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- The hats are off as we get behind the reviewing process and into the kitchens of 3 top Sydney chefs. Featuring celebrity chef Matt Moran, this series launched the TV careers of chef Luke Nguyen and food critic Matthew Evans.
- This is the story of a typical contemporary Australian family. Skye is getting married to Lachlan. They have to tell her mother, stepfather, father, step mother, his father, his new wife, his mother and her girlfriend. Not counting grandparents, aunt and friends. They live with Skye's stepfathers son and best mate who is in love with Skye.
- To an outsider, the Hatfields would appear to be the perfect Queensland family. Suntanned, popular, attractive and outgoing, this busy family is heavily involved in their semi-rural local community. But something is seriously wrong. The Hatfields are very sick.
- Ilana Kempler redesigned many of the contemporary features in her immaculate villa in Melbourne equipped with all the mod cons and large entertaining areas. She believes that dust triggers her asthma, and is a self-confessed 'clean freak', but despite all her efforts the dust keeps coming back within hours of turning on the ducted air conditioning system. But it's not always what you can see which is the problem, the invisible indoor air can be harmful too.
- On a whim, ex-army photographer Kevin Walton and his wife Sarah sold their newly self-renovated house in Bristol and told their 8 year-old daughter Joely to pack her bags for a year long road trip across Australia. With a swimming pool and lush tropical surrounds, the home was way beyond anything the Walton's could afford back home. And the whole family lapped up the Australian outdoors lifestyle. But Kevin now feels that the house is killing him!
- The stories of the one million post-war Britons who paid ten pounds to emigrate to Australia in one of the biggest planned migrations of the twentieth century.
- Bronwyn and Brian Edler chose their home for its tranquil location in the outskirts of Sydney. Surrounded by gum trees in a quiet neighbourhood, it seemed the ideal place to raise their two young sons, Nathan, 2, and Sebastian, 9 months. Little do they know the extent of the mould in their house and the insidious effect it is having on their ill health.
- In winter Trenna and Steve Moore play with their three young boys in a large family room heated by an un-flued gas heater, but after one son was hospitalized with asthma, they discover several toxic time bombs in their home.
- Arzu and Ismail Adiguzel-Bekir live in suburban Melbourne in a vibrant, multi-cultural community. It was important for them when choosing their home three years ago that it have a backyard and room for their young children, Ela, 3 and Taha, 1, to play. However, Arzu, a cancer nurse, worries that her home is a toxic time-bomb for her children.
- Parents-to-be Hanna and Jock are renovating their two bedroom Sydney bungalow. Even before birth, their child has been exposed to hundreds of chemical compounds, many of which could harm their child's health and development.
- The Australian Federal Police find adventure and challenges in the Pacific region as they join the multinational police force know as the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Island (RAMSI) and embark on a tour of duty to East Timor.
- Set 5 years in the future. After years without rain fire engulfs the entire city.
- A cutting-edge science program exploring Artificial Intelligence with one of the world's greatest minds -Professor Rodney Brooks as he races to create the world's first affordable personal robot. "In just twenty years the boundary between fantasy and reality will be rent asunder. Just five years from now that fantasy will be breached in ways that are as unimaginable to most people today as daily use of the World Wide Web ten years ago."
- The Hobbit Enigma examines one of the greatest controversies in science today: just what did scientists really find when they uncovered the tiny, human-like skeleton of a strange creature on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003? Since the discovery was made public a bitter dispute has split the world of anthropology. Are the bones a previously unknown and bizarre primitive species of human? The Hobbit discovery forces us to rethink some of the most fundamental questions of human origins. How could the Hobbits have survived for so long and until so recently? Who were its ancestors? Is it possible that human origins are to be found in Asia, not Africa?
- Andrew McAuley attempted what many believed was impossible - a solo kayak expedition across the world's most treacherous ocean.
- Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.
- The legendary story of Australian climber Lincoln Hall, who was pronounced dead close to the summit of Mount Everest and lived to tell the tale.
