It is beautiful to look at, hard to reach, and terribly difficult to climb. Winds of 200 kilometres per hour or more scream across it day and night, while the temperature falls to -20°C or lower. …
Is there anyone who has not looked at the dark sky, and the shining points of light above us, and asked themselves questions about what is out there? Where did our planet come from? When did the un…
Imagine an animal with teeth as big as bananas - and a brain as big as an orange. Or a flying animal with wings as wide as a small plane. Think about a tail that could knock a man's head off, or a …
On a day in 1821, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a wife and mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to …
London: November. Terrorists blow up the Queen's coach outside Parliament. The Queen escapes, but five people are killed, and forty others badly hurt - ordinary, innocent people, like Alan Cole, th…
John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn'…
There are many different Irelands. There is the Ireland of peaceful rivers, green fields, and beautiful islands. There is the Ireland of song and dance, pubs and theatres - the country of James Joy…
Ellen Shore’s family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby…
Charles Bravo died from the poison antimony. He took three days to die, and the doctors could do nothing to help him. There were three people who had reasons for wanting Charles Bravo dead - Floren…
When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - …
All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to t…
In the summer of 1910, a race begun. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long jou…
Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So , now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die.…
On a quiet sea, the biggest ship in the world is waiting. There is no noise from the engines. Up in the night sky there are hundred of stars. Behind the ship, an iceberg - a great mountain of ice -…
It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the Sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull th…
England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens - Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and …
A woman finds a man on a beach. He is very cold, his clothes are wet, and he cannot speak. The woman phones for helps, and an ambulance comes and takes the man to hospital. In hospital they ask the…
The court room is full for today's trial. Two young men, Simon Clark and Dan Smith, stand up. The clerk asks, 'Are you guilty of the murder of Mary Jones?' 'Not guilty!' they reply. But perhaps the…
He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. The someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 2…
A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a a laugh, a look of love... But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is…