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Ben Garrod explores the role skeletons play in aiding reproduction, looking at the ways courtship, competition and copulation have been improved by having bones

Professor Richard Holmes walks and rides over the Hastings battlefield that marks a turning point in British history, handling the weapons and equipment of the period

Love in the Victorian age, when romantic gestures such as performing love songs and sending flowers first emerged, and courtship was shaped by medieval chivalry

Martha Kearney meets biographer Paula Byrne, who believes she has found a picture of the author lost to the world for almost two centuries

Actress Romola Garai shares her experiences of filming the much loved 2009 series, Emma, looking back on her role as the titular character and how she brought the heroine to life

Sandy Welch's dramatisation of Jane Austen's novel following a woman's matchmaking schemes. Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller and Michael Gambon star

Village gossip is rife with the arrival of Jane Fairfax, and Emma becomes the subject of Mr Elton's unwanted attention at the Christmas party. Period drama, starring Romola Garai

Biographer Lord David Cecil visits the Hampshire village of Chawton where Jane Austen wrote some of her greatest novels - Mansfield Park , Emma and Persuasion

Ben Garrod explores the role skeletons play in aiding reproduction, looking at the ways courtship, competition and copulation have been improved by having bones

Professor Richard Holmes walks and rides over the Hastings battlefield that marks a turning point in British history, handling the weapons and equipment of the period

Martha Kearney meets biographer Paula Byrne, who believes she has found a picture of the author lost to the world for almost two centuries

Love in the Victorian age, when romantic gestures such as performing love songs and sending flowers first emerged, and courtship was shaped by medieval chivalry