TV Guide Sky History 2 Wednesday

Tony Robinson hikes up from Lyme Regis on Dorset's Jurassic Coast to the Somerset Levels in the footsteps of a ragtag rebel army led by the young Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II. He sailed in from Holland around Lyme's famous Cobb with a handful of soldiers, believing the people would support him in overthrowing the newly crowned James II, who was also Monmouth's uncle, but, more importantly, Roman Catholic. The year was 1685 and the country was riven by anti-Catholic feeling mixed up with revolutionary zeal. Monmouth marched through the fiercely independent towns of Devon, gathering support from artisans and farmworkers. Meeting up with Billy Bragg in Colyton, Tony learns about the kind of people prepared to risk their lives for the Monmouth Rebellion

Alice Roberts spends a year visiting archaeological digs around the country, finding out about discoveries that shed new light on British history. In Buckinghamshire, Simon Mays and Jill Eyers use a recent rediscovery of artefacts from a 1912 excavation to investigate what appears to have been a mass infanticide during the Roman era. Alice also meets the team examining one of the largest discoveries of Roman coins ever made in Britain, and hears about a mystery in Dorset

The mysterious phone call from an apparently middle-aged woman who predicted the murder of President John F Kennedy. On November 22 1963, a telephone operator in California answered a call that stated that the President was going to die. This came some hours before Lee Harvey Oswald unleashed his fire

A further look at some of the world's most strange unexplained phenomena. This second episode looks at the mysterious disappearance of US union official Jimmy Hoffa in July 1975. He was declared dead seven years later

Thousands of UFO sightings are reported every year, along with terrifying abductions and other bizarre occurrences. This programme examines these accounts and explores recently declassified top secret UFO files, casting new light on historic cases

A look at the machine gun, which came to dominate and even to personify the battlefields of the First World War. When operated in cool temperatures, the somewhat primitive device was able to fire 400 to 600 small-calibre rounds per minute, a figure that was to more than double by the conflict's end, with rounds fed via a fabric belt or a metal strip

Investigators around the world explore the possibilty that extraterrestrials have influenced mankind throughout the course of human history. Scientists explore the possibility that sightings of alien beings or UFOs may be evidence of time travellers from the future

The presenter and one-time Rolls Royce engineer fulfils a lifetime's ambition to visit the monuments of Ancient Egypt in a bid to understand how it could have been possible to produce such 'wonders of the ancient world' 4,500 years ago. An expert guide is on hand to lay out the mainstream thinking and act as the perfect 'foil' for Bradley and his theories

Alice Roberts visits Happisburgh in Norfolk, where the discovery of rare artefacts provides evidence of the earliest human occupation in Britain, challenging the conventional belief that mankind would not have been able to survive in northern Europe one million years ago. She also joins a team at Forteviot in Scotland, where the uncovering of a Bronze Age grave holds a big surprise

A further look at some of the world's most strange unexplained phenomena. This second episode looks at the mysterious disappearance of US union official Jimmy Hoffa in July 1975. He was declared dead seven years later

Thousands of UFO sightings are reported every year, along with terrifying abductions and other bizarre occurrences. This programme examines these accounts and explores recently declassified top secret UFO files, casting new light on historic cases

Investigators around the world explore the possibilty that extraterrestrials have influenced mankind throughout the course of human history. Scientists explore the possibility that sightings of alien beings or UFOs may be evidence of time travellers from the future

The presenter and one-time Rolls Royce engineer fulfils a lifetime's ambition to visit the monuments of Ancient Egypt in a bid to understand how it could have been possible to produce such 'wonders of the ancient world' 4,500 years ago. An expert guide is on hand to lay out the mainstream thinking and act as the perfect 'foil' for Bradley and his theories

Alice Roberts visits Happisburgh in Norfolk, where the discovery of rare artefacts provides evidence of the earliest human occupation in Britain, challenging the conventional belief that mankind would not have been able to survive in northern Europe one million years ago. She also joins a team at Forteviot in Scotland, where the uncovering of a Bronze Age grave holds a big surprise