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Vladimir Putin returns to power under a storm after a four-year absence, but his attempts to improve his popularity are hobbled by accusations of corruption.

Working with the expert British Library curators, Meera Syal discovers everything from Jane Austen's personal letters to Sir John Gielgud's scrapbooks.

National Geographic opens an ancient case of missing persons, trying to determine the origins of a group of enigmatic mummies found in Western China.

This is the untold story of George Jarvis, an Indian servant of Lachlan Macquarie - the man who went on to serve as governor-general of New South Wales from 1809 to 1822. Bought as a slave from Cochin in India, George became manservant, valet, and friend to one of the most powerful men in Australia at the time.

Julia Donaldson, one of the UK's best-loved and best-selling authors, creator of the Gruffalo, has been given the chance of a lifetime: to explore six great treasures of the British Library.

This is a powerful portrait of a man who has often been the subject of conflicting opinions, yet who is the most popular royal among Buckingham Palace staff, and who they love and regard as a "man of the people". Born in Corfu in 1921, Prince Philip has lived on the national stage through Britain's move from empire to commonwealth amid all the extraordinary political and social changes that have taken place since he married Princess Elizabeth in 1947.

Caiaphas, High Priest of Jerusalem and religious leader of the Jewish people, faces an impossible dilemma. Caught between determination to preserve his faith and the repressive might of Rome, Caiaphas must judge how great a provocation Jesus of Nazareth might pose. Jesus' astonishing raising of Lazarus from the dead marks a turning point. Afraid that Jesus could prompt an uprising and possible brutal retaliation from Rome's prefect, Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas decides Jesus must be stopped.

In this film the leading scientist, medical doctor and broadcaster Professor Robert Winston explores six incredible Treasures of the British Library. He is helped and guided by the Library's expert curators, discovering amazing facts and quirky details about each book, manuscript or object. Above all he and we enjoy the privilege of spending time with a truly unique and historic document or object. Each item taps into a different aspect of Robert's life, career and interests. They cover subjects as diverse as skiing and theatre directing, ranging from a much-loved colleague's pioneering lab notes to a rough notebook handwritten by Beethoven.

Dr Tracy Borman travels to St Petersburg to reveal how Peter's unconventional childhood produced a very unconventional man. From the debauched drinking society that governed Russia, to his collection of oddities in the Kunstkamera, discovering how the enlightened yet brutal Peter dragged Russia into the modern age.

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is torn between wanting to protect her son and letting him go to fulfil his sacrificial destiny when the time is right; until Jesus is thirty, only she and Joseph know his mysterious mission. Jesus performs his first public miracle at her request at the Wedding Feast of Cana. But as Jesus' work becomes public, he puts his life - and that of his family - in increasing danger. When Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath in Capernaum, he enrages the authorities and reaches an important crossroad.

Evidence is continually unearthed proving ancient humans had an incredible knowledge of astronomy, but what is our species' obsession with the sun?

Hermann Goering's story is that of Germany's military-aristocratic elite, who turned to the Nazis for salvation. The status and fortunes of Germany's aristocracy were based on land, but by the early decades of the 20th century, a new Germany emerged - an industrial and commercial Germany, in which the old nobility struggled to find a role and saw their incomes decline. Goering's family is part of Germany's old imperial elite.

The capture of Adolf Eichmann by Mossad in Argentina is one of the most dramatic of all Nazi hunting stories. His trial in Israel revealed to the world the workings behind the holocaust. Eichmann himself described how and why so many German public officials were so complicit with the crimes of the Nazis. The most terrible crimes in history were committed not by a few crazed serial killers, but by legions of government officials.

Powerhouse singer-songwriter Casey Donovan takes Julia on a poignant journey around some of the most important places from a turbulent life, that helped transform a shy teenager into one of our favourite performers.

Francisco Franco is regarded by many as one of the most brutal dictators in European history. Spain is marked by traces of his tyranny even today and the Spanish Civil War and nearly forty years of Francoist dictatorship are overshadowed by many open questions. What really happened back then? Who was the man who still divides Spain today? On the basis of the latest research findings, examine Spain's Forgotten Dictatorship.

On a quest to to find his ancestral homeland, country music icon Troy Cassar Daley will finally bridge the gap between his two cultural worlds.

Speer is the Nazi leader who escaped the noose and spent the rest of his life trading off his Nazi celebrity status. He was the architect who 'designed' and 'branded' the Nazis. He also murdered millions of worker slaves as head of the Nazi arms industry. At Nuremberg, he denied all knowledge of the Holocaust.

Himmler, one of the most evil men in human history, began as a mild-mannered bookish intellectual who loved tradition, country pursuits, and nature. He became one of the most terrifying champions of the Third Reich, a monster even by Nazi standards. Himmler helped define Nazi ideology. His transformation into a Nazi monster is the story of the total collapse of morality and civilisation in Germany.