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For centuries cities have been built near a fresh water supply. Without it we'd be lucky to live three days. But this most basic human need can be deadly too - get the supply wrong and it can poison us, get too close and it can drown us. And with every passing year the challenge of providing water to billions of people becomes harder and harder.
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In the late 1980s, the Malaysian government built a skyscraper so ambitious and unprecedented in size that it sought to overtake Chicago's Sears Tower as the tallest building in the world. The elaborately curved Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur achieved both goals. However, for Cesar Pelli, it would be an enormous design challenge on a rocky and unchartered road. Getting the towers built in Malaysia would prove almost impossible for this Western architect...
4) Scams
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It has been estimated that almost 70% of all email traffic is spam. And, in the online world, it is Nigeria that is often seen as the biggest culprit. Ben Hammersley travels to Lagos to meet online scammers and the police tasked with tracking them down. He also tells the incredible story of how, in the mid-90s, Nigerian scammers stole nearly a quarter of a billion dollars from Brazilian bank Noroeste. But in a diverse country of 168 million and the...
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In this series, historian Amanda Vickery explores why, in the early 20th century, thousands of British women joined a violent militant organization. The suffragette campaign was the conclusion of a fight that women, rich and poor, had been pursuing for hundreds of years against a system that gave men complete legal, political, and physical control over the other half of the population. In Part 1, Vickery examines how revolutionary politics of the...
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The 20th century witnessed an astonishing revolution in physics, from unlocking the secrets of the atom to solving the mysteries of the cosmos. It was also the century when radio and television became widespread, so for the first time we were able to see who the greatest minds really were. Using rare archive dating back to the 1920s, this program provides a unique insight into the lives and personalities of some of the most brilliant physicists. Although...
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Businesses have invaded the web and found ingenious ways to make money from a free space - at a cost to our culture and privacy. What lessons did retailers such as Amazon learn from the gold rush years of the dotcom bubble? How did Google forge the business model that has come to dominate today's web?
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Animism is the belief that inanimate objects are sentient beings and that we can communicate with them. This documentary follows people who are finding true, emotional and sexual love with objects. This emerging sexual orientation, Objectum-Sexuality (OS), is explored through five characters who openly declare their love for objects, from carnival rides to cars and trains, not as fetishes, but as loving life partners. Candid and courageous narratives...
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Lucy Worsley concludes her history of the Romanov dynasty, investigating how the family's grip on Russia unraveled in their final century. She will show how the years 1825-1918 were bloody and traumatic, a period when four tsars tried-and failed-to deal with the growing pressure for constitutional reform and revolution. Lucy will find out how the Romanovs tried to change the system themselves: in 1861, millions of enslaved serfs were freed by the...
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Sigmund Freud was dubbed the "Father of psychoanalysis." And certainly no other individual exploration of the human condition has had such a lasting and profound effect on the understanding of the psyche. His work changed the climate and the context in which we understand our lives, as well as the landscape of the inner workings of the human mind. The program begins in Vienna. Sigmund Freud arrived here in 1860 aged 4 and for the next 80 years this...
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Professor Mark Miodownik's investigation into the complexities of modern invention concludes with an insight into how new materials enabled people to become curious about the world around them. He reveals the impact the advent of the bicycle had on the national gene pool, and highlights how the concept of levitation provided the spiritually inclined to set out in search of their inner self.
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Considered one of the most influential poems in the English language, Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" is a fusion of Arthurian romance and Italian Renaissance epic styles. Written in the 16th century, the poem is heavily laced with allegory and metaphor. Spenser wrote the bulk of the poem while serving as a private secretary in Ireland, and dedicated it to Queen Elizabeth I. Divided into six books, the fantastical "Faerie Queene" explores a world...
14) Food Fight
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Food - human life can't exist without it. It's a city's most important source of energy. In New York alone, 8 million people consume 10,000 tons of food every day. With demand for food in the city so high, the restaurants and supermarkets must be restocked on a daily basis. Without new supplies, cities will run out of fresh food in a matter of days.
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This episode tells the incredible story of how business has turned grain into one of the biggest success stories of the modern food industry. With unprecedented access to the world's largest food companies, including Kellogg's, it shows how the original processed, convenience food ushered in a modern age of plenty in terms of choice and abundance. Cereals are cheap and abundant but their real value lies in the processing, advertising and marketing...
16) Pots of Gold
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Through yoghurt we can really explore our relationship with food and health. With access to the world's largest food companies, this program travels to Japan, Finland, France to explain how yoghurt's most important role has been to lead the food industry into the lucrative new market of functional food. It also shows how our changing lifestyles and obsession with health shaped the changing food industry and how health has become a new currency for...
17) Liquid Gold
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This program tells the extraordinary story of how the bottled water industry has grown from nothing to become one of the biggest success stories in the modern food and beverage industry in just 40 years. With unprecedented access to the world's largest food and beverage companies, including Nestle and Danone, this is the inside story of how the bottled water business has become emblematic of an age of plenty in the West. With billions at stake, the...
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Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to tell the extraordinary story of the dynasty that ruled the country for more than three centuries. It's an epic tale that includes giant figures such as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great, the devastating struggle against Napoleon in 1812, and the political murders of Nicholas II and his family in 1918 which brought the dynasty to a brutal end. In this first episode, Lucy will investigate the beginning of the...
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The 19th century philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most brilliant and dangerous minds of the 19th century. His uncompromising and often brutal ideas smashed the comfortable presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science. His was a world not just bereft of God, but almost of humanity - breath-taking in both its post-religious starkness and its originality. In this episode, host Bettany Hughes goes in search of the beliefs...
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Moscow has become Europe's skyscraper capital, with the Naberezhnaya Tower holding the title of the continent's tallest building. It represents a new era for the city, one in which Moscow can finally compete with the other major financial centers of the world. Further skyscrapers, such as Norman Foster's 500 meter tall Russia Tower, are currently being built-pushing the parameters of both height and skyscraper design in Europe. These extraordinary...