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Adriaan van Dis, child of a Brabant peasant and a Dutch-Indonesian father, after long hesitation, made a television series about the country that such a large role in his life. 'In the Netherlands, I was never brown enough, but suddenly I heard that.'
Rui Yoshidas, well-known as the bar poet from "Rui Yoshida's Pub Wandering Record", popular travel program that tours the port towns of Hokkaido with HBC announcer Kanako Muroya. Visit a delicious restaurant where local Hamakkos (Yokohama natives) frequent and having their fill of delicious sake while enjoying the fresh seafood. The owner of the shop and regular customers are also very excited. Bar poet, Rui Yoshida, travels around in search of hidden sights, seasonal flavors and sake, and encounters in the port city of Hokkaido. It is a travel program full of the charm of Hokkaido.
Dan Cruickshank and Charlie Luxton uncover the incredible hidden stories behind historic buildings as they are dismantled brick by brick and meticulously resurrected in new locations.
From the calories we eat to the energy we use, numbers tell amazing stories about who we are and how we live. Travel the country to meet people whose stories bring these numbers to life. The new series United Stats of America makes history by crunching fascinating data and uncovering surprising facts.
David Tennant narrates the story of giant pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang, who arrived in the UK in December 2011 to be resettled in Edinburgh Zoo for the next decade. The program also follows the zoo's vet and head keeper as they travel to China to see how giant pandas are cared for in their homeland, and head keeper Alison visits a remote panda reserve in Wolong to witness the efforts to reintroduce the creatures back into the wild.
A series examining advances in military technology in the air, on land and at sea.
Guy Martin celebrates the workers of the Industrial Revolution by getting stuck into six of the country's biggest restoration projects, bringing some of the 19th century's most impressive engineering achievements back to life.
Between 1958 and 1962, China lived through tragedy on an epic scale. The Great Leap Forward conceived by Mao so that China could drive industrial output ahead of Great Britain and achieve autonomy from the might of the neighbouring USSR led to a catastrophic famine resulting in the death of between 36 and 55 million people. But the tragedy was masked by an official lie, because while China was starving to death, the grain stores were full. Based on previously unheard testimony by survivors, rare archive footage, secret documents and interviews with the leading historians on this catastrophe, this film provides, for the first time, an insight into the folly of the Great Leap Forward. It examines the mechanisms and political decisions that led to famine, stripping away the incredible secrecy surrounding the campaign, and exposing the lie which continues even today as to who was responsible, and the true human cost.
Historian Lucy Worsley and antiques expert Mark Hill uncover the stories behind remarkable antiques and how they relate to our lives today
Hugh Dennis and Julia Bradbury's adventures in four stunning British landscapes. No matter where we are, the rocky upheavals of Britain's epic past are still with us, and still drive how we live.
Beagle: In Darwin’s Wake is a commemoration of 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s book “On The Origin of Species”. Almost 180 years after Charles Darwin’s journey circumnavigating the world, a crew of authors, artists, and scientists follow in his footsteps. Journalist and presenter Lex Runderkamp, biologists Dirk Draulans and Sarah Darwin (who is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin), the artist Anthony Smith and the writer Redmond O’Hanlon are accompanied by a number of invited guests whose backgrounds are compatible with the theme of each of the 8 episodes. The series was initiated by the Dutch-Flemish state broadcaster VPRO. The crews 8 month long voyage on board of the clipper Stad Amsterdam began from the English port of Plymouth on September 1, 2009 and traced the route of the HMS Beagle’s 5 year voyage (1831-1836).
Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution. Two years ago Cuba announced the most sweeping and radical economic reforms the country has seen in decades.
In this series, naturalist Chris Packham reveals the natural world in a way that you’ve never seen it before. For him, what is really beautiful about nature is not the amazing animals and plants that we share the planet with but the hidden relationships between them. These relationships may sound bizarre but without them, no life would be possible. Discover previously unknown relationships, like why a tiger needs a crab; or why a gecko needs a giraffe. Each week Chris visits one of our planet's most vital and spectacular habitats and dissects it, to reveal the secrets of how our living planet works.
