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In the series finale, Mary cooks dishes inspired by her home and family. No matter how busy Mary is, her top priority is to have the family round for a meal and three generations of Mary's family visit her in the kitchen and get involved with the cooking. To start, a delicious Malay fried rice. It's Mary's husband Paul's favourite dish and bursting with flavour, it never fails to be a real crowd pleaser. One of Mary's joys in life is cooking with her grandchildren and it's no surprise that Mary's next dish, a delicious chicken pasta bake, has become one of their favourites! Next, the family come together to enjoy a delicious harrisa spiced lamb casserole - a perfect alternative to a Sunday roast. Then it's back to the kitchen where Mary's granddaughters are on hand to help make three different- flavoured scrumptious biscuits, all made from the same dough. To finish, Mary makes her easy lemon meringue pie - the perfect desert for a family gathering; s

Mary Berry takes inspiration from the great British tradition of growing your own on the allotment. Like many others, Mary's father turned his flowerbeds over to growing veg for the war effort and ever since then, Mary has been hooked on growing her own fruit and vegetables. In this programme, Mary travels to the Tangmere allotment in East Sussex, where she meets people from all walks of life growing their own, cooking and sharing recipes. The visit inspires Mary to cook some of her favourite dishes, including a recipe her own mother cherished - ginger orange poussin with freshly dug new potatoes. She also makes a classic chutney to use up any leftover harvest veg, a dinner party treat of winter root vegetables using a new cut of lamb, the foreshank, and an absolute strawberry crowd-pleaser. Whilst down at the allotment, Mary helps to prepare a harvest feast to celebrate the end of the growing season. Mary Berry's Absolute Favourites Ep.5 dishes:  1. Lucy’s strawberry slices [c

  One of Mary's pleasures is to shop for fresh, exciting, seasonal ingredients, and in this episode it's the local farmers' market that inspires Mary. There's nothing like meeting local producers and the feeling of knowing where your food comes from, and in this programme, Mary visits Guildford Famers' Market to source some wonderful fresh ingredients to take back to the kitchen. Firstly Mary prepares a delicious soup using one of her favourite seasonal vegetables - asparagus. Next it's a dinner party classic - chicken with lemon creme fraiche and asparagus. Farmers' markets are great places to source speciality goods like sunblushed tomatoes, fresh olives and chargrilled artichokes - all of which Mary uses in her spectacular five-market salad tapas. For busy mums and dads on the go, Mary reveals a one-dish wonder - a delicious sausage supper that all the family will love. To finish she whips up a special pavlova with red market fruits - perfect for a specia

In Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites Ep.3, Mary takes inspiration from the herb garden. Only dried herbs were available when Mary started cooking, but these days there is an abundance of fresh herbs that can turn an ordinary dish into something spectacular. First up, Mary demonstrates her favourite summer salad - watermelon and feta with lashings of fresh mint - before turning her hand to her grandchildren's favourite comfort dish of succulent tomato and herb meatballs. Her pesto lemon chicken is easy to assemble and is perfect for a summer lunch or light dinner, as is another of Mary's dinner party favourites - salmon, potato and prawn salad platter. As well as planting herbs with her granddaughters, Mary visits the Dairy in Clapham, south London, where the chef Robin Gill opens Mary's eyes to new ways of using fresh herbs. She finishes by adding a herby twist to her all-time favourite cake - a lemon drizzle cake, which she flavours with fresh lemon verbena from her garden.

In this episode, Mary is inspired by her love of the great British countryside. Brought up in the country, Mary still loves to go walking with her dogs and family, as well as forage for wild ingredients. She begins by preparing some delicious mushroom Scotch eggs – perfect for a country picnic hamper. Mushrooms are one of Mary’s all-time favourite ingredients and, assisted by expert advice, she goes foraging for wild varieties in the New Forest, before cooking her delicious garlic mushrooms on toasted brioche. To follow, Mary makes a simple game dish just perfect for a dinner party or family supper – paprika pheasant with mushroom sauce. [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Absolute-Favourites-ep.2.mp4" id="821" src="" poster="" loop="false" autoplay="true" preload="metadata" videopress_guid=""][/video]   Getting out and about in the B