- Historian Michael Cathcart tells the epic story of how the colourful characters of early colonial Australia transformed a penal settlement into a land with rights and opportunity in a mere 40 years. This sweeping two-part dramatised documentary covers formative events in Australia's history, including the Rum Rebellion and early court cases, which established independence and civil rights for all settlers. Rogue Nation explores how a fledgling colony on the wrong side of the globe was rapidly transformed from a place of punishment to a place of opportunity; a confident and prosperous community. It examines the fight for power and control between two powerful interest groups--the wealthy and entrepreneurial landowners and the offspring of convict settlers who took on the governors appointed by the Colonial Office in London. Rogue Nation introduces well known figures including pastoralist John Macarthur, barrister and newspaper proprietor William Wentworth, and Governors William Bligh, Lachlan Macquarie and Ralph Darling. And it shows how a handful of driven, anti-authoritarian and fiercely independent men saw off several British governors, encouraged upheaval and learnt the art of politics - discovering that debates, pressure groups and propaganda could change governments and shape policy. In doing so, they helped to lay the foundations of the prosperous liberal democracy of Australia.
- Historian Michael Cathcart introduces William Wentworth and the "Emancipists", a loose-knit group of former convicts and their children who take on British Governor Ralph Darling in the 1820s in a struggle for independence and civil rights in colonial Australia. Set in Sydney in the 1820s, the second part of the dramatised documentary history series "Rogue Nation" delves into the conflict between the visionary Governor Lachlan Macquarie, who believes in the redemption of convicts and a fair go for all, and those who argue that his social experiment has gone too far. After 25 years as a penal colony, Sydney's white population has grown to around 36,000, the convict class is creating a new identity, the giant textile mills of industrial England are hungry for wool and the booming Australian pastoral industry, led by John Macarthur, relies on cheap convict labour to supply it. But with the industrial revolution comes a revolution of ideas and Macquarie believes in treating ex-convicts and their children as the equals of free immigrants-granting them land, government jobs, rights and respect. It's a controversial view and strategic lobbying by the pastoralists leads to Macquarie's recall and replacement by Governor Ralph Darling, whose mission is to reassert imperial authority and reinforce the colony's status as a place of punishment. But it won't happen without a fight and the "Emancipists", championed by newspaper proprietor-turned-barrister William Wentworth, challenge Darling head on. At stake is the question of whether a penal colony can ever become a nation. Two high profile cases, the Sudds and Thompson torture scandal and the Jane New trial, expose the frailty of Darling's rule as the "Emancipists" fight back with calls for justice and independence. The despised Governor is sent packing to a colourful Sydney farewell.
- Shannon Lush, is at long last bringing her incredible knowledge, unrivaled skills and eco-friendly cleaning to television. A publishing sensation and radio star, Shannon is the author of best-selling books Spotless, Speed Cleaning and How to Be Comfy (over one million sold in Australia alone). In Lush House Shannon will combine her unique know-how with a mission to instill domestic well being and happiness - she wants nothing more than to transform the homes of the nation.
- Generations of parents have wondered why their children turn into obnoxious, argumentative, angst- ridden, reckless, lazy and rebellious monsters. Whatever! has the answers. Using a series of ground-breaking on-screen scientific tests, we will tread where adults fear to go. This series will combine observational documentary of family life and teens behaving badly, with carefully designed scientific challenges that put our teenagers to the test. Experts will be on hand to give physical, physiological and psychological analysis of the way teenagers behave while we talk to teenagers and parents to give us a 360 degree view of the experiments and what they could mean in everyday life.
- The Making of Modern Australia is a landmark social history series that tells the big stories of post-war Australia through the eyes and the personal archives of those that lived it - the people of Australia themselves.
