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- Dan Snow attempts to use the latest satellite technology to reveal the secrets of the Roman Empire, identifying lost cities, amphitheatres and forts.
- The Tricorn Centre was an infamous example of 1960s British architecture. Voted 'The most hated building in the UK', while drawing emphatic praise from others, the Tricorn saw continual 'controversy' throughout it's lifetime. Right up until it's demolition in 2004.
- Agnes was diagnosed with dementia in her fifties. Five years have passed and she is still struggling with her new identity, and the loss of who she once was. She decides to pay a visit to Nancy, who eight years ago was also diagnosed with dementia in her fifties. We follow Agnes in her quest for renewal and along the way our notions of what it means to have dementia are challenged and given a fresh perspective. A film about friendship and living with dementia.
- We unlock the secrets of how the Roman Empire controlled the seas of the ancient world and harnessed the power of volcanoes to defy nature itself. We reveal the extraordinary secrets of one of the oldest shipwrecks in the world and unearth a port lost for centuries under Italian soil.
- Michael Portillo's railway journey reaches Witham in Essex. Here he visits the factory of the world's oldest supplier of metal framed windows which became popular in the 30s.
- Was Easter Island's cultural decline caused by natural disaster, overpopulation, or war? One statue may have the answer.
- James May sets off to discover if his childhood vision of a world populated by robots will ever become a reality. In Japan he is charmed by a woman wearing an electro-mechanical jumpsuit that can double her strength, before encountering a robot that's almost. In the US, he meets the two million dollar bionic woman, and, in the unlikeliest of laboratories, he is astonished by the most sophisticated walking robot in the world. But is James' vision of the future just a little old fashioned? To find out he takes his first nervous step into another world where he becomes a ghost within a machine.
- Actress Liz Carr learns about her orphaned grandfather on her mother's side, a naval WWI veteran involved in the Northern Patrol who joined the merchant navy after the war to see the world, and her paternal Irish great-great-great-grandfather, a revered tenant farmer involved in a Ribbonist plot to assassinate the local wealthy landlord, unsympathetic to his tenant farmers' plight, in rural Northern Ireland in the 1850s.
- In the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and our innate human desire to control and profit. Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the web's biggest names - including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, and the web's inventor - she explores how far the web has lived up to its early promise.
- Die Geschichte der Sintflut ist einer der ältesten Mythen der Welt. Da beschließt ein zorniger Gott, das gesamte Leben auf der Erde zu vernichten: durch eine Mega-Überschwemmung. Die verstörenden Bilder, die die Bibel zeichnet - im Zeitalter des Klimawandels sind sie schockierend aktuell. Hat die Geschichte, allen fantastischen Details zum Trotz, einen wahren Kern? Die Geschichte der Sintflut gehört zum Ursprungsmythos der Bibel. Gerade erst hat Gott die Welt geschaffen, da beschließt er, das Leben auf der Erde schon wieder zu vernichten. Eine furchtbare Überschwemmung soll alle Menschen mit sich reißen. Alle - außer Noah. Auf Gottes Geheiß hin baut er eine Arche. Für sich, seine Familie und ein Paar von jeder Tierart. Sie werden die Welt nach der Flut besiedeln. Lange wird die Entstehung des Mythos ins 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr. datiert, auf den Beginn der Niederschrift der Genesis. Doch mit der Entdeckung und Übersetzung mesopotamischer Keilschrifttafeln tauchen viel ältere Versionen dieser Geschichte auf - im Gilgamesch-Epos und im Atrahasis-Epos. Zudem gibt es Hinweise auf diverse Fluten im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Aber können diese lokalen Katastrophen Vorlage gewesen sein für eine weltumspannende Flut, wie es im Mythos heißt? Oder handelt es sich um pure Fiktion? Die Suche führt zum Ende der letzten Eiszeit vor rund 17.000 Jahren. Der Meeresspiegel liegt damals 120 Meter tiefer als heute, gewaltige Wassermassen sind in Eis gebunden. Mit steigenden Temperaturen lösen sie sich. Je nach geologischen Gegebenheiten geht es mal schneller, mal langsamer. Wo werden die Fluten die Menschen so überrascht haben, dass sie Sintflutcharakter hatten? In Ur im heutigen Irak? Am Persischen Golf oder am Schwarzen Meer? Was erzählen uns Bohrkerne, Tropfsteine und Unterwasserexpeditionen über die Auswirkungen des damaligen Klimawandels auf den Menschen? Und nicht zuletzt über das, was uns jetzt erneut bevorsteht? Wird sich die Geschichte der Sintflut wiederholen?
