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The Full Catalogue
Every programme in the channel archive — documentaries, performances, artist profiles and festival coverage — available to stream whenever you choose.
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Complete records for every programme, with credits, sources and editorial notes.
Artist Profile
Discovering Laurence Olivier
A career reconstructed from rehearsal recordings, production ledgers and the testimony of the company that worked beside him.
2026 · 1 h 48 min
Theatre
The History of Broadway
A century of the American stage told through the buildings, the unions and the audiences that kept them full.
2025 · 6 × 52 min
Film Heritage
The Golden Age of MGM
The studio system examined as an industrial process — contracts, back lots, and the craft departments that made the house style.
2025 · 1 h 32 min
Opera
The Royal Opera House Collection
Full productions filmed for the camera, with libretti, interval films and rehearsal-room records held alongside them.
2024–2026 · 19 stagings · 3 h average
Craft & Technique
The Art of Costume Design
Four workrooms, one season, and the quiet discipline of dressing a company before an opening night.
2026 · 1 h 12 min
Archive & Restoration
The National Theatre Archive
Inside the vault where fifty years of British theatre is catalogued, cooled and kept for a public that rarely sees it.
2025 · 3 × 47 min
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