Forget oil, coal and gas - a new set of materials is shaping our world and they're so bizarre they may as well be alien technology. In the first BBC documentary to be filmed entirely on smartphones, material scientist Prof Mark Miodownik reveals the super elements that underpin our high-tech world. We have become utterly dependent on them, but they are rare and they're already running out. The stuff that makes our smartphones work could be gone in a decade and our ability to feed the world depends mostly on a mineral found in just one country. Mark reveals the magical properties of these extraordinary materials and finds out what we can do to save

鸵鸟、鸸鹋、鹤鸵、鶆 、鹬鸵等「巨鸟」，虽然有密集的羽毛及翅膀，却无法高飞。终究是甚么缘由招致牠们无法飞行?是先天要素?还是大自然的演化?老爵爷与摄制队走遍南美、非洲、澳洲以及新西兰等地，以诙谐的表达手法，讨论这些被视为「异类」的飞行生物不为人知的故事。虽然无法在天际飞翔，但牠们的「行走」速度惊人，以至克制了身体的缺陷，成为陆地上的王者。但是，当这些「巨鸟」当上父母后，又会悉心照料宏大鸟蛋和初生子女，流露温顺一面，令人慨叹造物主的巨大神奇。

UTOPIA is an epic production by the Emmy and Bafta winning film-maker and journalist John Pilger.
UTOPIA is a vast region in Northern Australia and home to the oldest human presence on earth. "This film is a journey into that secret country," says John Pilger, "It will describe not only the uniqueness of the first Australians, but their trail of tears and betrayal and resistance – from one utopia to another". Pilger begins his journey in Sydney, where he grew up, and in Canberra, the Nation’s Capital, where the National Parliament rises in an affluent suburb called Barton, recently awarded the title of Australia’s most advantaged community.
A Global Campaign illuminated apartheid in South Africa. No such opprobrium has been directed at Australia, where black Australians are imprisoned at up to eight times the rate of blacks in apartheid South Africa. Instead, Australia’s post card image is that of the ‘lucky country’; and indeed few societies are as wealthy, if you leave out the original inhabitants is that of a third world country. In the town of Wilcannia, New South Wales, the average life expectancy of men is 37. This is the secret of apartheid Australia.
UTOPIA is both a personal journey and universal story of power and resistance and how modern societies can be divided between those who conform and a dystopian world of those who do not.

A look at the development of British indie music, born in the 1970s when the music industry was controlled by the major record labels and releasing a record independently seemed an impossible dream.

Pain, Pus and Poison tells the extraordinary story of how mankind learnt to look at the world around him and use it to heal his body. Michael Mosley tells the extraordinary story of how the world’s most useful and valuable drugs were created. This BBC series tells of how our search to cure ourselves of anything from the most common, to the most life threatening of ailments, has led to a profound understanding of chemistry, and how we discovered some of the most widely used products on the planet – pharmaceuticals. It's a story of revelation and genius, and a story that ultimately has transformed – and saved - the lives of millions of people across the planet, lives that are now lived longer and healthier than at any time in our history. A BBC Open University Partnership

Around the world, obesity levels are rising. More people are now overweight than undernourished. Jacques Peretti traces those responsible for revolutionising our eating habits

我们为什么要买东西？谁让这个世界变得无节制消费？他们如何做到这一点？调查记者雅克•佩雷蒂审视了无节制消费潮流背后的机制，得出了答案。原来，使这个世界变得无节制消费的元凶，并不是人们普遍认为的广告员和市场推广员，而是这诸多因素背后那些首先改变产品然后改变我们的人们。纪录片表明，长久以来，制造商都梦想着在消费者大脑中植入“升级”观念，从而让无限消费成为现实。他们首先瞄准未被开发的儿童市场，学习应用向儿童销售的方法，从而增加向成年人的销售。但是，那头最肥的能够带来现金的奶牛却来自恐惧——通过挖掘消费者的恐惧，制造商发现了一个对健康和安全产品有巨大需求的世界。

Meet the Romans
Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire We still live in the shadow of ancient Rome - a city at the heart of a vast empire that stretched from Scotland to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700 years. Professor Mary Beard puts aside the stories of emperors and armies, guts and gore, to meet the real Romans living at the heart of it all.

罗马庞培古城，历史上著名火山喷发的牺牲品之一。我们都知道那场灾难中受害者们遇难的经过，但本片关注另一个问题：他们的生活方式是什么样的？
剑桥大学教授、庞培历史研究专家Mary Beard从非同寻常的发现中搜集新的资料，从另一个的视角，为我们展现维苏威火山灾难性喷发前，庞培居民的生活。
Pompeii: one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history. We know how its victims died, but this film sets out to answer another question - how did they live? Gleaning evidence from an extraordinary find, Cambridge professor and Pompeii expert Mary Beard provides new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.
In a dark cellar in Oplontis, just three miles from the centre of Pompeii, 54 skeletons who didn't succumb to the torrent of volcanic ash are about to be put under the microscope. The remains will be submitted to a barrage of tests that will unlock one of the most comprehensive scientific snapshots of Pompeian life ever produced - and there are some big surprises in store.
Using the latest forensic techniques it is now possible to determine what those who perished in the disaster ate and drank, where they came from, what diseases they suffered, how rich they were, and perhaps, even more astonishingly, the details of their sex lives.
The way the remains were found in the cellar already provides an invaluable clue about the lives of the people they belonged to. On one side of the room were individuals buried with one of the most stunning hauls of gold, jewellery and coins ever found in Pompeii. On the other, were people buried with nothing. It looked the stark dividing line of a polarised ancient society: a room partitioned between super rich and abject poor. But on closer examination the skeletons reveal some surprises about life in Pompeii.

