Remembering WWI

Dr Tracy Borman discovers the real reason Princess Margaret's relationship with Peter Townsend came to an end, uncovers her disastrous marriage to the manipulative, unfaithful Lord Snowden, and discovers more about her love of music and devotion to duty, revealing a woman very different to the picture the press would have us believe.

Take to the air with six aeroplanes that have changed the face of military flying forever. When the Soviet-built MiG-15 first screamed over the battlegrounds of the Korean War, America was horrified at what it could do. Nimble, jet-powered, and capable of diving at supersonic speed, it outperforms any machine in the sky. Meanwhile, the F-22 Raptor, through a combination of delays, cost-overruns and a changing combat landscape, never really took off, either literally or metaphorically. And the Dassault Rafale is an aircraft capable of performing both air-to-air and air-to-ground strikes as well as interceptions simultaneously. With 14 hardpoints suitable for carrying nine tons of weaponry and ordnance such as a 30mm cannon, and laser-guided bombs, this aircraft certainly packs a punch.

Forty years ago, a sleepy village in the heart of England was the scene of a gruesome discovery when nearly 300 skeletons were unearthed in a mass grave. Bioarchaeologists believes these bones are the last remains of the Great Heathen Army, a legendary Viking fighting force that invaded England in the 9th century. Armed with the latest scientific methods, the team uncovers extraordinary human stories from the front line, including evidence of women warriors, and a lost king reunited with his son in death.