The extermination camp Treblinka was one of the six "death factories" created by the Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, during the Second World war. In a frenzy of mass murder lasting less than two years, at least 800 thousand men, women and children, mostly Jewish, including the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto, were murdered in this tiny camp hidden deep in the woods. No one liberated Treblinka - to be a survivor you had to fight your way out. In August 1943, the Jewish slave labourers escaped from Treblinka in a dramatic revolt. When this documentary was produced, only two witnesses were alive: Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman. This BBC film, written by Adam Kemp, documents their amazing survivor stories and the tragic fate of their families, and offers new insights into a forgotten death camp.

For the first time, the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour, Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up king and parliament. Wintour's insider account of this epic tale of faith, fanaticism, persecution and betrayal is told in detail, from his recruitment of both Fawkes and his own brother to his capture in a dramatic siege and bloody shoot-out on 8 November. The hopes, fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion, royal kidnap, the plotters' penetration of the king's bodyguard and Fawkes's attendance, sword in hand, at a wedding attended by the king in December 1604 are shown, as well as a dramatisation of the thrilling, forgotten story of the final days after 5/11 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors.