Underwater
While all life began in the oceans, human beings now rely on technology to navigate the seven seas.
2025-12-23 07:05:21 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 07:33:15 +0000 UTC
(27m)
Live & Upcoming Programmes
Sense of Timing
In this episode, we examine how every animal has what could be called a sense of rhythm - the human-animal included.
2025-12-23 06:37:02 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 07:05:21 +0000 UTC
(28m)
Sixth Sense
There's a whole world, and more than one spectrum of sensations that animals are aware of, which surpass humans.
2025-12-23 06:09:47 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 06:37:02 +0000 UTC
(27m)
Superhuman Senses
This episode is all about "superhuman" senses - animal sensory systems that can detect magnetic fields, electric fields (electroreception), and infrared radiation.
2025-12-23 05:40:49 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 06:09:47 +0000 UTC
(28m)
Taste and Smell
We examine how things taste, and how vital scent is from the animal perspective. But their sense of smell will also detect the scent of odorants carried through the air
2025-12-23 05:13:01 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 05:40:49 +0000 UTC
(27m)
Wild Christmas
Christmas tradition, symbolism, and history are full of characters from the natural world. There is perhaps no animal more closely bound to Christmas as the reindeer.
2025-12-23 04:14:34 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-23 05:13:01 +0000 UTC
(58m)
Wild Christmas
Christmas tradition, symbolism, and history are full of characters from the natural world. There is perhaps no animal more closely bound to Christmas as the reindeer.
2025-12-22 22:35:31 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 23:33:58 +0000 UTC
(58m)
Army
Few creatures have complex levels of regimented society as social insects. Bees, termites, ants, and wasps can form armies to help them build an elaborate home.
2025-12-22 21:37:09 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 22:35:31 +0000 UTC
(58m)
Breeding
Rutting deer and flirting love birds might be what we think of with animal courtship, but even bugs need to breed and they face all the same challenges of winning a mate.
2025-12-22 20:38:46 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 21:37:09 +0000 UTC
(58m)
The Bug Buffet
Bugs are the base of the food chain, food for just about everything else, but to start the process, they too must eat.
2025-12-22 19:42:19 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 20:38:46 +0000 UTC
(56m)
Part Three: Hive Minds
The evolution of super-colonies allowed social insects to dominate the planet. We show how they arose and why they're so important to our very survival.
2025-12-22 18:44:20 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 19:42:19 +0000 UTC
(57m)
Part Two: The Next Generation
We discover all the ingenious ways that insects track down mates and how they give the next generation the best start in life.
2025-12-22 17:45:52 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 18:44:20 +0000 UTC
(58m)
Part One: Small Creatures
Between 5 and 10 million different kinds, maybe ten quintillion individuals – there's absolutely no doubt that we're living on Planet Insect.
2025-12-22 16:47:47 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 17:45:52 +0000 UTC
(58m)
Part One: Small Creatures
Between 5 and 10 million different kinds, maybe ten quintillion individuals – there's absolutely no doubt that we're living on Planet Insect.
2025-12-22 11:00:03 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 11:58:08 +0000 UTC
(58m)
Conditioned
Dog drool leads to phone addiction, and the accidents behind Teflon, dynamite, and wifi.
2025-12-22 10:10:21 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 11:00:03 +0000 UTC
(49m)
Vikings: Assault on the Frankish Empire
In November 885, hundreds of Scandinavian boats sailing towards Burgundy present themselves before the walls of Paris and besiege the city.
2025-12-22 09:46:14 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 10:10:21 +0000 UTC
(24m)
Kursk: The USSR Strikes Back
Considered the greatest tank battle in History, this event represents a real turning point of World War II on the Eastern Front.
2025-12-22 09:23:39 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 09:46:14 +0000 UTC
(22m)
Dunkirk: Resist At All Costs
The dramatic story of the defense of France against Hitler's invading army in order to enable the desperate evacuation of over 300K men to safety in 1940.
2025-12-22 08:58:54 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 09:23:39 +0000 UTC
(24m)
Miners: Fodder of The Industrial Revolution
University of Glasgow, England, 1763. A young engineer tries, in vain, to fix a steam engine before finally understanding what is wrong with it.
2025-12-22 08:30:01 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 08:58:54 +0000 UTC
(28m)
Carthage: Rome's Rival
In 814 BC, the exiled Phoenician queen Dido founds the city of Carthage on the African Coast. But in the third century BC she finds herself opposed to the Roman Republic.
2025-12-22 08:01:08 +0000 UTC → 2025-12-22 08:30:01 +0000 UTC
(28m)