02: Moving Mountains | Men of Rock

01: Deep Time | Men of Rock

Iain Stewart tells the story of James Hutton, the founding father of geology. This Scottish thinker overturned ancient beliefs about how and when...

03: The Big Freeze | Men of Rock

In the final episode of the series, Iain Stewart finds out about daredevil scientist Louis Agassiz, who first imagined the world had been gr...

04: Highlands | The Great British Countryside

Hugh Dennis and Julia Bradbury are in the Highlands of Scotland, Britain's wildest and oldest landscape. They explore a landsca...

Coastal Erosion | From Above

Crumbling into the sea - the Isle of Wight, from above.

Tar sands | How Earth Made Us

Professor Iain Stewart discusses tar sands, one of the more complicated ways of extracting oil.

Hardraw Force | The Great British Countryside

Hugh Dennis visits a waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales that has created a gorge in the landscape.

Geology of the Yorkshire Dales | The Great British Countryside

Julia Bradbury explores the geology of the limestone pavement in the Yorkshire Dales.

Human interventions in the water cycle | How Earth Made Us

Professor Iain Stewart investigates the ways that humans have intervened in the water cycle.

01: Three Billion Years in the Making | British Isles: A Natural History

Alan Titchmarsh travels Britain to discover why our islands are so diverse, peeling back the layers ...

02: Deserts, Dinosaurs and Volcanoes | British Isles: A Natural History

Alan Titchmarsh uncovers how the British Isles were formed and looks back to a time when dinosaurs ro...

Cliffhanger | Men of Rock

Dr Iain Stewart climbs a coastal sea stack and explains its geology.

Disruption to the ice age cycle | How Earth Made Us

Professor Iain Stewart explains how humans prevented the next stage of the ice age cycle.

Swallowed by a Sinkhole | Horizon

Professor Iain Stewart travels to Florida to investigate sinkholes, and why the geology of this state makes it the sinkhole capital of the ...

01: Avalanche | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski looks at the anatomy of an avalanche. From shocking eyewitness footage from within an avalanche to detailed CT scans showing...

Lyme Bay | Countryfile

Countryfile is in Lyme Bay where the rugged west Dorset and east Devon coastlines meet. Julia Bradbury is exploring its rich geological history, and M...

05: Human Planet | How Earth Made Us

Series in which Professor Iain Stewart looks at how geology has shaped human history. He explores the newest force, humans, whose impact...

Beneath the Yorkshire Dales | The Great British Countryside

Hugh Dennis ventures into Gaping Gill, a cave produced by limestone erosion.

Giant Ravines | From Above

Giant ravines are swallowing whole neighbourhoods. Watch the dramatic impact from above.

Malham Cove | The Great British Countryside

Hugh Dennis visits Malham Cove and explains the geology of how it was created.

Mud volcano, Indonesia | How Earth Made Us

Professor Iain Stewart investigates a mud volcano in Indonesia that was caused by human interactions with the earth.