Throng

FRIDAY 30th January

Friday 23rd January

Meet the residents of Andover Village, a retirement community that is home to more than 50 morbidly obese patients who, because of their enormous size and weight, are no longer able to live on their own. With an average weight of 500 pounds, this obese community works together, setting and reaching weight loss goals. 

The ultimate aim is for each patient to lose enough weight that they no longer require assistance and can return to living on their own. Super Obese focuses on three specific patients who share their personal and heartfelt stories of weight gain and weight loss.

FRIDAY 16th January

FRIDAY 9th January

Providing an insight into the lives of some of Britain’s most unique families, who all have one thing in common – at least ten children.

Following several constantly expanding families from diverse backgrounds to discover what drives couples to have so many children and what the children think of their numerous siblings.

Behind every breakthrough drug is a multi-billion dollar research programme. We see the benefits in safe, effective and affordable medicine. But somewhere in the world, a group of patients have had to test the new drug to see if it works, to see if it's safe. 

For that, India has become the location of choice. It's cheaper. It's quicker. But evidence is emerging that some patients don't even realise when they're part of a trial. 

Drug Trials – The Dark Side exposes disturbing breaches of human rights, and asks: are we prepared to accept them if it's helping us to live longer?

Friday 2nd January

Surveillance is everywhere today. This documentary introduces the new surveillance within society and shows how cutting edge technologies are being developed to identify, monitor, and track both people and things.  

It is a world where each technology seems to bring advantages - to make us safer or our lives convenient - but at the same time, as more and more of what we do can be tracked and monitored, these technologies are changing our lives in ways that can be shocking and closer to home than we ever imagined.

Friday 26th December

Over the last century, more than one hundred people have lost their lives in the most baffling circumstances. Officially, the deaths have been put down to freak accidents in unfortunate circumstances. But unofficially, there’s a chilling theory that links all of them together: Spontaneous Human Combustion. But does the phenomenon really exist?

Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson sets out to solve the mystery. His fearless quest for the truth gets him seriously hot under the collar, but after risking a scorching, he finds some surprising answers to one of history’s hottest questions