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Ocean Giants

Episode 1: Giant Lives

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC HD

Available for 6 months

Series about whales and dolphins. Explore the ocean's largest creatures - humpback whales, 200-ton feeding blue whales and southern right whales with one-ton testicles. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Sara Ford
Series Producer:
Mark Brownlow
Series Producer:
Phil Chapman
Narrator:
Stephen Fry

Ocean Giants

Episode 2: Deep Thinkers

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC HD

Available for 6 months

Documentary focusing on the intelligence of whales and dolphins. Professor Denise Herzing attempts to find out how close their minds are to those of humans. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Sara Ford
Series Producer:
Mark Brownlow
Series Producer:
Phil Chapman
Narrator:
Stephen Fry

Ocean Giants

Episode 3: Voices of the Sea

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC HD

Available for 6 months

Documentary series about the intelligence of dolphins and whales. This part looks at how the sea mammals make sounds to catch food, and sing for music's own sake. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Phil Chapman
Executive Producer:
Sara Ford
Series Producer:
Mark Brownlow
Series Producer:
Phil Chapman
Narrator:
Stephen Fry

Duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes

on BBC HD

Comedy sci-fi adventure. The stars of TV show Galaxy Quest are beamed aboard a spacecraft by an alien race who believe them to be actual heroes. Show more

Contributors

Jason Nesmith:
Tim Allen
Gwen DeMarco:
Sigourney Weaver
Alexander Dane:
Alan Rickman
Fred Kwan:
Tony Shalhoub
Guy Fleegman:
Sam Rockwell
Tommy Webber:
Daryl Mitchell
Laliari:
Missi Pyle
Director:
Dean Parisot
Producer:
Mark Johnson

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC HD

Richard Fortey travels to find the survivors of mass extinction events. He focuses on a series of cataclysms over a million-year period 250 million years ago. Show more

Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds

Episode 1: Speed Limits

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC HD

Using state-of-the-art technologies, Richard Hammond goes beyond the limits of the naked eye and explores the hidden secrets of the invisible world around us. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Hammond
Director:
Gavin Maxwell
Producer:
Gavin Maxwell
Producer:
Simon Finch
Executive Producer:
Anne Laking
Executive Producer:
Gary Hunter

The Hour

Series 1

Episode 3

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC HD

Drama. Freddie gets an opportunity to quiz Adam Le Ray on his relationship with Ruth. Meanwhile at the office suspicion about Tom Kish is mounting and Isaac is on the case. Show more

Contributors

Freddie Lyon:
Ben Whishaw
Bel Rowley:
Romola Garai
Hector Madden:
Dominic West
Clarence Fendley:
Anton Lesser
Lix Storm:
Anna Chancellor
Adam Le Ray:
Andrew Scott
Angus McCain:
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Isaac Wengrow:
Joshua McGuire
Sissy Cooper:
Lisa Greenwood
Journalist:
Adam Leese
Thomas Kish:
Burn Gorman
Marnie Madden:
Oona Chaplin
Malcolm Lyon:
Robert Demeger
Policeman:
John Cummins
Jemima Sherwin:
Kate Fahy
Roedean Girl 2:
Anna Maguire
Roedean Girl 1:
Louise Calf
Pretty Actress:
Nelly Harker
Ralph Sherwin:
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
Reginald Thomas:
Zephryn Taitte
Wallace Sherwin:
Ken Bones
Writer:
Abi Morgan

Genres

Wonders of the Solar System

Original Series

Episode 1: Empire of the Sun

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC HD

Professor Brian Cox describes how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the solar system. He explores the powerhouse of them all, the sun. Show more

BBC HD

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