Destruction Decoded

Explore with us the most destructive tornadoes in history, why could no one predict it?

2025-12-23 21:44:58 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 22:48:24 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Angry Planet

Host/adventurer George Kourounis explores the bubbling lake of molten lava and investigates the risk the dangerous volcano poses to both the people of city of Goma and the Mountain Gorillas who live on the nearby jungle slopes.

2025-12-23 21:15:50 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 21:44:58 +0000 UTC (29m)

Angry Planet

Host/adventurer George Kourounis ups the danger factor by traveling with wild atheist shock-jock R.J. Evans to track massive lightning storms which can produce bolts of up to one hundred million volts.

2025-12-23 20:46:43 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 21:15:50 +0000 UTC (29m)

Angry Planet

George tracks a building storm that threatens that tough mid-western city, chases a hail storm, fights to get in the middle of a vicious dust-devil and the funky roadside Americana of the American Midwest

2025-12-23 20:17:31 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 20:46:43 +0000 UTC (29m)

TechKnow

Studying the genes and lifestyles of centenarians. The results may offer answers to living longer and fighting diseases.

2025-12-23 19:46:23 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 20:17:31 +0000 UTC (31m)

Ancient Engineering

The ancient ancestors realized that building structures and machines to harness water to provide transport, power, drainage and irrigation was vital to the success of their civilizations.

2025-12-23 18:42:42 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 19:46:23 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Ancient Engineering

This episode explores some of history's most ingenious, yet lesser-known engineering solutions.

2025-12-23 17:39:03 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 18:42:42 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Ancient Engineering

Throughout history, our ancestors have always strived to go higher, bigger, deeper, further - and this is reflected in the buildings and structures around our globe. But what secrets can these ancient structures reveal?

2025-12-23 16:35:20 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 17:39:03 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Ancient Engineering

From living in caves to grand mansions, shelter has always been high on the list of our priorities. Bur form and function varies wildly throughout civilizations.

2025-12-23 15:31:41 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 16:35:20 +0000 UTC (1h3m)

Speed

Never in the history of humanity have so many of us been mobile. New innovations propel us into the world of self-driving cars and high-speed trains.

2025-12-23 10:08:30 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 11:14:12 +0000 UTC (1h5m)

California Innovation Nation

California is one of the most progressive places on earth and has always started conversations about the big questions in society.

2025-12-23 09:11:04 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 10:08:30 +0000 UTC (57m)

California Innovation Nation

This episode is all about California's spirit of innovation – where does it come from and what drives it? We consider how many of California's major brands, companies & innovators started off in garages – from Disney to Amazon.

2025-12-23 08:13:44 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 09:11:04 +0000 UTC (57m)

Quick Connections with Alie Ward

What is the secret to eternal life? Alie Ward goes from an ancient herbal remedy to arrive at embryonic stem cells and the tantalising prospect of a future where we could be forever young.

2025-12-23 08:00:19 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 08:13:44 +0000 UTC (13m)

Extraordinary Humans

Thom's in the UK to track down Anthony Kelly a man whose world record breaking reflexes are rumoured to be superhuman.

2025-12-23 07:30:11 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 08:00:19 +0000 UTC (30m)

Extraordinary Humans

Thom travels to the UK to track down Aquaman Tom Sietas, who can hold his breath submerged for a death defying 22 minutes.

2025-12-23 07:00:03 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 07:30:11 +0000 UTC (30m)

Extraordinary Humans

Thom travels to the UK to track down real life rubber girl Claudia Hughes, a contortionist whose extraordinary flexibility defies human physiology.

2025-12-23 06:30:07 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 07:00:03 +0000 UTC (29m)

Extraordinary Humans

Thom Hunt heads to Nevada, to meet Dean Karnazes, an ultramarathon runner who's taken endurance running to a level that defies human biology.

2025-12-23 06:00:00 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 06:30:07 +0000 UTC (30m)

Ultimate Processes

In this episode of Ultimate Processes, we investigate how the AW 101, one of the world's most advanced search and rescue helicopters is designed and built.

2025-12-23 04:57:40 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 06:00:00 +0000 UTC (1h2m)

Secret Wars Uncovered

It is a deadly war in the desert, one we know barely anything about. Once the heart of the golden Mali Empire, home to the richest man of the 14th century, the northern town of Timbuktu has become the victim of political instability and terror.

2025-12-22 22:39:06 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 23:34:31 +0000 UTC (55m)

Secret Wars Uncovered

In the 1980s, El Salvador and Nicaragua were fighting vicious civil wars that claimed killed at least 100,000, saw 8000 people disappear, and left hundreds of thousands displaced. Still spearheading a global fight against communism, the US engaged.

2025-12-22 21:43:40 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 22:39:06 +0000 UTC (55m)