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Detectives investigate the murder of a 17-year-old boy.
The forensics team must identify and arrest a rapist.
Civilians get a shock to the system as they train to become frontline soldiers.
A young hyena loses her mother and has to assume the leadership of her family.
Busted’s Matt Willis explores his addictions and how they affect his family.
The four couples are introduced to therapist Dr Orna Guralnik.
Deborah James’s extraordinary cancer journey, told with her own and her family’s archive.
The parole board makes a decision about Colin, convicted of a brutal murder 25 years ago.
HMS Queen Elizabeth sets off on her first operational deployment to the South China Sea.
When tensions between Protestants and Catholics explode, the British Army is deployed.
Monica Galetti and Giles Coren work behind the scenes of an adventure hotel in Iceland.
An axe attack prompts a police operation to take down Rochdale’s most notorious gang.
Chris Packham explores the dramatic moment nearly all life on Earth was wiped out.
Where two worlds collide and animals battle to survive.
David Olusoga discovers how Scotland joined England and Wales to form Great Britain.
A fingerprint from an old break-in solves a murder at the same factory months later.
Hazel Martin investigates the death of a woman on a Scottish beach.
When Putin first invades Crimea in 2014, the west’s top leaders struggle to respond.
Do ghosts exist? Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of the supernatural.
Louis goes head-to-head with heavyweight boxer and former world champion Anthony Joshua.
Laura Kuenssberg asks if our politics have been stretched to breaking point.
