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The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis

This is the incredible story of Alex Lewis, a husband and father of one who back in late 2013 came down with a dose of the common cold, this minor ailment swiftly took a turn for the worse developing into septicaemia and toxic shock syndrome, a condition which has less than a 3% survival rate but doctors were determined to save him.This film follows Alex as he arrives back at his family home a

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The Greatest Tomb On Earth: Secrets Of Ancient China

Unearthed from the single largest burial site on Earth comes a whole new tale which has the potential with rewrite history as we know it, revealing for the very first time the true origins of one of the most powerful nations: China.In this special we see historian Dan Snow, physical anthropologist Dr Alice Roberts and scientist and explorer Dr Albert Lin set their sights on a series of grou

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The Year of Pluto

There's a mysterious zone far out in our solar system, it is a region of ice worlds some solitary and some with moons, their names however may be unfamiliar but they hold clues to all our origins and the first of these worlds which was visited by NASA back in 2015 was the king of the Kuiper Belt, Pluto.The long journey of Nasa's New Horizons mission began in 2006, it was the first of it's kind

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Lost Civilisation: Göbekli Tepe

An ancient temple is discovered in the Middle East, it's thousands of years older than the Egyptian pyramids and it even dates long before the earliest civilisations like the Mesopotamians, the Minoan and the Mayan. It was built when mankind was still in the Stone Age but who built this temple and why?To solve the mystery, one mantravels back 12,000 years to the end of the last ic

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Ted Bundy

By now most of you should be aware of who Ted Bundy was but in case you have been living under a rock for the last 40 odd years he was one of Americas most prolific serial killers who assaulted and murdered many young women and girls during the 1970s, possibly even earlier. Just before he was scheduled to be executed Bundy admitted to 30 murders which were committed in seven states between the yea

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Manchester The Night of The Bomb

On 22 May 2017, the deadliest terror attack in Britain since 7/7 took place. It was carried out by a man who himself was born and raised in very city he attacked. Salman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb at an Ariana Grande concert, targeting the innocents attending with complete disregard for the number of children present.This film is a powerful retelling of the everts as they unfolded, through

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War Waste: A Ticking Bomb

The Canadian province of Nova Scotia lies along one of the main Atlantic shipping routes between North America and Europe. It was a key strategic location for the allies during both World Wars. Ships here were loaded with vast amounts of munitions, upon returning from the war many of these ships ditched any extra munitions they had right into the water.Even today these World War II era munitions

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The Rise and Fall of Nokia

Nokia is a Finnish multinational company, originally founded in 1865 as a pulp mill the company became famous for its rubber products. In the 1970's Nokia expanded its operations into mobile phones and quickly became the global market leader but in 2013 Nokia had pulled out of the mobile phone business.At one point Nokia's annual budget was larger than that of the government of Finland, so how w

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Cops and Robbers

Corey Pegues is Retired NYPD Commander turned author, he grew up in Jamaica, Queens during the 70's and 80's, a rough time for New York with regards to drug related crime. As a kid he played Cops and Robbers just like any other but for Corey the came would turn reality as he became both.Growing up in New York he came of age surrounded by his mother and sisters love and made true friendships on

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