Urban Environments

Challenges and opportunities | Welcome to Lagos

How people are adapting to life in Lagos informal settlements, which includes sorting through and recycling everything in the...

The Cable Car | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan views Mexico City from the cable car system.

Pollution Problems | World's Busiest Cities

How Mexico City is tackling pollution.

Crime | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates how Mexico City's police work from the sky.

Waste Management | World's Busiest Cities

Anita Rani investigates Mexico City's sewage systems.

Water Shortage | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan investigates solutions to the Mexico City water crisis.

Agriculture in the City | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates the history of residents of Mexico City since the Aztecs.

Transport in the City | World's Busiest Cities

Anita Rani investigates the transport systems in ever growing Mexico City.

Urban sprawl | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan visits residents of Mexico City that have built their own housing.

Building upwards | World's Busiest Cities

Earthquake protection in Mexico City's building design.

Earthquake prediction | World's Busiest Cities

The vital importance of earthquake prediction in Mexico City.

Earthquake protection | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates the devastating impact that earthquakes are having on the city. He visits an organisation that save peop...

Episode 2 | China on Four Wheels

Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt continue their epic car journeys across China, heading for their final destination, the financial mega-city of...

3: Mumbai | Slum Survivors

Young Brits embark on a crash course in urban survival in the world's biggest slums. Three plumbers learn to plumb the local way in the open sewer...

2: Jakarta | Slum Survivors

Young Brits embark on a crash course in urban survival in the world's biggest slums. Three trainee chefs swap their clean UK kitchens for street ...

1: Lagos | Slum Survivors

In Lagos, Nigeria, three British mechanics are guided and challenged for ten days by extraordinary slum dwellers who use dedication, passion and gu...

Episode 2 | Kevin McCloud: Slumming It

A two-part documentary detailing a two-week stay in Mumbai's Dharavi slum.

Kevin McCloud: Slumming It

A two-part documentary detailing a two-week stay in Mumbai's Dharavi slum.

2: Mexico City | World's Busiest Cities

In Mexico City, Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Ade Adepitan uncover the hidden systems and armies of people that help run this sprawling me...

1: Peace | Welcome to Rio

Documentary series exploring Rio's shanty-towns, the favelas. In Cantagalo, delivery man Rocky carries goods up the steep staircases overlooking Co...

Informal settlements | Welcome to Lagos

The mass migration to Lagos, Nigeria, is causing ever expanding informal settlements.

Industrial Work | Welcome to Lagos

Industrial work in the Ebute Metta neighbourhood of Lagos.

Pollution Problems | World's Busiest Cities

How Mexico City is tackling pollution.

Crime | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates how Mexico City's police work from the sky.

Waste Management | World's Busiest Cities

Anita Rani investigates Mexico City's sewage systems.

Water Shortage | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan investigates solutions to the Mexico City water crisis.

Agriculture in the City | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates the history of residents of Mexico City since the Aztecs.

Transport in the City | World's Busiest Cities

Anita Rani investigates the transport systems in ever growing Mexico City.

Urban sprawl | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan visits residents of Mexico City that have built their own housing.

Housing in the City | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow investigates post-war communal living during the Soviet Union.

The Kremlin | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow visits the heart of Russia politics, the Kremlin.

Traffic Solution | World's Busiest Cities

Anita Rani investigates a system that is attempting to find solutions to Moscow's traffic problem.

Traffic Problem | World's Busiest Cities

Anita Rani experiences the worst rush hour traffic in Europe.

Soviet Russia | World's Busiest Cities

The social and political history of Moscow.

The Metro | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow and Anita Rani visit the Moscow Metro and discuss its history.

Migrant Workers | World's Busiest Cities

The experience of live-in domestic workers in Hong Kong.

Globalisation and Immigration | World's Busiest Cities

Anita Rani visits Chungking Mansions, a culturally diverse location in Hong Kong, where people from over hundred count...

Accommodation in the City | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan visits a type of shared accommodation in Hong Kong that many are forced to live in due to extortionate housin...

Overcrowding | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan investigates the extortionate real estate prices of central Hong Kong.

Free Trade | World's Busiest Cities

The history of HSBC and banking in Hong Kong.

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: The Last Stand at Stratford | Building the Olympic Dream

The ambition and scale of the project is huge. Resistance to the plans comes from unexpected quarters.

Episode 4 | The Mighty Redcar

Billy is about to make a tough decision - does he start a career at 16 or go to college?

Episode 3 | The Mighty Redcar

As Jess's apprenticeship draws to a close, she needs to find a new job or risk not being able to do what she loves.

Episode 2 | The Mighty Redcar

Kaitlyn is about to get her GCSE results whilst also facing the prospect of her and her mum having to move house again.

Episode 1 | The Mighty Redcar

Real-life soap opera, filmed over a year in North Yorkshire. Mum and daughter Kat and Kaitlyn have had a tough time over the last few years but...

5: Work and Technology | World 2000

Explores job creation, road congestion and housing in Cambridge.

Rail | Mind the Gap: Britain's Transport Divide

Second class service: How the nations and regions lost out to London and ended up with fewer services, older trains and an in...

