Episode 2 | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve
The second leg of Simon's journey takes him from the stunning fjords of Norway to Iceland - the original land of fire and ice.
2: Heat Pumps | What They Really Mean for You
Investigating the controversial plans to change how we heat our homes and produce electricity. Is it possible and what will it ...
1: Electric Cars | What They Really Mean for You
Investigating the controversial plans to change the cars we drive. Is it possible and what will it take?
Episode 3 | Future Earth
Carl Nasman explores the challenges we face in the transition to renewable energies and explores some of the solutions. He finds out how the United ...
Episode 2 | Building Britain's Biggest Nuclear Power Station
The project sees its biggest lift to date using the world's largest land-based crane. Meanwhile, we learn about ...
Episode 1 | Building Britain's Biggest Nuclear Power Station
Following the challenges involved in building Hinkley Point C, one of Europe's largest projects and the first ne...
4: Wind | Powering Britain
Keeley Donovan heads 75 miles off the Yorkshire coast to see the building of Hornsea One, which is currently the world's biggest offshore windfarm.
2: Gas | Powering Britain
Keeley Donovan meets the people working in the gas industry in and around the Cumbrian Coast.
3: Nuclear | Powering Britain
Keeley Donovan meets the people working at Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 power stations in Lancashire, Britain's biggest operational nuclear site.
1: Biomass | Powering Britain
Keeley Donovan takes a behind-the-scenes look at Drax near Selby, which is Britain's biggest power station.
Shetland's Mega Wind Farm | From Above
The UK's most powerful onshore wind farm, in the windiest part of the country. From above.
8: Energy | World 2000
Are we running out of energy resources?
4: Canada | Arctic with Bruce Parry
Bruce travels to the far north of Canada to live with the Caribou people and witness their annual spring hunt. He then heads south to the...
Sellafield | The Lakes with Simon Reeve
At a brand new training facility, Simon meets members of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, an elite unit of armed police that is the UK...
Water and cotton production | Stacey Dooley
Stacey Dooley demonstrates how much water is required to create everyday garments made from cotton.
Svalbard | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve explores Svalbard and its mineral resources and how this causes diplomatic tension for the primed real estate.
Episode 3 | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered The World
Professor Iain Stewart examines the situation in the 21st century, at which point the global consumption of oil...
Carbon dioxide levels | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World
Professor Iain Stewart outlines the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Fracking | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World
Professor Iain Stewart explains the process of fracking.
Extracting oil | Planet Oil: The Treasure That Conquered the World
Professor Iain Stewart investigates the new technologies with which oil is being discovered and extracted.
Episode 6 | Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure
Since moving to the farm, the Fletchers' social life has suffered. To get to know the neighbours better, Kelvin and Liz decide to ...
Episode 5 | Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure
The Fletchers face the realities of farming as Kelvin takes one of his lambs to the slaughter. An eye-opening visit to a local alp...
Episode 4 | Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure
The Fletchers enter three sheep into the Ashbourne Show. Training is a disaster, with Daniel the ram lamb preferring to play dead,...
Episode 3 | Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure
Pigs are next on the shopping list for Kelvin's growing farm, but while he's away pursuing his other passion of motor racing, it's...
Episode 1 | Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure
Strictly star Kelvin Fletcher has bought a 120-acre farm in the Peaks. With no experience, he sees his stress levels quickly rise ...
Episode 2 | Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure
Rookie farmers Kelvin Fletcher and his wife Liz buy their first livestock - a flock of rare breed sheep. They set out to shear the...
4: Ready Meals | What They Really Mean for You
A look behind the scenes of the food industry to discover how ready meals are produced, what new technology could mean for wha...
3: USA | Jimmy's Global Harvest
In the USA, farmers have put their faith in new technology to increase food output.
4: Kenya | Jimmy's Global Harvest
Jimmy visits Kenya and meets farmers who use ingenious new ways to combat pests.
2: Australia | Jimmy's Global Harvest
In Australia, Jimmy finds out whether farmers can overcome the global problem of soil salinity.
1: Brazil | Jimmy's Global Harvest
In Brazil, Jimmy learns how to produce food on poisoned land, and sees biofuel use in action.
Episode 3 | Tomorrow's Food
Dr Shini Somara tastes chocolate that's sweeter and healthier because it's been treated with mushrooms.
Episode 2 | Tomorrow's Food
Greengrocer Chris Bavin finds out if the British public will ever accept insects as an appetising snack.
