02: Into the Unknown | Human

01: A Confusion of Names | Botany: A Blooming History

Timothy Walker reveals how the work of Carl Linnaeus, Phillip Miller and John Ray unlocked the mysteries of the plant k...

03: The Will to Win | Human Instinct

He explores the drive to succeed, looking at how different chemicals are released into the brain when we win or lose, and learning about...

Selective breeding and the 'Green Revolution' | Botany: A Blooming History

Norman Borlaug used selective breeding techniques to improve wheat production in Mexico. He produc...

The standardisation of names | Botany: A Blooming History

Timothy Walker looks at how Carl Linnaeus came up with his new naming system for plant species, and how it set the ...

Why can we classify species? | Botany: A Blooming History

Timothy Walker explores how Darwin's Theory of Evolution influenced 19th century botanists' understanding of how an...

01: Born To Survive | Human Instinct

A series in which Professor Robert Winston examines human instincts and patterns of behaviour. In this edition: instincts for survival i...

01: New Dawn | Walking with Beasts

The series following on from Walking with Dinosaurs. begins 49 million years ago. The world is heavily forested and birds rule the planet,...

01: The First of Us | Human

The extraordinary story of how the human species, Homo sapiens, first emerged, where the discoveries of recent years are revolutionising the unde...

02: Whale Killer | Walking with Beasts

36 million years ago mammals ruled the world. It is in the sea, however, that the most monstrous mammals can be found.

03: Hidden World | Botany: A Blooming History

Timothy Walker looks at how pioneer botanists unlocked the patterns found in different types of plants and opened the door to a...

03: Land of Giants | Walking with Beasts

25 million years ago in the Oligocene Epoch lived the Indricotheres. Weighing 15 tonnes and standing 7 metres tall, they were the la...

03: Last Humans Standing | Human

Shocking new insights into the demise of modern humans' sister species, the Neanderthals, Homo sapiens's possible role in their downfall and...

03: Mendel and the Pea | The Six Experiments That Changed The World

From Galileo to Einstein, from Faraday to Mendel: modern scientists try to recreate the seminal experimen...

04: Discovering the Americas | Human

During the height of the Ice Age, one of the coldest times humanity has ever known, Homo sapiens steps into the last habitable continent...

04: Natural Born Heroes | Human Instinct

In this last programme, Professor Robert Winston discovers why we do so much for friends and family, and will even risk our lives fo...

04: Next of Kin | Walking with Beasts

We travel back 3 million years to Ethiopia, where Australopithecus, one of the first upright apes, lived in danger of being hunted by s...

05: A Great Gamble | Human

Around 12,000 years ago, as the Ice Age finally thawed, humanity made a dramatic shift - abandoning nomadic life for permanent settlements.

05: Sabre Tooth | Walking with Beasts

This episode follows the progress of a Smilodon called Half Tooth. Smilodon was the largest of all the sabre tooth cats which roamed So...

06: Mammoth Journey | Walking with Beasts

Last in the series follows a herd of mammoths as they make their way south for winter, running a gauntlet of ice-age hunters includ...

Chimps and us | The Gene Code

It seems tiny changes within the gene six million years ago mutated the hotspots on our ancestors' chromosomes and began driving two species ou...