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- 'HIDDEN ALGERIA' is an alluring destination guide that explores one of the least known countries on our planet - the People's Republic of Algeria.
- Our hosts explore the world's most historic sites and empires - travelling from the heart of Europe, across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, and visiting spectacular sites dating from medieval times to the 19th century.
- COVID-19 is just the latest in a long line of pandemics that have devastated, and in some cases destroyed, societies throughout history. This film looks at the circumstances that caused diseases, and how science searched for and found cures and vaccines to save millions of lives. Scientists are once again on this quest as the world seeks solutions to a crisis that threatens our future.
- With the help of documentary footage from the day, CGI, expert contributors, and survivors re visit the island of Crete and it's battlefields to tell the story of this unique and bloody battle and its aftermath.
- At the end of the 18th century an English country doctor, Edward Jenner, developed the world's first vaccine -for smallpox .His breakthrough was the first of several over the next hundred years as scientists , microbiologists and chemists such as Louis Pasteur, and epidemiologists such as John Snow sought answers to and developed cures for diseases such as cholera., rabies and typhoid. The end of World War One saw the return of Pandemics with the outbreak of the deadly Spanish Flu. Quarantine measures were first widely introduced and debated 700 years ago and now in the 21st Century with Covid-19, their effectiveness is being debated again. Science, which searched for and found cures and vaccines to old diseases, is once again on a quest for a new one as the world seeks solutions to a crisis that threatens its very way of life.
- This travelogue explores Algeria's desert, the largest in the world, and its arid but varied landscape, which has been home to many civilizations.
- Peru offers mouth-watering gastronomy, archaeological delights and stunning colonial architecture. But perhaps most importantly, this South American country has been modernised without losing any of its traditional heritage.
- WE visit Istanbul, famously the only city in the world that stretches over two continents, which has made it a major stopping point for trade travelling from east to west. Laden with history, craftsmanship and modern design Istanbul
- Visiting the beautiful Mediterranean island of Sicily. Having been heavily influenced by invaders ranging from the Greeks and Romans to the Carthaginians, Arabs, Normans, Spanish and French this place is a veritable treasure
- Zanzibar - Spice Island, honeymoon destination and an Aladdin's cave of exotic antiques brought over by the Arab and Indian traders who were carried here 200 years ago by the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean.
- In this programme, we travel across the Islamic World to appreciate some of its more unusual and fascinating treasures. In Aleppo, Syria, said to be the oldest city in the world,
- Judith Jones explores one of South America's most stylish cities. the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. One of the best things to buy in Argentina is leather, which is reasonably priced and of very high quality.
- 2018–20226.9 (8)TV EpisodeIn the seventh century, a great new religion was born and rose up in the deserts of what is now Saudi Arabia. Within 200 years, the religion had spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and then through the Moors into Southern Spain and Portugal. By the 13th century it had spread through the Ottomans into Eastern Europe, and by the 15th, through the Mughal's to India. We explore ten sites that made history as we chart the rise and fall of these great Muslim empires.