Gardeners World episode 17 2012: It’s August, the sunshine month, and Monty will be surrounding himself with summer’s sweetest smells when he shows us what to plant for fragrance in his walled garden. Rachel too will be in search of intoxicating scent on a visit to RHS Harlow Carr, seeing fabulous displays of philadelphus, night scented stocks as […]
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Napoleon episode 3: Historian Andrew Roberts charts the fall of Napoleon, a defining moment in global history, which saw him taken to the remote island of St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean in 1815 as a prisoner of the British. It had taken just a year for the monarchies of Europe, the anti-Napoleonic powers of the world, to
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Ancient Aliens – Aliens and Temples of Gold: Could gold be the ultimate link between humans and aliens? A church in southern France is said to hold the key to alchemy–and a gateway to another part of the universe. Locals in Cusco, Peru believe UFO sightings are connected to lost gold at the bottom of Lake Puray. Alternative
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Gardeners World episode 16 2012: Monty Don is busy at Longmeadow, sowing late summer salads, harvesting blackcurrants and advising us on how to feed our flowers to maximise longevity. Gardeners’ World has something for those that are interested in the Olympics, something for those coming to London and something for those who are happy staying at home. Rachel
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Gardeners World episode 15 2012: At Longmeadow, Monty Don reveals how the garden has changed over the last four weeks and gets to grips with a variety of jobs in the walled garden. He demonstrates how to cut back hardy biennials to encourage secondary growth, shows us how to thin out our borders as well as other seasonal
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Gardeners World episode 13 2012: In this hour-long special, Monty Don, Carol Klein, Rachel de Thame and Joe Swift report from Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC in Birmingham on the very best the show has to offer – from fabulous show gardens to stunning plants in the floral marquee. The team are also inviting the public to
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Einstein’s Quantum Riddle: Einstein’s Quantum Riddle tells the remarkable story of perhaps the strangest phenomenon in science – quantum entanglement. It’s a story of mind-bending concepts and brilliant experiments, which lead us to a profound new understanding of reality. At the start of the 20th century Albert Einstein helped usher in quantum mechanics – a revolutionary description of
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Monty Don’s American Gardens episode 2: In the second episode, Monty goes south to explore gardens of early independent America and learns how the history of this part of the country is still very much evident in the places and people he meets. He visits the famous garden where President Thomas Jefferson, one of America’s founding fathers, enjoyed spending his
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The Joy of Stats: Documentary which takes viewers on a roller-coaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power they have to change our understanding of the world, presented by superstar boffin Professor Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening, mind-expanding and funny online lectures have made him an international internet legend. Rosling is a man who
Gardeners World episode 12 2012: With the garden springing into life and new blooms opening each day, it gives Monty Don plenty of opportunity to get on top of all the seasonal jobs at Longmeadow and answer a few viewers’ questions along the way. With a postbag full of gardening dilemmas, Carol Klein helps out viewers with propagation
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The Joy of Winning: How to have a happier life and a better world all thanks to maths, in this witty, mind-expanding guide to the science of success with Hannah Fry. Following in the footsteps of BBC Four’s award-winning maths films The Joy of Stats and The Joy of Data, this latest gleefully nerdy adventure sees mathematician Dr
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Gardeners World episode 11 2012: With warm weather and little risk of frost, Monty Don is planting out his tender annual plants into a container for colour and interest all summer long. He is also busy in the vegetable garden with tips and advice on how best to grow cauliflowers and protect them so that you get to eat them
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