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Retrospective documentary charting the rise and fall of Muhammad Ali.

Mark Gatiss examines the history of the horror film, from classic Hollywood monsters to Hammer's glory days and beyond.

Secret Britain explores the hidden corners of the UK in search of the best the countryside has to offer.

A Year of Adventures is the inspirational planning tool to take you all around the world in pursuit of action. Discover a whole range of extraordinary experiences

Presenter and horticulturalist Christine Walkden embarks on a journey to explore some of Britains most glorious gardens and countryside from a new perspective. She'll be taking us up, up and away in a hot air balloon for a birds eye view, exploring the rich social, horticultural and human history of a treasured garden gem, discovering how it was created and how it's an inspiration to others.

The early sound era of American horror films such as the Universal Horror franchise where Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff became its central players.

A look at the heyday of British horror cinema such as the lurid color monster films of Hammer Films.

A look at the rise of modern North American horror in the late 1960s and 1970s.

English athletic daredevil Ben Fogle prepares for Augusta, Western Australia's Anaconda adventure race, arguably the world's toughest, totaling 34 kilometer in rugged terrain, training for each leg in a site fit for that discipline, with a specialist trainer. First he swims ashore from San Fracisco's Alcatraz Island Then he and a chef friend run their home city's London rat race, mainly cycling, resorting to tricks for the site search question. Kayak is trained at West Wales's Pembrokeshire coastal 'Bitches'. The Australian terrain, including rocky coast boulders, and competitors make it all that much harder, yet multiple novice Ben finishes honorably.

English adventurer Ben Fogle resolves to the extreme cure for his acrophobia: climbing the steep Dolomites (Italian-Austrian border Alps) by way of the via ferrata, steel cables laid there during World war I. First he learns climbing trees, in Californian sequoias no less. Then he joins a friend's Icelandic glacier expedition, climbing and abseiling into macabre deep crevasses and diving in the tectonic rift between the Eurasian and North American plates. Finally he even enjoys the Italian mountaineering.

English adventurer Ben Fogle resolves to run another endurance adventure race. This time it's at high altitude so, as preparation, he does the 'Three Peaks' in the Italian Dolomite mountains near the Austrian border.

English adventurer Ben Fogle resolves to extreme climbing, on Utah desert's Castleton Tower peek. That first requires conquering his acrophobia: skydiving in Western Australia with a British Para veteran and paragliding over the steep Dolomites (Italian-Austrian border Alps) with twice world champion Parcher. His instructor and climbing mate in Utah come along first in canyons. The climb proves daunting and exhausting, yet succeeds despite worrisome weather.

English adventurer Ben Fogle resolves to partake in another adventure race, Western Australia's Gascoyne Dash outback car rally, starting at Carnarvon. His no less spectacular preparations start in the Czech former Warshaw pact air base of Pilsen, where he gets a unique crash course in fighter-induced g-force endurance. In Leicestershire, he learns to pilot a hovercraft.