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A specialist paramedic responds to mental health emergencies.
China’s booming cosmetic surgery industry is facing a shortage of qualified practitioners.
Andrew Garfield goes on a quest worthy of a film plot to explore his Jewish roots.
The story of the Kinahan cartel, one of the world’s most feared criminal organisations.
Ambitious restoration projects hope to save two dying rivers and their wildlife.
Seven celebrities experience an emotional pilgrimage in the Austrian and Swiss Alps.
Alex Higgins upsets the snooker establishment but turns the game into box office gold.
Amol Rajan interviews Gary Lineker about his life, both on the pitch and off it.
Ashley is in Brazil to meet young men living in some of Rio’s most dangerous favelas.
Hannah looks at the air fryer – a device that is rapidly taking over people's kitchens.
Surgeon Stuart Quine is pushed to the limit by surgery that’s first of its kind in Wales.
Grant Amato enjoys a life of privilege until his cam girl obsession leads to murder.
Capturing Paul Simon's return to South Africa some years after the release of Graceland.
Five years after the fire, Lucy Worsley revisits Notre-Dame ahead of its reopening.
Gareth’s eight new singers are preparing for the biggest performance of their lives.
Simon Schama confronts the Holocaust as a Europe-wide crime of complicity.
Deep in the Amazon, Bruce Parry prepares to take the powerful drug ayahuasca.
After a rocky start, Rose finds a surprising way to encourage her students.
A documentary directed by Sam Mendes, reliving the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Sian Eleri investigates the story of the last person convicted under the Witchcraft Act.
West Midlands Police track a violent killer after a man is fatally stabbed in a brothel.
The inside story of the tech entrepreneurs who created the social media app Twitter.
Wild and urban worlds intersect in unexpected ways along North America's Atlantic coast.
In 1991, two seemingly unconnected teenagers go missing in different parts of the UK.