A small town in South Africa is overrun by a troop of boisterous baboons, so they’ve come up with an ingenious idea: what if they build a house specially designed to study the baboons? But when they move in and bring their primate ways to a human house, the results are outrageous, outlandish and often unthinkable. Get ready for the simian social experiment of a lifetime.
Features the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ness Gardens, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Wisley RHS Gardens, Chelsea Physic Gardens, Kew Gardens, Westonbirt Arboretum and Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
Christianity slowly emerged from being a persecuted minority to the state religion of the Roman Empire. This episode is a history of the ways believers grappled with a way to depict Jesus. Simple symbolic meaning developed into splendid art and churches.
Marine biologist and professional diver Monty Halls travels down to Cadgwith, Cornwall to live and work as a fisherman, to find out what is really involved in getting seafood onto our plates.
A seven-episode TV series that focuses on the production of The Art of Flight. We follow the crew through locations including Patagonia, Jackson Hole, Alaska and Revelstoke.
Series using the Rank Organisation's "Look at Life" documentary shorts to examine British society during the 1960s.
A culinary journey across twelve regions, each with their own unique cultures, culinary stories and traditions. Celebrated chef, Luke Nguyen, in the third instalment of his popular series, takes us on a culinary journey across the Greater Mekong region of southeast Asia. Beginning in southwest China, Luke explores the culinary cultures and centuries old traditions of Yunnan Province, from the Naxi people of Lijiang to the Dai communities of Xishuangbana.
Converse China work with Thrasher Magazine to bring King of the Road to China in 2011
Travel Thru History (or TTH for short) is a Daytime Emmy nominated educational/informational (E/I) series designed to spark interest and enthusiasm in viewers about our world’s rich and fascinating history by traveling to diverse locales across the globe.
"To understand history is to understand the present." Together with a variety of guests, Junichi Okada uncovers life lessons for modern audiences from the dramatic stories of historical figures.
Martin Clunes travels down to the Indian Ocean to witness what many fear is the lemur's last stand.
Ian Hislop asks when and why we British have bottled up or let out our feelings and how this has affected our history.
Te Radar lives in Auckland. But he doesn't know much about his Pacific neighbors. In Radar Across the Pacific, he travels to the islands to find out more.
Dr James Fox explores how, in the hands of artists, the colours gold, blue and white have stirred our emotions, changed the way we behave and even altered the course of history.
Follows coroner Alison Thompson, pathologists and other staff who in West London deal with over 4,000 cases per year. The team work in co-operation with her to determine the cause of initially unexplained deaths which occur in her jurisdiction.
Bettany Hughes sets out on an epic journey across continents and back in time to trace the hidden and often controversial history of women in religion
The Best Ten Nakamori Akina Premium BOX is the sixth box set released by Nakamori Akina.
A 14-part documentary series covering the history of Philadelphia, William Penn's great utopian experiment, from founding to today.
Hamburger expert George Motz travels the country in search of the greatest hamburgers in the United States.
Historian Dr Helen Castor explores the lives of seven English queens who challenged male power, the fierce reactions they provoked and whether the term 'she-wolves' was deserved.
How We Invented the World is the ultimate action-packed, hi-energy, landmark series that examines the four inventions that define the modern world - mobiles, cars, planes and skyscrapers -celebrating the people and connections that made them possible. Each playing a crucial role in where we are now in the 21st Century - able to travel the globe, to talk to one another at any time at the push of a button, to live in huge cities, to commute, to capture the world we live in, making the fantasies we create come to life. This four part series lifts the lid on how these iconic inventions came to be. Showcasing the people who have shaped our lives in ways that they could have never imagined or anticipated, this series reveals stories of human ingenuity, extraordinary connections, unprecedented experimentation and jaw dropping accidents that created the world as we know it.
Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a three-part series uncovering the central role played by religion in creating and maintaining the power of the city of Rome.
In this two-part documentary series, David Suchet undertakes an epic journey spanning the Mediterranean, inspired by the life and travels of Paul the Apostle.
EMMY-nominated PBS documentary covering the history of American aviation, from the Wright Brothers to the very frontiers of space.
Writer and woodsman Rob Penn begins a year-long project to bring part of an abandoned woodland, Strawberry Cottage Wood, back to life.
This series looks at what the future holds for the hidden world of Britain's great markets and the colourful personalities on the frontline of the food industry who shape our national cuisine.