2018

BBC Natural World – Nature’s Biggest Beasts (2018)

BBC Natural World – Nature’s Biggest Beasts (2018)
English | Size: 1.26 GB
Category: Documentary

The world’s biggest beasts have always captured the imagination. But whilst being big can have its advantages, it also comes with sizeable challenges. Take the world’s largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, whose huge appetite means it must take on prey ten times its weight, or the tallest animal of them all – the giraffe – who, with such a long neck, must control immense blood pressure. Nature’s biggest beasts must go to extraordinary lengths to thrive. These are their epic survival stories!

BBC – Primal Scream: The Lost Memphis Tapes (2018)

BBC – Primal Scream: The Lost Memphis Tapes (2018)
English | Size: 947 MB
Category: Documentary

The programme shows Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie’s fascination with music from an early age, listening to the sounds of Elvis and Aretha Franklin before graduating to punk. He talks about his passion for music and how to keep creativity on the right track. In the early 90s the UK music scene was changing – with Oasis and Blur emerging, this alternative rock band was recording in Memphis but suddenly sounded out of step with the music scene.

Smithsonian Ch. – Bird vs. Plane Miracle on the Hudson (2018)

Smithsonian Ch. – Bird vs. Plane: Miracle on the Hudson (2018)
English | Size: 1.69 GB
Category: Documentary

Bird vs. Plane: Miracle on the Hudson
US Airways Flight 1549 is about two minutes into its journey from LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2009 when bird strikes to both engines cripple the plane. What results is an emergency landing on the Hudson River that astonishes the world and shines a light on a growing problem affecting our increasingly busy skies. Follow a team of forensic ornithologists and discover the remarkable research being conducted to solve the bird strike problem.

BBC Front Row Late – When Mary Met Clive (2018)

BBC Front Row Late – When Mary Met Clive (2018)
English | Size: 637 MB
Category: Tutorial

Mary Beard in conversation with author, critic and broadcaster Clive James.
After migrating to Britain from Australia in the 1960s, James established himself as a caustic and charismatic commentator on popular culture and a pioneer of television criticism. In his heyday, he was one of the most famous faces on British TV and secured access to some of the biggest stars of the day, including Mel Brooks, Jane Fonda and Frank Sinatra. He has gone on to prove himself a captivating memoirist, reflecting on a rich and eventful life, and also a major-league poet and translator.

BBC – Billy Connolly Made in Scotland (2018)

BBC – Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland (2018)
English | Size: 1.78 GB
Category: Documentary

In British comedy there is a line in the sand and that line is Billy Connolly. Before he found fame on an international level, British comedy was an end-of-the-pier kind of affair – but through sheer talent and force of personality, Connolly ploughed a different and deeply personal yet universal approach to comedy and in doing so he changed the face of British comedy forever.