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Part one of two. Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of former Nazi art dealer Bruno Lohse, who became Hermann Göring's personal collector, tasked with finding desirable works of art. After the Second World War, Lohse spent a brief time in prison but later resumed his career as a dealer, often trading in art looted during the conflict

Neil Oliver explores the origins of Britain and its people, a story forged over thousands of years. In south Wales, he joins a team of archaeologists to examine 8,000-year-old footprints revealed beneath tidal mud banks, and abseils into a cave dating back 33,000 years. The historian also reveals how, as the last ice age receded some 11,000 years ago, Britain became an island, a fate that was sealed following a cataclysmic tsunami around 6,000 BC

Clare Jackson examines the history of the Stuarts, who grappled with the chaos of three separate kingdoms, multiple religions and civil war during the 17th century. In the opening episode, she looks at James VI of Scotland's attempts to unite his country with England and Ireland and persuade his subjects to feel more British

In September 1939 a German U-boat fires its first torpedo, setting in motion the longest continuous battle of the war. A cat and mouse game of epic proportions ensues as German U-boats and allied forces engage in a five-year battle for supremacy in the Atlantic

An insight into the time of peace between the First and Second World Wars, how 20 years of peace and the forces reshaping the world produced another war