Discovery History +1 Wednesday

Buying goods from home

Buying goods from home

Josh searches for a top-secret WWII seaplane that crashed into the Pacific. He scours the ocean floor to find the only XP5Y-1 still in existence

An insight into the technology used by scientists to prevent asteroids hitting Earth, an occurrence once thought to be an inevitable disaster

Colourised footage retells the story of the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest of the Second World War with an estimated 2 million casualties

Darrell Miklos seeks clues from Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper's past, and while his widow reveals many secrets, one of his former Nasa colleagues remains silent on the subject of treasure

Drew Pritchard heads to the Malvern Hills, where he unearths one of his most unusual finds. Plus, he visits a famed stone mason's in Liverpool to examine rare artisan carvings

Henry Cole and his Metisse Steve McQueen Desert Racer continue their Balkans odyssey as he visits the glorious city of Split.

Bruce Crompton heads to a Cold War underground bunker that has been converted to a museum. The curator is looking for some Soviet era equipment to tell the other side of the story

How coffee machines, mascots, hammocks and traditional bows are made, and the ways in which manufacturing processes have been affected by technological progress

How glass fibre insulation, bubblegum machines and exhaust systems are made and the ways in which these methods have progressed as technology has developed

Space isn't as empty as it seems. It conceals a secret structure called spacetime - an invisible field that governs our lives

Drew Pritchard heads to the Malvern Hills, where he unearths one of his most unusual finds. Plus, he visits a famed stone mason's in Liverpool to examine rare artisan carvings

Stel and Jess sail to Sicily to explore Europe's largest active volcano. Their investigation leads them to a hidden labyrinth and a mysterious underwater monolith

At the Municipal Archives in New York City is a black and white negative containing an image of a deadly weapon used in a sinister plot of revenge. Don Wildman investigates

Darrell Miklos visits the Atocha, a valuable shipwreck Cooper recorded 50 years ago, and experts send him to an archive in Spain to hunt down an ancient manifest

Josh helps recover the richest stash of lost treasure in the Americas. He dives the Caribbean to retrieve it from the Spanish galleon Maravillas

The series explains how, if future newpaper reporter Bob Woodward had never met the man who came to be known as Deep Throat, Nixon's adminstration might never have fallen

The history documentary reveals the pivotal role former schoolteacher Clara Barton played in the Battle of Antietam in 1862

A Russian client seeks artefacts from the fall of Berlin. Bruce Crompton sees an opportunity to offload a German 88mm anti-tank weapon that was used in the battle

Salvager Drew Pritchard explores a Napoleonic fort in Essex, and tours the medieval Lichfield Cathedral, where he checks out some unwanted objects

With the Metisse Steve McQueen Desert Racer soldiering on, Henry has time to reflect.

Uncovering the secrets of the lost city of Tikal, which was once home to over 100,000 people, hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle

Bruce Crompton and his team, buy, repair and sell Second World War military gear, travelling the world in search of rare artefacts to restore and sell

Salvager Drew Pritchard explores a Napoleonic fort in Essex, and tours the medieval Lichfield Cathedral, where he checks out some unwanted objects

The series explains how, if future newpaper reporter Bob Woodward had never met the man who came to be known as Deep Throat, Nixon's adminstration might never have fallen

The history documentary reveals the pivotal role former schoolteacher Clara Barton played in the Battle of Antietam in 1862

With the Metisse Steve McQueen Desert Racer soldiering on, Henry has time to reflect.

Buying goods from home

Buying goods from home