The Vallee Blanche, Chamonix’s White Valley, perhaps the longest single ski run in the world. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it? Just one small...

Set feelings to Cute Factor 9 when you come visit the sleepyheads at this Costa Rican sloth sanctuary. Sloths are the only mammals...

Engine, check. Flaps, check. Scan wings for suicidal stowaways, oops, missed that one.  When Romain Jantot went up for a spin over the...

So you’re an alien from outer space, come down to Earth to enslave the human race and be worshipped as a god. We’ve all been there. But...

It’s a question as old as time, or at least sliced bread – why does toast always land buttered side down? And it’s a wonder as old as...

El Capitan. A Californian cliff-face three times the height of London’s Shard, with so little purchase that a fly would think twice about...

Cats. Just perfect aren’t they? Infallible. Unfoolable. Millions of years of evolution have honed our feline friends into near-immaculate...

What is it with Russian teenagers and their unstoppable urge to turn their families into gibbering, white-haired nervous wrecks? Simply...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02gyz6b/adam-curtis-bitter-lake If you haven’t seen Adam Curtis’ Bitter Lake on iPlayer yet I urge...

In which street is the Diogenes Club? A Study in Pink is a problem deserving how many nicotine patches? Who is found dead in a locked...

How many hobbits joined the Fellowship of the Ring? What colour is the Orcs’ skin? Why did Gandalf have difficulty in opening the west...

At which motel is it advisable not to take a shower? Why did Rick say he had come to Casablanca? Which film was conceived with characters...

On a tall, tall cliff there are two little houses.  The house nearest the edge is where Puffle lives.  From the edge he can look … down...

Deep in the jungle, early in the morning, the animals are all working hard… except for Sloth. He just lies there. Isn’t it time he did...

Lucy thinks Buddy is the happiest dog. Elvis the cat thinks Buddy is the most annoying dog. So when Lucy enters Buddy in the Happiest Dog...

Buddy the dog and Elvis the cat are always fighting, and although Elvis is brave, Buddy is bigger. Elvis has had enough and leaves one...

Charlie and Ghost Rescue find a four-eared, three-eyed alien ghost! The team help Zibron send a message home, but when an enthusiastic...

The ghost of Gilbert the fossil collector is puzzled. Where have all the dinosaur ghosts gone? He’s sure it’s something to do with Arthur...

There’s monkey business at the zoo! The lion has started squeaking, the camel’s gone fishing and the elephant is trying to peel a banana!...

Monica and her family have moved into a new house by a graveyard. Unfortunately, a ghost hound lives there too, and he keeps growling and...