PBS America (Freeview) Thursday

Paul Murton visits Lismore, Colonsay and Oronsay, hearing the story of Saint Moluag, who established a monastery on Lismore, and joining writer Alexander McCall Smith on his yacht

How recent investigations at Pompeii - the city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD - have revealed a dark underbelly of lawlessness, murder and political intrigue

How life in the middle Permian Period flourished, including reef complexes which stretched for hundreds of kilometres in what is now the Texas desert

How mammal-like traits emerged in ancient creatures during the late Permian Period, and the dawn of the cynodonts, all before the time of the dinosaurs

As the US and Great Britain began to increase their military holdings while keeping their vanquished foes under-armed, it was at the expense of a humiliated Germany

Recalling the American airmen who took on daylight bombing missions over the heart of Hitler's Germany

How recent investigations at Pompeii - the city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD - have revealed a dark underbelly of lawlessness, murder and political intrigue

How life in the middle Permian Period flourished, including reef complexes which stretched for hundreds of kilometres in what is now the Texas desert

How mammal-like traits emerged in ancient creatures during the late Permian Period, and the dawn of the cynodonts, all before the time of the dinosaurs

As the US and Great Britain began to increase their military holdings while keeping their vanquished foes under-armed, it was at the expense of a humiliated Germany

Recalling the American airmen who took on daylight bombing missions over the heart of Hitler's Germany

How life in the middle Permian Period flourished, including reef complexes which stretched for hundreds of kilometres in what is now the Texas desert

How mammal-like traits emerged in ancient creatures during the late Permian Period, and the dawn of the cynodonts, all before the time of the dinosaurs