Explores the surprising ways animals have adapted to the pressures on earth to work together, fight each other, and ensure the survival of their offspring
This two-part series tells the story of the conflict in Afghanistan and asks what has been achieved and whether the British have the will to fight in distant lands again.
Coastline Cops features police forces that protect the worst areas of Britain's 10,500-mile coastline and the variety of techniques they use to apprehend criminals.
Rick Stein celebrates British food, meeting the people and discovering the stories behind the country's beloved dishes - and from his home in Padstow, he cooks some of his own.
DJ-producer Carly Foxx is on a musical journey, immersing herself in the life of five iconic European cities to find inspiration for a series of new tracks.
The Racing Years is the first ever race-by-race, week-by-week, month-by-month summary of all the major international motor sport events & legends. Travel with us from Continent to Continent as we revisit the excitement, glory, crashes, close-calls, heartaches and milestones from early days of motor racing to now. Each half hour episode covers one Racing Year of major motoring milestones.
We meet 6 populations in transition via the microcosm of the local barber shop: in Rio de Janeiro, barber Pedro picks teenagers from the street to teach them a profession. The inhabitants of Clacton-on-Sea reflect on post-Brexit society. In South Africa, post Mandela era, the white middle class is degrading to poverty. Detroit's young and old inhabitants, each in their own way, have learned to overcome the city's bankruptcy. The Sahrawi refugees question the fight for their land. In India, hairdresser Soniya helps her clients to fight for women's rights. In every episode, a population finds itself on the verge of change and a barber plays his role. As opinion maker, as confessor, as story collector, as society barometer. Gradually, Barber Shop measures the state of our world, offering dialogue and human resilience as a hopeful perspective for the future.
This new series for RTÉ One reveals the hard work and imagination ordinary people have put into their gardens across the island. We’ve sought out the best amateur gardeners to celebrate the joy of transforming your own space. Each week three contestants will open their gates to our experts horticulturalist Jimi Blake, garden designer Niall Maxwell and landscape designer Ingrid Swan. The experts will take the tour, examining every leaf and sniff every flower, to evaluate the gardens. How the garden is laid out, how the planting has been done, and what features have been added, are all investigated. But we also want to know what the garden means to the owner. Maybe it’s a place of adventure for kids, perhaps it’s a special space for relaxation, or maybe it’s a fully functional extension of your home, for entertaining and dining. How the garden fits into and enhances your life is an important factor too.
Yummy Mummy is a totally unique and ultra hip half-hour weekly parenting series. Set in an interactive virtual environment, it's unlike anything you've ever seen. Hosted by the real deal, yummy mummy Erica Ehm and her eclectic mix of experts, celebrities and yummy mummy guests will celebrate and commiserate the joys and challenges, payoffs and perils of being a modern day parent.
Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure is a four-part British documentary television series that aired on BBC Two.
Chefs Ken Hom and Ching He Huang, both Chinese food specialists, describing their travels through China and the recipes and personal stories they find there.Hom and Huang will travel to Beijing, learning about Peking Duck, and on to the Silk Road, Kashgar, and the Sichuan Province,together bringing a unique and authoritative perspective on Chinese food that will surprise and inform.Ken and Ching undertake an epic 3000-mile culinary adventure across China - not only to reveal its food, but its people, history, culture and soul.BBC Books has acquired and published the title to accompany the BBC Two series of four hour-long episodes.
Prue and her husband John have downsized to a modern barn conversion, but their new home is surrounded by rubble, rubbish and overgrown vegetation. They embark on the task of creating a garden in under a year.
#WASHED is a coming-of-age dramedy series based in Dallas, Texas about a group of conflicted millennials feeling the pressures of adulthood. In the midst of a quarter-life crisis, they find themselves at a crossroads, too old to be dreamers but young enough to accomplish their youthful desires.
This show highlights the best vacation rentals in the world that are staycation worthy. Our job is to show the world why these are the most luxurious, Unique, and geographically desirable properties you have to see to believe.
Documentary following the work of senior coroner for Lancashire and Darwen Dr James Adeley, who runs a team that works from the moment a body arrives in the mortuary through to the inquest, when the cause of death is determined.