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In this exciting new primetime series for Channel 4, woodworking enthusiasts battle it out in a bid to be crowned Britain’s Best Woodworker.

In this new BBC Daytime series, master carpenter and tree-house designer, Simon Parfett and his team help families, couples and retirees cash in on their untapped, income-generating potential by creating their own unique B&B.

Anita Rani travels the country revealing the remarkable secret history of Britain’s beaches

Twenty years after the deadliest attack on American soil, this documentary tells the horror from that day from a brand-new perspective. This is story of the women of 9/11.

This series explores what the beauty look of three iconic moments in British history tell us about the era. Each episode recreates authentic products and uses them to turn 21st century models into period beauties.

Thanks to major strides in technology, engineers are able to build such massive structures as giant tankers, mammoth skyscrapers and breathtaking bridges. With such enormous size come equally daunting risks, however, and when big things go wrong, they go really, seriously wrong.

The life of the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti is a colourful one. A Government despised him, his 27 wives worshipped him, one million people attended his funeral and generations have moved to the beat he created.

Eighties music is often dismissed as a joke – all drum machines and big hair. But – as acclaimed author Dylan Jones argues in this film – the 1980s should be looked on as the most creative, radical and innovative decade in pop.

The bond between dogs and humans is like no other. Dogs feel empathy for us, can sense chemical changes in our bodies and even read and react to our emotions. In the UK, assistance dogs are commonly paired with physically disabled people, to assist them with the practicalities of day-to-day life. But in the United States, they’ve gone a lot further. Dogs are being used to help people with conditions like PTSD, Tourette’s, Panic Attacks and Autism. The results are life-changing.

The face of our oldest direct ancestor, revealed, after the most extensive DNA testing of the 10,000 year old bones of Cheddar Man — Britain’s oldest complete skeleton. The results promise to reveal a never told before story of who we are, what we looked like and where we came from.