Series exploring how, over the centuries, iconic queens wielded power and influence, not just through their accession to the throne, but through their strength of character, intelligence and charm.
Joanna is determined to spend her summer working at Wildlife Aid, one of the UK's leading wildlife hospitals, learning how she can help. With no special treatment, Joanna first must pass the 'smell test', starting with mucky cage and pen cleaning but hoping to progress to animal triage training, helping in the vet room and going out on rescues and releases.
Will there come a point when our brain stops thinking without a computer? When we consider digital sex better than the real thing? And turn our body into a machine? We are living in the midst of an upheaval that could be more radical than anything our parents or grandparents ever experienced. But what does it all mean for us as human beings? In seven episodes the protagonist Helen Fares goes on a journey through futuristic technologies. She meets virtual friends, learns to steer a drone with her brain and to hack her own DNA. Encounters with experts in the US, Japan and Britan provide context to the posed question: Are we evolving into a new species - the Homo Digitalis? Simultaneously Homo Digitalis is a scientific experiment. In a playful test either as chatbot or as website the user can find out his or her personal future.
A poor, black immigrant woman is shot and killed in Madrid. The crime triggers an unprecedented social reaction. Who killed Lucrecia? Why? The first clues point to far-right groups. Three decades after the crime, Lucrecia's story stands as a journey to the roots of hatred. With previously unpublished footage, this moving narrative brings to light a crime that goes down in Spanish history as its first racist murder.
Head Rush is a spin-off of the popular MythBusters show airing on Discovery's Science since it debuted in 2010.
Described by Discovery as a "commercial free hour of MythBusters mashups, hosted by Kari Byron", the show features about ten minutes of new material - experiments and quizzes presented by Kari, as well as TV celebrity and scientist appearances, pitching the idea that "science is cool" - interwoven in fifty minutes of material from MythBusters episodes.
These celebrity segments include "Cool Jobs In Science," which has featured other Science, Discovery, and TLC stars such as Dr. Michio Kaku, Cake Boss's Buddy Valastro, Dr. G: Medical Examiner's Dr. Jan Garavaglia, and each of the other four MythBusters.
Simon Sebag Montefiore uncovers the three identities of the city some call the Centre of the World: Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul. This one metropolis has been the capital city of three empires - Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman. Each brought its own faiths, Gods and traditions, and each left its mark on the city in its architecture, traditions and in the living faith-communities who still populate this vast modern metropolis of 14 million people.
Six-part documentary on the city of Muncie, Indiana - nicknamed "Middletown" after a study in the 1920s deemed it representative of middle America. The series finds that amid the great ...
Through this three part series Art Historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunning illuminated manuscripts from the British Library's Royal Manuscripts collection.
Sisters Hannah & Eliza Reilly are two misguided twentysomethings, who after rediscovering the 1950's teen-advice book 'Growing Up Gracefully', ask themselves, as young women in 2017, how do we learn to grow up?
At just nineteen years old, Matilde Villa is already a phenomenon in Italian and international basketball: the youngest Italian ever to be drafted by a WNBA team directly from the Italian league, without going through college. Her passion and dedication light up every game, making the power of this sport truly tangible.