Monty starts a new project - a cutting garden - and gives advice on what to grow to provide plenty of cut flowers for gorgeous summer bouquets.  We visit Cumbria to meet Jack Gott, who has been passionate about that most flamboyant of flowers, the dahlia, for more than 40 years and has over a thousand plants in his garden. James Alexander-Sinclair celebrates a harbinger of spring, the ephemeral cherry blossom, at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. In Gardeners World episode 6 2016:    The Alnwick Garden The garden’s Cherry Orchard is the largest of its kind in the world. Planted with 350 graceful ‘Tai-haku’ cherry trees, it becomes a beautiful cloud of white during blossom time. Growing cut flowers Many garden plants can be enjoyed as cut flowers and foliage in the home, offering cheaper and diverse alternatives to florist flowers. Borders can be adapted to provide cutting material throughout the year. Alternatively, dedicate a part of the garden to growing cut flowers. Hardy annuals:

Titian genius and significance in European art are undisputed. Trained at the Giovanni Bellini workshop and influenced by working together with Giorgione, he came to a masterly use of colour, light and shade. His oeuvre contains everything his times demanded: drama, carnal lust, religious fervour, mythology and portraits. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff takes us to the places where the renaissance artist devised his works and worked for the most influential courts. Contemporaries of Titian , such as Vasari and Aretino, also get a look in and we see that, in addition to being a gifted portrait-painter, Titian was also a skilled businessman. Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante's Paradiso), Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of colour, w

Due to warfare, instability, and inaccessibility--there are specific regions of the world that are off-limits to exploration. These forbidden sites are often ground zero for chaos and the destruction of ancient artifacts and irreplaceable records detailing mankind's origins and history. In Iraq and Syria, thousands of ancient artifacts and relics have been deliberately destroyed. Museums and excavation sites across Egypt have been looted multiple times. In the highlands of Tibet and the jungles of Central America, sacred texts have been systematically destroyed. Could this all be by design? Ancient Astronaut theorists propose that there may be profound historical objects and information buried at these sites--ancient knowledge, technology, or perhaps the truth about our alien past. Is there a plot to conceal information? And could extraterrestrials be intervening in the cover up?   Ancient Aliens season 8 ep.8 Circles from the Sky Over 10,000 crop circles have been reported worldwi

At the time of Elizabeth I, the greatest power in the world was not England or France , it was the Ottoman Empire – one of the world's first truly global and multicultural Empires. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/East-to-West-–-A-Force-from-the-Desert-ep.6.mp4"][/video]   The film follows the rise of the Ottomans in the Anatolian city of Bursa and tells the dramatic story of how they conquered Byzantium and transformed Istanbul. The great Topkapı Palace of Istanbul is the stage on which we describe the growth of the Ottoman Empire and hear of the unprecedented developments in science and the arts ushered in by the rule of enlightened Sultans. East to West is an exciting seven part series charting the birth and flourishing of civilization in the Near and Middle East, and its huge influence on the West. A largely untold story, and a fresh perspective, the series charts the spread of civilisation ac

Eight Days That Made Rome is a docu-drama that leaves behind the conventional chronologies of Rome's thousand-year history and brings razor-sharp focus to eight days that created, tested and defined its greatness.Each programme works as a stand-alone, as strong in its own right as part of a series and reveals a Rome relevant to us today, with its noblest and darkest instincts still resonating in the world around us. [videopress EMRCYzh7 w="600" permalink="false" hd="true"] Bettany Hughes recalls eight pivotal days that defined the Roman Empire and its establishment as the world's first superpower. She begins by exploring the day in 202BC when Rome defeated the might of Carthage under Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in modern-day Tunisia. This was a decisive moment, setting Rome on the path to greatness and exemplifying the military muscle and supreme ambition on which its empire would be built. Hannibal's Last Stand This first episode covers the

Monty Don gives advice on how to cut and maintain hedges as well as giving ideas on growing fruit in pots. Carol Klein chooses varieties of late-flowering clematis as her plant of the month, Nick Bailey travels to the southern tip of Cornwall to seek out a plant which escaped from our gardens and is now threatening rare and native plants, and Adam Frost uncovers the secrets of successful planting combinations in an Oxfordshire garden.  Mark Lane joins the enthusiasts who have lovingly restored a walled garden in Warwick as they open their gates to the public for the first time, and we visit a garden in Yorkshire where foliage and not flowers are of paramount importance. Gardeners World episode 20 2017 :  1. Clematis cuttings Clematis are dead easy to propagate from internodal cuttings. If you fancy having a go, Carol Klein shows you exactly what to do.  2. Hedges: trimming Established hedges require trimming to keep them dense and compact. Formal hedges require more frequent trimming

