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Shopping with TJC
Looking at the ever-present challenges presented by competing for food, mating rights or territory. The competitive spirit is shown in the hunt, the competition between predator and prey. Part 7 of 12.
Orkney - seven miles off the coast of Scotland, and cut off by the tumultuous Pentland Firth, the fastest flowing tidal race in Europe, is often viewed as being remote. But recent discoveries there are turning the Stone Age map of Britain upside down. Rather than an outpost at the edge of the world, recent finds suggest an extraordinary theory - that Orkney was the cultural capital of our ancient world and the origin of the stone circle cult which culminated in Stonehenge. Part 1 of 3. Ⓢ
In the second part of this three-part series, Neil Oliver, Chris Packham, Andy Torbet and Dr Shini Somara join hundreds of archaeologists from around the world who have gathered there to investigate at one of Europe's biggest digs. In this episode, Andy Torbet and some local seafaring volunteers build a boat made of just willow and cow hide, and set out to cross the dangerous Pentland Firth as the ancient Orcadians would have done. Neil Oliver investigates the extraordinary discovery of some human bones, Chris Packham goes in search of whales and Shini Somara uncovers the powers of the tides. Part 2 of 3. Ⓢ
Andy Torbet and Dr Shini Somara join hundreds of archaeologists from around the world who have gathered there to investigate at one of Europe's biggest digs. Andy Torbet dives below the waves in search of the inspiration for the first stone circle, Chris Packham and Neil Oliver spend the night on an abandoned island as they hunt for clues as to why cultures change, Shini Somara tests the technology behind a bronze age sauna and the archaeologists uncover a remarkable find. Part 3 of 3. Ⓢ
One of the most significant and jaw-dropping ancient discoveries ever made is happening now. In the far North of Scotland, at the heart of one of the most important sacred sites of the ancient world, archaeologists are unearthing an amazing 5,000 year-old religious temple complex, the first painted wall art ever seen from the Stone Age in Europe and the precious objects that the builders left. This documentary asks: who built these great monuments? How were they used? And what did these people believe?
Take an action-packed tour through the history of one of the most controversial subjects of the 20th century - nuclear power - as told by those who experienced it first-hand. Focusing on events in the US, UK, France and Germany, it charts its social and political development from the early days of post-war atomic euphoria, through to the struggling ‘nuclear renaissance’ of the present day.
The world’s greatest concentration of WW2 shipwrecks lie in a remote lagoon in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Today the island of Truk is a backwater but throughout the conflict, the lagoon was the principal base for the Japanese Pacific fleet – an oceanic fortress they believed to be impenetrable.
This film reveals the startling truth behind the 1954 Bikini Atoll nuclear test, featuring recently uncovered footage of the day the “sky burned” over the Pacific. More than half a century after the event, this top-secret mission has finally been declassified and witnesses are able to tell their gripping story for the first time. Ⓢ
