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Four famous musicians search for the best voices in America and will mentor these singers to become artists. America will decide which singer will be worthy of the grand prize.

Petite Fille (Little Girl) is a moving and sensitive portrait of a young French girl called Sasha, who was assigned male at birth. This poignant and emotional documentary follows the shy seven-year-old and her parents over the course of a year, documenting her progress with delicate intimacy. As her family come to terms with her gender dysmorphia, we witness how Sasha is affected by the societal norms that make it far from easy for her to experience childhood in the same way as most of her peers

The epic story of people around the world living through the year of the pandemic continues in a second part. With extensive personal video and local footage, Frontline shows the differing struggles, beliefs and responses, across cultures, race, faith and privilege.

The epic story of how people around the world lived through the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Filming across the globe and using extensive personal video and local footage, Frontline documented how people and countries responded to COVID-19 across cultures, races, faiths and privilege.

Looks at the Covid 19 pandemic in China and America.

Explores the spread of Covid-19 across four continents during 2020. Featuring contributions from medical professionals, a look at the initial outbreak in China and suggestions that the authorities attempted to cover up the danger, and an examination of how the decisions taken by governments and public health officials helped shape the course of the infection.

A&E medic Dr Ronx sets out to understand why so many NHS colleagues who died from coronavirus came from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Featuring stories of frontline workers who have lost their lives, and a striking visual tribute in memory of many more, Dr Ronx asks what is being done to protect frontline BAME workers.

Inspired by Norman Ohler's revelatory book, "Blitzed: Drugs In The Third Reich", the film reveals how both Hitler and Nazi Germany were heavily addicted to drugs. As Ohler reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops' resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940. The recently unearthed journals of Hitler's personal doctor, Theodore Morell, suggest that the Fuhrer was a full-fledged addict, taking an assortment of drugs including cocaine, opiates, steroids. Meanwhile, the entire nation of Germany was binging on speed. This was most prevalent on the battlefield, where the drug was systematically distributed to soldiers in order to transform the military ranks into seemingly unstoppable fighting machines.

COVID-19 is far from the first pandemic to wreak havoc in the world. A long line of infectious diseases have devastated and in some cases destroyed entire societies. Almost all of them started in animals and made the jump to humans.

We are terrified of pandemics. And with good reason. Infectious diseases have cost the lives of countless people over the centuries, devastating families, towns, and even societies. The Black Death spread across Europe and Asia in the 14th century leaving millions dead in its wake. Between the 15th and 18th centuries, European colonists brought smallpox to the Americas, the Pacific region and to Australia. In Europe, the 17th century saw a series of major epidemics. And at the end of the First World War, more people died of the Spanish flu than on the battlefield. This documentary examines the causes of these epidemics - whether it be lack of hygiene, interaction with animals, overcrowding, or the growth of cities - and how people travelling helped to spread disease and promote pandemics. It also sheds a light on the impact these infectious diseases have had on politics and societal change. Today, the world is facing COVID-19.

Medical docuseries focusing on patients with unique illnesses and their journeys to find a diagnosis and cure.

Would you change your habits to live a longer, healthier life? Code Blue provides the prescription to do just that. The solution is simple. The common sense practice of Lifestyle Medicine can prevent nearly 80% of chronic diseases.

Brings vividly to life the story of today's revolution in medical science through present-day tales of patients and doctors at the forefront of the search for genetic treatments, interwoven with a compelling history of the discoveries that made this possible and the ethical challenges raised by the ability to edit DNA with precision.

One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, but those affected rarely talk about it, even to their partners and closest friends. In this poignant documentary broadcast on International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, nine women and men, including broadcaster Natasha Kaplinsky, actresses Lacey Turner and Jane Danson, violinist Izzy Judd, and journalists Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson, recall their personal stories of the day they lost their babies.

Dame Kelly Holmes explores the rise of parkrun and the mental health benefits of running, in the build-up to the launch of a new run in Northern Ireland.

Over the last 14 years, the parkrun phenomenon has transformed Saturday mornings around the world. What started out in London as a simple idea to get mates together for a time trial and a coffee has turned into something much, much bigger. Today, parkrun is one of the largest running events on the planet, pulling in more than 235,000 participants around the globe every weekend. Although it started out as a runners’ event, these days it is about improving health and well-being, inspiring people to take exercise, meet neighbours and volunteer. The organisation is now actively targeting areas of social deprivation in the UK, with its focus shifting toward how running can help transform our mental well-being.

In 1999, Gail Porter was one of the UK's most sought-after female TV presenters. Most famously, she helped sell over a million copies of FHM magazine after her naked image was projected onto the Houses of Parliament. Then over the next 20 years, things took a turn for the worse: she suffered post-natal depression, alopecia and was sectioned under the mental health act. In 2014 she even ended up sleeping rough on a park bench. How did this happen?

Gail takes a tell-all journey into her past. Travelling to her hometown of Edinburgh, she meets friends, relatives and medical professionals and asks why she has such extremes of emotion? And how can that explain her story? The result is an honest and deeply personal exploration of mental health, self-harm, anorexia and depression, as well as a stark reminder of how the world has changed since her 1990s heyday.

In the 1970s, a new treatment for haemophilia known as Factor VIII was prescribed on the NHS. It infected more than 1,300 people with HIV and more than 4,000 people with Hepatitis C. As a public inquiry into the scandal reopens, this investigative feature-length documentary for ITV's Bafta-winning Exposure strand offers a window into a tragedy whose scale and impact has been relatively understated in Britain.

How can we cope with this tricky virus now rampant worldwide? The key to this battle lies in our immune system. Through the high-tech “eyes” of next-generation microscopes, we will see how our immune defense corps combat against pathogens and what mechanism is expected to help develop treatment.

Documentary following the story of theatre performer Richard from London, whose entire penis was surgically removed due to an aggressive form of penile cancer. Richard is still coming to terms with the physical and emotional impact of this ordeal on his everyday life and relationships, but with a candid sense of humour, he is confronting his situation head-on - sharing his story as a warning to others about a disease on the increase.

Doctors Xand van Tulleken and Guddi Singh examine the possibility of a second wave of Covid-19 in the UK,in light of rising infection rates, local lockdowns and the return of children to schools. The programme examines what can be done to avoid a second wave, how best for people to prepare themselves, and if the NHS and the UK's test and trace system are equipped to deal with the possibility.

Reveals how Covid-19 spread unstoppably throughout the world, told through the eyes of key scientists on the pandemic frontline. Personal diaries recorded by scientists and intensive care doctors give an insight into the race to identify the virus and try to unlock the secrets of its virulence, revealing how scientists came to realise the seriousness of the disease. Racing to develop a vaccine, leading scientist Professor Sarah Gilbert discusses the pressures she faces and her hopes that a vaccine can be developed.