Episode 1 | Tomorrow's Food
Chris Bavin visits the world's leading robotic farm, and Shini Somara is immersed in the restaurant of the future in Shanghai.
Episode 3 | Future of Food
George Alagiah travels the world in search of solutions to the global food crisis. Here, George investigates the 'land-grabs' trend, where rich co...
Episode 2 | Future of Food
George Alagiah travels the world to reveal a growing global food crisis. He discovers how a changing diet in the developing world is putting press...
Future of Food
George Alagiah travels the world to reveal a growing global food crisis. He investigates population growth, climate change, water shortages and what is wrong ...
S1E4: The Plants We Eat | Maddie, the Plants and You
Join Maddie as she finds out how many plants give us food we can eat and how we can help to look after them and our planet.
Episode 3: The Batttle Continues | Hugh's War on Waste
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tries to change Britain's wasteful ways. He takes on Amazon, for all their packaging, and ...
Episode 2 | Hugh's War on Waste
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall continues his mission to find out why the UK wastes so much food. He joins an illicit midnight raid to see what h...
Belfast City: Mud, Sweat and 400 Years
Presenter and engineer Dick Strawbridge returns to Belfast to tell the story of one of the world's most important seaports. Using stat...
03: Laying the Foundations | Building the Olympic Dream
With nine billion pounds to spend on creating an Olympic Park, London 2012's bosses face some big challenges.
02: Siberia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads
Kate Humble continues her travels with the Nenets reindeer herders deep in the Siberian tundra, but plummeting temperatures jeo...
3: Shifting Nature | China
China is trying to feed 20% of the world's population on 7% of the world's arable land. And a third of the world uses water from China's rivers. R...
Episode 4 | Future Earth
Carl Nasman finds out how the food and drinks we consume and produce impact the planet. He explores some of the solutions on hand to look after the ...
Episode 3 | Shop Well for the Planet?
A young family are challenged to cut their carbon footprint and save money. Can they be convinced that being green doesn't have to cost...
Episode 2 | Shop Well for the Planet?
The gang help a family at different stages of their eco journey. Reusable kitchen roll is put to the test, and we get some top tips on ...
Episode 1 | Shop Well for the Planet?
The gang help a family go green and save some cash. Eco toilet roll and natural deodorant are put through their paces, and how will the...
S2E1: A Week in a Toxic Waste Dump | The Insider: Reggie Yates
Documentary in which Reggie Yates heads to Ghana to live on one of the largest electronic waste dumps in the w...
S1E3: The Plants We Use | Maddie, the Plants and You
Join Maddie to discover the plants that we use in our everyday lives and how we can help to look after them and our planet.
4: Fire | How Earth Made Us
Professor Iain Stewart explores man's relationship with fire. Along the way he dives in a mysterious lake in Oregon, climbs a glacier of salt and...
6: Fragile Paradise | South Pacific
A look at what is being done to preserve the South Pacific and its wildlife in the face of fishing fleets and other insidious threats to ...
3: Loch Lomond and the Trossachs | Tales from the National Parks
In Tyndrum gold fever has gripped the village's residents, but will the Loch Lomond Park Authority give perm...
The Fight Goes on | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita
Hugh and Anita continue their fight against single-use plastics, looking at tea bags and prepacked sandwiches. Then, a...
Episode 3 | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita
In this final episode, Anita looks at single-use toys whilst Hugh reveals the plastics industry's plans to dramatically increa...
Episode 2 | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita
Hugh and Anita's attempts to solve our plastic problems continue. Anita tackles bathroom plastics whilst Hugh learns that micr...
3: Food, Fire and Water | Supersized Earth
Dallas Campbell examines what it takes to keep seven billion humans alive with food, energy and water.
The Secret Life of Your Clothes | This World
Documentary in which Ade Adepitan explores the afterlife of some of the clothes we donate to charity shops. He follows the trail...
Sustainability in the fashion industry | Stacey Dooley
Stacey Dooley interviews a representative from Levi Jeans who is trying to find ways to make cotton more sustainable.
Fashion's Dirty Secrets | Stacey Dooley
Stacey Dooley uncovers the shocking environmental impact caused by an insatiable appetite for cheap clothing.
In her final journey of the series, Kate Humble travels deep into the Gobi Desert to live with an extended family of cashmere ...
Exploring the way strawberries are grown in Britain to meet the summer demand, particularly at Wimbledon.
