Join the world’s best natural history film-makers for the most ambitious live wildlife series ever undertaken!

Experts and cameramen/women from the award winning BBC Natural History Unit combine the spectacular cinematography of Frozen Planet with the live techniques of Big Cat Live and Springwatch to follow real-life animal dramas from around the globe throughout May - a critical time for many of the Earth’s young animals.

From baby elephants in Kenya, black bears in Minnesota, macaque monkeys in Sri Lanka, meerkats in South Africa, grey whales in the Pacific to the lions of the Masaai Mara, the lives of many wild youngsters hang in the balance.

Expect the unexpected as nature writes the script.

In a spellbinding journey of discovery, renowned zoologist Charlotte Uhlenbroek undertakes a unique animal experience as she travels to the planet's jungles and mountains and infiltrates some of the greatest wild primate groups, attempting to get physically closer to them than anyone has tried before. Charlotte's adventure is not without its risks but the rewards are more than worth it, bringing the opportunity to witness rare moments of acceptance and kindness between human and primate.

Seven years old and a leopard in her prime, Bella is also the mother of two young cubs who rely on her skill and experience to keep them fed, watered and safe from harm. Despite being one of Africa's top predators, leopards - especially young leopards - are vulnerable to some of the surrounding wildlife. In fact almost half of all cubs never reach adulthood. Moving home regularly helps Bella to protect her family but, inevitably, one day they are taken by surprise and the cubs have to use all of their leopard instincts to avoid a potentially lethal encounter.

Four years ago Louis Theroux spent a summer living with the community of the Westboro Baptist Church, famed for their hateful and offensive ministry. America hated them and they revelled in their notoriety. Now Louis returns to find a very different community. More like a cult than ever before, they are convinced the world is about to end. But as their behaviour becomes even more extreme, some of the younger members of the Church have fallen away, and Louis finds a family heading towards uncertain times.

Louis spends time with settlers in the occupied territories in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. He wants to understand the lives of people who both put themselves and their families in danger, and also seem ready to attract the criticism of the rest of the world in order to plant the flag for a bigger Israel that will encompass new lands. He joins pioneer settlers who claim new hilltops for Jewish occupation and also spends time with those who live cheek by jowl with Palestinians in Hebron and East Jerusalem.

Louis Theroux meets the inmates locked up in Miami's mega jail. Holding 6,000 prisoners and processing more than 100,000 people a year, it is a transitory place for those not yet sentenced, those awaiting trial and those awaiting charges - a twilight between court and prison where some are in and out in hours and others might be there for years. These jails are a new phenomenon in America as the country struggles to process its growing criminal class. From the men on death row awaiting their appeals to those waiting for their first sight of a court room, Louis meets a collection of people thrown together - some innocent, some guilty and none proven yet, either way.

Comedian Rhod Gilbert goes a long way out of his comfort zone to tackle a series of demanding ‘day jobs’. “I couldn’t do what you do,” is the comment Rhod Gilbert hears more than any other when people talk to him about his life as a stand-up comedian. Back in his native Wales Rhod samples life as a garbage collector, a hairdresser/beautician, a mother of seven and a soldier on an overnight exercise in gruelling terrain.

The second series sees Rhod Gilbert undertake four very different occupations to learn the realities of doing a proper job. Rhod goes down on the farm to see if he can clean up, or will the excrement really hit the fan? He’s has to serve every wish and demand of the English upper crust as he has be to a butler to a lord. Rhod becomes a tattooist apprentice – putting his own permanent artwork on an unsuspecting member of the public. And he finally faces real danger as he goes on shift with a busy inner city fire brigade and is called out to deal with a potentially major fire.

Making History is a fun, fast and fascinating CGI history series that answers the questions you'd love to ask about the past. Discover if the world will end in 2012, why Stonehenge was built and what Hitler's favourite book was. This is history documentary for a new generation.