Secrets Of The Giant Mammoths
Sunday 23 April 7:30 PM
Secrets Of The Giant Mammoths combines unique access to real-time palaeontology investigations, pioneering technology, and explosive CGI animation to unlock the mysteries of the biggest beasts ever to have lived on our planet.
New evidence reveals how these giants evolved to conquer the planet, how they grew so big, how they hunted, what they ate, how they fought and what triggered their extinction.
Secrets Of The Giant Mammoths investigates unique finds that could help solve the mystery of why the
giant Ice Age mammoth became extinct.
The Black Death
Sunday 23 April 8:30 PM Double episode
Historian Dan Snow and archaeologist Raksha Dave investigate how the Black Death devastated Britain 700 years ago.
This terrible plague killed around 3 million people across the country - 50 percent of the population. Visiting outbreak hotspots and unearthing evidence from the time, Dan and Raksha explore its horrific spread month by month as it crippled the country. Alongside dramatic reconstructions of events, they witness the terrifying symptoms of the disease. They experience the brutal methods used to try and cure it and they examine the latest cutting-edge research, revealing why the Black Death was and remains the most-deadly pandemic in history.
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
Wednesday 26 April 8:30 PM
Brian Cox goes on a personal quest to explore our complicated relationship with money and wealth.
Throughout the program he will tell his own story, from growing up in poverty to becoming a highly paid Hollywood actor, playing one of the richest and most bloodthirsty capitalists on TV. This is his mission to remove his fear of poverty and to untangle the knotty issue of money and happiness.
With his wry humour and intrepid curiosity, Bryan rolls up his sleeves in a soup kitchen in the Bronx, mingles with supermodels on Miami Beach, meets the homeless in Harlem and drops in on a billionaire in London’s most expensive house. His blunt questioning and passionate anger exposes a world in which the richest 1% own half of the world’s wealth and the safety net for the poorest is being swept away on both sides of the Atlantic. The series will shine a light on one of the most misunderstood and mysterious aspects of our everyday life – Money.
Robson Green’s British Adventure – Season 2
Friday 28 April 8:30 PM
Robson and Jim have packed up their tackle wagon (an old caravan that houses their fishing gear) to see what Wales has to offer, and hit the road heading first for the River Towy in Carmarthenshire.
They’re hunting for sea trout (sewin in Welsh) and go to Abercothi Fisheries where they meet up with several knowledgeable ghillies (fishing guides) who point them in the right direction.