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Secret Space

AW — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:29:11 +0000

A feature length 2 hour documentary investigating the supposed hidden history of NASA, and the organisation’s links to The Illuminati network of Secret Societies.

The War Party

AW — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:51:49 +0000

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.

Alaska

AW — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:06:35 +0000

What makes Alaska the last great wilderness on earth? Why it is the best place to see the northern lights, and why are the mountains full of sea creatures?

Expedition Antarctica

AW — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:02:35 +0000

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Join a team of marine scientists as they embark on an unprecedented journey across the Great Southern Ocean and beyond to Antarctica.

The Alchemists of Sound

AW — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:11:03 +0000

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.

Hunt for the Supertwister

AW — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:40:46 +0000

In seconds, a supertwister can leave immense swaths of death and destruction. But what if technology could help us tame nature’s most violent tornadoes?

Astrospies

AW — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:42:55 +0000

Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns and parades as the U.S. raced the USSR to the Moon in the 1960s, but few know that both superpowers also ran parallel covert space programs to launch military astronauts on spying missions.

A Turtle’s Guide to the Pacific

AW — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:30:14 +0000

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.

UFOs: The Secret Evidence

AW — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:43:26 +0000

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.

Requiem for Detroit?

AW — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:21:04 +0000

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.