Riding Fast

James Hobbs, living in Japan for 30 years, teaches at a medical university in Iwate Prefecture. He takes us along on some hard weekend training with cycling friends and on a camping trip with his wife to enjoy the famous evening views of Mt. Hayachine, where they show their skill at cooking local Iwate ingredients. After riding along the Sanriku coastline, James tackles a tough hill climb with a friend who describes how cycling gave him the strength to recover from the devastating tsunami of 2011.

Henry Cole heads off yet again into the wilds of America. This time riding America's Wild West from San Francisco across California into Nevada, up through Idaho and Wyoming through Yellowstone national park to journey's end in Billings Montana. On this 1500 mile ride Henry delights in the vast array of cultures, landscapes and characters he meets along the way and that make up the true dichotomy of this incredible adventure.

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film.

Riding along the Isle of Man may not be a taxing adventure but the island is home to perhaps the most famous road race in the world - The Isle of Man TT.

Follows a group of women from Wales as they participate in an event aiming to set a new world record for the largest gathering of female motorcyclists. Organiser Sherrie started her biking journey 16 years ago, had began riding at a younger age, and says she would rather have been a motorcycle racer rather her actual career as an accountant. The current record stands at 1,132, but Sherrie intends to smash this record and gain recognition for the more than 300,000 female motorbike license holders in the UK.

Fukushima Prefecture, with its beautiful mountains and coastline, is home to people who have survived disaster and come out stronger. We meet a peach grower thriving again after the great 2011 quake, a family that rebuilt their seaside hotel destroyed by the tsunami, shopkeepers organizing a summer festival after a two-year pandemic gap, highschoolers continuing Fukushima's samurai horse riding legacy, and three women friends who have staffed a tiny country station together for 35 years.

Henry Cole is off on his bike again, this time riding some 4000kms on a Scandinavian adventure through Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Riding onboard with a cheetah, a green turtle and a white-tailed sea eagle as they show us around their respective homes. With natural sounds and elegant embedded graphics delivering information, this is an immersive journey into their world like no other. Each section rides onboard with one of the animals as it shows us around its world. Revealing how they go through their daily routines, journey across different parts of their homes and introduce us to the other animals they share them with, in this extraordinary immersive show.

Scotland is a renowned pop music nation, and its artists are loved around the world. But it wasn't always that way. Since the global birth of pop in the 1950s, Scots have overcome obstacles and blazed their own trail to make the music they loved - and bring it to their biggest fans.

Science writer and explorer Gaia Vince goes to Costa Rica to find out how this remarkable little republic has become 'the happiest, most sustainable country in the world'.