Cast
Peter Ackroyd
Himself - Presenter
Jim Carter
Henry Fielding
Derek Jacobi
Tacitus
Michael Feast
Christopher Wren
Alex Jennings
Stephen Spender
Tom Hollander
T.S. Eliot
Chris Langham
Ned Ward
Philip Jackson
Samuel Pepys
Toby Stephens
Casanova
Ronan Vibert
Joseph Conrad
John Woodvine
Henry Moore
Jack Shepherd
Thomas de Quincey
Don Warrington
Ignatius Sancho
Timothy West
Henry Mayhew
Danielle Rees
Charlie Meyer
Episodes
Recommended
8.1
Doctor Who Confidential
2005
7.1
History 101
2020
8
Top Gear
1978
7.4
The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy
2023
7.5
30 for 30
2009
7.5
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
7.9
Deadly Women
2005
6.4
Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
8.4
McCartney 3, 2, 1
2021
7.5
Baseball
1994
7
The New York Times Presents
2020
6.8
Visible: Out on Television
2020
7.5
JANET JACKSON.
2022
7.7
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
7.6
Down to Earth with Zac Efron
2020
6.7
Biography
1987
7
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
7.5
Horizon
1964
7.5
How Do They Do It?
2006
8.1
World War II with Tom Hanks
2026
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7.7
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8
7/7: The London Bombings
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The Night Bus
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Notorious London: A City Tour
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6
The Great Smog: Winter of '52
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Pineapple Dance Studios
2010
10
The Thames: Britain's Great River with Tony Robinson
2019
5.8
Camden
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7.5
Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane
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7
School Swap: UK to USA
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8
The Magnificent Three: Amsterdam, London, New York
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10
BBC Inside Out: London
2002
10
The Great Fire: In Real Time
2017
8
Inside London Fire Brigade
2017
3.7
London Calling
2015
9.3
Hospital
2017
8.2
Murder Maps
2015
7
7/7: Homegrown Terror
2025