This year, the building of the Oxford animal lab has triggered the most important conflict between scientists and the animal rights movement for a century. Monkeys, Rats and Me tells the story from all sides, the neurosurgeon who experiments on monkeys, and the activists who still believe its right to plant bombs and the teenage activist who created a movement.

Few things are scarier than radiation. But are our nuclear nightmares based on reality? This film investigates the science behind the fear, and talks to the UN scientists studying the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on people and wildlife. It uncovers astonishing evidence that contradicts many common assumptions about the risks of radiation exposure. How dangerous is radiation really? Could it even be good for us?

William Shatner takes a comic journey to track the extraordinary influence of the most famous sci-fi show ever, Star Trek, on the world around us. Believe it or not, geeks and nerds across the world were inspired to invent some of the most important inventions we take for granted by the script writers of the show, from the iPod to the mobile phone This is an affectionate tribute to a show - and a Captain - who set out to entertain us in a cheap sci-fi series and unwittingly ended up changing the world.

This hard-hitting series on humankind's abuse of nature is a new departure for S4C wildlife guru Iolo Williams. Even where there is legislation in place, many rare species are under threat - the orangutan, the Siberian Tiger, and many British birds of prey. Combining observational and presenter sequences with hidden-camera footage shot undercover, the series allows wildlife observer Iolo to turn investigator and campaigner, exposing greed and folly worldwide.

Forever associated with the immortal words ‘Houston, we've had a problem’, the men who set for the moon and very nearly never came back reveal the inside story.

Petero was born in a remote village in Uganda with a rare disorder that meant his head grew in the shape of a cone. Without help he would lose his sight and possibly his life. An extraordinary chain of events would lead to Petero being flown to Texas for ground-breaking surgery to completely remodel his skull. After a series of dangerous operations, his appearance and his life were to be completely transformed.

The tiger, our most charismatic big cat, faces extinction. David Attenborough narrates this moving documentary tracing the history of this battle from the late 1960’s to the present day, when skins of freshly killed tigers are being illegally traded in huge numbers from India to Tibet and China. Three champions of conservation; an undercover investigator, a political campaigner and a whistle-blowing scientist pursue the truth of true state of India’s tiger population today.

Armand Marie Leroi leads us through a world of parrots which talk and children who can’t, artistic chimps and autistic boys. He explains why apes are so bad at aping, why originality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be,and how a 10 year old with a speech disorder led to the discovery of the first gene we know of that is required for language.