Buses | Mind the Gap: Britain's Transport Divide

The great transport experiment which left buses booming in London but in a state of managed decline outside the capital.

2: On The Move | Britain Beneath Your Feet

Dallas Campbell reveals how we can only understand the world around us by discovering the hidden wonders beneath our feet.

S4E4 | A House Through Time

The Second World War puts our residents in danger. Leeds is a shock to a Greek war bride with a tragic past and a return for students who lived h...

S4E2 | A House Through Time

A ruthless factory owner is hit by an arson attack, a pacifist couple make a stand and one man sets sail for a life on the glamourous Atlantic li...

S4E3 | A House Through Time

David follows the trails of a traumatised soldier on the run, a family man at breaking point and one resident who developed an interest in the pa...

Series 4 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga discovers a scandalous poisoning, a reversal of fortune for a Victorian factory girl and a building dynasty that helped create ...

S3E4 | A House Through Time

David investigates the house’s history from World War II to the present, discovering tales of mystery and crime, before seeing the house renewed ...

S3E3 | A House Through Time

Investigating the residents of No 10 Guinea Street, David Olusoga discovers a struggling entrepreneur and a World War I tragedy, and unmasks the ...

S3E2 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga traces the house's fortunes from the late 18th to the mid-19th century, discovering tales of scandal, domestic violence and the asy...

Series 3 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga investigates the residents of an 18th-century house in Bristol, uncovering stories of piracy, an abandoned baby, a notorious po...

S2E4 | A House Through Time

David Olusoga uncovers infidelity and divorce, traces a WWII prisoner to Ravensworth Terrace, and sees the house fall into disrepair before it is...

S2E2 | A House Through Time

Tracing the residents from the 1880s to 1900s, David discovers a family torn apart by catastrophe. The house becomes a refuge for destitute stree...

The Cable Car | World's Busiest Cities

Ade Adepitan views Mexico City from the cable car system.

Hong Kong's growth | World's Busiest Cities

Dan Snow views Hong Kong from the sky and witnesses how the city's growth is slowly connecting it to mainland China.

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: The Last Stand at Stratford | Building the Olympic Dream

The ambition and scale of the project is huge. Resistance to the plans comes from unexpected quarters.

Episode 3 | Commonwealth City

The fortunes of the community in Dalmarnock. After securing funds for a new community centre, councillor Yvonne must find available land for it...

Episode 2 | Commonwealth City

The fortunes of the community in Dalmarnock. Steven's future looks uncertain when his job comes to an end. And Darren receives some devastating...

Episode 1 | Commonwealth City

It's 2010 - four years to go to the Commonwealth Games, much of which will take place in Dalmarnock in the East End of Glasgow.

Episode 8 | The Tower

With the Tower now fully occupied, it's a time of new beginnings for the new residents but the end of an era for the Deptford locals.

Episode 7 | The Tower

The Tower is complete and the first of the new tenants move in. Retired gangster Harry Hayward feels overwhelmed by the changes.

Episode 6 | The Tower

Nessar's wealthy family have bought several new properties in the Tower, but before she can move in she must pass her law exams.

Episode 5 | The Tower

Love is in the air in the Tower. Kelley Garcia finally says 'I do' to Wayne Tapper, with half of the estate in tow.

Episode 4 | The Tower

With the show flats in the Tower selling fast, two prospective purchasers are excited by the dream of modern living.

Episode 3 | The Tower

Inside the Tower, the interior designers are hard at work creating the dream of sky-high modern urban living.

Episode 1 | The Tower

Five years after Lewisham council sold off one of its riverside tower blocks to be turned into chic apartments, the transformation of the Tower is due ...

Episode 2 | The Tower

The last tenant has been removed from the ex-council tower block and the developers can now start the renovation.

Mind the Gap: London v the Rest

While much of the UK still struggles after the financial crash, London is thriving like never before. In the first of two programmes, Evan Da...

Episode 4 | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom

At a consultation event, Anne and Donna learn a tower block is proposed near their homes. Donna's elderly father is desper...

Episode 3 | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom

As towers rise on the skyline, homeless people and low-income earners are often forced into shelters when the city's affor...

Episode 2 | Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom

Property developer Tim hits a million-pound problem in the mill he is converting into apartments, while less than a mile a...

Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom

Documentary series meeting the people living and working in the eye of Manchester's remarkable housing boom.

2: London | The Greatest Cities In The World

In his own capital, Britton Griff starts contemplating how London continuously grew from a new Roman town to Europe's single-mos...

1: Medieval London | Filthy Cities

Dan Snow gets down and dirty in medieval grime to discover how the London of today was forged in the filth of the 14th century.

Series 1 | A House Through Time

The story of those who lived in one house, from the time it was built until now. David Olusoga follows the stories of the first inhabitants o...

6: Revolution | British Isles: A Natural History

Alan Titchmarsh travels Britain to discover why our islands are so diverse and extreme. He explores a time when industry cha...

The Irish Famine | Europe: A Natural History

Sean Pertwee chronicles the events which shaped the continent of Europe. This edition looks at the rapid transformation of the l...