Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Humans have pondered our origins for 50,000 years. In seeking evidence, Scientists discovered that the essence of all life is in it's chemistry - a four billion year odyssey from the very first cells to the development of complex life and the remarkable discovery that our first common ancestor is a lot older than we ever imagined.

The story of the cutting-edge breakthroughs that revealed the chemical building blocks of life, and how we're using this knowledge of our innermost chemistry to understand the chemistry of love and parenthood, help combat previously untreatable diseases, and reverse the inevitable declines of age

The world's greatest rivalry began with hope and idealism. What went wrong?

Doctor Jordan Nguyen is a biomedical engineer. Riley Saban is a 13 year old with cerebral palsy. Together they develop extraordinary, cutting edge technology that gives Riley superhuman powers.

The story of China's meteoric economic growth and its earth-shattering repercussions.

Chinese President Xi Jinping understands the greatest threat to the authoritarian state is not an invading army but the free minds of its people. This episode explores the fight for freedom of thought in China.

[1983 special] James returns from service in the R.A.F. where he and his partner Siegfried try to start up the veterinary practice where they left off. [1985 special] Siegfried discusses the accelerating rate of scientific progress, while James sticks to the tried and trusted remedies.

Based on the novel by Fergus Hume, this is a human story of jealousy, blackmail, self-made men, frustrated ambitions and secrecy. It takes place in Melbourne, Australia, and involves an investigation into a homicide where the deceased was discovered on the inside of a hansom cab. The influential and secretive Frettlby family is at the center of the mystery, and the name of the killer himself is not as much significance in the story, as is the role...

Jack Irish, is a brooding antihero of Australia. Reeling in the wake of his wife's murder, the former lawyer has reinvented himself as a part-time private investigator and full-time alcoholic, intent on drowning his demons. When an old client dies after leaving Jack several frantic voicemails, the PI realizes he can't outrun or out-drink his past. Jack returns to the world that took everything away from him: a seedy place of lowlifes, corruption,...