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- David Attenborough explores Charles Darwin's controversial theory of evolution by natural selection.
- In the final months of World War II, prisoners of war in Colditz began building a glider to fly out of the camp. However the war ended before they could try it. Now Dr Hugh Hunt, an engineer from Cambridge University, leads a team of aeronautical engineers and carpenters who build a replica glider from the original plans, using only the materials and improvised tools that the POWs used. They then fly it from Colditz to see if the escape would have succeeded.
- Excellent one hour documentary narrated by Professor Simon Schaffer which explores the fascinating and rarely told story of automata, those intricate clockwork devices built hundreds of years ago with the intent to mimic and recreate life. Of particular interest are Jaquet-Droz's 'The Writer' (1774) and Merlin's 'The Silver Swan' (1773) which beautifully illustrate the degree of technical mechanical sophistication achieved by artisans over 240 years ago. There is also a funny aside: the record Prof. Schaffer places on the turntable at the end (columbia LX466, 1935 impression) is the Beethoven String Sonata Opus 132 and not the Symphony 7 so BBC used any old record and overlaid the sound track.
- The extraordinary saga of a document lost for hundreds of years, that could have changed the course of history.
- A documentary on a non-Time Team excavation in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
- A Northants homeowner has the team investigate her living room for signs of a Norman building.
- 197856m7.1 (10)TV EpisodeAfter denying his father's wish to become a physician or theologian Darwin makes acquaintance with professor Henslow, who recognizes his talent for geology and biology, thereby supporting him to join the travel of captain FitzRoy for mapping the coasts of South America.
- The ten commandments given to Moses shaped Christianity and even the world today. Some people believe that they are nothing but an outdated burden. Host Ann Widdecombe researches the origination and interpretations of the ten commandments and wants to know if society would be better if everyone followed them today.
- 1994– Not Rated8.1 (11)TV EpisodeA tour of Britain's House of Lords and the House of Commons includes the people who keep the buildings running.
- New discoveries are casting the Vikings in a new light. Not just the bloodthirsty pagans waging pitched battle and raids, Scandanavian settlements in England reveal the Vikings brought culture and commerce, as well.
- How pioneers unlocked electricity's mysteries and built strange instruments to create it.
- Twiggy grew up in a close-knit family in London, but her mother told her almost nothing about her relations, not even her grandmother's name.