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Despite living longer and healthier lives than ever before, we have never been more obsessed with our health. And in an effort to detect the signs of silent killers lurking inside, more and more of us are turning to health tests. In this surprising BBC Horizon film, human guinea pig Michael Mosley puts himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From a simple assessment to a state of the art heart CT scan,...
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Teams can lose motivation for all kinds of reasons, and it's contagious. When this happens, Peter Quarry and Eve Ash recommend techniques for recognizing and unblocking low motivation, identifying a sense of purpose (the Five Whys), improving leadership and people's feelings of being appreciated. By sparking motivation, increasing purposefulness, and improving leadership skills, teams can create a silver lining effect and get issues and recommendations...
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Having made his breakthrough in developing a hieroglyphic alphabet, Champollion travels to Egypt, but is faced with two formidable challenges: One from the Church, which becomes nervous that Champollion might uncover details that contradict Biblical chronology, and one from his own, failing, health. It's a race against time as Champollion struggles to discover the secrets of the hieroglyphs, before death takes him.
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In this final episode we go back 30,000 years to the middle of an ice age. The landscape is dominated by the mighty mammoths, living side by side with woolly rhinos, giant deer and two separate species of human. This program follows the fate of a herd of mammoths in their annual struggle against the harsh ice age conditions. They spend summer on grassy plains in the north, but every winter they are forced to head for the less exposed valleys to the...
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Madeline is a newborn moose calf - she has a 50/50 chance of surviving her first year. She lives in the beautiful but harsh terrain of the Canadian wilderness, a world full of hidden dangers; wolves, bears, harsh snow filled winters and hot, fly invested summers. It can be an unfriendly place to be a young moose like Madeline, who's clumsy, awkward and vulnerable, with legs that are too long, a tail that's too short and ears that are too big. Many...
9) Work
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This video explores what types of jobs will be available for humans in the year 2030 including a short interview with Lucy Mc Kenna,
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Victoria and Albert were passionately in love - a rarity for royal marriages of the time - and their large brood presented the perfect model regal family that we see in countless photographs and paintings. But when Albert died she was left in charge of her nine children. Victoria's solution as a single mother was to treat her children not as a mum but as a queen. She controlled every aspect of her children's lives: how they dressed, what they ate,...
11) Rice
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You can fry it up, eat it for breakfast, or quaff it down on a hot summer day. It's the world's most versatile grain: RICE.
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Michael Wood tells the tale of China's first great international age under the Tang Dynasty (618-907). From the picturesque old city of Luoyang, he travels along the Silk Road to the bazaars of central Asia and into India on the track of the Chinese monk who brought Buddhism back to China. This tale is still loved by the Chinese today and is brought to life by storytellers, films and shadow puppet plays.
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This is the David Bowie story you don't know. The story of how David Robert Jones became David Bowie, how David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust and how Ziggy became immortal, changing the musical landscape as he did so. The story that finally makes sense of one of the greatest icons of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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The extraordinary story of a man who tried single-handedly to change the course of the 19th Century. John Ruskin was a man with a vision of how art, nature, religion and politics could come together, and his writings inspired Gandhi and Tolstoy. But his private life was lived in torment: his passion for a girl he met when she was ten years old scandalised Victorian society, and he was increasingly plagued by bouts of madness. Filmed in London, Oxford,...
19) Spitfire Women
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Between 1939 and 1945, and against all odds, over 100 women flew urgently needed planes for the Air Transport Auxiliary. Without them, the Battle of Britain would never have been won. One in ten of them died, and only 15 remain alive. Using archive footage and testimony from the surviving members and their relatives, Spitfire Women captures the drama, danger and significance of the story of these unsung heroines, who came from across the world to...
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Marine invertebrates are some of the most bizarre and beautiful animals on the planet, thriving in the toughest parts of the oceans. Divers swim into a shoal of predatory Humboldt squid as they emerge from the ocean depths to hunt in packs. When cuttlefish gather to mate, their bodies flash in stroboscopic colours. Time-lapse photography reveals thousands of starfish gathering under the Arctic ice to devour a seal carcass, and a giant octopus commits...
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