- Dr Aleks Krotoski explores how the internet is reshaping our lives. She charts how the Web is forging a new, young brand of politics involving direct action.
- Series in which Dr Aleks Krotoski explores how the internet is shaping our lives. Aleks examines social networks and asks how they're changing our relationships.
- Kate takes a trip down memory lane on a wintry walk around the western corner of the Isle of Wight, where she holidayed as a girl.
- 202247m9.1 (10)TV EpisodeThree Social Media Stars take on three civil engineering students from the University of Southampton, as they attempt to create ingenious chain reaction machines that allow Richard to boil his kettle while sitting on the lavatory.
- A village that's falling off the edge of the UK. Coastal erosion has eaten away most of this settlement. Before the place is lost to the sea, there's a last chance to find out more about the lost origins of this dramatically situated town.
- In this epic Toy Stories Christmas special, James gets to the heart of the nation's childhood love affair with the model plane and sets out to achieve what seems an impossible dream: the first cross-channel flight ever achieved by an engineless, homemade supersized toy. If it survives the perilous 22 mile journey, James's classic toy glider, lovingly built from over 1,000 pieces of balsa, will smash the British distance record. James's mission is dedicated to making the dream of flight come true for the generations of children who, like James himself, slaved for hours over balsa and glue only to see their fragile and much loved planes smash tragically on to the unyielding concrete of reality. During his quest James turns Indiana Jones to unearth surprising new evidence that identifies children as the true pioneers of flight and wrestles with an under-performing glider that threatens to barely leave the ground. And what starts as a simple yet noble aim, takes James in many unexpected directions - to a mysterious and barely inhabited island, to helicopters lost in the fog and missing speedboats and what can only be described as the world's first flying coffin for gliders. Throughout James is beset by a series of dramatic problems requiring inspired solutions, near disaster and breakthrough which culminate in a thrilling and visually stunning last throw of the dice. Underpinned throughout by James's own infectious passion for flight, a passion he's had since he first put glue to balsa as a ten year old, Flight Club is an epic journey into the unexpected.
- In Nov 1993, the small community of Hambleton in Leicestershire is shocked when an elderly couple mysteriously go missing.
- Archaeologist Tim Sutherland unearths historical clues as he digs up burial sites from the Battle of Agincourt, which took place in 1415 in northern France.
- 2010– 44mTV-PG8.6 (120)TV EpisodeBeneath Jupiter's swirling clouds lie our solar system's deepest secrets: from its violent youth, through the birth of life to the death of the sun. Now, scientists are unlocking these secrets and discovering that every living thing exists tha to Jupiter.
- Saturn's secrets are out. The ferocious weather, the evolving ring system and the discovery of active geology on Saturn's moons has rewritten the textbooks. Scientists are looking for life on Saturn's moons and they may have found it on Titan.
- We're on the verge of unconvering the how life on Earth came to be. Our origin is a hotly contested scientific debate. Did we come from strange volcanic hatcheries deep under the sea? Or did life on Earth come from another planet?
- Forensic psychiatrist Professor Tony Maden examines the case of Mick Philpott. Maden also explores how psychopathic personality traits can be socially valuable in some circumstances.
- Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to manoeuvre his nephew and heir to the Greek throne, Philip, into marrying the future queen Princess Elizabeth and the tensions that that unleashed.
- 2010–201743mTV-147.3 (44)TV EpisodeScience reveals the line between male and female is blurred. And the battle of the sexes is happening deep within our cells. Are there more than two sexes?
- Helen visits a hidden location in Scotland to experience some extreme acoustics. She discovers how sound diffracts and so helps us to sense danger and how our ears translate vibrations into electrical signals.
- 201859m7.2 (9)TV EpisodePhysicist Helen Czerski explores the narrow band of temperature that has led to life on Earth, how life began where hot meets cold and how every living creature depends on temperature for survival.