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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...