Meet the Penguins In this one-off special, bird expert and enthusiast Adrian Walls fulfils a lifelong dream to see an endangered species of penguin in the wilds of Peru. Adrian, head of birds at ZSL London Zoo, has looked after penguins throughout his twenty-five years as a zookeeper, but he’s never seen them in their natural environment on the breath-taking Pacific coast of Pe...
In this four-part series for BBC Two, Professor Joann Fletcher explains how Ancient Egypt’s extraordinary story fits together, from nomads to pyramid builders, from tomb robbers to the last of the pharaohs. The result is the world’s most fascinating and enduring civilization.
10位普通人作为“逃难者”藏匿起来，身上只携带一张250英镑的信用卡。最终成功的“逃难者”将瓜分大奖10万英镑。 30名由反恐专家、前情报机构调查人员、警察组成的专家团队，通过他们的住家、社交痕迹、手机通讯记录，并可询问他们的亲朋好友，从国家机构复制所需的闭路电视和自动车牌识别系统，找出他们隐匿之处，进行追捕。此外，他们可以通过在社交媒体发布“悬赏”，通过奖金，请求市民提供线索，帮助捉捕。 此外，本季搜捕还配备了无人机、警犬和直升机。 “逃难者”可藏匿英国任意角落，不能逃到英国境外，28天内没被捉到就算成功。
Gene editing is transforming medical research and could deliver new treatments and cures for diseases. It also gives scientists control over evolution, allowing genetic changes to be forced through species. 基因编辑正在改变医学研究，并可能提供新的治疗和治疗疾病。它还赋予科学家对进化的控制权，允许通过物种强制进行基因改变。
BBC气象员彼得?吉布斯冲动地回到了他曾经生活和工作过的英国南极调查局哈雷研究站。当时，哈雷研究站在臭氧空洞的发现中起到了重要作用，而今天，它仍然在诸多领域作出了许多重要的发现，例如：人类生活如何受到太阳活动的影响、星际旅行研究、以及人类导致的气候变化所产生的威胁等。彼得此行还肩负着救援的使命，由于冰山移动，哈雷研究站可能会随着巨大的冰山飘向远方。
人为什么会笑？笑的本质是什么？笑声在社交中有什么作用？大脑能分辨真笑和假笑吗？存在全世界通行的喜剧吗？
著名明星瓊安娜將前往日本，從北方寒冷的西伯利亞海到南方亞熱帶海島地區。她從一個住著許多美麗卻瀕臨絕種的野生動物棲息地出發：零下的北海道。往南的途中，瓊安娜拜訪了現代化城市東京、宏偉寺廟林立的京都古城及有著慘痛歷史過往的長崎。最終，她的美妙旅程駐足於日本在太平洋上最遠的島嶼：風景如畫的小濱島海灘，而她也在此遇到了平均年齡高達84歲的當地女子合唱團。
Noma Australia, a three-part adventure documenting the creativity and journey behind one of the most anticipated culinary events of 2016 - the opening of Noma Australia in Sydney.
动物幼崽们十分柔弱，尤其是生活在凶险的大自然中的野生动物幼崽们，刚降生下即开始生命中的冒险旅程。在这期间，它们不但会遇到无数未知的挑战和困难，还要面对残酷而危险的野生环境。BBC从非洲大草原、海洋边、贫瘠的高原三方面入手，拍摄了动物幼崽在残酷、凶险的大自然中如何艰难生存下去……
Alice Roberts explores the latest discoveries in the study of human origins, revealing the transformation that has been brought about in this field by genetics. Traditional paleo-anthropology, based on fossils, is being transformed by advanced genome sequencing techniques. We now know that there were at least four other distinct species of human on the planet at the same time a...
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, Horizon follows the highs and lows of an extraordinary story in particle physics. In June 2015, teams at CERN started running the large hadron collider at the highest energy ever. Rumours quickly emerged that they were on the brink of a huge discovery. A mysterious bump in some data suggested a first glimpse of a brand new particle that ...
著名英国美食家Rick Stein这一次来到了上海，他在品尝地道上海菜的同时，还身体力行，走进渔村、老城区、海鲜市场，以一个英国人的视角，领略并解读了他眼中的上海文化。
赞德冯托勒金博士是个正在寻找真爱的单身汉。数学家汉纳佛莱博士想以他为实验对象，测试交友网站用来替人们配对的算法是否真的有效。在她架设交友网站期间，赞德与研究在线约会网站的科学家们见面，学习该在他的个人档案使用哪种大头贴和自我介绍。他试用了一个能自动运作配对应用程序的机器人，并做了核磁共振检查他的脑部是否具备爱的条件。一共有五十名一般人士在约会之夜参与了小型实验，而赞德则会赴各种不同的约，测试算法是否比他自己随机挑选对象还管用。
This is the story of how our solar system will be transformed by the aging sun before coming to a spectacular end in about eight billion years. Astronomers can peer into the far future to predict how it will happen by analysing distant galaxies, stars and even planets in their final moments. In this film, Horizon brings these predictions to life in a peaceful midwestern town th...
The acerbically witty and severely facially disfigured broadcaster Adam Pearson presents a personal film about genetics. He and his twin brother Neil are genetically identical and both share the same genetic disease, Neurofibromatosis 1 (Nf1) - yet they are completely different. Adam's face is covered with growths, whereas Neil has none. Neil has short-term memory loss, whereas...
作为全世界分布最广、最成功的蝴蝶之一，小红蛱蝶每年都会进行大陆间的漫长迁徙之旅。在非洲摩洛哥的3月末，小红蛱蝶在这里完成繁衍后向北迁徙，顶着恶劣天气穿过地中海，在5月经过法国，然后在6月初7月末抵达英国，一些蝴蝶甚至会趁着天气仍然温暖时继续向北部进发。一路上，一些蝴蝶因为各种原因会选择不再继续前进，只有足够强壮的蝴蝶才会继续迁徙。可是，小红蛱蝶为什么会不远千里从摩洛哥迁徙到中欧和北欧呢？
The gripping story of how one Russian internet millionaire is turning to cutting-edge science to try to unlock the secret of living forever. Dmitry Itskov recently brought together some of the world's leading neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers to try to devise a system that would allow him to escape his biological destiny. Entering Dmitry's seemingly ...