The One Show visits a village in Yorkshire where the townsfolk have protested fracking in their local area, but have come up with a solution.
Gregg Wallace and mathematician Hannah Fry invite five special guests to a unique dinner party where they are scored on the environmental ...
Jimmy Doherty explores the global logistics that bring fresh food from around the world to a shop near you, and uncovers the ...
Ellie Harrison heads to Bethesda, in north west Wales, to see how the village has transformed itself into a growing community of energy self-suffic...
The traditional cattle farmers of Tanzania are under threat from aid schemes that take up space to grow wheat.
Hypothetical drama-documentary programme looking at what may happen in 2016, when the cheap oil on which the world depends starts to run out.
Tom investigates the growth of solar farms on our landscape, and whether prime agricultural land could be under threat as the government prepares...
The world's longest river flows from Lake Tana in Ethiopia, through Sudan and into Egypt and is vital to all three. But who controls the water? Alastair Lei...
Professor Iain Stewart looks at how Scotland is on the verge of a revolution - the transformation of a carbon economy to a...
Documentary investigating life as a young person growing up at the Findhorn Foundation, a remote Scottish community focused on spirituality and sustainable ...
Michel Roux Jr takes Fred to his favourite British city, Bristol, for a Christmas treat: from the perfect French bistro to a festi...
Documentary exploring our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with North Sea oil, which is getting evermore complex as we hurtle towards climate ...
Runako Celina investigates whether products made using forced Uyghur labour in the Chi...
Food prices are rising at their fastest rate in more than 40 years. As the cost-of-living crisis continues to squeeze budgets, Panorama ...
Challenges the myth that we are running out of water and looks at water resource management.
Iain Stewart investigates a controversial energy rush for the natural gas found deep underground, sometimes right under the places pe...
Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin chronicle the history of rubbish and explore how what we throw away tells us about the w...
Guillermo Galdos investigates how illegal Amazonian gold could be in your smart phone, as he follows Brazilian police cracki...
Joe Lycett vs the Oil Giant is a 2021 documentary in which the comedian and presenter Joe Lycett protested against the oil company Shell plc. It ...
George McGavin and Zoe Laughlin investigate the revolutionary science finding vital renewable resources and undiscovered life in sewage.
Professor Iain Stewart looks back at the 1950s, a time when the oil and gas fields of the Middle East became a ...
From colossal farms in America to the destruction of the Amazon, Liz Bonnin investigates how our hunger for meat is killing our planet.
In parkland above the pits en route to Cuningar Loop, he finds Glasgow's geoenergy observatory, where the British Geolo...
We meet the people involved in Nigeria's vast illegal oil business.
How does oil pollution affect Ogoniland today?
Ken Saro Wiwa and Ledum Mittee come face to face with the power of the Nigerian state.
When Shell D'Arcy strikes black gold, there are celebrations on the Niger Delta creeks.
From the moment we first drilled for oil, we opened a Pandora's box that changed the world forever. It transfor...
Jem Stansfield, Liz Bonnin and Maggie Philbin investigate how close Britain might get to running out of electricity.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall wants to find out why the UK wastes so much food. He challenges supermarkets to drastically reduce the amount of food t...
Richard Bilton investigates why oil, coal and gas exploration is booming when almost every country in the world has c...
It's on to the final workplace and every kid's dream come true - a chocolate factory.
The kids move to Indonesia to a factory processing tinned tuna for the international market.
The five kids continue their working tour of the UK travelling to Hull, to an enormous gourmet sausage factory where ...
In part three of their Britain trip, our five kids head with Stacey Dooley to Aberystwyth in Wales to one of the U...
Five kids work alongside the people in the UK who make and do the things they rely on. They are on their final stop, at one of t...
Five kids work alongside the people in the UK who make and do the things they rely on. The kids travel to a massive sandwi...
Stacey Dooley takes the kids to the heart of the Brazilian beef industry, where they see for themselves how meat gets to our plates.
The kids move to the north east coast of Brazil to work in a prawn farm and processing factory.
Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey look at seafood. Surprisingly, the fish caught off British shores are largely dispatc...
Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain's imports and exports. Ed is at London G...
Main courses are matched up to see which has the worst carbon footprint.
Hannah details how different types of seafood have differing carbon footprints.
Different kinds of starters are measured and revealed to have surprising different carbon footprints.
Different types of alcohol gets scrutinised for its carbon footprint.
Different meats are studied for their different carbon footprints and a scientist has an intriguing development on methane produ...
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