Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time episode 1: Brian believes we are at the start of a new age of space travel, where space flight is on the verge of becoming routine. In this episode, he explores the latest science and takes a new look at his old films and asks: how far can …
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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 – The Pale Blue Dot: In this final episode Professor Brian Cox travels to Iceland, where the delicate splendour of a moon-bow reveals the colours that paint our world, and he visits a volcano to explain why the sun shines. By exploring how sunlight transforms …
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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 3 – The Moth and the Flame: Professor Brian Cox shows how Earth’s basic ingredients, like the pure sulphur mined in the heart of a deadly volcano in Indonesia, have become the building blocks of life. Hidden deep in a cave in the Dominican Republic lies …
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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 2 – Somewhere in Space-time: Professor Brian Cox follows Earth’s epic journey through space. He takes to the air in a top-secret fighter jet to race the spin of the planet and reverse the passage of the day. In Brazil, a monstrous wave that surges up …
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Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 1: Brian uncovers how the stunning diversity of shapes in the natural world are shadows of the rules that govern the universe. In Spain, he shows how an attempt by hundreds of people to build the highest human tower reveals the force that shapes our planet. …
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The Planets episode 5: in the final episode, Professor Brian Cox journeys to the remotest part of the solar system, a place that the most mysterious planets call home. These worlds remain shadowy for a simple reason. Beyond Saturn we have only ever visited the most distant planets once. Uranus – barely visible …
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The Planets episode 4 – Life Beyond the Sun: Saturn is the jewel of the solar system, the most seductive of all the planets, but as Professor Brian Cox reveals – it wasn’t born that way. Raised in the freezing outer reaches of the solar system, Saturn began life as a strange planet …
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The Planets episode 3 – The Godfather: Jupiter: Professor Brian Cox continues his exploration of the solar system with a visit to a planet that dwarfs all the others: Jupiter. Its enormous size gives it a great power that it has used to manipulate the other planets – a power both for good and bad …