Lucy Worsley tours a garden of inconspicuous, yet deadly plants used as poisons in Agatha Christie's novels.
Sir David Attenborough details the unique qualities that make Priam's Birdwing Butterflies so delightful.
Dara Ó Briain meets winemakers in Sicily who explain how Mount Etna makes their grapes one of a kind.
Formed over thousands of years, these woodlands in Wales are bursting with life on centuries-old trees.
In the deserts of the American Southwest, David Attenborough observes the nocturnal mating ritual of scorpions.
Photographing the Queen was once restricted until a photographer in the late 1950s caused a paparazzi boom.
Coins depicting Agrippina the Younger and her son Nero reveal a dramatic shift in power in Ancient Rome.
David Attenborough recounts his 1960 expedition to Madagascar, where he pieced together fragments of a giant egg.
While imprisoned by Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, wrote ciphered letters to plot against the British queen.