Lab Rats

Production: BBC
Producer: Nic Gutteridge

Programme run: 4 x 30 mins

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Meet the Lab Rats, two guys who push their bodies to extraordinary limits in bizarre and sometimes dangerous experiments. Shot in road-movie style, the two 'rats' bring science to a wide audience. Taking an avant-garde approach and involving experts in each area, the programmes look at sleep deprivation, fear, male fertility and the effects of g-force on the body.

Wild Moves

Production: BBC
Producer: Simon Nash and Ingrid Kale

Programme run: 3 x 29 mins

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These programmes look at how animals move through the air, over land and through water. What constraints or obstacles do they face and how do they overcome them? And why are animals so different from each other in size and shape?

History Mysteries

Production: Angel TV/Lion TV
Producer: Nick Catliff, Bill Locke and Sally Angel

Programme run: 10 x 30 mins

The History Mysteries team pursue the truth behind local legends, using resources available to everyone. Each programme looks at a local rumour, including smugglers tunnels, a wartime spy, a lost city under the sea, a meeting between a Queen and her wounded lover, and a murder mystery over 300 years old.

Landscape Mysteries

Production: TV 6/BBC
Producer: Stephen Haggard

Programme run: 8 x 30 mins

Professor Aubrey Manning embarks on a new series of journeys in which he tries to solve mysteries arising from the landscape of the British Isles. Join him as he searches for clues in the geology, natural history and archaeology to explain why the land has come to look the way it does.

The Barristers

Programme run: 6 x 40 mins

The law influences what everyone does, but who influences and exercises the law? Amongst lawyers there is a powerful and influential group, including parliamentarians, judges and millionaires, known as Barristers. Many lawyers attempt the Take the Bar, but of the many thousands who attempt it each year, only a few will earn the right to argue cases in the highest courts, dressed in gown and wig.

Meet the Immigrants

Programme run: 6 x 30 mins

An observational documentary series looking at the real lives of several members of the new wave of inward migration. This series shows all the challenges they face in arriving and surviving in a new country, including providing welfare and economic security for their families. Meet the Immigrants also reflects the ongoing debate on immigration and attempts to separate fact from fiction.

Nobody's Normal

Programme run: 5 x 45 mins

Parenting a disabled child involves many emotional and ethical questions. Five documentaries tell the stories of key stages in family life, from the decision to continue a pregnancy or the discovery of a disability during birth, to issues of independence as the child becomes a teenager and the parents later require care of their own. (Image: Jan van den Brink, iStock.com)

Silverville

Programme run: 8 x 30 mins

We are all living longer, but what does old age hold for us? This series tells the stories of the residents of a protected and managed community for people over 55. The newly wealthy, enjoying the benefits of significant equity release, live alongside those forging new romances after the loss of a partner, but how does the community respond to deaths and loss of memory?

Nation on Film II

Production: BBC
Producer: Tony Parker

Programme run: 6 x 30 mins

A journey through lives on film, looking at the passions that inspired people. Classic cars and aeroplanes evolve throughout the decades, from a luxury to an everyday sight on the television. Wildlife films begin with the startling 9 foot image of a spider in 1901, and more revelations are made possible by developing technology. (Image: Marcela Barsse)

Family Ties

Production: BBC
Producer: Simon Ford

Programme run: 6 x 30 mins

The need for identity, for family, unites us all - and nearly every family has a secret. Family Ties follows the stories of a teenager who can't imagine his grandfather's life as a WWII pilot to the 35-year old lawyer who finds it hard enough to balance having two kids and can't imagine how her great-grandmother arrived here from China with no husband, no English, five children and the clothes she stood up in - and still managed to build a successful business.

English Language

Programme run: 4 x 25 mins

The English language has become a global phenomenon, spoken by about 1,000 million people worldwide. But why English? And how has the language changed over the centuries? How is it affected by its new settings, the people who use it and the technologies they employ? What should we make of arguments about 'good' versus 'bad' English? This series uses a range of examples from different periods and media, and includes interviews with world experts on different aspects of the English language.

Child Development

Programme run: 13 x 30 mins

These materials provide an up-to-date and comprehensive survey of modern theory and research in developmental psychology. Intellectual, social and emotional developments are described in terms of a series of transactional models rather than via a simple one-way cause and effect. The programmes cover the main theoretical approaches in current developmental psychology; research methods used to study child development, and professional applications of developmental psychology theories and concepts.