  In this delightful six-part series, the nation's best-loved home cook draws on her wealth of cookery know-how to share a selection of her absolute favourite recipes. Each week, Mary draws inspiration from a favourite place, one where she loves to spend time, and cooks up tried and tested crowd pleasers as well as a bounty of new dishes that are easy to make, yet guaranteed to impress all your family and friends. In the first programme, Mary draws on inspiration from some of her earliest and fondest memories from her childhood holidays and regular trips to the British seaside. To start, Mary prepares some delicious goat's cheese and shallot tarts with a different, but delectable, walnut pastry, perfect for a picnic hamper or day out at the sea. To follow, a family favourite - her right royal crab and cod fishcakes with tomato salsa, followed by a special dinner party classic of sea bass with brown shrimp and caper sauce. As well as cooking her seaside favourites, Mary visits B

Mary has shown us how to cook Sunday lunches, afternoon teas and dinner parties. Now, in the final episode of the series, it's a summer party. For Mary's outdoor party, the dishes are best served cold: salmon fillets with herb sauce, ham with homemade chutney, and fillet of beef with garlic and mustard cream. To accompany the cold meats and fish there are two salads: fiery red rice and broad bean and little gem. And what better way to finish off a summer lunch, and the series, than Mary's summer pudding. Mary Berry Cooks ep.6 Summer Lunch dishes:   1. Summer pudding loaf [caption id="attachment_776" align="alignnone" width="300"] Summer pudding loaf[/caption] This is an easier to make version of the classic summer pudding that everyone loves so much and is easy to serve being loaf shaped.   2. Summer fruit smoothie [caption id="attachment_777" align="alignnone" width="300"] Summer fruit smoothie[/caption] Smoothi

Mary Berry is throwing a casual weekday supper. With lots of clever tips for making life easy in the kitchen, she reveals dishes made for sharing around the kitchen table with a few close friends. Her Mediterranean platter of houmous, bread sticks, roasted vegetables and a tomato and mozzarella salad is perfect food for sharing on a summer's evening. For hungry guests Mary offers lamb dhansak, or the ultimate in comfort food, cottage pie with dauphinoise potato topping. And for those occasions when you need to get food on the table fast, Mary has a pasta dish which takes just 15 minutes to make. She also shows how to make elderflower cordial and a crunchy apple crumble.  1. 15 minute pasta [caption id="attachment_766" align="alignnone" width="300"] 15 minute pasta[/caption] This is my standby pasta supper as it is so delicious, so quick and everyone loves it. Great for everyday or for casual supper parties too. 2. Apple crumble with walnuts and sunflo

Mary Berry is cooking dishes for a family celebration and that means having enough to go round for a crowd of hungry guests. Mary makes cooking a buffet supper for a special occasion seem almost effortless,with recipes for beef and mushroom stew with mustard mash, salmon en croute with a foolproof salad, and chocolate and orange panna cotta. Plus her meringue tranche with berries and cream is guaranteed to impress your friends and family. Mary Berry Cooks - For a Crowd dishes: 1. Rich beef and mushroom stew [caption id="attachment_757" align="alignnone" width="300"] Rich beef and mushroom stew[/caption] This is a rich and comforting stew that is smart enough to serve for a dinner party. I like to serve it with mashed potatoes or my potatoes dauphinoise and a green vegetable.  2. Foolproof green salad [caption id="attachment_758" align="alignnone" width="300"] Foolproof green salad[/caption] There is nothing worse than a bori

There are plans for propagating and planting at Longmeadow this week when Monty Don plants up a new bed of irises and takes pelargonium cuttings. Nick Bailey brightens up a dull and shady space at the side of a terraced house and gives advice on plants that will thrive, Carol Klein pays the first of two visits to West Yorkshire to meet a couple whose outstanding planting has resulted in a garden full of late summer interest and Joe Swift takes a close look at a sloping and shady town garden to find out how the owner has designed this difficult space. We also meet a gardener in Dorset who took on the challenge of an overgrown coastal garden to create an Italianate idyll and take an in-depth look at one of the most colourful of summer stalwarts - the pelargonium. Gardeners World episode 19 2017 : 1. Irises for dry soil (bearded iris) Classics of the traditional herbaceous border, and popular in contemporary garden designs, bearded irises welcome summer with their wide colour palette.  2.

