Discovery频道真人秀节目,曾服役于英国特种部队的求生专家贝尔·格里尔斯每集被空降到一处环境恶劣、甚至有致命危险的无人地,如雨林、沙漠、丘陵、冰原等,浑身只携带一点简陋工具,由摄影小组全程记录他的整个逃生过程。他会利用各种求生技巧,包括判断方向、寻找水源、获取食物等等,我们可以惊异地看着贝尔大啖蛆、生肉、昆虫、爬虫,如何利用自己的尿液,如何用木棍击杀野兔,如何对抗烈日、寻找夜间藏身之所,最终成功在时限之内到达有人类活动的领域。从而教会观众在同等险境中该如何脱身。
Poet Simon Armitage traces the evolution of the Arthurian legend through the literature of the medieval age and reveals that King Arthur is not the great national hero he is usually considered to be. He's a fickle and transitory character who was appropriated by the Normans to justify their conquest, he was cuckolded when French writers began adapting the story and it took Thomas Malory's masterpiece of English literature, Le Mort d'Arthur, to restore dignity and reclaim him as the national hero we know today.
国家地理频道11月26日将播出一小时特别节目,《跟随詹姆斯·卡梅隆探寻20年后的泰坦尼克号》( Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron,暂译)。泰坦尼克号的发现者罗伯特·巴拉德将和卡梅隆,通过33次深潜所得到的数据和残骸,重新分析这艘巨轮沉默的真相,并有望推翻之前对这艘巨轮的推断。
Never before has money been so polarised in Britain. The richest 85 people now own more than half the UK population. The rise of the Super Rich has meant that wealth in the UK is dividing our society at an extraordinary rate - but how and why did it happen? In this two-part series, Jacques Peretti explores how the Super Rich are transforming the very fabric of British society. Why have the Super Rich flocked to Britain, and why does it matter to us? Peretti examines how the wealth of the top one percent of society does not exist in a bubble, but directly affects all of our lives.