9 July 2023
This epic TV series kicks off with Inferno, the story of our planet’s biggest mass extinction. Host Chris Packham probes how Earth lost up to 90 per cent of its species in an event which began 252 million years ago
17 May 2023
From Dune to Babylon 5, the Eragon author reveals five inspirations behind his new adult science fiction novel, Fractal Noise
14 May 2023
The second series of this show about Earth 66 million years ago is a joy to watch - but it inspires more than it informs. A little more science would have been nice
31 October 2022
In 1992, a TV show petrified millions of UK viewers with a “live” investigation of a paranormal event. What happened next? Its writer, Stephen Volk, explains
20 October 2022
In 2032, tech savvy Flynne Fisher helps her brother with a virtual reality game and ends up in a disturbing London 60 years later. William Gibson’s 2014 sci-fi thriller The Peripheral is so stuffed with ideas it will need seasons to unpack
13 October 2022
As Elon Musk becomes wealthier and more powerful, we need to know more about the man whose projects are transforming the world. But as a new documentary shows, it is hard grappling with the reality of someone with such disparate labels as hero, villain,...
23 May 2022
This documentary tracks the quest for the oldest human footprints in North America, and what they can tell us about when people first arrived on the continent
20 May 2022
David Attenborough and Hollywood talent combine in Prehistoric Planet documentary to conjure up dinosaurs as never before
15 April 2022
David Attenborough joins palaeontologist Robert DePalma at the Tanis site in North Dakota as he unearths the story of the dinosaurs’ death in this thrilling documentary
2 June 2021
Netflix documentary Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet is a deep-dive into the nine natural processes upon which all life on Earth depends, featuring David Attenborough and Johan Rockström
