Plot: In a country celebrated for its unique `natural' beauty, Professor Iain Stewart reveals how every square inch of Scotland's landscape has been affected by centuries of human activity.
Plot: In this unique take on British history, Professor Alice Roberts explores Britain's rich and varied past through the stories of individual towns. In each programme Alice studies key periods in British history by delving into the secrets of historic towns. Alice combines the bigger national picture with...
Plot: Chefs Ken Hom and Ching-He Huang both have deep personal connections to China. In this programme, they take viewers on a culinary adventure around the country. On the 5000-mile journey of rediscovery that takes them from the country's megacities to the forgotten villages in the western part of the...
Plot: Genghis Khan is a Hong Kong television series based on the life of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century. The series was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1987. An alternative Chinese title for the series is å¤§æ¼ è±éå³....
Plot: Exploring the vibrant musical journeys of history's great composers, including Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert, who, at one time or another, called Vienna home.
Plot: David Attenborough hunts fossils and what they reveal, showing dramatic finds, ancient interpretations, and methods of exposing fossils and reconstructing extinct animals.
Plot: Hosted by British TV personality Jimmy Doherty, this documentary series from the BBC goes behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to unearth the groundbreaking work of the museum's 300 scientists who are solving mysteries and making discoveries among the historic collections.
Plot: Presenter Howard Goodall meets some of the world's foremost classical musicians in this insightful programme that features in-depth interviews and intimate performances. Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber talks about the inspiration he gets from Matislav Rostropovich, and performs works by Bach, Britten and...
Plot: Exploring the rich modern history of soundtrack music, from its beginnings in the 1930s until the present day, and looking at the greatest composers to have made soundtrack music their medium.
Plot: Beethoven, a huge St Bernard, is given all the love and care by his adopted family. However, the family vet, Dr Varnick, wants to use him as a subject for his deadly experiments.