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Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature's most mysterious force - electricity. Until fairly recently, electricity was seen as a magical power, but it is now the lifeblood of the modern world and underpins every aspect of our technological advancements. Without electricity, we would be lost. This series tells of dazzling leaps of imagination and extraordinary experiments - a story of maverick geniuses who used electricity to light our cities, to communicate across the seas and through the air, to create modern industry and to give us the digital revolution.

Annabel and her team are here to take you and your children on a culinary journey of exploration and come up with winning solutions in a humorous and light-hearted way, proving that cooking really can be child's play. Annabel is joined in her stylish loft apartment by Jimmy, her often unpredictable intern from the South Pole, a calamity - prone, fish-mad penguin who's made his home in her fridge and Pearl, Annabel's right hand penguin who organises the website and deals with ordering ingredients and finding the perfect perfect recipe to suit every occasion. Watching over everything and providing a singing commentary on kitchen activities,are Candice, Dionne and Lola - three of the most pampered, vain and ditsy princess cupcakes in the land. Finally, there are Jimmy's marvellous mechanical aids that he's made for Annabel.

Hippo: Wild Feast Live brings you an amazing insight into the rarely-seen world of nature's food chain...LIVE! Bringing the food chain to life, this live experiment allows you to watch as an entire ecological system emerges around the enormous Hippo carcass. Streamed 24/7 using a host of cutting edge technology, we'll present the food chain in action live as the wild animals of Africa come to feast.

The property show that, for the builders, is literally make or break! In a brilliant new twist, The Renovation Game sees a crack team of up-and-coming builders and designers put their own fees on the line if they fail to raise a property's value.

Celebrating 50 years of stunning wildlife filmmaking, this series delivers dramatic, beautiful moments captured from ITV's multi-award winning Survival series.

In four chapters, largely based on and illustrated with archaeological finds and sites, Neil Oliver explains how, as far as is known, the Iron Age Celtic tribes known as the Ancient Britains evolved and entered European civilization. Their internecine tribal phase was warlike and partitioned. Overseas contacts, especially metal trade, brought wealth and progress. Ultimately, it attracted the superior Roman empire, which would conquer and pacify Britain into a province, like Gaul shortly before, but Caesar's invasion wasn't the definitive annexation yet, that was left to emperor Claudius; even afterward some Celtic traits and even rebellions remained.

Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands is a BBC Three television series looking at how a group of foundation doctors cope with life on the wards. Three series have been broadcast to date, all narrated by Jason Done. The first, broadcast in 2011, focused on seven foundation doctors at Newcastle General Hospital and Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne, three of which were newly-qualified FY1s and four being FY2s. The second series was broadcast in 2012 and followed six FY1s and two FY2s at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. A third series, filmed at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, was broadcast in 2013 and followed five FY1 doctors and two FY2 doctors. On 9 March 2011 the show achieved BBC Three's highest ever ratings for a factual entertainment programme, when 1.44 million people watched the third episode of the first series.

Britain is getting older but the number of multi-generational homes is rapidly declining. In this series, four young people volunteer to work as carers in a retirement village.

A live magazine show celebrating and tapping into the UKs obsession with weather, presented by Alexander Armstrong, Chris Hollins and Carol Kirkwood

Paddy's Show and Telly is a British entertainment game show which first aired on ITV on 29 December 2011. Presented by Paddy McGuinness, the show features three teams of celebrities hoping to win £20,000 for a charity of their choice. To date there have been two episodes, the first aired in December 2011, which was followed by a second in December 2012.

Baking Made Easy is presented by Lorraine Pascale. The series sees Lorraine Sharing her kitchen secrets and sheer passion for food.

Art writer Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists.

Queen of the homemade home and all things made, Kirstie Allsopp returns with a brand new series that really tests her mettle as a craftswoman.

Historian Lucy Worsley presents a series marking the 200th anniversary of one of the most explosive and creative decades in British history, the Regency.

Derren Brown uses deception as a skill to overcome common misbeliefs and fears of individuals.

Tommy Walsh is on a mission to show Britain's homeowners how they can save thousands on their home renovations by fixing it themselves.

The HMS Ark Royal carried the Harrier and 3 types of helicopter during its active service, these included the Lynx which is currently the fastest helicopter in the world and the Sea King, equipped with an early warning radar system.

In new six-part series Untamed China, wildlife adventurer Nigel Marven explores the country's mountains and grasslands, crosses its greatest deserts and treks through its deepest jungles in search of the rare, little-known and extraordinary creatures that live there. Over half of China's plant and animal species live in Yunnan Province in the far southwest of the country. In episode one, Nigel goes there to explore the ancient city of Dali and the surrounding mountains and forests. He meets some bizarre and deadly reptiles and amphibians, goes on a very unusual fishing trip, enjoys the fairy-tale lifecycle of butterflies and gets up close to highly endangered Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys.

The Model Agency is a UK docu-drama serie that goes inside the offices of Premier Model Management to reveal the realities of life in the world's most glamorous industry

Untrained mariner Timothy Spall has spent a fortune on technology for his new challenge - the unpredictable Irish Sea - as he and his wife continue their mini-odyssey around Britain

English historian David Reynolds reassesses Stalin's role in the life-and-death struggle between the Soviet Union and Germany in World War II.

