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The team witness a baby boom in the delta. Lioness Matho must protect her cubs alone, whilst leopard mum Xudum reveals her new-borns with danger looming nearby.

The dig continues and the all-Italian team of archaeologists discover the remains of a horse harness. As they cannot find any remains of the horse they wonder if it managed to escape Pompeii as the eruption began.

Ben Fogle meets Rhona Mitra who has swapped her home in Hollywood for a remote farmhouse in Uruguay.

Gregg Wallace visits a Manchester factory that churns out 6 million Jaffa Cakes every single day.

Sue is out to hunt caribou. Ricko travels to a natural hot spring. Jessie moves to Brushkana. The Hailstones build a wall tent and go fishing.

Simon Reeve crosses the parched desert of southern Africa, tracking wildebeest with the famous hunter gatherers of the Kalahari before heading to the oasis of the Okavango Delta.

The team witness a baby boom in the delta. Lioness Matho must protect her cubs alone, whilst leopard mum Xudum reveals her new-borns with danger looming nearby.

The dig continues and the all-Italian team of archaeologists discover the remains of a horse harness. As they cannot find any remains of the horse they wonder if it managed to escape Pompeii as the eruption began.

Ben Fogle meets Rhona Mitra who has swapped her home in Hollywood for a remote farmhouse in Uruguay.

Gregg Wallace visits a Manchester factory that churns out 6 million Jaffa Cakes every single day.

It's time to celebrate, as Steve Backshall's team of ten shark saviours have all passed their dive training and are now fully qualified scuba divers.

Sue pursues a bear. Jessie hunts small game. The Hailstones build a sled for baby Wade. Glenn hunts a moose.

Ben goes to New Zealand and spends time with a hunter-gatherer couple who have raised two teenagers in complete isolation.

Starting in the busy container port and tea centre of Dubai, a tea hub where millions of tonnes of tea are traded from east to west, we move in Fujian Province to witness the process of White Tea.

Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons covered in volcanoes. He encounters alien landscapes bursting with fire and ice - eruptions so violent they reach into space.

Ben journeys to the freezing coastal waters of Iceland to live with Hakon, a former carpenter who overcame alcohol and embraced a clean, solo life in the wilderness on an private island.

Alaskans gather food and make upgrades to their homes as the Arctic Summer wanes.

Simon Reeve crosses the parched desert of southern Africa, tracking wildebeest with the famous hunter gatherers of the Kalahari before heading to the oasis of the Okavango Delta.

Ben hunts rattlesnakes and meets eccentric desert folk with a former fashion photographer who ditched his New York mansion for the Texan wilderness.

Sue wolverine-proofs her camp. Ricko hunts Moose. Jessie rescues his boat. The Hailstones prepare for winter.

This episode looks at droughts. It is not only a lack of rain and high temperatures that causes drought, overuse of existing water supplies by an ever-increasing population only adds to the problem.

The team witness a baby boom in the delta. Lioness Matho must protect her cubs alone, whilst leopard mum Xudum reveals her new-borns with danger looming nearby.

Borneo is the richest rainforest island of all, home to 40,000 species of plants and animals.

This final episode is about a challenge: it is about visionary tea-makers throwing a gauntlet down, challenging humanity to change their tastes and habits - to step out into an exciting future.

Celebrating the wonders of Queensland, we travel over 1,000 miles from Brisbane to Cairns onboard one of the most advanced trains in the world.

Tony Robinson looks under the bonnet of some innovative machines leading the green revolution, from a Welsh hydrogen-powered car to a solar plane used to train the next generation of pilots.

Lion numbers continue to grow, but there's not enough food to go around. A lioness mum risks her life to feed her five cubs. And Xudum's new-born leopard cubs face a deadly threat.

Maverick scientist Nikita was a former maths student living in the city, when his father asked for help with an extraordinary experiment in one of the most remote places on the planet.

Michael explores how politics, domestic and international, have shaped the railways. He recalls the political decisions which green lit the great North American transcontinental railways.

Gregg Wallace's popular factory tour show will follow the production of pork pies at the Vale of Mowbray factory, Northallerton.

Two mates try the coffee and chocolate diets, a father and son give the Mexican and Korean K-pop diets a go, and two girlfriends try the macro and smart app diets. Plus: biohacking and gym bikes.

While many of the new lives Ben dives into feel like a gritty struggle against the elements, Lucy and Tim's relocation to New Zealand looks more like something from an aspirational blog or YouTube channel.

The Alaskans must hurry to secure resources and complete projects before the Arctic is reclaimed by the bitter cold as the brief Fall season comes to an end.

Two thousand years in the making. The Great Wall of China was built with the blood and toil of millions of workers, but this one type of engineering has shaped the world for at least 12000 years.

Michael explores how politics, domestic and international, have shaped the railways. He recalls the political decisions which green lit the great North American transcontinental railways.

Gregg Wallace's popular factory tour show will follow the production of pork pies at the Vale of Mowbray factory, Northallerton.

Chariots were the express vehicles of their day - but how did they work? And what about the roads, tunnels, and bridges that they relied upon?

Sue searches for food. Ricko teaches his children to hunt. Jessie packs down a trail for his dogs. The Hailstones go ice fishing.

Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to the swamplands of Georgia to live with Colbert, a former city fat cat-turned-jungle Tarzan.

Michael explores how politics, domestic and international, have shaped the railways. He recalls the political decisions which green lit the great North American transcontinental railways.

Two mates try the coffee and chocolate diets, a father and son give the Mexican and Korean K-pop diets a go, and two girlfriends try the macro and smart app diets. Plus: biohacking and gym bikes.

While many of the new lives Ben dives into feel like a gritty struggle against the elements, Lucy and Tim's relocation to New Zealand looks more like something from an aspirational blog or YouTube channel.

The Alaskans must hurry to secure resources and complete projects before the Arctic is reclaimed by the bitter cold as the brief Fall season comes to an end.

In this episode, we'll focus on two deadly disease events caused by mosquitoes, The 2015-2016 Zika Virus outbreak, and a 2018 outbreak of malaria throughout parts of Thailand and Myanmar.

Ben joins coconut farmer Neil and his young family in their hillside bamboo house, where Neil is apparently the only white man in his jungle village.

Sue secures her camp before a long trip. Ricko helps repair his uncle's cabin. Jessie competes in a sled dog race. The Hailstones prepare for an intense storm.

In 2011, the earthquake that struck New Zealand's South Island became the nation's fifth-deadliest disaster.

Ben Fogle meets Rhona Mitra who has swapped her home in Hollywood for a remote farmhouse in Uruguay.

At the very end of East Africa's Great Rift Valley, there's a 'land that time forgot'.

Michael Portillo looks at how railways gave birth to modern tourism, as the first railway companies were quick to spot a business opportunity.

Two thousand years in the making. The Great Wall of China was built with the blood and toil of millions of workers, but this one type of engineering has shaped the world for at least 12000 years.

Adventurer Ben Fogle meets Vanessa Forero deep in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an isolated mountain range in the north of Columbia.

Sue is out to hunt caribou. Ricko travels to a natural hot spring. Jessie moves to Brushkana. The Hailstones build a wall tent and go fishing.

As one of the world's most in-demand sporting coaches, 43-year-old Nikola Boric once travelled the world, welcomed everywhere he went. Now, he lives in a wooden cabin without electricity, water or heating.

As Alaskans enter a new dawn in the Arctic winter, they must adapt to the changing landscape if they are to survive.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Michael Portillo looks at how railways gave birth to modern tourism, as the first railway companies were quick to spot a business opportunity.