Precious

Kurt Metzger stand-up special.

The Repair Shop is a magical place, where much-loved but broken treasures are brought back to life by a dream team of some of the country's most skilled craftspeople.

Whether you’re standing on the banks of the Nile or watching drops from your tap, you are in the presence of the planet’s most precious resource. Water. Without water, nothing on this earth can survive. And yet this resource, essential to all life, is under increasing pressure and multiple attacks. This three-part series, hosted by award-winning author Marq de Villiers and based on his book Water, will present one of the great problems facing mankind. De Villiers takes the viewer on a tour of the globe as he explores our interdependence with water.

Set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships.

It's a mission six years in the making. A top team of scientists from the USA and Australia are finally realising their dream: they're heading to a remote corner of the Antarctica to execute an ambitious plan. They want to drill hundreds of metres deep into the earth's frozen past in a bid to illuminate its not-so-frozen future. "We need to see how the atmosphere has handled the emissions that we have thrown at it," says CSIRO's Dr David Etheridge. The team's destination is Law Dome, a mountain of ice holding a precious, pristine climate archive stretching back over 80,000 years.

South America - the most species-rich continent on earth. From the bone-dry deserts of the Atacama, where penguins weave their way through a minefield of snapping sea lions, to the lush cloud forests of the Andes, where Andean bears scale 30-metre trees in search of elusive fruits, South America is full of the unusual and ingenious.

A one year experiment seeks to discover whether coaching can help ordinary people achieve extraordinary things.