Each episode, he encounters an elite group of five animals each of which senses the world in a very different way. By understanding their needs, problems and histories on these islands, Chris reveals what they make of modern Britain - and its humans.

Monty Don conducts his personal 'grand garden tour' around Italy, including the retreats of the affluent north and horticultural gems of the south.

Bear Grylls takes celebrities on exhilarating adventures well outside their comfort zones.

The story of how the Arab world erupted in revolution, as a new generation used the internet and social media to try to overthrow their hated leaders

Reality TV Documentary

Series marking the ten-year anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, telling the story of the conflict through the words and pictures of the young soldiers themselves. It includes specially edited footage shot on "helmet cam" taken by the armed forces personnel while fighting in the conflict, something rarely seen on television before.

Following the smash hit success of Pineapple Dance Studios, Louie Spence's Showbusiness is a documentary to get tongues wagging and toes tapping.

Toughest Place To Be A... is a BBC Two television documentary which offered various working or retired professionals in the United Kingdom a different and more challenging working environment in the same profession they worked in. These individuals travel to a foreign country to learn and work under the new environment for ten days. First broadcast in February 2011, a total of fifteen episodes were produced since.

Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou examines how archaeological discoveries are changing the way people interpret stories from the Bible.

Kate Humble goes on the trail of some of the world's most valuable spices revealing their history, trade, mythology and usage.

Little England is a documentary series about English expatriates in Dordogne, France. The first series comprised 12 episodes and was broadcast on ITV from 12 September to 5 December 2011. The second series contained eight episodes and was broadcast from 23 October to 17 December 2012. Both series were shown on Monday evenings at 8pm.

Justin Rowlatt investigates the spread of Chinese influence around the planet and asks what the world will be like if China overtakes America as the world's economic superpower.

The series aims to explore Irish history using the historical facts and evidence while charting the origin and impact of the numerous myths that have been passed off as history in the past. Key to this approach is relating developments in Ireland to events and changes in Europe and the world at large as the centuries progress.

Great British Ghosts is a paranormal series that recounts stories of reported ghost sightings from some of the "most haunted" locations in the United Kingdom. It is presented by Michaela Strachan and was first aired on 18 August 2011.

Julia Bradbury dons her walking boots to explore her own British backyard, travelling along the country's network of canals and their accompanying towpath trails.

In September 2011, an international group of scientists has made an astonishing claim - they have detected particles that seemed to travel faster than the speed of light. It was a claim that contradicted more than a hundred years of scientific orthodoxy. Suddenly there was talk of all kinds of bizarre concepts, from time travel to parallel universes. So what is going on? Has Einstein's famous theory of relativity finally met its match? Will we one day be able to travel into the past or even into another universe? In this film, Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores one of the most dramatic scientific announcements for a generation. In clear, simple language he tells the story of the science we thought we knew, how it is being challenged, and why it matters.

Perfection is a BBC television series that was first shown on BBC Two from 17 January 2011 to 10 February 2012, and then shown on BBC One since 2 January 2013.

Beauty and the Beast: Ugly Face of Prejudice is a UK Channel 4 documentary series that investigates the extremes of discrimination against people with facial disfigurement.

The Health Show was a television series on global health on BBC World News presented by Dr Ayan Panja and Dr Shini Somara. It covered developments in global health, including interviews with the world's health experts. First broadcast on 23 July 2011 and running for 26 weeks, the show featured innovations and health stories from around the globe and aired four times each weekend on BBC World News.

Evan Davis looks at the British economy and asks what our country is good at and how it can pay its way in the world,

Ex-EastEnders star James Alexandrou explores the truth about Britain's favourite illegal drug, from cannabis sold on the street to the hidden world of organised crime

It's All About Amy is a British fly on the wall reality television series based on the life of Amy Childs, her family and friends that began airing on 1 December 2011 on Channel 5 as part of a 8-part series. Channel 5 cancelled It's All About Amy on 26 January 2012 due to low ratings.

Friday Download is a BAFTA award-winning British children's entertainment television programme, produced by Saltbeef Productions and airs on the CBBC Channel. It premiered on 6 May 2011 and has since produced five series, with a sixth series launching on 20 September 2013. The current presenting team consists of Dionne Bromfield, Aidan Davis, Shannon Flynn, Ceallach Spellman, Richard Wisker and George Sear.

Follows Royal Navy warship HMS Manchester on her final deployment – a seven-month tour of duty hunting drug smugglers in the Caribbean.

Jo Brand's Big Splash is a British television series produced by Doghouse Media and What Larks! Productions for Dave. The show was part of Dave's investment into original comedy shows. Presented by comedian Jo Brand, it combined her stand-up comedy with various tasks involving water. The first episode originally aired on 22 September 2011 and the last episode aired on 20 October 2011.

Dr Adam Rutherford explores the consequences of one of the biggest scientific projects of all time - the decoding of the entire human genome.

Heston Blumenthal uses his maverick culinary genius to dramatically re-invent food.

Even the world's top companies make mistakes. Insiders reveal how plans that seemed like a good idea turned into commercial calamities,

Sir Gerry Robinson helps two families torn over what to write in their wills.