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To discover just how like us animals really are, animatronic spy creatures infiltrate the animal world to explore their complex emotions. Spy Pup makes friends with a wild dog pack to investigate their maternal love and has a dangerous encounter with lions and elephants. Baby Spy Crocs discover the devotion of a mother crocodile and take a ride inside her mouth as she carries her babies to water. Spy Egret and Spy Tortoise are nearly trampled by elephants...

We take a look at some of nature's odder creatures; the Technicolor chameleon, the blind and bucked-tooth naked mole rat, and the half-pig, half hippopotamus babirusa make appearances.

Liz Bonnin introduces a cast of charismatic animals to reveal the remarkable strategies they use to survive, and even thrive, in winter. For animals this is the toughest time of year, and preparations start early. In autumn, Siberian chipmunks collect food in their cheek pouches to stockpile in their burrows, while caribou make an epic journey to new feeding areas away from the worst weather. With the arrival of winter, the American bobcat has to...

Volcanoes are responsible for recycling the carbon thrust into the ground by shifting tectonic plates. But when they erupt they have a more serious impact on climate. One ancient volcano, called Toba, came close to wiping out the human race and starting a 6 year volcanic winter. A supposed 75% of the human population was killed in the eruption, which means we are all descendants of a relatively small group of distant ancestors.

Journey into the abyss to see strange creatures, many of which are new to science. Including terrifying fish with massive teeth that eat prey twice their size and strange jellyfish that flash in the darkness. See the deep sea sharks that have never been filmed before and discover the submerged mountain ranges and volcanoes far larger than anything on land.

The world's deserts are lands of extremes that force animals to come up with ingenious ways of coping with hostile conditions, giving rise to the most incredible survival stories on Earth. A pride of desert lions are so hungry they risk hunting a giraffe several times their size, while male sandgrouse fly 120 miles each day to the nearest waterhole and dice with death to collect water for their chicks. Filmed for the first time, a tiny bat does battle...

The Saxon gods form an unlikely team of superheroes, famous astronaut Neil Armstrong reveals his new weight-loss program, we meet Georgian London’s crime-fighting genius, and Rosa Parks sings about her struggle for equality.

Learn about the bizarre and often dangerous medical treatments used in America up until the 20th century.

Director Rupert Goold adapts his gripping stage production of Macbeth - with Sir Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood reprising their Tony-nominated performances - into this edgy film adaptation, which relocates the bloody action to a nameless 20th-century netherworld.

We begin our journey along the ancient Silk Road where it all began: in mulberry tree orchards of the Hangzhou province a short drive to the southwest of Shanghai. Around 5,000 years ago, farmers there discovered that the cocoons woven from silkworms produced expensive fabric. Sumnima Udas discovers the vibrant e-commerce trade, discusses modernization with silk manufacturers, and visits Xi'an on this episode of The Silk Road: Past, Present, Future....