Sculptor Antony Gormley sets out on a journey to see for himself the very beginnings of art. It was once believed that art began with the cave paintings of Ice Age Europe, tens of thousands
Writer Will Millard explores the extraordinary people of the Coral Triangle in the Western Pacific. Here whale hunters, spear fishermen and ocean traders all live in close connection to the sea.
For the last decade, a team of frontline medics has been fighting to save Borneo’s critically endangered orangutans. Armed with cameras, International Animal Rescue has documented their struggle: pulling apes from devastated jungles, giving emergency
Writer Will Millard explores the extraordinary people of the Coral Triangle in the Western Pacific. Boasting the richest waters on the planet, the Coral Triangle is home to people who have adapted to ocean life
Grayson Perry explores the landmark events in all of our lives – birth, coming of age, marriage and death – and tries to reinvent them for our modern secular age. He’ll be travelling the world
In 1998, wildlife enthusiast and photographer Chris Packham met a hunter-gatherer tribe called Orang Rimba in remote Sumatra. 20 years later, he goes in search of the same tribe to search for the girl whose
TV presenter Alex Brooker and comedian Ellie Taylor are thrown together for an adventure across Java where the erupting volcanoes pose as big a threat as the terrifying roads.
The extraordinary story of how the human species, Homo sapiens, first emerged, where the discoveries of recent years are revolutionising the understanding of humanity’s origin story. Following early Homo sapiens’s ancestors as they step out
Hear powerful survivor stories from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. It’s been 20 years since one of history’s deadliest natural disasters. Discover how tragedy defined a generation.