The New Builds Are Coming: Battle in the Countryside

1: Cornwall and Devon | The Great British Countryside

Hugh Dennis and Julia Bradbury explore the most stunning parts of Cornwall and Devon to learn how Britain's past lives ...

2023: Episode 6 | Landward

Dougie's visiting Mar Lodge Estate in the Cairngorms to see how this vast landscape is regenerating for the future. Meanwhile, Cammy sets out to m...

3: Man Made Britain | Britain from Above

Andrew Marr discovers how some of Britain's greenest landscapes were shaped by humans.

4: The Land | Britain from Above

Comparing exhaustive footage of East Anglia in the 1940s with the countryside of today.

5: Taming the Wild | British Isles: A Natural History

Armed with stone axes and grim determination, a few thousand people turned our islands from forest to farm. Alan Titchm...

5: Untamed Britain | Britain from Above

Andrew Marr microlights and paraglides to get a bird's eye view of our untamed landscape.

7: Modern Times | British Isles: A Natural History

Close encounters with rare red squirrels and bats hiding in the silos at Greenham Common - Alan Titchmarsh reveals a hundr...

Building boom | This World

An exploration of China's out of control building boom.

Cornwall with Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve travels through glorious Cornwall during a summer like no other, as the county emerges from lockdown and businesses are in a race to su...

Economy and employment in the new city | This World

How the economy is developing in the new city and supplying new job opportunities.

Episode 1 | All Roads Lead Home

Stephen Mangan, Sue Perkins and Alison Steadman travel the UK and Ireland. Sue Perkins takes charge in Cornwall and leads Stephen Mangan and ...

Episode 2 | Cornwall with Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve investigates the environmental challenges facing Cornwall and the rest of the country, and on the way encounters some of it...

Episode 2 | The New Builds Are Coming: Battle in the Countryside

Film-maker Richard Macer explores the decision by the government to free up the green belt to developers. Ma...

Episode 3 | The Lakes with Simon Reeve

Simon Reeve comes to the end of his travels through the Lake District and Cumbria, exploring the rugged coast of Cumbria and learning ...

Flood management | Landward

Following the wettest winter on record, Arlene is in Aberdeenshire to meet the scientists taking a lesson from nature when it comes to tackling f...

Impact of the new city | This World

How the new city has impacted different families from White Horse village.

Massif Central | The Geography Programme

Massif Central, a huge underdeveloped region, has suffered from depopulation in the last century but new transport links are revital...

Migrant workers | This World

150 million people from rural communities in China leave their families to work in cities.

Migration to cities | This World

Many young people in rural villages in China move to the cities to earn money and support their families.

Rapid Chinese development | This World

The vast scale of Chinese development plans, and the role of state-owned enterprise.