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The Planets
Episode 1 - A Moment in the Sun - The Terrestrial Planet
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In this major new landmark series, Professor Brian Cox tells the extraordinary life story of our solar system. For four and a half billion years each of the planets has been on an incredible journey, filled...
The Planets
Episode 2 - The Two Sisters - Earth and Mars
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
Early in the story of The Planets, there was a beautiful water world, an oasis of hope in a sterile universe. But this was not Earth - this was the young Mars. Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the...
The Planets
Episode 3 - The Godfather
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
Professor Brian Cox continues his exploration of the solar system with a visit to a planet that dwarfs all the others: Jupiter. Its enormous size gives it a great power that it has used to manipulate the...
The Planets
Episode 4 - Life Beyond the Sun: Saturn
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
Saturn is the jewel of the solar system, the most seductive of all the planets, but as Professor Brian Cox reveals - it wasn’t born that way. Raised in the freezing outer reaches of the solar system Saturn...
The Planets
Episode 5 - Into the Darkness: Ice Worlds
- Broadcast
- 2019 (58 mins)
In the final episode of The Planets, Professor Brian Cox journeys to the remotest part of the solar system, a place that the most mysterious planets call home. These worlds remain shadowy for a simple...
8 Days to the Moon and Back
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2019 (88 mins)
8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes, 35 seconds. That’s the total duration of the most important and celebrated space mission ever flown - Apollo 11 - when humans first set foot on the Moon. It was a journey that...
The 21st Century Race For Space
The 21st Century Race For Space
- Broadcast
- 2017 (59 mins)
A new age of space exploration, and exploitation, is dawning. But, surprisingly, some of the boldest efforts at putting humans into space are now those of private companies started by a handful of maverick...
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...
The Beginning and the End of the Universe
The Beginning - Ep1
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
In this 2 part series Prof Jim Al-Khalili tackles the biggest subject of all, the universe. Through a series of critical observations and experiments that revolutionised our understanding of our world Jim...
The Beginning and the End of the Universe
The End - Ep2
- Broadcast
- 2016 (59 mins)
In this 2 part series Prof Jim Al-Khalili tackles the biggest subject of all, the universe. Through a series of critical observations and experiments that revolutionised our understanding of our world Jim...