S01 Episode 1
A Place to Live
Tracing the story of how humans have transformed our world in a generation. Dallas Campbell travels the globe, visiting the world's largest and most ambitious engineering projects, exploring the power of human ingenuity and the making of the modern world. In this episode, Dallas explores how we have been redesigning the planet as we build ever more astonishing places to live.
59 mins · Wed, 21 Nov 2012
S01 Episode 2
The Way We Move
Dallas explores how we can travel further and faster than ever before - and how our desire to shrink the world is inspiring some of the most ambitious engineering projects on the planet. He takes a treacherous walk along what will be one of the longest suspension bridges in the world and reveals how to move an object the size of Buckingham Palace half way around the globe.
58 mins · Wed, 28 Nov 2012
S01 Episode 3
Food, Fire and Water
In this final episode, Dallas examines what it takes to keep seven billion humans alive with food, energy and water. 40% of the Earth's surface is now devoted to growing food. To appreciate how we have transformed vast swathes of land to produce food, Dallas paraglides over the south coast of Spain, where what was once an arid landscape is now home to the world's largest greenhouse array. He also rides with cowboys on Brazil's largest cattle ranch, to help herd over 125,000 cattle. He visits Lake Mead, the biggest man-made lake in the USA, to see how it has helped us transform harsh desert into the bright lights of Las Vegas. He also joins the team building a 750 mile long artificial river to transport water from south to north China.
48 mins · Wed, 5 Dec 2012
