Sir David Attenborough reveals nature's evolutionary anomalies. Here he looks at the platypus and the curious case of the male Midwife Toad.
Spewing super-heated water up to 400C, deep sea vents seem too hostile for life, but incredibly they are home to over 750 species found nowhere else on Earth.
The big blue is the world's greatest wilderness, far from shore and many kilometres deep. It's a vast marine desert where there is little to eat and nowhere to hide. Yet it's home to some of the biggest and most spectacular creatures on earth.
Alaskans learn new survival skills as winter loses its grip on the Arctic landscape.
Robson is in his home county of Northumberland in search of the great British staple - scampi. He starts at Fish Quay in North Shields, the busiest prawn port in the UK. He meets skipper John and boards his boat, the Tori Allana.
A magical mid-summer railway journey through central Sweden starts in Mora on the Inlandsbanan. This traditional town is in the county of Dalarna, the heart of Swedish traditional culture and often known as`Sweden in miniature'.
Ben meets a family that has created a new home in the Devon countryside, but having had to fight to be allowed to build on the land, they now find peace hard to adjust to.
Simon Schama goes both east and west, to Papal Rome but also to Ottoman Istanbul and Mughal Lahore and Agra, exploring their connections and rivalries, and examining how the role of artists from the different traditions of West and East developed in the years following the Renaissances. Their riv...
Intimate stories get inside the lives of the people affected by climate change, and those fighting it. And world-leading experts reveal the developments that are redefining our horizons.
An exploration of how the crew behind the Blue Planet II series manage to capture their spectacular footage.
The big blue is the world's greatest wilderness, far from shore and many kilometres deep. It's a vast marine desert where there is little to eat and nowhere to hide. Yet it's home to some of the biggest and most spectacular creatures on earth.
In the final days of winter, Alaskans use their time to prepare for what lies ahead.
Simon begins his journey around the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola and its two very different countries. The Dominican Republic is a tourist hotspot, but its neighbour Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere.
Our journey begins in Anchorage, Alaska, where we board a luxury passenger train. Later, we head north to enter the vast wilderness of Alaska, which is America's largest and remotest state.
Ben journeys to the most remote inhabited island in the UK - Fair Isle. The Island's only inhabitant is Tommy, originally from America he has resided on Fair Isle for 15 years in an off-grid stone cottage.
In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. As historian of empire David Olusoga shows, art was always on the frontline. Each cultural contact at this time left a mark on both sides: the m...
We're just two degrees away from a climate catastrophe. If the rate of global warming continues, we'll reach the threshold for permanent environmental damage within 40 years. But we have the power to prevent it.
An exploration of how the crew behind the Blue Planet II series manage to capture their spectacular footage.
It is the green of the sea that brings life to oceans. Here, sunlight powers the growth of kelp, mangroves and sea grass. The green seas teem with life, where cuttlefish do battle for a mate and an octopus outwits deadly sharks.
Personal stories of those caught up in sometimes deadly natural catastrophes, accompanied by camera footage showing meteorological phenomena, including hurricanes, earthquakes, monsoons and more.
Volcano expert Chris Horsley is in Iceland to inspect Katla, one of Europe's largest and most dangerous volcanoes. His task is to install an early warning system on this glacier-covered monster.
In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. As historian of empire David Olusoga shows, art was always on the frontline. Each cultural contact at this time left a mark on both sides: the m...
Arriving late at night in bustling downtown Seoul, Alexander kicks off his epic Korean adventure in Gangnam, the fabled district immortalised by Psy's 'Gangnam Style' video, still the most viewed song on YouTube.
One of 20th century's greatest minds, Einstein, created the theory of relativity, a tool to explore and predict the way the universe works.
The waterhole is built in the middle of an open patch of savannah, to enable wildlife to approach it from all directions. The team excavate one hundred tonnes of soil and lay eight kilometres of fibre optic cable and piping. Sixty thousand litres of sustainable groundwater is pumped in, filling t...
Personal stories of those caught up in sometimes deadly natural catastrophes, accompanied by camera footage showing meteorological phenomena, including hurricanes, earthquakes, monsoons and more.
Volcano expert Chris Horsley is in Iceland to inspect Katla, one of Europe's largest and most dangerous volcanoes. His task is to install an early warning system on this glacier-covered monster.
In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. As historian of empire David Olusoga shows, art was always on the frontline. Each cultural contact at this time left a mark on both sides: the m...
Arriving late at night in bustling downtown Seoul, Alexander kicks off his epic Korean adventure in Gangnam, the fabled district immortalised by Psy's 'Gangnam Style' video, still the most viewed song on YouTube.
One of 20th century's greatest minds, Einstein, created the theory of relativity, a tool to explore and predict the way the universe works.
The waterhole is built in the middle of an open patch of savannah, to enable wildlife to approach it from all directions. The team excavate one hundred tonnes of soil and lay eight kilometres of fibre optic cable and piping. Sixty thousand litres of sustainable groundwater is pumped in, filling t...
Sir David Attenborough reveals nature's evolutionary anomalies. Here he looks at the platypus and the curious case of the male Midwife Toad.