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As the saying goes they probably seemed like good ideas at the time.
The world is peppered with examples of incredible engineering projects and buildings designed to make life easier for those that used them, amaze those that came to see them, and make money for those that ordered, designed and built them. They were the stuff of dreams.

Featuring intimate interviews with victims of the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.

In 1955 US evangelist Billy Graham arrived on an ‘All Scotland Crusade’ aimed at saving the country for Christianity.

During the Cold War, amidst great austerity and mounting agnosticism, Graham arrived like a Christian Elvis and wowed more than a million people during a six-week residency at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall and major stadium events at Hampden, Ibrox and Tynecastle football grounds.

This brand-new and exclusive two-part series tells the story of the Royal Flying Corps’ bitter struggle for air superiority over the Western Front during World War I, a horrifying conflict more thought of a trench-based war.

A look at the history of Iran and Iraq's bloody conflicts during the 20th century and a recent development by both sides to quell the growth of the Islamic State. An examination of climate change on the wine industry around the world.

The stories of deep-space explorers who are risking their careers, and even their lives, to lead humanity to worlds yet to be seen.

Using the latest in archaeology, anthropology and genetics, this series tells the story of where the modern world began. Incorporating studies of artifacts, renowned sites of archaeological interest and interviews with leading experts, it moves around the geographic zones of the world, exploring how and why civilization first sparked into life.

North America doesn't get much colder, nor any darker than Alaska in winter. It's not a place you mess with, unless you've got a wild side. As winter breaks, carnivores emerge on Alaska's wide-open spaces, leaving prey animals no place to hide. Wolves chase caribou with ferocious intensity, brown bears battle for rights to a buffet and wolverines make short work of prey 100 times their size. Alaska's deadliest thrive in one of America's last wild frontiers. .

From famous actors to tech trailblazers to domestic workers, Katie Couric talks to change makers about why we still haven’t achieved gender equality.

Daniela Neumann, managing director of Spun Gold, said: “‘An American Princess’ will provide viewers with the definitive inside story of the most talked-about wedding of the year, packed …

After resigning as English captain, Ian Botham refused to lie down and in a series of matchwinning performances, enthralled a nation and saw the Ashes retained

A violent attack by six men leaves the house utterly ransacked. They are heard laughing as they run off down the road with bags of stolen goods and the family savings. But the worst is yet to come… as Hang Yin reveals to police the true nature of the attack, she falls ill and is rushed to hospital.

The story of art from the dawn of human history to the present dayfor the first time on a global scale. Inspired by Civilisation, Kenneth Clarks acclaimed landmark 1969 series about Western art, this series broadens the canvas to reveal the role art and the creative imagination have played across multiple cultures and civilizations.

For the last decade, a team of frontline medics has been fighting to save Borneo's critically endangered orangutans. Armed with cameras, International Animal Rescue has documented their struggle: pulling apes from devastated jungle, giving emergency medical care, rehabilitating and releasing the healthiest orangutans back into the wild. This is both the story of their life-saving work and of how one of our closest wild relatives has been pushed to the brink of extinction. Combining genuine rescue footage with contributions from experts throughout, this documentary looks toward the future and asks what hope remains to save the orangutan.

An exploration of this rocky, east coast Canadian island by Bourdain reveals a magical place abundant in fish and wild game and steeped in distinctive traditions.

With a surge of violent crime in London and recorded crime rising across the country, Panorama films with four police forces to ask if Britain's police can cope. The film reveals forces stretched to crisis point by eight years of austerity and a national shortage of detectives. An exclusive analysis of police data for Panorama shows how fewer crimes are ending up with any suspect charged. Chief constables speak about the strains on their forces and how changes have had to be made not only in the way they prioritise crime, but how they investigate it too. But do the public accept these changes? Panorama hears from victims of crime and communities who fear Britain's streets are no longer being properly policed.

The endearing pangolin is a little-known scaly mammal. Found in Africa and Asia, these shy creatures have an unfortunate tagline - they are the most poached and illegally trafficked animals in the world. Based in Namibia, conservationist Maria Diekmann rescues and rehabilitates her local pangolins. In a bid to better understand the global issues they are facing, we follow Maria to Vietnam, Thailand and China into the very heart of the crisis, where demand for pangolin products is greatest. In what turns out to be an emotional journey, Maria joins forces with a Chinese megastar to build a campaign to bring awareness to the plight of an animal most people have never even heard of.

This 90-minute special brings viewers the most complete picture of the process of organ donation and transplantation ever put on screen. Based at The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, one of Europe’s leading multi-organ transplant centres, the film follows a group of seven patients ranging in age from eight months to 56 years old, all in desperate need of a new heart.

Through very realistic dramatic recreations, and authentic drawings and documents of the time, follow the tragic lives of Africans who were sold into slavery in Guinea and transported across the ocean to work under brutal slave owners in the French West Indies in the early 1800's.

AN OPEN SECRET looks at the lives of children betrayed and abandoned by a system that essentially funnels them towards sexual predators without any oversight or regard for their safety. It documents not only these young peoples' experiences, but also how some have emerged stronger for their speaking out. It beg the questions of why children working in entertainment aren't afforded the same protections they are afforded at school, and argues for more effective treatment and stronger penalties for child sex offenders.