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Michael Portillo learns the secrets of stilton cheese and finds out how trains transformed the traditional British sport of fox hunting. Show more
Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a network of tunnels during the Vietnam War. Show more
Documentary charting the attempt of Andrew McAuley to travel from Australia to New Zealand in a kayak, and examining the mystery surrounding the exact circumstances of his death. Show more
How rocketeer Alan Bond and two colleagues defeated the Official Secrets Act, shrugged off UK government intransigence and defied conventional wisdom to build a new spacecraft. Show more
Documentary about Titus, one of the most powerful silverbacks in Rwanda's Virunga Mountains, and possibly the most remarkable gorilla ever known. Show more
Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a network of tunnels during the Vietnam War. Show more
Michael Portillo learns the secrets of stilton cheese and finds out how trains transformed the traditional British sport of fox hunting. Show more
Documentary charting the attempt of Andrew McAuley to travel from Australia to New Zealand in a kayak, and examining the mystery surrounding the exact circumstances of his death. Show more
How rocketeer Alan Bond and two colleagues defeated the Official Secrets Act, shrugged off UK government intransigence and defied conventional wisdom to build a new spacecraft. Show more