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Chasing Perfection : From Birth to the Starting Line
Chasing Perfection : From Birth to the Starting Line - EP2
- Broadcast
- 2015 (49 mins)
What is it that defines a champion? In our second episode Michael will be trying to understand what makes the difference between those who line up on the start line and those who end up on the podium time...
The Hunt
The Hardest Challenge - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
The contests between predators and prey are the most dramatic events in nature; for both it’s a matter of life and death. The Hardest Challenge reveals the extraordinary range of techniques predators use...
The Hunt
In the Grip of the Seasons - Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
In the Grip of the Seasons looks at the challenges of hunting in the Arctic, the most seasonal place on Earth. To a predator, seasonal change is a problem. It means that all the parameters of the hunt -...
The Hunt
Hide and Seek - Ep3
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
Hide and Seek follows tigers, harpy eagles, chimpanzees, army ants and other predators as they rise to the challenge of hunting within the forest - a dense, confusing, three-dimensional world, one in which,...
The Hunt
Hunger at Sea - Ep4
- Broadcast
- 2015 (57 mins)
The open ocean is an immense wilderness that covers more than half the surface of our planet, yet for the most part it’s a watery desert, largely devoid of life. Food is incredibly scarce and very widely...
The Hunt
Nowhere to Hide - Ep5
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
Half of all land is either desert or grassland: open habitats where predators like cheetahs, bald eagles, and lions can usually find their prey easily. But it works both ways: prey always knows where their...
The Hunt
Race Against Time - Ep6
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
The coast is the dynamic border between land and sea; powered by the tides and thrashed by waves this is a world of continuous change. Opportunities never last long here so hunters are always in a race...
The Hunt
Living With Predators -Ep7
- Broadcast
- 2015 (58 mins)
It’s hard to imagine a world without lions, tigers and polar bears. But the earth’s wildest places are shrinking, and people are coming into deadly conflict with these ancient carnivores. Predators are...
Bang Goes The Theory Series 8
Big Data
- Broadcast
- 2014 (29 mins)
We are living through a revolution that is bigger than the world wide web. The technology we are all using every day is beginning to share our data gadget to gadget, storing and analysing unimaginable...
Bang Goes The Theory Series 8
Flooding
- Broadcast
- 2014 (29 mins)
With the waters receding Bang Goes the Theory takes a more considered look at the recent floods. Did Global warning play a part, or is this simply the extreme end of the natural cycle? Maggie investigates...