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Bats are getting their share of the blame for the COVID-19 pandemic, but are they really at fault?

To detail how drugs push people into risky - even deadly - behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.

A report on how the coronavirus pandemic brought the £120 billion cruise industry to its knees and 100s of ships around the world to a standstill. The documentary looks at the role of cruise ships in spreading the virus and ask if passengers' well-being was put first, as it tells the story of the six extraordinary weeks when thousands of passengers ended up in quarantine.

Stretchers fill the corridors, oxygen tanks are in short supply and patients die alone without a last word from their loved ones - this is the scene inside a hard-hit hospital in Cremona, northern Italy, at the height of the coronavirus outbreak earlier this year.

This film gives an unprecedented and intimate insight into three months of life on the Covid frontline with A&E doctor Francesca Mangiatordi. In the early days of the outbreak, as the hospital is overflowing, Francesca works gruelling 12-hour shifts caring for the vulnerable who have been most affected by Covid-19. Due to a lack of life-saving equipment, she faces the traumatising task of prioritising which lives to try to save. There are not enough beds for everyone.

At home, Francesca is fearful of infecting her husband, who suffers from a respiratory condition. She hasn’t touched him or her children for more than a month. Her children struggle with life in lockdown - at the same time, they are proud of their mother for her work but fearful that she might bring the virus home.

From a simple aspirin tablet to specially grown antibiotics, we’ve used science to combat, pains and bellyaches.

Examines the way South Korea has dealt with the coronavirus outbreak, revealing a story of careful planning, mass testing and contact tracing on an astonishing scale which allowed South Korea to avoid a UK-style lockdown and economic devastation. With countries across the world failing to control the spread, the programme questions if South Korea will be able to hold off a second wave of infection, and what the UK can learn from the strategy South Korea adopted.

The outbreak of coronavirus in Australia has created a public health emergency like no other. It’s also unleashed a financial wrecking ball right through the Australian economy.
With access to the key players in this financial battle, Insiders host David Speer’s reports for Four Corners and captures history in the making.

Maitre d' and Extraordinary Places to Eat host Fred Sirieix and GP Zoe Williams open a restaurant with a difference, welcoming 20 unsuspecting diners for a slap-up meal. It all sounds normal enough, but this restaurant has something unexpected back of house - a functioning gym, where a group of fitness fanatics are poised on exercise bikes, treadmills and rowing machines, ready to burn off every single calorie ordered and consumed by the diners.

This groundbreaking stunt for science strand Horizon is based on the latest scientific research, which suggests that when we are shown the astonishing amount of exercise required to remove excess calories from our bodies, we choose to eat up to 20% less.

The 495-calorie calamari starter demands a punishing hour and 12 minutes on the rowing machine. The fish and chips takes two hours and four minutes on the exercise bike to burn off, and running for an hour and nine minutes is the exercise equivalent of the chocolate brownie.

Science journalist Angela Saini and disability rights activist Adam Pearson, reveal that eugenics - the controversial idea that was a driving force behind the Nazi death camps - originated in the upper echelons of the British scientific community.

With dramatic real-life footage captured by the rescuers themselves, Extreme Rescues puts viewers in the center of the action for every heart-stopping second.

As the COVID-19 pandemic ramps up globally, every day brings new information about the disease. Learn what the virus does to the human body, and hear from the medical experts searching for techniques to treat the illness.

The government rates the global outbreak of a deadly flu virus as a major threat to the UK. It could happen at any time. To predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurately than ever before, new data is needed - and lots of it. Dr Hannah Fry is on the case.

She sets out to recruit the nation to download the BBC Pandemic app in a ground-breaking experiment to help plan for when the next deadly virus comes to the UK. How quickly will it spread? How many could it kill? What can we do about it? The BBC Four Pandemic experiment will find out.

How can we mindfully move through a crisis while holding on to ourselves and our humanity? In this series, Oprah has remote conversations with experts and everyday people to provide insight...

Four Corners investigates how coronavirus spread to Australia, laying the groundwork for the crisis that is now unfolding. The program investigates how the virus has spread around the country and whether critical mistakes have been made. The fight to contain corona virus. Have critical mistakes left Australia and our frontline medical workers dangerously exposed? Doctors, patients and health practitioners talk about confronting the virus for the first time.

According to current estimates, a widely available COVID-19 vaccine will likely be available within the next 12 months. Why so long? Learn how vaccines are developed and explore the current state of the coronavirus landscape, guided by the scientists on the ground trying to find a solution.

Dr Christian Jessen and Dr Amir Khan and experts from Aberystwyth University test the health of the nation via urine samples. With 'pee pods' place in four major cities, members of the public are invited to provide samples, with the results revealing which residents drink too much alcohol and eat too much junk food. Elsewhere, a group of volunteers discover how factors like lifestyle, diet and pollution can be a cause for concern.

In China, almost 2000 people have died as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19) with tens of thousands more infected. Authorities are resorting to extreme measures to try to halt the contagion. To try to contain the spread, Australian authorities have effectively sealed our borders to people travelling from China. Four Corners charts how the outbreak occurred and investigates whether a cover up by Chinese authorities

Coronavirus is now spreading around the world as governments scramble to contain it. The outbreak began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has been locked down since late January. With exclusive access to two film-makers inside the city, Our World tells the story of life under lockdown. It is a film which takes you from the deserted streets to the homes of those battling the virus. How do you survive when daily life gets shut down?

As Covid-19 becomes a global pandemic, this programme tackles the big questions head-on and examines how the NHS will cope. Matt Frei talks to some of the leading healthcare and virology experts, including those on the frontline, to ascertain whether enough is being done. He looks at the lessons from the countries already in lockdown and assesses whether Britain should be acting quicker to stop things from spiralling out of control.

After a lifetime of worrying about her weight, 78-year-old actress Miriam Margolyes embarks on a journey to work out why the nation is getting ever fatter.

Miriam Margolyes travels around the nation to discover why so many people are overweight, despite so much information about healthy lifestyles. She wants to understand what impact being obese has on people and how the rest of society views them and begins by meeting people fighting back against their size - both physically and psychologically.