According to recent science the Neanderthals are not the knuckle-dragging apemen of popular imagination. In fact they are our distant ancestors. About 2% of the DNA of most people is of Neanderthal origin—and it continues to affect us today. Ella Al-Shamahi enlists the skills of Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, and a group of experts to investigate Neanderthals.

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Our cities, transformed a mere century ago to accommodate cars, now want to rid their streets of the...

Survivors of Soviet totalitarianism warn that “soft totalitarianism” is emerging in the U.S. Identit...

A cinematic experience bringing you the most amazing human stories in the world. Humans and wildlife...

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Combining fact and informed speculation with cutting-edge computer graphics and animatronics effects...

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

The stories behind the most daring and audacious robberies in the world. Explore the planning, the p...

Hawking gives us the ultimate guide to the universe, a ripping yarn based on real science, spanning ...

Professor Alice Roberts travels across Greece and thousands of years back to our collective past, tr...

Journalist and writer Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civi...

Women write art history – but in turn are systematically ignored by it. LOST WOMEN ART tells the sto...

A documentary which explores the remarkable parallels between the careers of Adolf Hitler and Winsto...

The story of how women have fought their way into the world of sport, an arena jealously guarded by ...

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In this adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subp...

Jonathan Roberge dives into the world of Montréal crime during the 1957-1977 period, when the city s...