BBC新版《文明》，2018倾情奉献，共九集。涵盖六个大陆，三十一个国家，超过五百件艺术品。主讲人历史学家西蒙·沙玛、学者玛丽·比尔德以及戴维·奥卢索加将一起探索人类创造的渴望。此外，“文明节”将通过创新的数字产品和活动，为博物馆的珍宝赋予新的生命力。

Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution. Two years ago Cuba announced the most sweeping and radical economic reforms the country has seen in decades. From ending state rationing to cutting one million public-sector jobs, one of the last communist bastions in the world has begun rolling back the state on an unprecedented scale. Simon Reeve meets ordinary Cubans whose lives are being transformed, from the owners of fledgling businesses to the newly rich estate agents selling properties worth up to 750,000 pounds.
In this hour-long documentary for the BBC's award-winning This World strand, Simon gets under the skin of a colourful and vibrant country famous for its hospitality and humour and asks if this new economic openness could lead to political liberalisation in a totalitarian country with a poor human rights record. Will Cuba be able to maintain the positive aspects of its long isolation under socialism - low crime, top-notch education and one of the best health systems in the world - while embracing what certainly looks like capitalism? Is this the last chance to see Cuba before it becomes just like any other country?

在我们的星球,有少数,真正令人惊叹的地方,像珠穆朗玛峰、科罗拉多大峡谷和维多利亚瀑布。这些奇迹除了让人感觉窒息外，似乎没有什么共同点。但是它们有一个共同的地方:这些奇观为当地居民带来了非同寻常的挑战。
这个具有里程碑意义的系列纪录片结合了出色的摄影和 扣人心弦的的戏剧性情节,用两集的篇幅展示了十二个非凡的地方,揭示了在地球的自然奇迹中人们为生存而战斗和取得胜利的故事。
第一集 极端的奇迹
第二集 广阔的奇迹
3. Living Wonders

Professor Stephen Hawking thinks the human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years if it is to survive. With climate change, pollution, deforestation, pandemics and population growth, our own planet is becoming increasingly precarious.
Planet Earth has been home to humankind for over 200,000 years, but with a population of 7.5 billion and counting and limited resources, this planet might not support us forever.
In this landmark film Professor Hawking, alongside engineer and radio astronomy expert Professor Danielle George and a former student, Christophe Galfard, join forces to find out if, and how, humans can reach for the stars and relocate to different planets.
Travelling the globe, they meet top scientists, technologists and engineers who are working to answer our biggest questions: is there another planet out there that we could call home? How will we travel across the vast distances of space to get there? How will we survive the journey? And how will we set up a new human civilization on an alien world?
Taking in the latest advances in astronomy, biology and rocket technology from the Atacama Desert to the wilds of the Arctic, viewers will discover a whole world of cutting edge research. This programme shows that Professor Hawking's ambition isn't as fantastical as it sounds - and that science fiction is closer to science fact than we ever thought.

Dr Helen Czerski goes on a spectacular journey to the extremes of the temperature scale, where everyday laws of physics break down and a new world of scientific possibility begins.

中国在线直播产业的产值达30亿美元，行业内竞争激烈。本片记述粉丝上百万的网红女主播，线上聊天、唱歌、跳舞，一天收入几千美元。

霍雷萧·纳尔逊是英国海军史上最伟大的英雄。长久以来，他的形象都如同他在伦敦特雷法加广场的雕像一般，坚韧、英勇、冷酷。但事实上，他存留下的几百封亲笔书写的信件向我们揭露了真实的纳尔逊远比我们想象得更加复杂，也十分不同。

自从人类文明伊始酒精就被用作一种药物，但是关于酒精的科学似乎含糊不清而且充满了矛盾。我们对市售药品及其疗效相对比较熟悉，但是对其作用原理及对人体的影响却所知甚少。我们将调查有关酒精的证据，很多人认为每天适度饮酒对我们的身体健康不会产生太大影响，许多人认为每天少量饮酒其实对人体健康是有益的。而我们很多人喝酒不是这样，不是每天少量饮酒而是平时几乎滴酒不沾，到周末的时候才豪饮两三次；或者是邀上好友共进晚餐喝大量的葡萄酒；或者喝些鸡尾酒或烈酒。豪饮的危害到底有多大呢？我们马上来揭晓答案…

一連兩集，主持人Jimmy Doherty和Kate Quilton親自走訪世界各地，發掘五十個不同地方的餐單，比較各國餐單的不同之處，同時看看哪種餐單最健康、最吸引。原來在過去五十年裡，世界各地的飲食文化都有不少變化，亦大大影響人類的健康。選取了五十份不同的餐單之餘，又依據營養師的意見，將餐單以健康為指標排列成一至五十位。

IKEA is undoubtedly one of the world's most successful, enigmatic, and recognisable global brands. Last year nearly 800 million people in 49 countries visited its stores, which had a turnover of more than £30 billion.
In a major new three-part series, our cameras explore the world of IKEA, from the design studios to factories and stores, for the very first time.
Few companies can legitimately claim to shape the way we live today. Fewer still inspire a cult-like devotion in customers and employees alike. But IKEA is not like other companies.
The famously secretive Swedish furniture retailer is guided by the principle of creating 'the better everyday life for the many people'. But what is the secret to its success? How does the machine of IKEA affect the people who work for it, and how does its ruthlessly efficient business model affect the world?