Venus, the Sun's second planet, is a dark, broiling oven. It is a high-pressure, volcanic world with temperatures soaring above 500 degrees Celsius and air choked with carbon dioxide. How can the planets Earth and Venus, so similar in size and composition, be so different? The Enigma of Venus is a documentary that...

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One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrew's University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. Inside the Medieval Mind is a documentary that consists of four parts: Knowledge, Sex, Belief, and Power. Bartlett explores the way medieval man...

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Many scientists believe tiredness is the biggest health problem facing humanity and now they’ve got the evidence to prove it. New medical studies reveal that sleep deprivation can trigger and exacerbate many diseases including heart disease, obesity, diabetes and even depression. This documentary series will be the...

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The year is 2020. Orbiting high above the earth is a telescope, far more powerful than any before. It has just made a discovery that will change our lives forever. It has found an inhabited planet outside our solar system. More than 50 lightyears from earth the telescope has located a world that glows like an oasis in...

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The Machine That Made Us is a documentary in which Stephen Fry examines the story behind the first media entrepreneur, printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg, to find out why he did it and how, a story which involves both historical enquiry and hands-on craft and technology. Fry travels across Europe to find out how...

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