The story of Jack The Ripper is one of the most gruesome and infamous unsolved crimes in history. A horrific killing spree that exposed the darkest recesses of Victorian London left the city gripped in terror. More than 120 years later, modern science may just hold the key to cracking the case. On the other side of the world, Australian scientists have made a major breakthrough-they've extracted DNA from a 122 year-old skull believed to be that of...

Last in the series exploring evolution and the origins of human life. For 200,000 years the Neanderthals lived unchallenged in Europe. But 30,000 years ago climate change and the arrival of modern humans from the east forced them to adapt or die. A skeleton of a boy found in Portugal may tell the tale of when Neanderthals and modern humans met - the Lagar Velho Boy appears to be the offspring of a Neanderthal and our own species. The sudden disappearance...

The story of an Edwardian family trapped in welfare dependency and a mother accused of a shocking crime against her own child. Did the handouts given to Susan Nelson's family by a prosperous charity visitor provide her descendants with the chance to move up in life or was it all down to their own hard graft? More than a hundred years on, some of Susan's descendants are still locked in patterns of benefit dependency, while others have freed their families...

This series, featuring archive interviews and dramatic re-enactment, reveals the price iconic women of the 20th century paid for their achievements. This documentary examines the career of English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Agatha Christie. Revered as "The Queen of Murder Mystery," Christie is responsible for The Mousetrap, the longest continuously running play in history, has had her stories made into movies and television...

The 100 trillion ants in the world weigh as much as all the people on Earth and have colonized the planet like no other animal. Chris Packham explores the ingenious ways in which ants have collaborated to achieve their global success-natural air-conditioning systems keep ants cool in their nests, shelters made from their own bodies protect nomadic ants from the elements, and a sense of smell five times more powerful than other insects allows them...

America's older generation dream of an idyllic retirement. Physically healthy, financially sound, their reward for decades of hard work is a life of sunshine, golf and gardening. But the shocking truth is that most of these older people will spend their retirement years either with dementia or caring for someone who has it. Louis Theroux spends time with America's growing population of dementia sufferers and sees how families maintain relationships...

Professor David Wilson profiles the lives and crimes of John Duffy and David Mulcahy on this episode of First Kill, Last Kill. Experts believe The Railway Killers killed three women and raped over sixty.

With exclusive access deep beneath Rome's streets and stunning new visualisation techniques, classicist Dr. Michael Scott leads a team of experts to reveal the full story of the ancient world's most awe-inspiring city and the extraordinary people who created and lived in it. Rome's spectacular skyline is as breathtaking today as when it was built. But that iconic city-scape is only half the story. There is another Rome that few people have ever seen....

Alive with the music of Mahalia Jackson and Muddy Waters, this episode describes how rural people blended into Chicago's urban culture. In the 1950s, there were abundant jobs in the stockyards and steel mills and they adapted easily to life on the assembly line. But the dream of the promised land was turning sour. The South Side of Chicago - home for most of the black Americans - had turned into notorious ghetto and was now a ticking time bomb with...

Dr. Chris van Tulleken and Professor Tanya Byron discover how our genetic makeup can make temptation difficult to resist, how understanding the brain reveals what makes us comfort eat and what science can tell us about why we make disastrous food choices.