Programme
00:41 - 01:30
Lost Worlds: Vanished Lives
Dinosaur
Series, Documentary
Part 3/4. David Attenborough uncovers dinosaur bones in the Sahara desert and visits the biggest, most spectacular dinosaur displays in the world.
01:30 - 02:30
Horizon
Ghosts in the Dinosaur Graveyard
Series, Science, Technology, Documentary
Exploring Mongolia's Gobi Desert to determine whether dinosaurs exist in the present as birds. It is one of the harshest places on Earth with the biggest dinosaur graveyard.
02:30 - 03:19
Lost Worlds: Vanished Lives
The Rare Glimpses
Series, Documentary
Part 4/4. David Attenborough uncovers bizarre creatures of the earliest seas, tiny horses the size of spaniels and an animal that's half bird and half reptile - the rarest of them all.
03:19 - 04:04
Lost Worlds: Vanished Lives
Putting Flesh on Bone
Series, Documentary
Part 2/4. Could pterodactyls fly? And why did trilobites have such good eyes? David Attenborough investigates the secret lives of animals from the past, as told in the fossil record.
04:04 - 05:03
Horizon
The Dinosaur That Fooled the World
Series, Science, Technology, Documentary
In 2000, scientists made a groundbreaking discovery, explaining how birds evolved from dinosaurs. However, a deeper investigation put a question mark over everything.
05:03 - 06:02
Horizon
Extreme Dinosaurs
Series, Science, Technology, Documentary
Exploring the newfound remains of a dinosaur species considered the biggest carnivore in history, all while questioning whether they engaged in a fight against the Argentinosaurus.
06:02 - 07:01
Ancient Powers
Law and Order
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
In an unruly world, the ancient powers must lead their people, create ways to govern and keep rebellion at bay. To achieve this, they may invent caste systems, organise gladiatorial games or turn to gods.
07:01 - 08:00
Ancient Powers
End Game
Series, Documentary, Ancient history
Though the ancient powers have endured for centuries, their destruction is close at hand. However, some will leave lasting legacies that will continue to shape the world long after their downfall.
08:00 - 08:35
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Water Dwellers
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Their ability to survive will determine the shape of life on Earth and whether humans will exist at all. As our amphibian ancestors...
08:35 - 09:11
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Reptile's Beginnings
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanketed the land. As the environment recovered, populations of one species of tough reptile...
09:11 - 09:45
Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs
Clash of Titans
Series, Documentary, Nature, History, Science, Animals, Miniseries
Part 3/3. The struggle for survival moves onto land in the shape of early reptiles such as Petrolacosaurus. In the Carboniferous swamps, insects and arthropods have taken over and grown into giants, from the giant spider Mesothelae to millipede-like monsters. As the swamps dry...
09:45 - 10:20
Walking with Dinosaurs
New Blood
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History, Documentary, Science
The life of the first reptilian carnivores on Earth, told through computer animation.
10:20 - 10:57
Walking with Dinosaurs
Time of the Titans
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
This programme travels 152 million years into the past to a planet dominated by mighty, long-necked sauropods - the largest animals ever to walk the earth. There were no birds, flowers or grass, and the land was carpeted by fern prairies and coniferous forests.
10:57 - 11:33
Walking with Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs, Cruel Sea
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
A look at the world as it was 149 million years ago - in the late Jurassic Period. The old continents have broken up and much of the land is under water. Huge shallow seas have supported a revolution in marine life.
11:33 - 12:07
Walking with Dinosaurs
Giant of the Skies
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
A mind-expanding trip back through time to look at how the skies of 127 million years ago were dominated by huge flying reptiles, some as large as aeroplanes. The programme also follows the extraordinary journey of the pterosaur, which flew for thousands of miles in order to...
12:07 - 12:44
Walking with Dinosaurs
Spirits of the Ice Forest
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
This programme looks at the Cretaceous period, 106 million years ago. Volcanic activity forces the continents apart, and dinosaurs diversify into a range of species to cope with environmental extremes. The landmass that will become Australia and Antarctica is in sunlight for...
12:44 - 13:21
Walking with Dinosaurs
Death of a Dynasty
Series, Docudrama, Animals, History
Looking at the closing chapters of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, when the world is poisoned by massive volcanic activity. Among the fields of burning ash, the dinosaurs struggle for survival, oblivious to the Earth's impending collision with a giant comet.
13:21 - 13:54
Deadly Dinosaurs
Secret Skills
Series, Children, Animals, History, Documentary
Steve goes on an undercover mission to unearth the sneakiest dinosaurs that were far deadlier than they first appeared.
13:54 - 14:27
Deadly Dinosaurs
Deadlier than the Dinosaurs
Series, Children, Animals, History, Documentary
Steve Backshall is on the hunt for the most deadly animals to have ever walked the earth: dinosaurs. Steve goes on a mission to uncover what was deadlier than the dinosaurs, from massive monsoons and super-sized sandstorms to ballistic bacteria and gory gas. In an epic finale,...
14:27 - 15:02
Deadly Dinosaurs
Backshall's Ultimate Dinosaur
Series, Children, Animals, History, Documentary
Steve Backshall looks back at the most awesome experiments over the series and chooses his highlights.
15:02 - 15:37
Walking with Beasts
New Dawn
Series, Documentary, Science
Special effects-filled documentary beginning 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet, preying on small mammals. Whales have not yet evolved, and their ancestors walk on the land.
15:37 - 16:11
Walking with Beasts
Whale Killer
Series, Documentary, Science
A pregnant basilosaurus, an 18-metre, carnivorous whale which lives in the Tethys Sea, is forced to kill the young of a smaller whale to ensure the survival of her unborn calf.
16:11 - 16:49
Walking with Beasts
Land of Giants
Series, Documentary, Science
Going back 25 million years to the time of the indricothere, which was the largest mammal ever to live on dry land, being seven metres high and weighing 15 tons! The only threat to an adult would have been the hyaenodon which was the size of a rhino and had jaws that could crush...
16:49 - 17:25
Walking with Beasts
Next of Kin
Series, Documentary, Science
The beginnings of mankind can be traced back 3.2 million years to Ethiopia and the advent of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, like humans, was bipedal. These early members of the human family faced many dangers, including the sabre-toothed cat, malaria, and the 14-tonne...
17:25 - 18:00
Walking with Beasts
Sabre Tooth
Series, Documentary, Science, Docudrama, Animals, Nature
Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre tooth cats.
18:00 - 18:37
Walking with Beasts
Mammoth Journey
Series, Documentary, Science, Docudrama, Animals, Nature
Looking at the depths of the Ice Age, following a group of mammoths who have been forced to travel south with the advent of winter. On a dangerous journey across the Alps, many become trapped in bogs or fall victim to predators. However, their most formidable enemies are waiting...
18:37 - 19:46
The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs
Killer Dinosaurs
Series, Science
Bird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, biomechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops.
19:46 - 20:55
The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs
Series, Science
Here, Bill Oddie asks whether the Velociraptor was really the monstrous predator of popular legend.
20:55 - 21:57
Archaeology: A Secret History
In the Beginning
Series, Documentary, History
Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He begins by going back 2,000 years to explore how archaeology began by trying to prove a biblical truth - a quest that soon...
21:57 - 22:58
Archaeology: A Secret History
The Search for Civilisation
Series, Documentary, History
Archaeologist Richard Miles shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilisation began, as empires competed to 'own' the past.
22:58 - 00:00
Archaeology: A Secret History
The Power of the Past
Series, Documentary, History
Richard Miles shows how 20th-century attention turned from civilisation and kings to the search for the common man against a background of science and competing political ideologies.
