DEADLY DROPS: TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR takes us into the fascinating world of lifts and the looks at terrifying moments when these everyday machines suddenly cause chaos. Throughout our modern cities, filled with high rise buildings, we depend on lifts to move around. Capable of taking people captive, trapping passengers in doors and suddenly plummeting down shafts, this film meets some of the people who have been most badly affected by lift malfunctions.

DEADLY DROPS: EATEN BY AN ESCALATOR looks at the terrifying moments when these everyday machines suddenly cause chaos. Throughout our modern cities, filled with high rise buildings, we depend on escalators to move around.  These seemingly reliable pieces of engineering are so integrated into our environment we barely notice their existence. Footage shows escalators spiraling out of control, of people being trapped, and even swallowed alive.

Prue Leith has been a household name since the 1970s. 45 years ago she made, what was for the time, the radical decision to adopt a Cambodian baby, Li-Da. Prue gave Li-Da an idyllic English upbringing at her Cotswolds home and, by her own admission, rarely questioned whether she could have helped Li-Da connect more with her Cambodian roots. Now in this intimate and revealing film Prue and Li-Da travel to Cambodia to search for her biological family. Social media and DNA testing are allowing thousands of children who, like Li-Da, were evacuated just before Pol Pot’s genocide to reconnect with lost relatives. For Prue, as she approaches 80, there may not be many more chances to make this journey. And for Li-Da this is her chance to help Prue understand why it’s so important to explore her heritage. What neither of them can predict is how they will react should they find what they are looking for.

The number of climate refugees is rising - and yet the status of ‘climate refugee’ has yet to be officially recognized by national or international law. One factor is illustrative of the devastating impact of climate change on countries and communities: water. Recent years have seen an increasing number of floods and droughts. A third of the global population lives near the coast, and an estimated 700 million people are facing rising sea levels. In the Philippines more than 85 percent of the population say they are feeling the impact of climate change in the rising frequency of flooding and violent typhoons. Farmers in the highlands of Guatemala, on the other hand, are suffering extreme drought. Both water scarcity and flooding are sparking mass migration. 

What do tomatoes have to do with mass migration? Tomatoes are a poker chip in global trade policies. Subsidized products from the EU, China and elsewhere are sold at dumping prices, destroying markets and livelihoods in Africa in the process. Desperate farmers find themselves having to seek work elsewhere, including in Europe. In the surrounding region, the market for tomatoes has collapsed and most farmers are no longer growing what could easily be Ghana’s ‘red gold’. An agricultural advisor is trying to help local tomato farmers, but has little by way of hope to offer. Conditions like this are what drive local farmers to cut their losses and head for Europe. Once in Italy, migrants from Ghana and other African countries are forced to live in desperate conditions near the plantations.

委内瑞拉正经历前所未见的人道危机，规模仅次于敍利亚，是全球第二大的难民危机。饥饿成为委内瑞拉的普遍现象，药物亦严重短缺。联合国估计，现时已有超过四百万人逃离这个曾经富甲南美洲的国家。但有别于身陷内战的敍利亚，委内瑞拉坐拥世界上最多的石油储备。一个富裕国家为何人民饿得奄奄一息？财富都到了哪里？贪腐、去工业化、债务、政治冲突、威权主义及贫穷成为委内瑞拉的新秩序，引发国民纷纷逃亡到世界各地。

Venezuela is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and it is now the world’s second largest refugee crisis after Syria. Hunger is widespread and there is a severe shortage of medicines. The UN estimates that more than four million people have now fled what was once South America’s richest nation.  But unlike Syria, Venezuela is not mired in civil war, and the country is sitting on the world’s largest proven oil reserves. How could such a rich nation be driven into ruin? Where has the country’s wealth gone, and why are its people starving? Corruption, deindustrialization, debt, political conflict, authoritarianism and poverty are the order in Venezuela today, driving displacement worldwide. 

The images of the burning Amazon rainforests horrified people all over the world in the summer of 2019. Suddenly the threat seemed real – the world’s lungs were burning, and politicians, journalists and everyone else agreed that something had to be done, because protecting this globally unique ecosystem is of existential importance. The film reflects on the ecological and humanitarian catastrophe unfolding there and looks for the reasons behind the disastrous handling of this unique ecosystem.

Smoking is completely prohibited in public spaces and in most restaurants at least in the western world. Despite the decrease in the number of smokers in the west, the tobacco industry has not given up! New electronic products like the e-cigarette and the tobacco heater are thrown on the market. Colorful advertising campaigns sell the illusion of the new smoking: It is cool, it doesn't stink and it doesn't make you sick. But are these promises of the industry true? A new study seems to prove that like the tobacco cigarette, the new electronic products contain the nerve poison nicotine - and that makes you addicted and, above all, sick. Also new lung diseases like Evali cloud the picture of healthy smoking.

The products are evolving but the strategies remain the same; how does this industry continue to make profits without any consideration for health?

由一个前猎人的个人故事，到全球的反狩猎运动，节目概述整个狩猎历史；透过激进的动物维权人士、政治家和组织，阐明狩猎的方法和狩猎者的心理。

What drives people all over the world to hunt animals, often driving them towards extinction? How does hunting affect our relationship with nature and impact fragile ecosystems? And how do hunting lobbies influence law makers and the media?

Through the personal story of one ex-hunter, ’On The Wild Side’ unites the global anti-hunting movement, while also providing an overview of hunting throughout history. Featuring interviews with activists, politicians and organizations all over the world, this documentary sheds light on the psychology of hunting and the methods of the saboteurs.

Is it possible to end hunting forever?

Around the world, hundreds of millions of people are living in lockdown in a bid to keep the spread of coronavirus under control. Governments have had no choice but to put a freeze on entire economies, restrict our freedom of movement and transform everything we had previously taken for granted as normal. Now, what we all want to know, is when will lockdown end? In this film, Dr Xand van Tulleken (who has worked for the WHO and has a masters degree in Public Health from Harvard) explores why the lockdown is continuing. He also seeks answers to the questions many of us have about when it will end – and what the world will be like when it does end.