Map expert Professor Jerry Brotton uncovers how maps aren't simply about getting from A to B, but are revealing snapshots of defining moments in history and tools of political power and persuasion.

Over 80 per cent of Madagascar's animals and plants are found nowhere else on Earth. Discover what made Madagascar so different from the rest of the world, and how evolution ran wild here.

Sir David Attenborough looks at the natural history of the Antarctic continent

David Attenborough reveals the surprising truth about the cold-blooded lives of reptiles and amphibians. These animals are as dramatic, as colourful and as tender as any other animals.

David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary ends to which animals and plants go in order to survive. Featuring epic spectacles, amazing TV firsts and examples of new wildlife behaviour.

Jonathan Meades takes a quixotic tour of Scotland, a country which has intrigued him since he first encountered lists of towns only known from football coupons

Using spectacular graphics based on the latest science and stories of remarkable people around the world, Michael Mosley takes us on a fantastic voyage through our inner universe.

The award-winning series that gets under the skin of some of the largest animals on the planet,exploring their anatomy to reveal how these creatures really work.

Human Planet, a cinematic experience, bringing you the most amazing human stories in the world today. Humans and wildlife surviving in the most extreme environments on Earth.

David Dimbleby journeys through Britain, and through 1,000 years of its history, to discover the buildings that made the nation what it is

Britain's engineering companies reveal how they build the world's most amazing machines

The secret alchemy of material science revealed - how we transform materials, and materials transform the world

Professor Iain Stewart uses spectacular images to tells the epic story of how geology, geography and climate have influenced mankind.

Series featuring the challenges faced by people designing and building their dream houses. Includes house profiles, designs and show information.

Documentary series about American folk music from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Aubrey Manning explores our understanding of the planet.

Documentary series that follows director Werner Herzog uncovering the stories of inmates in America as they await execution

Andrew Marr explores how Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection has taken on a life of its own far beyond the world of science

Danny Baker showcases the best of British rock from three decades.

Nick Crane and the team take a fascinating journey around the coast of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today.

Dr Jonathan Foyle, architectural historian and novice climber, scales Britain's most iconic structures to reveal the buildings' secrets

Series in which Jim Al-Khalili traces the story of how the elements, the building blocks that make up our entire world, were discovered and mapped

Alan Titchmarsh travels Britain to discover why our islands are so diverse, beautiful and extreme.

Featuring glorious underwater photography revealing Britain's native waters to be as dramatic, colourful and surprising as the other oceans of the world.

Influential and respected scientists explain how their unique scientific perspectives have redefined how we think about the world around us

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak explores the Baroque tradition in its key locations

The first of three programmes in which nuclear physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the greatest scientific discovery ever - that everything is made of atoms.

Documentary series presented by Dan Cruickshank revealing the most beautiful and precious things in the world

Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide to faith on earth, with eighty rituals across six continents in the space of a year

Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles explores the roots of civilisation in an epic series that runs from the creation of the first cities in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire