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Back to the Beginning...
Where did it all begin and why are we here?
Chris Packham explores the dramatic moment nearly all life on Earth was wiped out.
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An international team of archaeologists explores megastructures in the Arabian desert.
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The dramatic quest to recover ancient DNA and reveal a lost world from before the Ice Age.
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Alice Roberts looks at how our skeleton reveals the evolutionary journey of our ancestors.
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Professor Brian Cox journeys to south east Asia to understand how life first began.
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Dr Hannah Fry begins her journey looking at whether maths was invented or discovered.
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10 Oct 2018
Film about Jane Goodall, whose work with chimps transformed our understanding of them.
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A journey into the eye-opening realm of insects to better understand how they evolved.
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Jacob Bronowski opens the first programme at the Great Rift Valley of East Africa.
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Why are we here? Brian Cox journeys back 13.8 billion years to the origin of the universe.
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David Attenborough looks at the life, work and thesis of Sir Charles Darwin.
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The story of the island of Ireland’s epic geological journey, spanning 1.8 billion years.
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18 Sep 2022
Alice Roberts travels to Africa in search of the birthplace of the first people.
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The secrets of the Neanderthal discoveries in the Mandrin Cave in France are revealed.
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The extraordinary story of how the human species, Homo sapiens, first emerged.
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Brian Cox charts our story from apes to the birth of civilisation and then to the stars.
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David Attenborough explores the wildlife and landscape that inspired Charles Darwin.
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James Fox uses art to chart humankind’s earliest attempts to gain control over nature.