In the Beechgrove Garden, Jim is in the conservatory showing how to prune camellias, while Carole puts together hanging baskets with some new plant introductions. [videopress y3ItXwMG w="560" h="360" hd="true"] This is Carole's second visit to new gardeners in a mature garden, Mark and Aileen Snowden, in Newport on Tay and this time, Carole creates a fruit border for the family. Carole is also treated to a spectacular spring show in the 'auricular theatre' at Rumbling Bridge Nursery. The Beechgrove Garden episode 7 This week Jim and George were in the Conservatory keeping out of the rain. The citrus plants are looking splendid with pest-free, healthy-looking growth. They have been kept inside over the winter with a little watering to keep them going. Jim commented that plants in glazed pots can be very easily overwatered, whereas those in unglazed pots lose moisture quickly, so you need to be careful with watering. It is easier to keep plants i

  This spectacular episode explores the extraordinary powers and civilizations that have emerged from central Asia. First the Seljuk Turks took on the Byzantines, pushing their way into Anatolia. In a cave in Cappadocia we discover a long lost painting that reveals how the two cultures co-existed. We follow the Mongol invasions – in Bukhara we explore its destruction and in Esfahan, Iran we see how the Mongols eventually converted to Islam and began to settle. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/East-to-West-–-A-Force-from-the-Desert-ep.5.mp4"][/video]   Then in Uzbekistan again the episode traces the rise of Timur and explores the glories of Samarkand. Finally we follow the successors of Timur as they spread south into India, creating the wonders of the Mughal Empire. East to West is an exciting seven part series charting the birth and flourishing of civilization in the Near and Middle East, and its hug

On March 19th, 2002, Gary McKinnon was arrested for hacking into 97 Pentagon and NASA computers over a 13-month period, in what authorities call the "biggest military computer hack of all time." McKinnon claimed that he found evidence of a secret American space fleet, by way of a list of dozens of "non-terrestrial officers" and their assigned spacecraft, replete with USSS (United States Space Ship) monikers.   Might the United States military really have a secret space program? And if so, are we preparing for a space-based war with other nations... or other species? Ancient Astronaut theorists suggest that there are numerous factions of alien races with competing agendas visiting Earth, and that there is evidence they have been in conflict with each other for thousands of years. According to these theorists, there is evidence that these alien wars actually took place here on Earth in the distant past--not between gods, but between extraterrestrial visitors. Ancient

As an island nation the sea has exerted a powerful influence on some of Britain's best known artists. Writer and poet Owen Sheers explores British art and literature inspired by the high seas - Art of the sea. Art of the sea - In Pictures It has led to some of the finest British paintings from the likes of Constable and Turner and continues to be fertile territory for prominent artists today. Poet and author Owen Sheers examines our changing relationship to the sea over the last four centuries and how this is reflected in the work of artists who have tried to capture its ever-changing essence in the stillness of a canvas, sculpture or photograph. Art of the sea - In Words Novelist Joseph Conrad described the sea as another planet. Majestic, dramatic and sometimes terrifying, the sea has held a real fascination for British writers. From Shakespeare to Coleridge, Robert Louis Stevenson to Patrick O'Brian, it has inspired some of our most gifted authors.  Poet and novelist Owen Sh

Shroud of Turin This year is the 29th anniversary of the C14 dating of the Shroud of Turin that identified the most famous relic in Christendom as a fake. But since then, despite many attempts, no one has been able to determine who the forger was or how it might have been done. Rageh Omaar sets out to find out exactly what it is about the image that has defied imitation and explores new evidence that challenges the verdict on the Shroud. With unique access to the Shroud itself and those closest to it, Rageh goes on his own journey of discovery. He also visits the leader of the 1978 US investigation that was given access to the cloth for a week, Dr John Jackson, who reveals the results from the data collected and a lifetime of research. Two other Shrouds of Christ have existed at different times down the centuries. One is the Shroud of Constantinople, described as having an image of Christ and stolen by the Crusaders in 1204. The Turin Shroud appeared 150 years later in the family of on

