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	China Revealed 101: Great Wall Follow the Great Wall as it rises out of its dusty ruins in the Western Desert to grow in strength and breadth across China. In the east it becomes the icon of a nation – the solid, sturdy walls and t...
	China Revealed 103: Mt Huangshan Follow the footsteps of artists and poets in a pilgrimage to the very top of Yellow Mountain – the home of the immortals. Thousand-year-old stairs carved into the rock scale the sides of the mountain,...
	China Revealed 105: Shanghai and Wuzhen Two cities: Shanghai and Wuzhen. Both built on water, both built on trade. One remains frozen in time, the other is a teeming metropolis. Called the "Venice of the Orient", Wuzhen seems little changed...
	China Revealed 109: Dunhuang Journey by camel train along part of the Silk Road – the ancient trade route spreading wealth, religion and culture across the Orient. Camel caravans edge across the vast, windswept dunes of the Takli...
	China's Ghost Army Nothing like China’s Terracotta Warriors was ever created before them and nothing quite like it has been created since. For years experts have attempted to resolve an enduring enigma about one of arc...
	China's Lost Pyramids For more than 2 000 years the ancient Great Pyramids of China towered over the fabled Silk Road and the legendary Terracotta Army near the city of Xian, their secrets buried and largely ignored. These...
	Man Made Marvels: China 401: Giant Buddha Deep in the heart of China’s Sichuan province lies the largest stone sculpture in the world. Taller than the Statue of Liberty, the Leshan Giant Buddha is over a thousand years old ... carved out of...
	Man Made Marvels: China 402: China’s Forgotten City The modern city of Xian is world-famous as the home of the terracotta warriors and for its massive 600-year old city walls. But that’s only scratching the surface. Over a thousand years ago, Xian w...
	New Zealand Journeys 3: The Chinese in New Zealand In 1861 gold was discovered in the New Zealand province of Otago. Prospectors came from all around the world to mine the rivers that run through Otago's beautiful but barren landscape. One of the bigg...
	What Lies Beneath 1: Signs of Tsunami The Boxing Day tsunami had many of us wondering 'could it happen here?' Geologists and archaeologists argue that it already has. Tonight they uncover evidence waves several times bigger than those tha...
	What Lies Beneath 2: Secrets of the Swamp Swamps and wetlands can be places of mystery, dense and forbidding. But these hidden corners can be treasure troves for archaeologists. Join Simon Dallow on an archaeological exploration deep into a B...
	What Lies Beneath 3: Mysteries of the Crypt Under Auckland's Bastion Point lies a labyrinth of tunnels built in the 1880s as part of the city's defences. It's also the last resting place of one of New Zealand's most revered Prime Ministers - or...
	What Lies Beneath 4: Secrets of the Gunfighter Pa On the outskirts of New Plymouth, archaeologists have unearthed a Maori pa that contains the foundations of the biggest meeting house ever excavated. But most surprising was the discovery of defensive...
	What Lies Beneath 5: The Missing Miners In the late 1800's thousands of Chinese gold seekers were lured to our shores, by the promise of easy pickings in the desolate claims of Central Otago. But today, there are very few physical signs of ...
	What Lies Beneath 6: Searching for the First Coasters At the mouth of the Buller River, archaeologist Richard Walter is excavating a site that dates from the archaic period of New Zealand's human history. This is a time when the artefacts they find still...
	What Lies Beneath 7: Under Wellington Construction of Wellington's controversial Inner City Bypass will destroy an historic part of Te Aro. But first, the largest urban archaeology project ever undertaken in New Zealand will record and pr...
	What Lies Beneath 8: In Search of the Good Keen Whalers Simon Dallow joins a team of archaeologists who have converged on one of the best preserved whaling stations from the 1830's whaling boom. Beneath the sand and driftwood they have unearthed several tr...
	Man Made Marvels: China 101: Great Wall As a construction feat, the Great Wall of China is unrivalled in human history. One thousand fortified passes and ten thousand watchtowers constructed from countless bricks, compacted earth, sand and ...
	Tsunami: The Race for Survival Thailand is paradise, 365 days a year. But for the tens of thousands of tourists on December 26th 2004, this is the right place at the wrong time. A tsunami is silently sweeping across the open ocean....
	The Diva Mummy In the early 1970s construction workers near Changsha, China, unearthed the tomb of aristocrat Xin Zhui. The tomb was filled with precious and wonderful objects, but it was the 2000-year-old body that...
	Hong Kong Garrison - The Making of a Soldier At midnight on July 1, 1997, the eyes of the world focused on Hong Kong as 4000 Chinese troops crossed the border to reclaim the island. Through the eyes of two young People's Liberation Army recruits...
	The Curse of the Elephant Man Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, was the most shockingly disfigured person in history. For more than a century the cause of his deformities baffled doctors and scientists around the world. Using fore...
	South Pacific 1: Islands of War Every year, thousands of people flock to the crystal clear waters and white sands of the South Pacific islands, but few realise that these idyllic atolls conceal some of the bloodiest secrets of World...
	South Pacific 2: Secrets of Paradise The beautiful islands of the South Pacific are steeped in legend and romance but they also harbour dark secrets. Cannibalism in Fiji, mass graves in Vanuatu and the unexplained, 80 ton human-like moai...
	Aleutians - Cradle of the Storms This is the absorbing story of an island chain and its people, who have endured and survived wave after wave of invaders. We reveal the storm-lashed islands, the 9000 year culture forever changed by f...
	A Thing of the Past The 'deer wars' of New Zealand are over, but the men who lived through that era still go back to the mountains. Ex-hunter turned photographer Gordon Roberts and his mate Angus Thompson return to the r...
	Icebound - 100 years of Antarctic Discovery A landing on the Antarctic shore more than a century ago gave rise to a great rush for adventure and knowledge. Icebound follows the legion of adventurers, explorers and scientists who have pitted the...