Bettany Hughes' Grand Tour: From Paris To Rome

Prof. Bettany Hughes is on the journey of a lifetime through France and Italy to understand how travel, art, and culture can enrich our lives. Inspired by the 18th Century’s Grand Tourists, Bettany is making her own modern, pleasure-filled pilgrimages to some of Europe’s most beautiful cities including Paris, Nice, Florence, Lake Como, Venice, and Rome. Over four stunning episodes, Bettany reveals the honeypot of art and culture that make these the world’s most desired and popular destinations. This landmark series is a sumptuous treat filled with staggering access, good food, fine wines, and the most inspiring art and history. Think charisma, culture, and Camparis - the ultimate chance for the armchair traveller to relax, learn, discover, delight, and enjoy.

Gone Fishing

Lifelong friends and comedic royalty Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer have more in common than just their love of laughter – on a more serious note, they are both suffering from complex heart disease. Paul is an experienced fisherman, while Bob is a complete novice. Paul thought a tour of the country’s finest fishing spots might help Bob’s recovery, so the two have set off on a fishing adventure. GONE FISHING follows the friends as they fish, laugh and learn something about each other and themselves.

Super Scary Plane Landings

The average person now flies out on two holidays per year. But as many have learned – and filmed on phones and personal cameras – arriving in one piece is not as easy as we like to think. We want safe travel to faraway holiday havens, but that means pilots flying ever more perilous journeys, landing on runways sandwiched between ocean and mountains or inches from skyscrapers or even on water. This special shows eyewitness footage of some of the most frightening airplane landings ever captured on camera.

China Revealed

CHINA REVEALED is a 3D expedition into a still undiscovered land. Lost in the vastness of China are sublime landscapes and cultural sites that the Western world has never seen.

Tales by Light

Driven by an insatiable desire to explore cultures, wildlife, and landscapes through the camera’s lens, extraordinary photographers blur the lines between science and art to show us our world in a new light. Viewers get to experience the challenges, successes, and elation as masters like culture photographer Art Wolfe, wildlife photographers Jonathan & Angela Scott, adventure photographer Krystle Wright, underwater photographer Eric Cheng, and more work to capture their unique perspectives and to push the limits of their craft.

Wild France With Ray Mears

Ray Mears explores the geography, flora and fauna of six dramatic French landscapes. The high mountain ranges of the Alps, the coastal waters of the Brittany, the chestnut forests of the Cevnnes, the caves and gorges of the Ardeche, the wet-lands of Camargue and the rolling lavender plains of Provence’s unique maquis landscape. Across the series Ray explores the dramatic physical geography of each region; its topography, its climate and its extreme weather conditions. He tracks down and identifies the key wildlife species that live there and how they have adapted. He introduces us to animals with an ancient history with the land such as wolves and vultures as well as more unexpected and exotic wildlife such as pink flamingos and dolphins.

The Living Beach

Where do waves come from, and why are they always parallel to the shore, no matter which way the shore faces? THE LIVING BEACH highlights the world’s most unique and amazing beaches, and reveals how physics, nature and our own interactions contribute to the creation and evolution of these coastlines.

Ultimate Superbike

BMW’s new ultra-sport 190-horsepower machine is ready for a fast-paced competition. Join the BMW Superbike Team of veteran racer Martin and rising rookie Ferreira, as they compete in the Superbike circuit. Riding on some of the best national tracks, can they race their way to the top?

Secrets Of The Mega Landfill

750 trucks deliver thousands of tonnes EVERY DAY to one of the largest landfill sites in the U.S. – and it’s not as simple as dumping it all in the ground. We join the army of people at the site using cutting edge technologies including dozens of Mega tonne machines who have to make it all disappear. And the stakes are high for the environment and business, as this site can rake in $70 million dollars a year.

Red Chef Revival

Red Chef Revival is an intimate minute food and travel show exploring modern Indigenous cuisine, through the eyes of three chefs; New York Times featured Cezin Nottaway, Top Chef finalist Rich Francis and Chopped finalist Shane Chartrand. Using food as their access point, these chefs discover a new path to reconciliation. Red Chef Revival features ingredients you won’t find in any cookbooks, like bison heart, beaver tail, moose nose, seal and cougar. More than a cooking show, this is a people’s story on a plate.