Of Two Minds is an intimate look into what it is like to live with bipolar disorder, through three unique cases we learn of the struggles and successes faced on a daily basis and how these people have managed to cope with such extreme emotions.Using a combination of intimate verité and revealing interviews, we gradually gain insight into what it must feel like to be bipolar, going from the hig
Mary Poppins is one of the most celebrated fictional characters of all time, absolutely adored by generations around the world. She is a magical character who happens to also be very believable but the creator of Mary Poppins, the Australian author Pamela Travers has until now been virtually unknown and this was by choice as Pamela refused to allow herself to become famous and let people know abou
The British Museum in London is filled with many remarkable antiquities from ancient Egypt, among their treasures are 3,000 year old mummies and colossal statues which honour great pharaohs but there is one item that is more valuable than all the rest. At the entrance to their Egyptian collection is a large stone tablet, one that could be overlooked if not for its prominent position. It'
Today in Ukraine an international team of engineers is racing to assemble one of the most complex super structures ever built, at an extraordinary 36,000 tones it will be the largest structure moved on land. A mega dome tasked to entomb the crumbling remains of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.In 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded releasing 400 times more radiation than the
The Seven Five was released in 2014 and it documents the police corruption which was rampant in New York City back in the 80's, focusing primarily on 75th precinct of the New York Police Department. The main protagonist is Michael Dowd, a former police officer who served for 10 years before getting arrested in 1992, his arrest ultimately led to one of the largest police corruption scanda
In May 1297 the course of Scottish history was changed forever when The Sheriff of Lanark, Sir. William Heselrig was hacked to death by a young Scottish patriot, his name was William Wallace or as we have come to know him, Braveheart.Wallace was a legend, a national hero but in this episode of Fact or Fiction TV personality Tony Robinson has gone to Scotland in order to discover the truth behi
Dennis Nilsen is one of Britain's biggest serial killers of the 21st century, he has openly admitted to murdering fifteen young men at his homes in London. Was was it that drove an apparent respectable civil servant to go on a four year killing spree? Why did he confess all to police and who were those who escaped his murderous attacks?In this episode of Real Crime these questions are asked as w
Britain is becoming a nation of much older parents, the number of British women giving birth in their 40's and 50's has more than doubled in the last 10 years. The number of children born to fathers in their 50's and 60's has also doubled in the last decade.A fascinating film which questions whether having a baby later in life is a carefully thought out decision to have a much-wanted child or
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest place on Earth. It stretches from the foothills of the Andes, a hundred miles westward to the edge of the Pacific Ocean. There are few signs of life here, it hasn't rained in parts for thousands of years but the very dryness of the Atacama has made it the perfect keeper of a unique treasure.Buried in its sands are the intimate secrets of an an