They supply information and material about the man The Poles should be looking for and dispel the case against Ivan. However, while observing Ivan and listening to his answers to their probing of his past, the Polish Authorities begin to suspect he has a different and real secret which he is hiding from them. Confronted with their suspicions he is forced to admit a far more serious and pressing situation which is soon to make its presence felt across Eastern Europe in the last years of The Cold War and the Iron Curtain. Having given them what they asked for, Ivan then asks them to assist him to locate a survivor from Warsaw who disappeared while he was there in 1943.