BBC One
10.35pm
Thursday 29th July
When Englishman Raymond Scott walked into a library in Washington D.C. two years ago carrying a stolen Shakespeare book, he never thought he’d be at the centre of a drama worthy of the Bard himself.
What followed is an extraordinary tale...
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Discovery Channel
On Wednesday, June 2 nd , 2010, a popular, mild-mannered taxi driver embarked on a deadly three-hour shooting rampage, which left twelve people dead and many more injured in the quiet and peaceful rural communities of West Cumbria.
Derrick...
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BBC One
On the surface, it was a very British story: 11 members of the local Women’s Institute, a prim and proper local ladies’ club, decided to raise money for a cancer charity by shooting their traditional calendar in a very untraditional way....
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Five
It’s the toughest decision you’ll ever have to make.
Your mother is dying of cancer and only has a short time to live. There is an acute shortage of donor organs and her best chance of survival is for you to allow surgeons to remove half...
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National Geographic Channel
The Allied victory in World War Two was helped by a group of soldiers who were committed to the defeat of the Nazis more than any others. Now, after seventy years of silence, a handful of the 10,000 German and Austrian men and women who...
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Channel 4
Addicted to Surrogacy follows the extraordinary stories of the women who are hooked on giving away babies.
Around a thousand surrogate babies have been born in the UK over the past two decades. And in recent years, half of them...
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ITV1
For six years John Darwin pretended he was dead – faking his own drowning in a canoeing accident. With his wife Anne at his side, he lived out a fantasy, changing his name, altering his appearance, and hiding from the debt-ridden world he left...
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Channel 4
My Fake Baby explores the lives of women who spend hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of pounds on life-like baby dolls. Known as “reborns” some of the dolls have beating hearts, others have tiny veins and even milk spots. Loved like...
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