Britain From Above

Season 12008

An epic journey revealing the secrets, patterns and hidden rhythms of our lives from a striking new perspective. Join host Andrew Marr as he discovers how each and every one of us is interconnecting making Britain what it is today. Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird's eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways. Cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before.

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7 Episodes

E01 24 Hour Britain

From helicopters, planes, hang gliders and satellites, we see the picture of a nation constantly on the move with beautiful, varied and often mysterious landscapes. Swooping over towns and cities, allows Andrew Marr to see them from a new angle as he meets the people whose work takes them high above us to monitor and manage the networks that keep the country working.

August 10, 2008

E02 The City

Revealing the transformation of Britain's most important city: her capital, London. Starting with amazing Luftwaffe aerial photographs of the very first bombs of the Blitz falling on a vulnerable city, the programme tracks the changes that came out of five years of bombing. Comparing exhaustive footage of London in the 40s with the city of today, the team see how great plans for urban renewal were stillborn and, instead, London rebuilt itself in an ad hoc way along old street patterns. The only exception to this was the dramatic city that rose from the derelict docklands.

August 10, 2008

E03 Manmade Britain

In East Anglia, Andrew Marr flies 10,000 feet above ground to locate a patchwork quilt of fields that produce a quarter of the country's wheat and barley. He also investigates how farmers are using military-style spy planes and GPS technology to monitor their crops, and faces his biggest challenge yet - a daunting plummet from an airborne plane in his first ever skydive.

August 17, 2008

E04 The Land

In the heat of World War Two, 300,000 "unproductive" farms were commandeered by the government and tightly regimented to increase their output.

August 17, 2008

E05 Untamed Britain

Andrew Marr concludes his journey as he microlights and paraglides through the skies, getting a buzzard's eye view of the nation's untamed and untameable landscape. Along the way, he joins geologists, meteorologists, amateur photographers and festival goers to explore Britain's geology, the impact of the weather on our shores and the riches hidden beneath our feet.

August 24, 2008

E06 The Industrial Landscape

This final episode tells the story of how Britain's industrial heartlands have been transformed in the space of a single lifetime.

August 24, 2008

E07 Satellite Earth

Documentary telling the story of one satellite's journey into space and how global agencies and individuals are using satellites in all kinds of ways - farming their land from space, locating ancient water supplies hidden deep beneath the most arid desert regions and tracking ocean currents and the global mechanisms of climate change.

August 24, 2008

Britain From Above

E01 24 Hour Britain

E02 The City

E03 Manmade Britain

E04 The Land

E05 Untamed Britain

E06 The Industrial Landscape

E07 Satellite Earth

Paranormal Challenge

Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible

JoJo's Circus

Weapons of Power

Sanbiki no Ossan

O Rangreza

The Secret Life of Dogs

Mord in der Familie - Der Zauberwürfel

Lost Promise

Tom's Midnight Garden

Udaan

Perfect Tenant

K9 Cop

Kingdom of Dreams

İşte Kadınlar

Kefaret

The Crystal Maze

Home Invasion

E01 24 Hour Britain

E02 The City

E03 Manmade Britain

E04 The Land

E05 Untamed Britain

E06 The Industrial Landscape

E07 Satellite Earth