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A look at Welsh poet Dylan Thomas's fatal visit to New York City, and his stormy relationship with his wife Caitlin.

While trying to lead an empire, these rulers had no idea that the biggest threat to their lives was under their own roof. After the discovery of electricity, there were many wild inventions. Follow Professor Suzannah Lipscomb as she uncovers some of the scariest and most hilarious parts of history that we couldn't fathom today.

Documentary series in which Griff Rhys Jones discovers the problems faced by the National Trust as it strives to preserve Wales's national treasures.

British comedian Griff Rhys Jones visits six metropolises to find out what makes them arguably the greatest cities in the world. The selection includes London, Rome and Paris in the Old World plus New York, Sydney and Hong Kong in the New World. He looks into to oddities, traditions, even tries out some remarkable city - and private jobs for a day.

Suzannah Lipscomb takes a tour of the Victorian home and unveils the hidden dangers that posed a deadly threat to Victorian life.

Griff Rhys Jones was born in Wales but brought up in Essex - and now the exile is back as he explores the "most beautiful, the most magical and the most remarkable regions of Wales."

The introduction of world trade in Tudor England inadvertently introduces foreign poisonous substances. One such case is sugar and the subsequent rotting of teeth.

Jeremy Paxman tells the tragic story of World War One poet Wilfred Owen. At a time of jingoism and wartime propaganda, one Shropshire lad was compelled to tell the truth. Jeremy Paxman travels to the battlefields of France to discover how the ugliest and most terrible arena imaginable gave birth to some of the most poignant and powerful poetry in the English language. Wilfred Owen is played by Samuel Barnett.

An examination of the common household hazards of the typical modern residences of 1950s Britain.

Britain is home to a huge variety of landscapes, and its these that take center stage in this 8 part series as Griff Rhys Jones investigates how they have dictated different ways of living, working and playing across the entire country.

This is a documentary about the history of travel routes through Great Britain.

A look at how Charles Dickens created the idea of a traditional family Christmas through one of his best-known books, "A Christmas Carol".

John Ogilby created the first roadmaps of Britain, measuring and describing them, and publishing them in the form of strip map itineraries, in 1675. Terry Jones of "Monty Python" fame, an Ogilby collector, investigate how and why he did it and sets out to see whether it is still possible to find and travel along Ogilby's roads in Wales.

Part quiz, part panel show which celebrates the UK's unique and fascinating museums.

In his own capital, Britton Griff starts contemplating how London continuously grew from a new Roman town to Europe's single-most prominent true metropolis. He visits architectural and archaeological remains of its long and eminent past, and mires at quaint traditions, while pointing out some major changes. Several types of center take center stage, such as Buckingham Palace. The City remains the financial heart of Europe, the link between Wall Street and Asia.

Griff starts his search for the greatest cities in the Big Apple. Some grand public - and private initiative buildings illustrate the city and its (especially super-rich) citizens' typical ambition, often bordering on or becoming megalomania. New York still has the world's largest concentration of skyscrapers, various of which where interned as then world's highest. Even vendor spot licenses illustrate how expensive Cirty surfaces are. Griff joins window-cleaners to get the eerie feel of descending the Empire State Building.

Griff is in the French capital, object of great chauvinistic pride and vanity. Although resulting in a mind-boggling traffic mayhem, its street grid largely results from some ambitious planning. It's extremely rich in monuments, yet the Eiffeltower, hated by many celebrities, draws by far most visitors and a clandestine group does much-needed restoration rather then the city services, which concentrate on mundane daily concerns. The rich capital is obsessed with cuisine and fashion.

Griff Rhys Jones travels the wild rivers of Scotland. He heads east, upstream from Kinlochleven, then follows the course of the water downstream to Perth.