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A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.

In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.

Verloc lives in London 1886 with a pretty wife and her retarded brother. He's an agent for the Russian embassy. A new ambassador wants more from him than in the past years - something with a bomb. Verloc also informs the police.

Some games last a lifetime. Some lifetimes last an eternity.

Novelist Iain Sinclair takes us on a surreal exploration of secret sites of London; the pattern made by the victims of Jack the Ripper, the ley lines that mysteriously connect the Thames, Greenwich,and the Isle of Dogs, ancient lairs of the Knights of the Templar, and Victorian haunts in the East End. We follow him as he undertakes his latest ambitious project, the circumnavigation of the M25 Motorway.

Ros goes undercover with the Saudi royal family in order to investigate a Saudi prince who may have ties to al-Qaeda.

Brian concludes his exploration by asking, what next for the ape that went to space?

New planets are now being discovered outside our solar system on a regular basis, and these strange new worlds are forcing scientists to rewrite the history of our own solar system. Far from a simple story of stable orbits, the creation of our solar system is a tale of hellfire, chaos and planetary pinball. It's a miracle our Earth is here at all.

For NASA to send a person Mars, they will need to build the most powerful rocket ever built. Discover inside story behind the Orion Space Craft, an engineering feat designed to sustain astronauts for years in one of the universe's harshest environments.

What we see is only a small portion of the full spectrum of colour. The "invisible" colours are not only interesting to examine also but powerful and useful for science and industrial production and affect many aspects of our everyday lives.