Granted access to ruined whaling stations on South Georgia, Adam Nicolson continues to explore the role British whalers played in Antarctic whaling as late as the 1960s. Show more

Adam Nicolson explores how the 17th century's writing revolution helped alter our vision of the world and differing attitudes towards the nature of reality. Show more

Author Adam Nicolson traces the roots of today's globalised Britain to a 17th-century golden age of writing and communication. Show more

Archive footage and testimony from the last of the whale hunters helps Adam Nicolson reveal what it was like to have hunted whales in Antarctica in the early 20th century. Show more

Adam Nicolson traces our modern sense of self back to when ordinary people first took up the quill, both as a means of escape and of fighting for what you believed. Show more

Adam Nicolson uses newly found 17th-century manuscripts to tell the story of how arguably the greatest work of English prose ever written, the King James Bible, came into being. Show more

Judy Murray joins Aasmah Mir and Rev Richard Coles. Plus chef Wolfgang Puck, caterer to the Oscars for 23 years, racing driver Jamie Chadwick and Ute Lemper's Inheritance Tracks. Show more

Series about the attempts to bring farming back to the Sissinghurst estate. Things don't go smoothly for Sarah as she tries to supply produce for the National Trust restaurant. Show more

Series about the attempts to bring farming back to the Sissinghurst estate. Adam seizes a chance to alter first impressions of Sissinghurst so that it looks more like a farm. Show more

Series about the attempts to bring farming back to the Sissinghurst estate. Sarah's ideas for transforming the restaurant are not being taken up, so she tries a new tactic. Show more

Series about the attempts to update the historic Sissinghurst estate. As the height of the garden-visiting season approaches, Sissinghurst's visitor numbers rapidly increase. Show more

Series about the attempts to update the historic Sissinghurst estate. Progress on the farm project is slow and Adam's impatience is causing unease among some of the employees. Show more

Series about the attempts to update the historic Sissinghurst estate in Kent. The National Trust has appointed a farmer and there is good news from the vegetable plot. Show more

Series about the attempts to update the historic Sissinghurst estate. The monthly food group meeting is heated, as Sarah believes the staff are still not adopting her recipe ideas. Show more

Fiona Reynolds, director-general of the National Trust, comes to Sissinghurst to respond to Adam's concerns; and Sarah's menu pleases the punters in the restaurant. Show more

Series following Adam Nicolson and the threatened seabirds of the Shiants. As they arrive from the Atlantic, he traces our history of dependence on seabirds. Show more

Series following Adam Nicolson and the threatened seabirds of the Shiant Isles. In Iceland, Adam sees colonies where nearly all the birds have been wiped out. Show more