Miscellaneous Documentaries
First broadcast in 2003, Panorama investigates the “neo-conservatives”, the small and unelected group of right-wingers, who critics claim have hijacked the White House. Throughout the war with Iraq, Steve Bradshaw was with the neocons in Washington – discovering whether they’re really trying to run the world the American way.
The BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create ‘new kinds of sounds’. Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from its inception, through its golden age when it was supplying music and effects for cult classics like Doctor Who, Blake’s Seven and Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, and charts its fading away in 1995 when, due to budget cuts, it was no longer able to survive.
A loggerhead turtle journeys across the Pacific, meeting dolphins and whales, sharks and giant squids, and typhoons and fishermen along the way. She swims over deep canyons, and uses underwater mountain tops like motorway service stations.
Blue whales thunder by like juggernauts, and sharks dance a beautiful midnight ballet around her. Pacific means peaceful, but it is clearly not. One minute she is under fire from marlin, the next swimming over a coral reef, with crocodiles as well as sharks.
Nick Cook, a British aerospace journalist with a 20-year history of “getting below the surface” of some of the strangest military aircraft to take to the skies, applies his expert, investigative skills to a world of mystery and deceit – a fantastical place full of UFOs, strange encounters, and alien abductions. Much of his time has been spent at the respected journal, Jane’s Defence Weekly. His job is to investigate secret programs – the shadow defense industry, worth billions of dollars, but hidden from public view.
A documentary about the decay and industrial collapse of America’s fourth largest city. Built by the car for the car, with its groundbreaking suburbs, freeways and shopping centres, it was the embodiment of the American dream.
But its intense race riots brought the army into the city. With violent union struggles against the fierce resistance of Henry Ford and the Big Three, it was also the scene of American nightmares. Nowadays it is a deprived post-industrial city, in which 40 per cent of the land in the centre is returning to prairie. Greenery grows up through abandoned office blocks, houses and collapsing car plants, and swallows up street lights.
Born during the Cold War, Area 51 in Nevada, also known as Groom Lake or Dreamland, became not only the Air Force’s most strategic test site, but also a symbol of everything that was sneaky about the U.S. military-industrial-intelligence complex.
In recent years, UFO investigators claimed that the top-secret planes tested there were built with technology gleaned from captured alien aircraft. We uncover the secrets of the cryptic desert facility and look into mysterious deaths of base workers.
By the time we are three, many of us will have learned how to count. Once we’ve learned how, it seems as if there’s nothing to stop us counting indefinitely. While infinity may seem like a perfectly innocuous idea however, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is quite as it seems.
Mathematicians have discovered there are infinitely many infinities, each one infinitely bigger than the last, and if the universe goes on forever, the consequences are even more bizarre. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many copies of the Earth and infinitely many copies of you.

















