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Series following Martha Kearney through her bee-keeping year. Martha offers her honey to the public at a village fair and finally succeeds in harvesting true wildflower honey. Show more
Nicholas Parsons explores the fine line between joy and melancholy in Edward Lear's writing and discovers how this epileptic, asthmatic depressive pioneered a new kind of poetry. Show more
Engineer Rob Bell explores the new inventions - from giant troop-carrying gliders to tanks that could operate on water - that made the Normandy invasion in 1944 possible. Show more
Documentary series showing Britain's changing look over the course of a year. Whilst the human population of Britain kicks back, summer is boom time for the animals. Show more
Dr Jago Cooper journeys through southern Mexico to investigate the rise and fall of America's oldest civilisation, the Olmec, who thrived over 3,000 years ago. Show more
The real history of Britain's servants. Dr Pamela Cox explores what happened when servants directly challenged their masters during the golden age of Edwardian society. Show more
In 1960, David Attenborough visited the island of Madagascar to film one of his first ever wildlife series. He now returns to the island on a very personal quest. Show more
Documentary telling the story of how Darwin came to write On the Origin of Species, which took 20 years of personal struggle as turbulent as that of the natural world he observed. Show more
Film-maker David Malone explores the science behind metamorphosis, the amazing transformation of one creature into a totally different being. How does it happen and why? Show more
Alice Roberts looks through 45 years of Horizon archive material to see how science came to understand sex, strived to solve our problems with it and even helped us do it better. Show more
