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An exploration of humanity obsession with mountains. Only three centuries ago, climbing a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. The idea scarcely existed that wild landscapes might hold any...
Ofcom research event: new findings on children and parents’ media use and attitudes 20 November 2013, 3–5.30pm Ofcom, Riverside House, London SE1 9HA Ofcom is holding a research event on children...
Alan Goodall observes three different families of mountain gorillas in their tropical rainforest environment of the Virunga volcanoes region of Rwanda.
Describes and integrated year-round system for increasing returns from a mountain sheep-farming enterprise based on an area of improved pasture, and a strategic health plan to combat the major diseases. The...
An uplifting documentary that follows six blind Tibetan teenagers as they set out on a three-week expedition to climb the 23,000-foot peak Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest, led by two blind...
An impressionistic survey of Wales at war. Shows industries revitalised by the war effort: steelworks, dockyards, quarries and pitheads at the Rhondda mines. Includes footage of Wales during the depression...
The world-renowned poet Dylan Thomas made a little-known but valuable contribution to Britain’s war effort scripting powerful propaganda films for the Ministry of Information. This anthology collects...
The documentary reconstructing the story of British mountain climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates as they climb to the summit of the hitherto unclimbed Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. On the descent,...
Scientists working in the Nevada desert attempt to predict the future for the next 10,000 years. The USA has chosen to bury all of its most lethal high-level radioactive waste under Yucca Mountain there, if...
Twenty-five hundred years before modern air travel the ancient Chinese had learned the complicated principles of fluid and aerodynamics. The notion of "hard air" (air pressure) was understood by Taoist monks...
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