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First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD
How plants have driven the greatest changes to the Earth. Prof Iain Stewart shows how they first harnessed light from the sun and created our life-giving atmosphere. Show more
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Documentary series. Professor Iain Stewart explains the role of the earliest flowers in sculpting the earth and driving the evolution of all animals. Show more
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Documentary series. Professor Iain Stewart explains how grass fought its enemy, the forests, how it transformed ocean life and how it triggered human civilisation. Show more
Documentary revealing the vital role that satellites play in the daily life of the modern world and exploring the huge advances they have made possible. Show more
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Documentary telling the story of the Voyager space mission, as the two spacecraft leave the area of the sun's influence after 35 years and 11 billion miles. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales
On his two-mile high construction tower, Richard Hammond sets about building a planet just like Earth. He starts by gathering raw materials in a massive truck delivery. Show more
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First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Scotland
Richard Hammond takes on the ultimate engineering project. How do you make a planet, or a solar system, a galaxy or even a universe? To find out, he opens up his cosmic toolbox. Show more
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Documentary telling the story of an extraordinary 1960s experiment in which a scientist and a young woman try to teach a dolphin to speak English in a flooded house. Show more
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Series combining photography and human drama as it reveals 12 remarkable places, uncovering the stories of people fighting to survive in Earth's natural wonders. Show more
BBC-produced factual drama starring Daniel Radcliffe and Bill Paxton, telling the story of the battle behind the hit video game Grand Theft Auto. Show more
Tens of thousands of elderly people live in care homes owned by international investors. Panorama asks how much money is being taken out of the system.
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Scientists and explorers travel to the Arctic to reveal the unknown world of icebergs, starting with the birth of an iceberg at Greenland's Store glacier. Show more
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Family and friends contribute to a celebration of the late scientist Richard Feynman, who helped design the atomic bomb and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965. Show more
Dr Chris van Tulleken and Professor Tanya Byron join a team of experts to put 75 overweight volunteers on diets designed to tackle the specific reasons why they eat too much. Show more
Experts put overweight volunteers on diets designed to tackle the specific reasons why they eat too much. It is time to see if personalised dieting will work in everyday life. Show more
Experts put overweight volunteers on diets tackling the specific reasons why they eat too much. In the final two months of the diet, the volunteers' bodies are fighting back. Show more
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Series combining photography and human drama to reveal twelve remarkable places, uncovering the stories of people fighting to survive, and even triumph, there. Show more
The extraordinary story of Freddie Mercury’s battle with Aids and the groundbreaking tribute concert Queen staged in his memory after he died. Show more