- Legend has it that Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's first female pharaoh, sent ships to the land of Punt. Cheryl Ward sets out to recreate the voyage
- Australia's most feared food critic, Matthew Evans, has chucked in his city life for small farm living in Tasmania where he'll have to learn from scratch how to grow and rear his own food.
- The transformation from big city living begins as Matthew, a novice yet determined farmer, settles into his rural haven.
- Nova explores ancient Egyptian techniques of ship building by following a team of archaeologist as they construct a ship based on ancient designs.
- A travel guide to the very alien planets of our Solar System.
- Pork is on the menu as Matthew makes prosciutto and learns what to do with offal, and buys his own little piglets.
- Have you ever thought of blasting off to the King of the Planets? For a truly out of this world planetary experience, you should head beyond the Asteroid Belt to the largest planet in the solar system. Welcome to Jupiter, a world so roomy that it could swallow every planet and moon in the solar system and still have room for more. Yet for all its bulk there is nowhere to land, just an infernal drop into a bottomless sky. If you like solid ground beneath your feet, there's plenty of that as well. Encircled by some 63 moons and moonlets, Jupiter is like a miniature solar system all of its own. The four biggest moons offer off-world travel opportunities to die for. Rent by eruptions and bathed in intense radiation, Io is the most volcanic place in the Solar System, at once incredibly beautiful and astoundingly dangerous. But it is tiny, frozen neighbor Europa that everyone is trying to reach. Hidden beneath its icy crust is a vast alien ocean, warmed from within, and offering one of the best chances for an encounter with aliens that we have found beyond Earth.
- Swapping land for sea, Matthew and his mates embark on a fishing adventure and return in time to harvest late-ripening tomatoes.
- Matthew sets up his partnership with an artisan producer at Salamanca Markets and learns some valuable lessons: long hours, hard physical work and low profit margins.
- Matthew's crash course in agrarian ways finds him settling into the routine of life on the farm, but that also brings new and confronting challenges.
- Matthew's farm is not yet a land of milk and honey, but he does his best for the milk component.
- Take a trip to Saturn, the planetary pin-up boy, and not only do you get a ringside seat to the greatest spectacle in the solar system, but a close encounter with two extraordinary moons. Tiny Enceladus is making all the headlines as the must-see moon these days. It's the little moon that has it all: enormous geysers of water and ice shooting into space from the south pole point to a warm salty ocean beneath the surface and, perhaps, a real possibility of life. Even more earth-like and yet far more alien is Titan, with a thick atmosphere and weather. Potentially an easier surface to explore even than Mars, this is the only other world we know that you could visit without a spacesuit. Rug up for the cold and fly a hot air balloon in Titanian skies, trek across vast dune fields, or row across a Titanian lake. Just don't fall in or get caught in the rain: it's liquid natural gas out here, not water, and it'll freeze you as hard as rock.
- It's winter and time to head off the farm for another culinary adventure, deep in the central highlands of Tasmania.
- Hosting a Bastille Day lunch to showcase a range of delicacies to loyal stall patrons seems like a good idea- but it's illegal.
- Baking is always a good option in winter so Matthew focuses on bread, cakes and biscuits.
- Matthew is nearing the end of his first year on the farm and it's time to reflect on lessons learned and to celebrate his accomplishments with old mates and new friends.
- Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave Earth? To lose sight of our home planet and go where no human has gone before? Blast-off with Voyage to the Planets: a 6 x 50 minute documentary series exploring the pleasures and pitfalls of travel to the very alien planets of our own Solar System. What strange sights await you? What dangers must you avoid? Voyage to the Planets visits the planets from two very personal perspectives: the direct experience of the people who have sent probes hurtling to all our cosmic neighbours, and the viewpoint of any one of us who might dream of making a trip ourselves. Take a ringside seat to the splendours of the Solar System with Voyage to the Planets: an astronaut's guide to whole new worlds of possibility.
- From Baby Boomers to Gen Y, has the innocence of childhood been lost?
- Once "home" was about shelter and security, now is it just a means of accumulating wealth and status?