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From a camp in the heart of Kenya’s magnificent Masa Mara comes the thrilling Big Cat Week, a unique glimpse of Africa’s majestic big cats in their natural habitat.
Series One follows lone male Simba, as he strives to defend the Marsh Pride of lions from two young outsider males who threaten them. Other storylines include Kike the cheetah’s struggle to feed her babies and protect them from danger, and Bella the leopard’s ambush on a herd of wildebeest crossing the river. Series Two re-visits Kike and Bella.

How Edinburgh Was Built.
Adam Hart-Davis uncovers how Britain’s iconic cities were built. He travels to Scotland to look at the fascinating history of the country’s ancient capital city of Edinburgh.

Secrets of the Maya Underworld is Historial Documentary hosted by Simon MacCorkindale and published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Natural World series in 2005 - English narration

Affectionately comic drama about the British home computer boom of the early 1980s. Legendary inventor Clive Sinclair battles it out with ex-employee Chris Curry, founder of Acorn Computers, for dominance in the fledgling market.

Former Conservative MP, Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigation into the science of execution. As the American Supreme Court examines whether the lethal injection is causing prisoners to die in unnecessary pain Michael sets out to find a solution which is fundamentally humane. To do so he examines the key methods of execution available today: he discovers why convicts can catch on fire in the electric chair, learns how easy it is to botch a hanging and inhales a noxious gas to experience first hand the terror of the gas chamber.

Four years in the making, Life will set a new benchmark in family entertainment and natural history epics. Life is the latest wildlife epic from the BBC's award-winning Natural History Unit. It has the revelation, cinematic style, sense of place and emotionally involving individual sequences that that were the hallmark of The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, with all the scope, detail and content of an Attenborough epic, and the addition of close-up, intensely dramatic new behaviour all captured by the world's top wildlife photographers with the aid of the most cutting-edge and sophisticated filming techniques.

A BBC Learning Zone programme giving tips and guidance on how to learn a new language.

Highly-charged documentary following London's elite trauma team, Medic One. The team are deployed by helicopter and high-performance cars to major accidents across the capital, and they deal with major traumas at the scene. Every day they are called to deal with car and motorbike accidents, stabbings and shootings.

David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, very funny. Hamlet must decide whether to avenge his father's murder at the hands of his uncle Claudius (played by Patrick Stewart), who has married his brother's wife - Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. This visually sumptuous screen version was filmed on location with all of the original stage cast.

Earthquakes are among the most devastating natural disasters on the planet. In the last hundred years they have claimed the lives of over one million people. Earthquakes are destructive mainly because of their unpredictable nature. It is impossible to say accurately when a quake will strike but a new theory could help save lives by preparing cities long in advance for an earthquake.