Horizon reveals how new archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries it's been thought that these hunter-gatherers lived a brutal, hand-to-mouth existence. But extraordinary new evidence has forced scientists to rethink who these people were, where they came from and what impact they had on our early history. Now, o...
《潜行追踪》是一部纪实性真人秀。节目找来普通人隐匿之后,让由反恐专家或前特务机构工作人员组成追踪专家团队,通过他们的住家、社交痕迹、手机通讯记录,寻找出他们隐匿之处。
Michael Mosley puts himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From an expensive heart scan to a new national screening procedure to detect the earliest signs of bowel cancer, Mosley sets out to discover which if any of the tests are worth doing.
2015年12月,蒂姆·皮克少校将成为英国在国际空间站生活的第一人。通过对他训练的独家采访,《地平线》将寻找成为一名宇航员所需的条件。工程师、物理学家和技工将设计并创建把蒂姆送入太空的技术,医生和心理学家将在蒂姆进入太空后对其身体状况进行监测,本片跟踪拍摄了蒂姆与这些人的会晤。以蒂姆本人的视频日记引用为特点,本片对宇航员在发射前的生活和在空间站上的生活进行了独特描述。
As the world prays for a breakthrough at the latest round of Middle-East peace talks, a film that shows the conflict from the inside, and why the talks will fail. Filmed during the 2009 Gaza War, three conflicted, Jewish-Israelis, navigate toward their differing visions of Israel’s future: and thereby the future of the conflict itself. The Teacher: Erez, an ideological settler,...
Children in Gaza and across the border in Israel have lived through three major conflicts in six years. In the summer of 2014, more than 500 children were killed in a 51-day war, all but one of them Palestinian. Almost every child in Gaza lost a loved one. More than a third were left traumatised. On the Israeli border, children lived in constant fear of rocket attacks and under...
自从人类文明伊始酒精就被用作一种药物,但是关于酒精的科学似乎含糊不清而且充满了矛盾。我们对市售药品及其疗效相对比较熟悉,但是对其作用原理及对人体的影响却所知甚少。我们将调查有关酒精的证据,很多人认为每天适度饮酒对我们的身体健康不会产生太大影响,许多人认为每天少量饮酒其实对人体健康是有益的。而我们很多人喝酒不是这样,不是每天少量饮酒而是平时几乎滴酒不沾,到周末的时候才豪饮两三次;或者是邀上好友共进晚餐喝大量的葡萄酒;或者喝些鸡尾酒或烈酒。豪饮的危害到底有多大呢?我们马上来揭晓答案…
Rick Stein embarks on a new gastronomic road trip from Venice to Istanbul through the countries of the former Byzantine Empire - a melting pot of east and west.
In 2014, the International Space Station had to move three times to avoid lethal chunks of space debris and there is an increasing problem of satellites mysteriously breaking down. With first-hand accounts from astronauts and experts, Horizon reveals the scale of the problem of space junk. Our planet is surrounded by hundreds of millions of pieces of junk moving at 17,000 miles...
There are about 600 murders each year in the UK. So, what drives people to kill? Are some people born to kill or are they driven to it by circumstances? In this programme, Michael Mosley delves into the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why people kill, and to find out whether by understanding murder we can p...