While the Americans were trying to reach the moon the economically and politically suffering British had found a new sort of hero, long distance yachters. The Sunday Times put up a prize for the person who could make the fastest non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat thought beyond the endurance of man or machine and so it proved for all but one of the Kiplingesque adventurers who stepped into the breech. This remarkable documentary, from the team that brought us Touching The Voi find out more...

One of the most stunning nature documentaries ever seen on British TV. The ubiquitous David Attenborough navigates on an epic voyage through one of Earth's last-remaining and most delicate wildernesses, the Antarctic. find out more...

From Pole to Pole; the introduction to the series looks at our planet as a whole. This includes awesome and unique footage of a pack of African Wild Dogs hunting. find out more...

Caves; jumpers parachuting into 400m deep holes, unique ecosystems full of strange and exotic troglodytes, the world's largest colony of cockroaches living on bat dung and the beautiful and unsurpassable Chamber of Chandeliers deep underground in New Mexico. find out more...

Great Plains; how many of you know that the most numerous bird on the planet is the Red-billed Quelea? Now do you want to see the size of their flocks? And, for the less faint-hearted, did you know that a largish pride of hungry Kalahari lions (30 in this example) will bring down and kill a largish elephant if it's isolated from the herd? find out more...

Seasonal Forests; from General Sherman, a giant sequoia ten times the size of a blue whale and the largest living thing on the planet, to 4,000 years old bristlecone pines that pre-date the pyramids. From the world's greatest insect emergence, cicada, to the baobab forests of Madagascar. find out more...

A veritable history of surf, its culture and its derring-doers. Surfers Greg Noll, Jeff Clark, Kelly Slater, Laird Hamilton et al, discuss the thrills, the dangers, the waves, the boards, the irresistable need to conquer nature and each other. The waves we're talking about are predominately in Hawaii, The North Shore, Makaha, Peahi and California, especially the extremely dangerous Mavericks near San Francisco. We learn about the history of riding big waves all the way thru' to the modern tow-in find out more...

A mind boggling expose of what lurks in the salty wet stuff and, quite probably, the most comprehensive and beautifully filmed glimpse of our mysterious oceans that presently exists. find out more...

Seasonal Seas; the effects of the seasons on the world's temperate seas. Grey seals breed and the pups are marooned for weeks until they can swim. Spring heralds the bloom of phytoplankton, providing food for copepods, which, in turn, are prey to vast swarms of jellyfish. Giant kelp grows at a summer rate of a metre a day providing sanctuary for fish and sea otters. Late summer sees Pacific salmon waiting in the open sea, as the water level in their chosen river is too low, and falling prey to a find out more...

'Making Waves' is a 50 minute documentary about the making of The Blue Planet. find out more...