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TV and radio

World on Fire. (Photo by BBC/Mammoth Screen)

History TV and radio: what’s on next week? (19–26 October)

Catherine the Great: fact and fiction

The cast of Downton Abbey in front of Highclere Castle

Downstairs in Downton: a guide to the life of an Edwardian servant

When Panorama cameras recorded a fly-on-the-wall documentary entitled 'The Best Days?' that followed life at Faraday High, a large comprehensive in East Acton, west London. It proved to be hugely controversial. (Photo by William Gottlieb/ CORBIS/ Corbis via Getty Images)

Lessons from the past: journalist Shabnam Grewal revisits her 1970s schooldays

Highclere Castle

Unusable rooms, a lost village and Tutankhamun: the secrets of Downton Abbey’s Highclere Castle

Dinner at Downton Abbey

Could you survive an Edwardian dinner party?

Courtiers dancing La Volta in a scene from 1953 film The Sword And The Rose

Strictly shocking: the dances that shook the world

'Sanditon' - an adaption of Jane Austen's unfinished novel of the same name – is currently airing in the UK on ITV. Pictured: Clara Brereton (played by Lily Sacofsky), Esther Denham (Charlotte Spencer), Lady Denham (Anne Reid) and Edward Denham (Jack Fox). (Photo by RED PLANET/ITV)

Your guide to Sanditon, Jane Austen’s last unfinished work

19th-century mugshots

The real Peaky Blinders

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark. The BBC television drama is putting Cornwall’s coastline at risk of "over-tourism” as visitors flock to the area to visit the show's scenic filming locations, tourism chiefs have warned. (Photo by BBC/Mammoth Screen/Mike Hogan)

Poldark, Peaky Blinders and 6 other historical TV shows that have tourists flocking to Britain

The Spanish Princess, starring Charlotte Hope as Catherine of Aragon, charts the story of the woman who married into the Tudor dynasty. (Image credit: Starz)

The real history behind The Spanish Princess

Gentleman Jack, Suranne Jones as Anne Lister (Photo by BBC/Lookout Point/Jay Brooks)

Gentleman Jack

The food served at the wedding of Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell may be inspired by accounts of ancient Roman excess, says Ayelet Haimson Lushkov. (© Home Box Office, Inc/Sky Atlantic)

Power plays and scheming queens: the ancient history behind Game of Thrones

Call the Midwife

14 of the best historical TV shows on Netflix

Clockwise from top left: Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in 'The Favourite'; Matt Smith as Prince Philip in 'The Crown'; Saoirse Ronan in 'Mary Queen of Scots'; a colourised scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old'. (Images: © 2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Robert Viglasky / Netflix | © 2018 Focus Features LLC | WingNut Films/Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

History Extra Film and TV Awards, 2019