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.
Where in the world can you experience the ultimate motorcycle adventure against the backdrop of the most thrilling yet unforgiving landscape and at the same time with every mile that passes soak up a culture and a terrain that has become famous the world over in pop culture? There’s no place on earth like the American Desert aboard an all American custom chopper.
In September 2011, an international group of scientists has made an astonishing claim - they have detected particles that seemed to travel faster than the speed of light. It was a claim that contradicted more than a hundred years of scientific orthodoxy. Suddenly there was talk of all kinds of bizarre concepts, from time travel to parallel universes. So what is going on? Has Einstein's famous theory of relativity finally met its match? Will we one day be able to travel into the past or even into another universe? In this film, Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores one of the most dramatic scientific announcements for a generation. In clear, simple language he tells the story of the science we thought we knew, how it is being challenged, and why it matters.
Ben Hull travels to Peru's Amazon region, where his first port of call is Iquitos, a town with no connecting roads and where he finds the frenetic pace of life as intoxicating as the heat and humidity. From there Ben embarks on an epic five day trip deep into the mighty rainforest on cruise ship Aria. With his trusted Natural Guides for support Ben explores the wildlife, meets the indigenous people, fishes for piranhas and even wrestles a Caiman out of the water. It's a once in a life time voyage into one of the planet's true natural wonders.