This is a story about a family struck by tragedy: the loss of seven little boys from severe deformities at birth. It also centres on a New Zealand scientist determined to find an answer to the family’s misery. A fascinating look at the importance of genetics in our lives, and the choices and ethical dilemmas we all might have to face.

How should we act and behave today in order to survive tomorrow? And how can science and research contribute to a better world? These are the questions we seek to answer in this thrilling expedition with National Geographic photographer Mattias Klum and three young students, over seven continents.

You think you are safe from Africa’s number one killer? Malaria kills as many people as AIDS. With some three million deaths a year, most of them are young children. Thirty-five percent of the people living in regions with malaria are infected with this disease. At a time of globalization and global warming, everything travels, including mosquitoes that carry malaria...

Asia is the world’s fastest growing industrial powerhouse and a centre of innovation. The tallest building, the toughest tunnel or the fastest train, Asian states are home to projects that have changed the conventions of construction forever. Man Made Marvels takes you on a journey from the visionary ideas, through insurmountable difficulties to celebrate their incredible triumphs.

Asia: the world’s fastest growing industrial powerhouse, home to ground-breaking engineering projects. Meet the people whose visionary ideas bring us the largest casino project in the world, a mega airtropolis for people on the move and an epic plan to tame the monsoon. We’ll follow them as they work on the seemingly insurmountable challenges and solutions that make the impossible possible.

The modern city of Xian is world-famous for being the home of the Terracotta Warriors and for its massive 600-year old city walls. Once it was the site of world's biggest city and home of some of ancient China’s greatest engineering and architectural marvels. With computer animation, dramatizations and revelations from science, the glory of China's long-lost "greatest city" never known is resurrected.

The seventy meter tall Leshan Buddha was built over a thousand years ago. It’s under constant threat from corrosive rain and wind, polluted air, the impact of millions of devotees and even currents from the very river it was built to tame. While millions of visitors marvel, restoration experts try to ensure the sacred giant survives for another millennium.

Opened in 2006, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is the first rail link into the heart of Tibet. The railway runs an incredible five kilometres above sea level, with its 1.100-kilometre line passing through some of the most remote terrains on Earth. This film captures the difficulties of the railway's construction and the ambition necessary to embark on such a mammoth engineering project.

The Man Who Has Everything examines one of the most common medical conditions in the western world - heart disease. Despite its prevalence there is still misunderstanding about how and why heart disease occurs. Using a combination of drama and documentary, this programme will both inform and entertain.