The Incredible Human Journey
Theories suggest all modern humans are descended from Africans.
2026-01-15 14:29:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 15:26:00 +0000 UTC(57m)
Live & Upcoming Programmes
Archaeology: A Secret History
How attention turned from civilization and kings to the search for the common man.
2026-01-15 13:30:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 14:29:00 +0000 UTC(59m)
Archaeology: A Secret History
How discoveries in the 18th century overturned ideas of when and where civilization began.
2026-01-15 12:30:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 13:30:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Archaeology: A Secret History
Richard Miles explores how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth.
2026-01-15 11:31:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 12:30:00 +0000 UTC(59m)
Ancient Worlds
Christianity filled a spiritual vacuum at the heart of the Roman civilization.
2026-01-15 10:23:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 11:31:00 +0000 UTC(1h8m)
Ancient Worlds
Exploring the Roman Republic from its mythical beginning to violent end.
2026-01-15 09:16:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 10:23:00 +0000 UTC(1h7m)
Ancient Worlds
Tracing the career of Alexander the Great from Greece to Pakistan.
2026-01-15 08:09:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 09:16:00 +0000 UTC(1h7m)
Ancient Worlds
Art, philosophy and science blossom while political discord, social injustice and war erupt.
2026-01-15 07:01:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 08:09:00 +0000 UTC(1h8m)
Ancient Worlds
Winners and losers from the Bronze Age collapse; emergence of the Iron Age.
2026-01-15 05:55:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 07:01:00 +0000 UTC(1h6m)
Ancient Worlds
Exploring the origins of civilization, beginning in Uruk in southern Iraq through Greece.
2026-01-15 04:49:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 05:55:00 +0000 UTC(1h6m)
Walking with Beasts
Mammoths meet danger crossing the Alps, but the biggest dangers are awaiting their return.
2026-01-15 04:15:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 04:49:00 +0000 UTC(34m)
Walking with Beasts
Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago.
2026-01-15 03:42:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 04:15:00 +0000 UTC(33m)
Walking with Beasts
The beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia.
2026-01-15 03:09:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 03:42:00 +0000 UTC(33m)
Walking with Beasts
Going back 25 million years to the time of the indricothere, which was the size of a rhino.
2026-01-15 02:35:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 03:09:00 +0000 UTC(34m)
Walking with Beasts
A pregnant basilosaurus is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale.
2026-01-15 02:02:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 02:35:00 +0000 UTC(33m)
Walking with Beasts
Special effects filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago.
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Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites
Featured species are the leaellynasaura and the tyrannosaurus.
2026-01-15 01:05:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 01:29:00 +0000 UTC(24m)
Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites
Featured species are the opthalmosaurus and the ornithocheirus.
2026-01-15 00:41:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 01:05:00 +0000 UTC(24m)
Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites
Featured species are the coelophysis and the diplodocus.
2026-01-15 00:17:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 00:41:00 +0000 UTC(24m)
The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
David Attenborough explores why dinosaurs vanished while reptiles like crocodiles and turtles survived.
2026-01-14 23:20:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-15 00:17:00 +0000 UTC(57m)