Home Alone: Ep3 'Silent Night, Holy Terror'

In the third and final part of the series, Alastair Sooke charts the decline and fall of the Roman Empire through some of its hidden and most magical artistic treasures. He travels to Leptis Magna in Libya shortly after the overthrow of Gaddafi and finds one of the best preserved Roman cities in the world and the cradle of later Roman art. Sooke discovers glorious mosaics which have never been filmed before, but also finds evidence of shocking neglect of Libya's Roman heritage by the Gaddafi regime. His artistic tour takes him to Egypt and the northern frontiers of the empire where he encounters stunning mummy paintings and exquisite silver and glassware. As Rome careered from one crisis to another, official art became more hard boiled and militaristic and an obscure cult called Christianity rose up to seize the mantle of Western art for centuries to come.

In the third episode Mary takes an in-depth look at the question of identity and citizenship within the Roman Empire. What did it mean to be, or to become, Roman, and how did the very different parts of the empire react to Roman rule?

A section of the projects I've worked on up to 2008.

Years before the attacks on the World Trade Centre, two world shaking incidents had demonstrated commercial aeroplanes uneasy relationship with terrorism. The programme investigates the world’s biggest hi-jacking in Jordan in 1970 and Lockerbie; Britain’s worst air disaster, on the 21st December 1988.

Dan and Suzannah recount how Henry changed history to divorce Katherine of Aragon and marry the woman who had captivated him, Anne Boleyn.

Darren Aronofsky, Will Smith, and experienced astronauts join forces to tell the extraordinary story of why life as we know it exists on Earth. Premieres March 26 on the National Geographic Channel.

Animal Farm: Arrival of the Clones

Alaric's Goths sack Rome; Attila the Hun seizes power through chaos and destruction while the barbarians move in for the kill. The Vandal king, Geiseric, masterminds the end of Rome; the Empire falls.

Bear Grylls takes Jonathan Ross on a jungle trek, fast roping from a helicopter, and down an active volcano before well-deserved sleep, in a cave in a steep cliff face.

.Episode 3 - August