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Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics
Episode 2 - Using Sound
- Broadcast
- 2017 (58 mins)
In this programme Dr Helen Czerski examines the extraordinary messages sound wave carry, and how they help us understand the world around us. Visiting a hidden location buried beneath the hills of Scotland,...
Britain’s Great War
Episode 3 - The Darkest Hour
- Broadcast
- 2014 (59 mins)
In the third part of his landmark series on how the First World War affected the lives of the British people - and created what we know as modern Britain - Jeremy Paxman tells the story of how Britain edges...
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 1 - Dinosaurs, Deserts and Volcanoes
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
Chris Packham and the team discover evidence of dinosaurs, deserts and volcanoes. Needles, Isle of Wight, Scarborough Castle, dinosaur footprints, ammonites, nautilus
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 2 - Ice Age
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
In this programme we look back through time at the periods of Ice Ages that Britain has been through during the last 2 million years and the warmer interglacial periods when hyenas, lions and hippos roamed...
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 3 - Island Britain
- Broadcast
- 2004 (59 mins)
In this programme we discover how a warmer climate and rising sea levels caused Britain to become an island with 18,000 km of coastline and a changing landscape.
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 4 - Taming the Wild
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
In this programme we discover how just 8000 years ago humans make their first major impact on the land and see that by 1800 virtually every comer of Britain had been tamed and the population had grown to 9...
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 5 - Revolution
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
In this programme we examine how the advent of the Industrial Revolution radically changed the British landscape.