PBS America TV Guide — Wednesday, 24 June 2026

Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan reveal how Birmingham's Victorian working class residents made their home city one of the most important industrial centres on the planet. They examine the surviving remains of one of the world's oldest railway terminuses, and discover how many of the thousands of skeletons in the cemetery have evidence of bone damage or amputation, as well as signs of the after-effects of industrial pollution. Plus, a look at the true story behind Peaky Blinders

Egyptologist Joann Fletcher looks at the lives of ordinary Egyptian citizens 3,500 years ago. In the first of two programmes, she explores the conditions of their tightly packed houses, how they dressed and what they ate. Joann also examines their love of poetry, their enthusiasm for interior design and what it was like to work in the Valley of the Kings, where the pharaohs were entombed

A look at the massacres that occurred from both sides after the German and Italian occupation that cost lives of German soldiers, Greek partisans and civilians. Part three of three

How George HW Bush rose to vice president under Ronald Reagan. His son George W Bush committed to a life of sobriety and helped propel his father to the presidency