Chris Packham explores Earth's worst mass extinction 252 million years ago, when up to 90% of species died and life was pushed to the brink. Yet life recovered, and a new geological era began that led to the age of the dinosaurs.
Episode 1Chris Packham explores Earth's worst mass extinction 252 million years ago, when up to 90% of species died and life was pushed to the brink. Yet life recovered, and a new geological era began that led to the age of the dinosaurs.
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Episode 2Earth's deep freeze began with fire: 800 million years ago, the supercontinent Rodinia broke apart. The rifting drew huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, triggering a chain of events that sent global temperatures plummeting long before dinosaurs or animal life.
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Episode 3Chris Packham tells how plant life transformed Earth from a barren rock into a green world over 4.5 billion years. From a water world with no land, asteroid strikes triggered plate tectonics, leading to fungi, soil and swamp forests, before early plants locked up carbon dioxide and temperatures plunged.
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Episode 4When the Earth first formed from clouds of dust and gas 4.6 billion years ago, it was - like so many other lifeless worlds in the universe - devoid of an atmosphere, an inhospitable rock floating in the black void of space. But as the young planet is pummelled by asteroids, a period of extraordinary upheaval begins.
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Episode 5Today, Earth is a human world, home to eight billion people and counting. Humans now have a greater effect in shaping Earth's surface than many natural processes. Chris Packham explores how dramatic twists in Earth's story enabled humans to go from being part of nature to controlling it and what can be learnt from this epic tale before it's too late.
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Red Eye is the collision of three worlds - DC Hana Li, Journalist Jess Li and MI5' Madeline Delaney. All three women are thrown into the same life-threatening conspiracy when a British doctor is arrested for murder upon flying home from Beijing.
A team of highly trained LAPD officers are tasked with tackling the city's toughest crimes. Led by veteran Sergeant Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson, they must navigate the complex politics of the department while keeping the streets safe. Along the way, they face personal and professional challenges that test their loyalties and put their lives on the line.
Adapted from the fifth Alex Rider novel, Season 3 sets the teenage spy on the tail of his greatest enemy. Under new leadership, the criminal cabal Scorpia plan to extort the British Government using a catastrophic new super-weapon. However, his ties to both organisations run deeper than he ever thought possible. 'Alex Rider' stars Otto Farrant in the titular role.
Editor Susan Ryeland is drawn into a new mystery while working on a continuation of the Atticus Pünd series. As a real-life murder investigation makes her a suspect, the novel itself follows Atticus on Corfu, where the murder of Lady Margaret Chalfont leads him deep into a web of family secrets.