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Vienna - Empire, Dynasty and Dream
Vienna - Empire, Dynasty and Dream - Episode 2
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
After the Ottomans were defeated and the threat of their mighty army receded, war broke out between the Austria and the French over the Habsburgs Spanish territories. Called the War of Spanish Succession, it...
Vienna - Empire, Dynasty and Dream
Vienna - Empire, Dynasty and Dream - Episode 3
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
Episode 3 begins in 1814. Napoleon Bonaparte had lost his empire and his throne. That Autumn, Europe’s most powerful men travelled to Vienna for the ultimate summit meeting: to rebuild the Europe Napoleon...
Waste Men
Episode One - The Home Front
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
Every household in the country puts a tonne of rubbish out for the bin men to collect each year. In Newcastle the people tasked with dealing with it are waging a war on waste. Landfill is the last resort and...
Waste Men
Episode Two - One Man’s Rubbish Another Man’s Treasure
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
The war against rubbish never stops for the waste men of Newcastle. But the things we throw away have never been worth so much. On the streets of the city no bin, skip or piece of scrap metal is safe from...
Waste Men
Episode Three - Big Problems Big Solutions
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
As a nation we throw away more than ever. And with increasing landfill taxes and concerns over the environment, burying it all in a hole in the ground is no longer an option. Bigger and better solutions to...
Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You
Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
Episode One tells the story of the first 8 weeks when a single cell, no bigger than a spec of dust transforms into the most sophisticated organism on the planet. A human fetus. The film begins with Michael...
Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You
Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You - Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
In Episode Two Michael Mosley tells the story of our middle weeks in the womb - when we become an individual. At 8 weeks we all appear to be the same, but in the next stage of our development an incredible...
Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You
Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You -Ep3
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
Episode three journeys through our final months in the womb - a time when our bones harden, our lungs mature and our senses switch on to prepare us for the outside world. From week 24 to week 40 we grow...
Blood and Gold- The Making of Spain
Conquest - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
This rich, dense and thrilling three part series, presented by Simon Sebag Montefiore takes the viewer through more than two thousand years of Spain’s history. This episode spans the early years when...
Blood and Gold- The Making of Spain
Reconquest - Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2015 (59 mins)
Christianity in the North re-awakens, and one by one the Moslem states fall. Attempts are made by pious Islamic sects from North Africa to win back Spain. By the mid 15th century only the city-state of...