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- A fascinating look inside the Willie Wonka world of Cadbury over a year, as Britain's biggest and best-loved chocolate firm reduces the sugar in Dairy Milk and launches an Easter Creme Egg campaign.
- Led by a cast of wonderful characters, this observational documentary series follows factory owner, Peter Monk, and his crew of engineers, pilots and historians as they restore rusty remains of the iconic Second World War flying machines. Over the course of a year, this six-part series discovers the surprising stories of this iconic flying machine, whilst following the restoration of a particularly special aircraft, the 1943 Mark IX Spitfire. With £2 million at stake there's no room for error and the pressure is on to deliver on time. As Peter hunts down parts and oversees construction, a large cast of characters - from pilots and engineers to historians and WWII veterans - are on hand to explore the Spitfire's rich history and uncover its surprising stories. This is the Spitfire Factory, a place dedicated entirely to resurrecting one of the most famous aeroplanes and returning it to the skies.
- A look behind the scenes at the operations of the worldwide delivery company DHL.
- Chris Tarrant goes on a personal journey to explore the darkest chapter in the history of the railways, their role in the Nazi Holocaust of WWII. Traveling through three countries, Chris explores the history from the first anti-Jewish laws and the Nazi's quest to build the world's most powerful railway of war - to the eventual use of that railway network to transport millions to their deaths. Chris meets holocaust survivors as they retrace their wartime journeys, including Helga Weissova, who as a young girl recorded her experiences in the horrifying Terezin Ghetto with drawings and in her diary. In Poland, he meets Arek Hersh, a former child slave who escaped death countless times in the Ghetto and at Auschwitz where he and Chris travel together to face up to the true horror of the Holocaust.
- Documentary taking a sneak peek behind the scenes at the Mars Petcare factory in Melton Mowbray which operates 24 hours a day to produce one million packets of pet food a day.
- Chris heads to Alaska, but his plan to travel along the Alaska Railroad does not get off to a good start in Seward as there are no trains running, so he hitches a ride on a track inspector's car before riding a freight train to Anchorage.
- Chris travels 1,500 miles from Cape Town, South Africa to the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe following the ambitious railway envisaged by Cecil Rhodes. He also travels to Kimberley to explore the diamond mine where Rhodes made his fortune.
- Chris travels the route of the Soviet-era Trans-Caucasus Railway departing the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku. He visits the Georgian capital Tbilisi before heading to the holiday resort of Borjomi to see a bridge designed by Gustave Eiffel.
- In a special festive edition, Chris Tarrant embarks upon an epic journey through Scandinavia, starting out on the South-West coast of Norway and travelling to Rovaniemi in Finland - known as Santa's home town.
- On his first trip of the fourth series, Chris heads east from Morocco venturing into the Sahara to find out whether a railway line once went all the way to Timbuktu, Mali.
- Chris is on a mission to cross three former Soviet republics by rail in just one week. He navigates the railways of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania uncovering some amazing stories along the way.
- Chris Tarrant explores five Balkan countries which boasted an extensive state-run railway network before the break-up of Yugoslavia. Along the way he makes some remarkable discoveries.
- 2012– 44m7.8 (17)TV EpisodeFrom the deserts that formed the backdrop of Lawrence of Arabia, Chris Tarrant follows the route of the Hejaz Railway up through Jordan, before crossing the border into Israel.
- Chris crosses mountains, deserts, jungles and war-zones to discover how railways have been central to to the history of 4 very different parts of the world. He begins with a journey across the Alps, starting in Vienna.
- Chris embarks upon a 1,000 mile journey across Spain discovering how the railways were involved in tensions over Gibraltar, the Civil War and WWII. But Spain has quietly become a world leader in train technology.
- 2012– 1h 7m7.9 (15)TV EpisodeTraveling through three countries from Nuremberg to Auschwitz, Chris Tarrant explores the darkest chapter in the history of the railways - their role in the Nazi Holocaust of WWII.