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How to Build...

Series 2

Episode 2: A Super Car

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Documentary following Formula One racing team McLaren as they build a road car, the MP4-12C, using some of their cutting-edge F1 technology. Show more

How to Build...

Series 2

Episode 1: A Super Jumbo Wing

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Documentary following some of the people who work at the two main Airbus factories in the UK, including engineers, designers and the people who build the massive A380 wings. Show more

How to Build...

Series 2

Episode 3: A Satellite

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Documentary following manufacturer Astrium as they assemble one of the most complicated machines in the world, a state-of-the-art communication satellite. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Nigel Slater and Adam Henson look at the disappearing notion of seasonality in our food, looking at spring lamb and aiming to put us back in touch with nature's food cycle. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Slater
Presenter:
Adam Henson
Executive Producer:
Tina Fletcher-Hill
Series Producer:
Kate Shiers
Producer:
Eileen Inkson

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Nigel Slater and Adam Henson look at Britain's heritage foods - the old favourites still on our shopping lists - and how the way they are cooked and who eats them has changed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Slater
Presenter:
Adam Henson
Executive Producer:
Tina Fletcher-Hill
Series Producer:
Kate Shiers

Duration: 40 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HD

Sir Terry Wogan discovers why timing is everything as he explores the human body clock, a ticking timepiece that lives in our brain and controls the daily rhythms of our body. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Nigel Slater and Adam Henson continue their mission to reconnect Britain with the origins of food. Nigel shows how to make popular processed foods, and Adam attempts to grow rice. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Slater
Presenter:
Adam Henson
Executive Producer:
Tina Fletcher-Hill
Series Producer:
Kate Shiers

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

In celebration of the diamond jubilee, Rolf Harris joins Anneka Rice and a team of sixty inspirational artists as they try to capture sixty years of royal history on canvas. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anneka Rice
Executive Producer:
Tina Fletcher-Hill

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC One Northern Ireland

Special programme telling the dramatic story of the Cutty Sark, the world-famous clipper ship, from her launch in 1869 to the modern-day conservation work to save her. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Tina Fletcher-Hill
Executive Producer:
Tina Fletcher-Hill
Series Producer:
Steve Crabtree
Producer:
Esther Ingram

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Nigel Slater and Adam Henson join forces to sow, grow, rear and cook Britain's favourite foods, from a farm in the Cotswolds. Nigel cooks the UK's favourite ready meal, lasagne. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Slater
Presenter:
Adam Henson
Executive Producer:
Tina Fletcher-Hill
Series Producer:
Kate Shiers
Producer:
Emma Boswell

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Scotland

Documentary following actor and writer Maureen Lipman on a personal journey as she explores through her own recollections how memory works. Show more

Child of Our Time

Series 10

Episode 1: Growing Up

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Documentary catching up with 25 children born in the year 2000 as they prepare to become teenagers, following the transition from junior school to secondary school. Show more

Child of Our Time

Series 10

Episode 2: Changing Families

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Documentary looking at how some of the Child of Our Time children - and their parents and grandparents - have coped with the changes in their families. Show more

Bang Goes the Theory

Series 8

Episode 4: Ageing

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Science series. The team investigate the ill effects of old age. Maggie Philbin looks at how our muscles change as we get older, and Liz Bonnin explains how bones are made. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Liz Bonnin
Presenter:
Maggie Philbin
Presenter:
Terry Wogan
Executive Producer:
Tina Fletcher-Hill
Series Producer:
Ed Booth

Bang Goes the Theory

Series 8

Episode 6: Flooding

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Science series. Did global warming play a part in the recent floods, or is it the extreme end of the natural cycle? Maggie Philbin investigates the threat of storm surge. Show more

Bang Goes the Theory

Series 8

Episode 7: Trains

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Series presenting the science behind the headlines. The team look at the many measures engineers are taking to ensure Britain's ageing rail system stays on track. Show more

Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

Episode 2: The Age of Invention

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on Red Button One

Jim Al-Khalili shows how harnessing the link between magnetism and electricity transformed the world, allowing us to generate a vast amount of electric power. Show more

Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

Episode 3: Revelations and Revolutions

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on Red Button One

Jim Al-Khalili concludes by looking at how, if we could understand the secret of electrical superconductivity, we could once again transform the world. Show more

Bang Goes the Theory

Series 6

Episode 8

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Science series. The team sets out to discover what is behind our special bond with dogs. Liz visits researchers comparing dogs to wolves to see how domestication has shaped them. Show more