BBC Earth

Ben ventures to Central America and a remote island off the coast of Panama. His host Jaimie is an inventor, who has built a unique home and an unconventional family to create his own wild utopia. Ben gets stuck into island life.

Gregg Wallace visits a huge vacuum cleaner factory in the heart of Somerset. This 32-acre site is a hive of activity where 1.2 million vacuums are made every year. Gregg is following their biggest seller, the Henry vacuum cleaner in bright red.

Celebrating the wonders of Queensland, Australia, cameras travel over 1,000 miles from Brisbane to Cairns onboard one of the most advanced trains in the world.

The Hailstones brave the freeze to seek new land for the expanding family. Sue Aikens must replenish her resources in Chena to survive the brutal cold.

French-Canadian Julien lives in a remote Buddhist monastery in the jungle-mountains of Thailand. Ben learns how and why he stripped away all complications of a life for a primitive Eastern and religious existence, and how it affected his family.

In a world where enemies watch for weakness, the ancient powers must use all their strength and cunning to defend their people, conquer new lands, and rise to the challenge of the battlefield.

Gregg Wallace visits a huge vacuum cleaner factory in the heart of Somerset. This 32-acre site is a hive of activity where 1.2 million vacuums are made every year. Gregg is following their biggest seller, the Henry vacuum cleaner in bright red.

An inconspicuous hill on the Spanish Island of La Palma bursts open, releasing an avalanche of lava. In its path are the homes of seven thousand residents and the emergency services rush to evacuate.

The Hailstones are forced into action when one of their own suffers a critical injury on the ice. Jessie Holmes braves icy conditions to procure key resources.

Ben ventures to the vast freezing seascape of the Arctic Circle and meets Randi. She was the first Norwegian woman to climb Everest, and now she uses her life on a remote Arctic Circle island to inspire others, including Ben.

In an unruly world, the ancient powers must lead their people, create ways to govern and keep rebellion at bay. To achieve this, they may invent caste systems, organise gladiatorial games or turn to gods.

Gregg Wallace visits a family-run factory in the heart of rural Aberdeenshire, which churns out more than 49 tonnes of dairy ice cream every day. Gregg is delighted to learn he's following the entire production of their one-litre tub of honeycomb flavour. Cherry Healey heads to an ice rink in Hull with headache expert Dr Fayyaz Ahmed and enlists an ice hockey team to test the best methods of stopping brain freeze.

Behind nature's winter wonderland are some of the toughest places to survive. Hidden cameras in a new generation of Spy Creatures reveal the fascinating behaviours of animals from penguins to parrots, polar bears to otters, wallabies and wombats.

The Arctic spring in Alaska comes with hard work, new resources, and new dangers.

Ben journeys to the freezing waters of Iceland to live with a former carpenter.

Ben Fogle stays with Naveen and Anke who have made their home in the Sri Lanka's highlands, uncovering why they swapped city life for a simple off-grid existence miles from civilisation.

According to the UN, it's predicted that the human population could reach 10 billion people by the year 2050. For broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham, who's dedicated his life to championing the natural world, the subject of our growing population and the impact it's having on our planet is one of the most vital, and often overlooked, topics of discussion in an era of increasing environmental awareness.

An inconspicuous hill on the Spanish Island of La Palma bursts open, releasing an avalanche of lava. In its path are the homes of seven thousand residents and the emergency services rush to evacuate.

The Arctic spring in Alaska comes with hard work, new resources, and new dangers.

Ben journeys to the freezing waters of Iceland to live with a former carpenter.

According to the UN, it's predicted that the human population could reach 10 billion people by the year 2050. For broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham, who's dedicated his life to championing the natural world, the subject of our growing population and the impact it's having on our planet is one of the most vital, and often overlooked, topics of discussion in an era of increasing environmental awareness.

Ben Fogle stays with Naveen and Anke who have made their home in the Sri Lanka's highlands, uncovering why they swapped city life for a simple off-grid existence miles from civilisation.

Behind nature's winter wonderland are some of the toughest places to survive. Hidden cameras in a new generation of Spy Creatures reveal the fascinating behaviours of animals from penguins to parrots, polar bears to otters, wallabies and wombats.