Rick enjoys a hearty steak and eggs American diner special and bids a fond farewell to his trusty Ford Mustang as he heads across what is reputed to be the busiest border crossing in the world – San Diego to Tijuana – to begin his Mexican adventures.  He follows the Pacific coastline down to Ensenada, sampling flour tortilla burritos and fresh fish landed, marinated and cooked on Popotla Beach, before visiting the Valle de Guadalupe – Mexico’s best-kept secret for fabulous wines and the jewel in its culinary crown for Baja Med cuisine.  1. Fish tacos 'Ensenada' (Tacos de Pescado Ensenada) [caption id="attachment_709" align="alignnone" width="300"] Fish tacos 'Ensenada'[/caption] For many years the beaches on the north coast of Cornwall were patrolled by Australian lifeguards. One was Rudy, who used to return year after year so we filmed a sequence about a trip he’d made to Ensenada on the Baja California coast, where they made fabulous fi

Rick Stein continues travelling down the Californian coastline immortalised by Steinbeck, past citrus groves, vineyards that inspired one his favourite movies, Sideways, and into the city of dreams, Los Angeles. There, movie icons of old like Charlie Chaplin enjoyed eating lamb's kidney with bacon alongside the perfect martini on Hollywood Boulevard and where the A-listers of today opt instead for chopped salad off the avenues of Beverly Hills. On the edge of Downtown LA, Rick discovers Olvera Street, where the Hispanic origins of the city took root. Then onwards, south to San Diego, where he meets 79-year-old Peter Halmay, the oldest sea-urchin diver in town, and where a local fishmonger cooks him the best fish chilli he has ever had.  1. Clementine and almond cake [caption id="attachment_703" align="alignnone" width="300"] Clementine and almond cake[/caption] This cake is a celebration of Californian citrus fruit. After the gold rush, the prosperity

Rick Stein journeys from northern California to Mexico, enjoying unique dishes and the enduring legacy of Mexico. It was 1968, and having heard the Mamas and Papas' California Dreaming, Rick was filled with a desire to embark on his own road trip down the Pacific Coast Highway to the Mexican border and beyond.       Nearly 50 years later, he's back to retrace his steps. In episode one, Rick enjoys sitting on the dock of the bay in San Francisco, tasting legendary dishes like the hangtown fry - oyster pancake; a dish that can trace its origins to the California gold rush, which created the most famous Chinatown in the world. San Francisco is also the home of sourdough and where America's love affair with seasonal cooking took hold. Particularly important to the spread of this philosophy were groundbreaking restaurants like Chez Panisse, run by the legendary Alice Waters, who Rick is keen to meet. But it is also where he got his first taste of Mexican food. Enchiladas, gu

In Gardeners World episode 18 2017, at the height of summer, it is time to ensure that fruits and vegetables are given attention to ensure maximum cropping. Monty Don gives advice on the summer pruning of fruit trees, as well as showing how to get the best from tomatoes and chillies. He also recommends plants which will carry on flowering into autumn. Carol Klein meets one of her gardening heroes, Roy Lancaster, and joins him as he reminisces on his life and explains his passion for plants. Nick Bailey is on the trail of some more alien invaders to our gardens, and we travel to Wales to meet a chef who has taken on a field in which to grow vegetables. Monty pays a visit to an extraordinary garden in Berkshire and we continue our 50-year celebrations when Rachel de Thame reflects back on how we used to garden 50 years ago. Joe Swift and Flo Headlam begin an exciting new project to celebrate our golden anniversary when they help a community create a garden in Wiltshire. Gardeners World e

Seed scattered and sown, and lawns grown and mown. Carole shows us an easy way to sow flower seeds while Jim toils away on the lawn. Then it's sweet pea planting - scrambling v cordon-trained. Chris is back with Jenny and Euan MacLean in Linlithgow for a second visit to their nightmare plot and this time it's dreamy breakfast-and-teatime terraces and the perfect pergola.   [videopress dvlurNeJ w="560" permalink="false" hd="true"]   George is still in a tight corner tending his small-space vegetable garden. Carole visits Hamish McKelvie and his prickly friends in Houston, Renfrewshire. Since boyhood, Hamish has built up a huge collection of cacti. The Beechgrove Garden episode 6 Jim, Carole and George were in the Cutting Garden on a bright, sunny morning at Beechgrove. The soil was well-drained and in good condition despite the surprising snow fall a few days earlier. Jim and Carole were planting sweet peas and George was nearby planting chrysanthem

