Mark Radice

This program offers a unique perspective on the scale of the First World War as a collection of extraordinary historical finds are brought to the screen for the first time. Aerial footage, shot from an airship in the summer of 1919, captures the trenches and battlefields of Europe, revealing the damage and destruction inflicted on the landscape. Retracing that journey, this film rediscovers the scars on the terrain and reveals their stories. (worldcat.org)

The battlecruiser HMS Hood was the pride of the Royal Navy for more than 20 years, but when it was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of Greenland in May 1941, its end was shockingly swift. This programme follows deep-water search-and-recovery expert David Mearns and marine archaeologist Innes McCartney as they search the wreck with a state-of-the-art remotely operated underwater vehicle, piecing together evidence as to why it sank so quickly