The documentary film The Living Room of the Nation by director Jukka Kärkkäinen opens a poetic, portrait-like view into six Finnish living rooms. The film is a story of changes, loneliness, responsibilities and the unavoidable passing of time. The main characters are common Finnish people in different phases of life. Each of them is looking for something: human closeness, understanding or acceptance. The scale of events varies, but even as small and familiar they position the characters into dramatic situations. These individual everyday experiences converge into a sensitive and momentarily surreal story of human life.

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A programme tracing the extraordinary career of one of Britain's finest actors in comedy and drama. Robbie Coltrane talks candidly about his career as well as featuring exclusive interviews with JK Rowling, Jimmy McGovern, Keith Allen, Peter Richardson, Mike Newell, John Sessions, Rupert Grint and Gerladine Somerville. The multi-award winning actor has gone from edgy alternative comedian to performing in one of the most well-known roles in the Harry Potter films. Showing the funniest and finest moments of Robbie's career, this is a rollercoaster ride through the career of one of our most loved and respected performers.

Documentary celebrating the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, revealing the hidden world behind one of the greatest love stories of all time by restaging a regency ball at Chawton House, the grand estate of Jane Austen's brother. Amanda Vickery and Alastair Sooke lead a team of world class experts as they reconstruct the ball in loving detail, from music and dancing, to food and fashion.Jane Austen loved to dance and balls were hugely popular in early 19th century England. Crucially, a ball is also where Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy meet and begin their courtship. However very little is known about what they were actually like. What sort of music would they have danced to? How difficult were the steps? What were the clothes like to wear? And what did the food taste like?This film uses music from the Austen family archives, as well as dances and dishes mentioned in her novels and letters to recreate the experience of attending an early 19th century country ball - the sort of event that Austen had in mind when she wrote some of the most famous and powerful scenes in English literature.

Ever image what it feels like to look at Earth from space? Join the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour and take a thrilling journey to experience the beauty – in awesome High Definition – of our planet from 233 kilometres above Earth.

Discover how a young dentist secretly built a cocaine empire across America that produced millions of dollars’ worth of revenue during the '80s.This is the true-crime story of the multimillion-dollar yuppie drug ring run by a then, twenty-six year old Larry Lavin and two of his classmates. In the high-flying 1980's, Larry Lavin was a clean-cut, Ivy-League-educated dentist living the good life in suburban Philadelphia. But, what his upper crust neighbours didn't know was that Lavin led a double life - one that would finally be exposed by a shocking narcotics investigation. Awash in sex, drugs and money, Lavin oversaw a cocaine conglomerate, buying and selling enough white powder to anesthetize thirteen Eastern seaboard states … until the FBI cracked the ring.How was he able to create such a well-oiled network? And what brought about his untimely downfall?

Described as "the greatest woman rifle shot the world has ever produced," Annie Oakley thrilled audiences of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show with her daring shooting feats. Over time she became an American legend. But that legend had little to do with the real Annie Oakley. This probing AMERICAN EXPERIENCE production examines the dramatic life of a uniquely American icon whose complex character manifested many of the paradoxes of the nation.

Part 1: Tilting Trains & Formula One
In this first episode Peter Snow traces the history of the UK's experimental tilting trains of the 1970s and 80s. The Advanced Passenger Trains were intended to rival France's TGV and Japan's bullet train, but negative press and complaints about motion sickness helped scupper the project before it could get going, also in this episode the Lotus 25, an early 1960s racing car with a “revolutionary design that changed the world of Formula One forever

Part 2: Computer Games & Mobile Phones
In this episode Peter Snow meets the British engineers who led the mobile phone revolution in the early 80s. The story of the race between two companies’s to be the first to launch a mobile phone service in Great Britain The tiny company Racal – which became Vodafone - which challenged BT in the 1980s to create Britain's first mobile phone network; and Snow traces the development of Britain's £1.4 billion computer-game industry, which owes its success to the pioneering work of Cambridge undergrads David Braben and Ian Bell. Against all odds, their computer game Elite became a hit in the mid-1980s.

Part 3: The Harrier & The Black Arrow Rocket
Peter Snow meets the two designers of the Harrier Jump Jet also he tells the story of the inventors of the little known ˜Black Arrow, a satellite launching rocket. Back in the heady days of the mid 20th century, there was a growing feeling among British astrophysicists that they had as good a shot at space exploration as America or the USSR did, provided they could secure the funding. The usual Whitehall wrangle ensued, and a relatively small amount of money (£9m) was set aside for the so-called Black Arrow project, which would aim to build a cleverly powered launch device for satellites.

Two years in the making, "The Art of FLIGHT" gives iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and friends the opportunity to redefine what is possible in the mountains. Experience the highs, as new tricks are landed and new zones opened, alongside the lows, where avalanches, accidents, and wrong-turns strike.

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