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The Search For A New Earth
The Search For A New Earth
- Broadcast
- 2017 (89 mins)
Professor Stephen Hawking thinks the human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years if it is to survive. With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our...
Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
Ep1 - Martindale Road
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
During the blitz over 450,000 bombs dropped on Britain and every bomb has its own story. This series examines the specific effect of four bombs, from their initial impact on individual lives, right through...
Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
Ep2 - 6th Avenue
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
This second episode explores the ramifications of a bomb that fell on 6th Avenue in the port city of Hull, flattening two houses and changing the lives of two families forever. The Taylors lost baby Peter...
Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
Ep3 - Jellicoe Road
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
Episode three follows a bomb that fell on Jellicoe Street in the Scottish town of Clydebank. It was a tightly knit community of ship builders and factory workers who worked hard in difficult conditions; for...
Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
Ep4 - St Peter’s Church
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
This final episode looks at the deadly impact of the incendiary bomb when an incendiary sets fire to St Peter’s Church in the historic heart of Bristol. Before November 1940 the Castle Street area was...
Calculating Ada-The Countess Of Computing
Calculating Ada - The Countess Of Computing
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
In August 1843 a brilliant young countess, Ada Lovelace, approached an irascible inventor to offer her help to secure funding for the world’s first mechanical computer. She alone had grasped the full...
City in the Sky
Airborne -Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
At any one time, there are a million people airborne somewhere in the world. That equates to an entire airborne city - a ‘city in the sky’. Yes this is a metropolis unlike any other: it is a city that...
Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
It’s Full Steam Ahead for historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn as they bring back to life the golden age of steam and explore how the Victorian railways created modern Britain. The...
City in the Sky
Arrival -Ep3
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
At any one time, there are a million people airborne somewhere in the world. That equates to an entire airborne city - a ‘city in the sky’. Yes this is a metropolis unlike any other: it is a city that...
City in the Sky
Departure - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
At any one time, there are a million people airborne somewhere in the world. That equates to an entire airborne city - a ‘city in the sky’. Yes this is a metropolis unlike any other: it is a city that...