The animal kingdom possesses a fearsome arsenal - a variety of extreme weapons used in epic battles to gore, stab, crush and batter. But are they more than just instruments of deadly force? For Professor Doug Emlen, it has been his lifetime's ambition to discover the secrets of nature's arms races, what triggers them and what they can teach us about the most formidable weapons on earth - our own.

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Ex-CIA agent Ben Smith and a retired FBI officer journey through the Jungles of Burma in search of answers to a family mystery. They are searching for a crashed WWII plane that went down in this little-known, but important, theater of WWII, the perilous "Hump" - an airbridge over the Himalayas.

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Rich Hall explores the American dream and the dictum that came over with the very first pilgrims who set foot on Plymouth Rock - work hard and you will succeed.

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7000Km from mainland France, far from the cold and dark seabed of the West Coast, the Atlantic Ocean reveals a whole new face. A marine paradise with warm and crystal-clear waters, ecosystems of rare richness, populated by marine animals and surrounding paradisiacal lands: the West Indies. On this side of the globe, the Atlantic turns into a world sea, with thirty-one islands for almost as many nationalities. Among these lands, the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique are islands as coveted as they are fantasized.

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Chapter 1. Boys From The Dwarf
A look at the troubled origins of what was soon to become the most celebrated and successful sci-fi comedy ever, as told by the people who were there.

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Julian Bream presents a series of 4 masterclasses on the guitar, recorded in the informal atmosphere of his home in Wiltshire. The fifth episode is a guitar recital in his local chapel in the same year 1978 where the same music is performed.

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Ted Hughes is widely recognised as one of Britain's greatest poets. He is also one of the most controversial. The Heathcliff of poetry who 'attracted more scandal than any other literary figure with the exception of Lord Byron' as one contributor notes. Now, for the first time, the events of his life and the breadth and influence of his poetry are the focus of a major documentary.

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Sahar Zand reports on the adverse impact of locusts across Kenya and neighbouring countries, which are devouring crops and threatening millions with starvation. Filmed before the UK went into lockdown, she visits Kenya, on the trail of immense swarms of the insects - the biggest for 70 years. In a country in which agriculture provides a livelihood for more than 80 per cent of the population and where over a million people live on the edge of hunger, even a small swarm can eat the same amount of food in a day as 35,000 people, threatening millions with starvation and economic collapse.

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Tells the story of how A Question of Sport has evolved but remained in the primetime schedule since it first hit the air in January 1970. This romp through the archives from the 1,200-plus episodes includes the show where over 19 million people tuned in to watch the Princess Royal line up alongside Emlyn Hughes.

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What on Earth Series 8: Zombietown USA
Satellite images capture evidence of an abandoned town hidden in the American wilderness, and as experts analyze this new evidence, they reveal what this strange place has to do with a top-secret military plan to battle an army of the undead.

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