Easy Ways to Live Well

The Twinstitute

November 2024 •English

Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken put competing health theories to the test with the help of 30 other pairs of identical twins.

Know Your S**t: Inside Our Guts

November 2024 •English

No poo problem is off limits in this first-of-a-kind clinic, as the Poo HQ experts share gut health hacks and reveal how our gut impacts our physical and mental health

Jules and Greg's Wild Swim

November 2024 •English

The couple that swims together, stays together. Comics Julie Wilson Nimmo and Greg Hemphill take the plunge at Scotland's breathtaking and beautiful wild swimming spots.

Nutrition and our brain

November 2024 •Dutch

Good food can make you intensely happy. But how important is food for our brain and what influences our choices? What can we do with our diet to keep our brain and body as healthy as possible? Janny van der Heijden discovers this in this series. Together with top researchers, Janny tests their insights in practice.

Britain's Fat Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

November 2024 •English

With Britain becoming the most obese country in western Europe, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is on a mission, asking food producers, restaurants and the government to confront the crisis.

The Truth About Food

November 2024 •English

Series examining how what we eat can change our lives.

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

November 2024 •English

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure is a 1999 BBC television documentary presented by Michael Palin. It records Palin's travels as he visited many sites where Ernest Hemingway had been. The sites include Spain, Chicago, Paris, Italy, Africa, Key West, Cuba, and Idaho. After the trip was over Michael Palin wrote a book about the journey and his experiences. This book contains both Palin's text and many pictures by Basil Pao, the stills photographer who was on the team.

Toc Toc Docteur

November 2024 •French

Sex Map of Britain

November 2024 •English

Meeting people for whom sex, sexuality and having children is less than straightforward.

The Viral Delusion

November 2024 •English

n 2019, the virologists took center stage, and for the first time on film, their methods, miscues and tragedy they have wrought are put under the spotlight, revealing the extraordinary leaps of fantasy buried in their methodology, the contradictions quietly acknowledged in their papers, their desperate effort to change language to justify their findings, the obvious incongruence of their conclusions and the extraordinary stakes for our entire society in whether we continue to blindly follow their lead into a full-scale war against nature itself.

Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

November 2024 •English

Health documentary series with anatomist Dr Alice Roberts

Food Detectives

November 2024 •English

Scientist Prof Alice Roberts, chef Tom Kerridge and journalist Sean Fletcher are keen to improve your cooking, your health and your bank balance by dishing up the plain facts about our food.

Junior Paramedics

November 2024 •English

Series following the lives of nine student paramedics as they go on their first ever placement with the East Midlands Ambulance Service.

What's the Right Diet for You? A Horizon Special

November 2024 •English

This ground-breaking three-part series takes 75 dieters and employs the latest science to fashion a diet tailor-made to counteract the main reason they put on weight.

Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

November 2024 •English

In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the course of human history. Unfolding over a period of 200 years, it's an extraordinary tale of daring, self-experimentation, revelation, genius, and outright luck.

Celebrity Fit Club UK

November 2024 •English

Celebrity Fit Club is a reality television series that follows eight overweight celebrities as they try to lose weight for charity. Split into two competing teams of four, each week teams are given different physical challenges, and weighed to see if they reached their target weights. They are monitored and supervised by a team that includes a nutritionist, a psychologist, and a physical trainer, the latter of which is former U.S. Marine Harvey Walden IV.

Toxique

November 2024 •French

Body Atlas

November 2024 •English

Explore the mysterious regions inside the human body. See how vital organs interconnect to make human life possible. Learn how skeletons fit together. Witness the lightness and strength of bone, how muscles work as levers, what it takes to achieve the "perfect" body. See how the heart functions, and learn the roles of white and red blood cells. Discover the complex systems controlling breathing, digestion, glandular changes, and hearing.

Maux mystères

November 2024 •French

How Drugs Work

November 2024 •English

Using visual effects and CGI the effects of drugs on the human body are examine, and the myths and controversies that surround them confronted.