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Between 3 and 30 million animal species are said to live on Earth. Get up close and personal with some of the most peculiar of them out there. A whole range of weird and wonderful creatures are presented to a studio audience to showcase exactly what it is that makes them so brilliant. Tigers, bears, venomous snakes and deadly jellyfish together with novelties too – footballing pigs, skateboarding owls, dancing dogs, an octopus who is scared of the dark and a spitting fish. On the road the team lasso wild camel, wrestle with turtles and rescue alligators from swimming pools. They meet people who have had terrifying encounters with deadly creatures and survived to tell the tale. This high-octane factual adventure brings the animal kingdom to life in a whole new way.

The biographical drama about the Darwin of the Digital Age Codebreaker tells the story of this maverick British genius crucial to founding three new fields of science as well as breaking the Nazis' naval Enigma code during World War II. Historians credit his codebreaking with helping to shorten the war by two years and saving millions of lives. As the founding father of computer science and artificial intelligence, Alan Turing envisioned our digital world long before anyone else. Turing’s visionary brilliance was overshadowed by his conviction for ‘gross indecency’ with another man in 1952. He was forced to undergo chemical castration to ‘change’ his sexual orientation. In despair, Turing committed suicide in 1954. He was 41 years old. Instead of being celebrated, Turing's achievements were largely forgotten. Codebreaker rediscovers the extraordinary life and ideas of the man who many scientists perceive today as the digital Darwin, a scientific great on a par with Einstein and Newton.