War Factories
The First World War led to a number of astounding war factories, which laid the foundations and paved the way for modern factories of today.
2025-12-04 10:16:21 +0000 UTC→2025-12-04 11:11:01 +0000 UTC(54m)
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Combat Dealers
Bruce is on a WWI treasure hunt, finding a mysterious soldier's medal from the Battle of the Somme. Plus, he finds the world's most expensive football.
2025-12-30 14:58:26 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 15:53:08 +0000 UTC(54m)
Ultimate Processes
Francesca visits two companies making wooden houses. One makes flat pack homes for assembly and the other specialises in creating beautiful wooden frames.
2025-12-30 13:57:09 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 14:58:26 +0000 UTC(1h1m)
Ultimate Processes
Francesca finds out for herself just how good today's mobile homes can be . She visits one UK company who specialise in producing top of the range vehicles.
2025-12-30 12:55:51 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 13:57:09 +0000 UTC(1h1m)
Ultimate Processes
We are in the middle of a cycling revolution and these days there's a bike for every occasion, so presenter Francesca Chiorando tries out two of them.
2025-12-30 11:54:33 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 12:55:51 +0000 UTC(1h1m)
Ultimate Processes
Presenter Francesca Chiorando visits an Italian company called Wally making some of the best looking and technologically advanced super yachts in the world.
2025-12-30 10:53:15 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 11:54:33 +0000 UTC(1h1m)
Ancient Engineering
In the Middle Ages, the technology of the castle evolved by leaps and bounds.
2025-12-30 09:49:58 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 10:53:15 +0000 UTC(1h3m)
Ancient Engineering
The Great Pyramid at Giza is the only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Its scale is breath-taking and it is built to precision.
2025-12-30 08:46:40 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 09:49:58 +0000 UTC(1h3m)
Ancient Engineering
Since the earliest civilizations, humans have needed walls to protect them.
2025-12-30 07:43:22 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 08:46:40 +0000 UTC(1h3m)
Ancient Engineering
Chariots were the express vehicles of their day – but how did they work? And what about the roads, tunnels, and bridges that they relied upon?
2025-12-30 06:40:04 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 07:43:22 +0000 UTC(1h3m)
Space Greed
With NASA planning to make a manned return trip to the moon by 2024, how long until some giant corporation turns moon dust into a cosmic-sized payday?
2025-12-30 06:26:20 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 06:40:04 +0000 UTC(13m)
Space Greed
Each rocket that gets fired off has an impact on the atmosphere. Will Earth be able to survive hundreds, or even thousands, of fuel-burning rocket launches every year.
2025-12-30 06:13:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 06:26:20 +0000 UTC(13m)
Space Greed
Once we've managed to get a handle on building structures to help us live on the harsh, dangerous surfaces of other celestial bodies -- why stop there?
2025-12-30 06:00:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 06:13:00 +0000 UTC(13m)
Zenith: Advances in Space Exploration
This episode looks at the work of the probes orbiting Mars and the rovers exploring its surface.
2025-12-30 05:20:06 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 06:00:00 +0000 UTC(39m)
Journey to Planet Earth
Examines how recent trends in globalization and the altering of ecosystems have led to dramatic increases in the spread of infectious diseases.
2025-12-30 04:10:34 +0000 UTC→2025-12-30 05:20:06 +0000 UTC(1h9m)
Air Wars
Operation Shangri-la, a 1942 bombing raid on Tokyo by Lt. Col. James Doolittle's 16 Mitchell B-25s, was a significant American morale booster following Allied Pacific disasters, though its military significance was minimal.
2025-12-29 22:10:59 +0000 UTC→2025-12-29 23:13:29 +0000 UTC(1h2m)
Air Wars
The use of computer graphics and combat footage highlights the significant role of Allied aircraft in neutralizing Nazi Germany's Atlantic naval power, including the destruction of the Bismark.
2025-12-29 21:10:13 +0000 UTC→2025-12-29 22:10:59 +0000 UTC(1h)
Air Wars
Witnesses recall the chaos caused by Japan's WWII kamikaze fliers who crashed their planes into American ships as a last-ditch attempt to repel U.S. forces.
2025-12-29 20:09:13 +0000 UTC→2025-12-29 21:10:13 +0000 UTC(1h1m)
War Factories
While America had Ford or Chrysler or Buick, Hitler also wanted a car that would transform his nation: the 'people's car'- a Volkswagen.
2025-12-29 19:14:52 +0000 UTC→2025-12-29 20:09:13 +0000 UTC(54m)
War Factories
Find out how Fiat didn't just make cars: they made trains, they made planes, and like modern-day kingmakers, they made and broke governments too.
2025-12-29 18:20:00 +0000 UTC→2025-12-29 19:14:52 +0000 UTC(54m)
War Factories
The story of the discovery and exploitation of the Baku Oilfields in the Russian Caucasus, which forced Stalin and Hitler to face-off in the battle of Stalingrad.
2025-12-29 17:24:50 +0000 UTC→2025-12-29 18:20:00 +0000 UTC(55m)
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