Engineering Reborn
Broadcast details: 12th June 2023, 8 episodes Mondays 19:00 – 20:00
Starts 24th April 2023
Engineering Reborn explores the mid-blowing engineering challenges behind the transformation of abandoned structures, into the buildings of the future… Hosted by engineer Rob Bell, Engineering Reborn showcases the cutting-edge technology behind each transformation, with expert interviews unpicking the key engineering hurdles during the decommissioning and rebuilding processes. Interviews with historians also uncover the fascinating history behind abandoned structure, before it was transformed. It’s a series that couldn’t be more relevant to our times. Construction has a massive carbon footprint. But now, engineers are responding to this global challenge by re-using and re-imagining some of the most iconic buildings across the globe. From an abandoned airship hangar in Germany, transformed into a tropical water park; to a derelict prison in Boston, reborn as a luxury hotel.
World’s Most Dangerous Roads S4
Broadcast details: Fridays 20:00 – 21:00, 8 episodes
Starts 28th April 2023 – 16th June 2023
Pairs of brave celebrities tackle perilous terrain as they embark on extraordinary road trips through some of the most breathtakingly beautiful and remote parts of the world.
Ben Fogle: Lost Worlds S1
Broadcast details: Wednesdays 19:00 – 20:30, 3 episodes
Starts 14th June 2023 – 28th June 2023
Adventurer Ben Fogle sets off to visit various places across the globe exploring the notion that nothing lasts forever, that even seemingly impregnable empires rise and fall, and the only constant in life is change.
Birds of Paradise: The Ultimate Quest S1
Broadcast details: Saturdays 18:00 – 19:00, 2 episodes
Starts 17th June 2023 – 24th June 2023
BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner has dreamed of seeing Birds of Paradise since he was a young child. But that dream died in
2004 when Frank was shot by terrorists, and he has been using a wheelchair ever since. A chance meeting with explorer Benedict Allen
changed everything.
This World: Burma With Simon Reeve S1
Broadcast details: Fridays 20:00 – 21:00, 2 episodes
Starts 23rd June 2023 – 30th June 2023
British adventurer Simon Reeve travels to beautiful and troubled Burma, also called Myanmar, for a new two-part series. Cut off for decades under military rule, Burma now has a democratically elected government led by worldfamous Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi. But in August 2017, the world was left stunned when a brutal military
operation drove hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from their homes. On his journey Simon discovers a divided country – where life is steadily improving for many, while others still live in terror of the military who still have enormous power in the country.
Trailblazers S1
Broadcast details: Fridays, 20:00 – 21:00, 3 episodes
Starts 7th July 2023 – 21 July 2023
Comedian Ruby Wax OBE, singer Mel B and television star Emily Atack – come together to re-trace the footsteps of intrepid Victorian explorer, Isabella Bird, whose exploits have largely been lost to history.
At a time when most explorers were men, Yorkshire born Isabella was a trailblazer. Being prescribed mountain air to cure her malaise, in 1873 Isabella set off on her travels across the globe to find exactly that. Travelling alone, she crossed the lawless American Wild West, riding 800 miles on horseback through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. She befriended outlaws, climbed mountains and faced grizzly bears, in what was a restrictive era for women in Britain.
Spy in the Ocean S1
Broadcast details: Saturdays 18:00 – , 4 episodes
Starts 8 th July 2023 – 29th July 2023
In this brand new four-part series, an amazing new generation of spy creatures set out to explore the ocean, encountering the ingenious and emotional animals that have made this habitat their home.
In this first episode, we see the spies search for intelligent life and mind-boggling ways of thinking. The largest and most ambitious spy creature ever built has a close encounter with the owners of the largest brains on the planet: sperm whales. Spy whale is the same size as a newborn whale calf and can swim and dive like the real thing.
World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys S1-S4
Broadcast details: Weekdays, 17:00 – 18:00 , 29 episodes
Starts 10th July 2023
Actor Bill Nighy narrates as cameras follow trains travelling though some of the most scenic landscapes in the world. The stories of these iconic railways are told by those who travel on, work on and live beside them.
