There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo Sapiens came to dominate the planet.

A follow-up to the 1990 Radio 4 series in which the late Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine travelled...

Professor Robert Winston meets Lucy, the first upright ape, and follows her ancestors on the three-m...

Storm chasers, survivors and first responders recount their harrowing experiences with volcanoes, to...

Explore wild, wondrous Vancouver Island, where the ocean nurtures all life, from bald eagles who go ...

A five-part series that features the latest research exploring how early humans evolved. See how the...

David Attenborough celebrates the amazing variety of the natural world in this epic documentary seri...

Bill Pullman introduces and narrates this four-part documentary on the world's first national park, ...

Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic series from Jon Favreau and the p...

The remarkable and often perilous story of the journey through life. It is a story that unites each ...

This documentary series about plants is the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, inter-connected ...

Geologist Iain Stewart explain in three stages of natural history the crucial interaction of our ver...

Explore six of the last untouched locations on earth. The documentary series presents life as nature...

When one thinks of dominant animals that roam the earth, large predators - lions, grizzlies and tita...

Exploring some of the world's most isolated and iconic tropical islands.

Throughout the ages, civilisations have risen up and then disappeared. Ancient Apocalypse seeks to e...

This major landmark series looks in detail at the fascinating relationship between predators and the...

Pouring out of Lake Victoria, the Nile bursts into life, growing vast with sandy banks and mighty ra...

Witness the remarkable story of our universe over billions of years and its inextricable link to lif...