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Learn how animals use all sorts of strategies to protect their families and food from marauders. Part 4 of 12.
Using bold but controversial tactics, Douglas Bader beats all the odds to help turn the tide in the Battle of Britain and become Britain's most celebrated air ace. Part 2 of 6.
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?
New archeological discoveries, combined with the very latest scientific techniques, are offering incredible insights into who the Neanderthals were and how they lived, revealing that they were much closer to us than we ever imagined.
This second episode explores the coastal and hinterland cities built by a prosperous Mediterranean trade dating back to Phoenician sailors. In Oran, resident Zaki Souffi goes shopping in the Jedida market. He visits the home of the city’s most eminent émigré, Yves Saint Laurent and has a local snack of karantika. He tours the old Bey palace before climbing the Mountain of Lions for a nose around Fort Santa Cruz, an impregnable Spanish fortress during its war with the Ottoman Empire. Tlemcen boasts the wonders of the Mechouar Palace while historian Amina Miri Hana tours the fortress city of El Mansourah. Climbing over the Aures mountains, we behold the sprawling Roman settlement of Timgad in Batna before arriving at Constantine, an ancient Numidian city perched on a rocky outcrop that overlooks the Rhumel Gorge. Part 2 of 3.
Autumn and winter in the Mediterranean woodland see new offspring having to learn to fend for themselves, while inter-species rivalry is at a peak and constant challenges sometimes culminate in bloody skirmishes. Part 2 of 2.
