The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend

EPISODE 4 - ORDINARY HEROES The stories of how George Crosses were awarded to two civilians. In 1968, the air-stewardess Jane Harrison saves dozens of lives when the BOAC plane they are on crash-lands at Heathrow and bursts into flames. Refusing to abandon her post and repeatedly throwing herself into the flaming fuselage to rescue passengers, she tragically loses her life while saving others. Then the extraordinary tale of how 15-year-old Jack Bamford saves his family from their burning home in Nottinghamshire. As he jumps into the inferno and the shirt starts burning on his back, his only thought is for the rescue of his two young brothers.

One man combined the occult and rockets to produce the technology that underpinned Mutually Assured Destruction. A skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where we came from. Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.

The world's greatest paintings - and the most audacious art heists of all time. Gripping true stories of a global game of cat and mouse as high culture meets the underworld.

Episode 1: May / June

A series of 4x 3 minutes films for Channel 4's '3 Minute Wonder' strand about an expedition to the South Pole by 3 Explorers using Kite Skis.

The Riddle is a thriller with a supernatural twist. Vinnie Jones plays an ambitious journalist solving a series of modern murders that follow the discovery of an unpublished Charles Dickens novel in a Thames-side pub. Jones is aided by a police press officer (Julie Cox) and an enigmatic tramp (Derek Jocobi).

Actress Celia Imrie knows that she comes from a long line of aristocrats on her mother's side, but has always resisted finding out any more about her illustrious heritage. Her fear is that they will turn out to be privileged and boring, but she is quickly proved very wrong.

Comedian & Broadcaster, Roland Riveron accepts the difficult task of finding Britain's Best boozer. Will it be yours?

Dan and Suzannah recount how Henry changed history to divorce Katherine of Aragon and marry the woman who had captivated him, Anne Boleyn.

Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb recount the fateful unions Henry had with his first two wives, Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.