William G. Stewart’s journey to find the truth behind the life of his one-time mentor, the Labour MP Tom Driberg, opened with The Times’s obituary which ran after the Labour MP’s death in 1976. Driberg, it noted, "was a journalist, intellectual, drinking man, homosexual and many other things". Stewart’s achievement in this documentary was to analyse Driberg’s tumultuous, complex life with the warmth and nervousness of a truly curious friend.

Francine Stock narrates a documentary chronicling the story of the BBC's Third Programme. Introduced in 1946, the station was unlike anything else on the airwaves. Broadcasting only the very best of high culture, the Third Programme captured a new ideal - that elite culture was good for the whole nation. Surprisingly, it was a vision shared by both left and right.

Daisy Donovan narrates a documentary looking at the rollercoaster fortunes of robots, androids and cyborgs in fact and fantasy, from the Flash Gordon serials via the Six Million Dollar Man to Marvin the Paranoid Android.

Legend has it that the triumphal march of television began in the United States in the 1950s but in reality its origins hark back much further. Nazi leaders, determined to beat Great Britain and the U.S. to be the world’s first television broadcaster, began Greater German Television in March 1935. German viewers enjoyed their TV broadcasts until September 1944, as Allied troops closed in.

After years of retirement from political life, the world's most admired statesmen has allowed cameras into his private world. Mandela at 90 reveals a man of flesh and blood; irreverent, never cowed by authority and a formidable charmer who, perhaps surprisingly, looks back on his life behind bars with a degree of fondness. Unique behind-the-scenes footage offers a window into his world and his unexpected insights into his northern nemesis, Robert Mugabe.

An investigation into a fleeting particle of matter, which, if it exists at all, lives for only a fraction of a millionth of a second; the philosophical implications are explained by Richard Feynman.