In the first global survey of the kind, the oceanographer David Jones and Ian Hudson plan to find out what's hiding deep below the surface, raising questions about life in the deep and the way it evolved. By gathering hundreds of hours of HD footage captured with submarine robots from over 50 offshore oil platforms, they reveal new species 10,000 feet under the surface, living in the most secretive parts of our planet

The Abyss, Exploring the Unknown Sea

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced in its Indian colonies and transformed into opium, for Chinese tea.  Inundated by the drugs, China was forced to open up its market, and the British consolidated their commercial dominance.  In 1839, the Middle Empire introduced prohibition. The Opium War was declared… Great Britain emerged as the winner, but the warning was heeded: it could no longer depend on Chinese tea. The only alternative possible was to produce its own tea. The East India Company therefore entrusted one man with finding the secrets of the precious beverage.  His mission was to develop the first plantations in Britain’s Indian colonies. This latter-day James Bond was called Robert Fortune – a botanist. After overcoming innumerable ordeals in the heart of imperial China, he brought back the plants and techniques that gave rise to Darjeeling tea.

Tea War: The Adventures of Robert Fortune

In northern Peru, the unprecedented archaeological discovery of the largest known mass child sacrifice in the world opens the doors to the kingdom of Chimor. This international archaeological investigation carried out like a criminal investigation reveals the mysteries of the last civilization of the Andes before the arrival of the Incas.