It's daffolicious in the Beechgrove garden as Jim takes a look at his trial of new versus old daffodils to see if traditional beats contemporary in the daffodil world. [videopress 1mjlkH9Y w="560" permalink="false" hd="true"] Meanwhile George further tests that theory as he visits Backhouse Daffodils near Auchtermuchty who have daffodils that are the origins of many of the modern daffodils in use today. Chris reviews his climbers for every aspect and to complement them he adds roses to the cutting garden. Pruning is sometimes a thorny issue and so Carole and Jim are pruning their way around the garden to show us how to take the mystery out of it. Spring Bedding Carole took a look at the Northern Lights spring bedding display and layered bulbs in pots. This led on to the design of a display around the colours of the Northern Lights with a swirly abstract pattern. Carole pointed out the vivid Tulip praestans ‘Shogun’, which had opened up in the sunshine

In the Beechgrove Garden Jim is plants 'heirloom vegetables' to compare performance with contemporary interlopers. [videopress Z243Xwfo w="560" permalink="false" hd="true"] In the first of several monthly visits to Scone Palace garden, head gardener Brian Cunningham unveils his plans for a tribute to local plant hunter David Douglas.   When Euan and Jenny Maclean moved into their new build house in Linlithgow it was the house of their dreams. Over the course of this series, Chris is going to guide the new to gardening couple to turn a nightmare of a space into a garden to match their dream home. Decking Garden Vegetables Carole was in the Decking Garden, which is all about growing ornamental plants, fruit and vegetables in containers.This is ideal if you have a small garden or just a patio or balcony. Carole explained that this year she was going to introduce some compact-growing fruit to this area. She had selected two varieties of raspberry and o

Over 10,000 crop circles have been reported worldwide, appearing in 50 different countries, and nearly every continent on Earth. These strange designs pressed into crop fields range from simple circles to elaborate pictograms thousand of feet long. The phenomenon has been associated with scientific anomalies, strange lights, and even UFO activity. But critics say that they are all part of an elaborate hoax. But are they? Crop circles have been making modern headlines since the 1960's, but their history can be traced back hundreds--if not thousands of years. The designs themselves often contain encrypted messages and complex mathematical, geometric, and astronomical equations that perplex our top mathematicians and scientists. Ancient Astronaut Theorist, Giorgio Tsoukalos travels to England to meet with researchers and scientists to investigate the phenomenon both on the ground and in the lab to find out what we haven't been told. Ancient Aliens season 8 ep.7 Creatures of the De

In this episode we reveal how a golden age of invention and scholarship thrived in the Islamic World at a time when Europe lingered in the dark age. We see how Muslim scholars brought together for the first time the ideas of the Greeks and Romans with Persian and Indian mathematics and astronomy, and developed them into the beginnings of modern Science. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://video-clump.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/East-to-West-–-A-Force-from-the-Desert-ep.4.mp4"][/video]   We reveal the first contacts by which European scholars discovered this treasury of knowledge and how it was developed by generations of Arab-admirers (including Galileo & Copernicus) into modern science. This episode focuses on the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the great university mosques of Cairo and uncovers ancient documents translated in Baghdad by Islamic scholars, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. East to West is an exciting seven part series chart

Venus, Earths Twin How can two such similar planets have become so different? One is the crucible of life, the other an inferno with a surface scorched by raining acid, yet both began as almost identical bodies. With Venus prominent in the sky in May, the team explores our nearest neighbour, discovering how it formed and how ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has revealed the secrets of its atmosphere.   Dr Lucie Green explores what happened to leave Venus with searing temperatures and acid rain, and talks to Climate expert Dr Hugo Lambert about whether it could happened to Earth.

In August of 2014, Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station discovered something incredibly unexpected covering parts of the windows--living sea plankton. If sea life can thrive in space, might the reverse be true as well? Might there be alien life forms that inhabit our seas? Throughout history, there have been tales of strange creatures hiding in Earth's waters. While many discount stories of sea monsters as purely mythological, it is estimated that Earth's oceans are home to between 700,000 to one million species and shockingly, two-thirds of those species still remain unknown. Considering the recent discovery that some sea life can survive in outer space, is it possible that tales of giant creatures like the Kraken and The Loch Ness Monster are evidence of extraterrestrial entities taking refuge beneath the seas? Ancient Aliens season 8 ep.6 - The Other Earth Billions of dollars have been spent in our quest to find an "other Earth." Since the laun