The stories of multiple rulers and their insatiable desire for the Kohinoor which led to significant and very bloody wars, triggered agonising mind games, and empowered rulers and ruined dynasties whilst exploring stories of powerful emperors whose lives intertwined with the diamond in unfathomable ways.
Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain. What does the arrival of their astronomical wealth really mean for everyone else?
True crime fan Yinka Bokinni dives deep into the dark web's murder-for-hire sites. Can you really order someone's death online? And can she save a man with a contract on his head?
In Jurassic CSI, dino detective Dr. Phil Manning launches a full-scale investigation to unearth how dinosaurs really looked and lived. Jurassic CSI goes into the minds, under the skin and inside the bones of the biggest, most impressive beasts ever to walk the planet. Dr. Manning doesn’t stick to convention –or even his own discipline– on his perpetual quest to expand what we know about dinosaurs. With privileged access to some of the world’s most sophisticated technologies –from crime scene 3D mapping technology to an image machine one million times stronger than a chest X-ray– Jurassic CSI challenges long-held assumptions and poses radical questions about our understanding of dinosaurs.
This series takes us inside the investigative minds of five American detectives as they reexamine the harrowing cases that defined their careers. From hunting killers who hid in the shadows for decades, to taking on a political machine with more than blood on its hands, to reliving the same murder through three different victims in a row, every crime turns the story back on each detective, triggering memories of painstaking investigations, forcing them to come to terms with old wounds, and revealing what drives them to stand strong in the fight for justice.
Setting out to discover sexuality in the world’s 14 major megacities, this sensual and libertine collection provides an entertaining and fascinating journey into sexual practices the world over.
The history of the ever-popular range of varied artistic expressions and styles that in novels, poetry, painting and cinema portrays the strange, emotional and sometimes terrifying human inner life: the so-called Gothic genre, born at the end of the 18th century.
Len Goodman and Lucy Worsley uncover the British love affair with dancing, exploring the nation's favourite dances from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Among the forests and ruins of Madagascar's Berenty Reserve, four gangs of ring-tailed lemurs are locked in a feud over territory, resources, and power... and often the fiercest conflicts are happening within the tribes. This five-part series places you in the heart of "Lemur Island," where half of the world's wild population of lemurs share a fragment of land less than a square mile. Here, battle lines are drawn and crossed, leaders are trusted and tested, and gang members thrive or perish in the harsh extremes of this intense environment.
Southeast Asia is the most diverse region on our planet. Nature’s most powerful forces have combined to create islands of fire, a water world driven by the sway of the moon and rich forests fuelled by the tropical sun. An extraordinary array of plants and animals live here; many of which are found nowhere else on Earth.