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Episode length - 15 minutes

Reporter Ricky Boleto investigates the role technology plays in our lives, how much time we're spending on our gadgets and what would happen if we weren't allowed to use them anymore.

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Episode length - 30 minutes

This film follows Libby, Ethan and Oliver as they learn to control their mental health to achieve simple goals. Libby has anxiety but is determined to conquer it so she can walk to school on her own for the first time. Ethan's ADHD means he has low self-esteem and is unable to speak on the phone, but wants to build his confidence. Oliver has OCD which makes him afraid of germs and dirt, but he is determined to learn to control it so he can play outside. This groundbreaking documentary aims to help break down the stigma surrounding mental illness by helping CBBC's viewers understand more about it.

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Episode length - 30 minutes

This film follows the stories of Grace and Cerys as they juggle their passions - for running and music - with the demands of their serious lung condition cystic fibrosis. Twelve-year-old Grace is competing in the most important race of her life - The Brighton Mini Mile 2015. While 11-year-old Cerys is performing with her band and orchestra at a concert in Northampton while also preparing for her trombone music exam. And Cerys is facing the additonal challenge of taking more responsibility for her own medications. The girls have their work cut out as they search for success, but they face more obstacles than most as they fight to stay healthy. Despite having to contend with hospital admissions, operations and constant pain while running, we follow Grace as she embarks on an intensive training regime. In the build-up to the race, she tells her running partner Betty about her condition for the first time.

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Episode length - 5 minutes

Doctor Knowles and Professor McCork get to the bottom of some of life's most massive science questions such as "What is a shooting star?", "What is the strongest natural material?" and "How does lightning work?".

See also: BD0017 Earth and Space (KS2)

1 - Jumping

"Which animal can jump the farthest?" - The most impressive jumpers from the animal kingdom.

2 - Shooting Star

"What is a shooting star?" - The small worlds of rock and ice that are in orbit in our solar system and how they lead to the most spectacular sights in the night sky.

3 - Boxes

"What is the strongest natural material?" - The toughest and hardest materials on the planet.

4 - Freezing Point

"What is the coldest place on earth? - Some of the most bone-chillingly icy places on the planet.

5 - Harvest

"Can carrots turn me orange?" - We find out exactly what makes up this unique vegetable.

6 - Venom

"What is the world's most venomous animal?" - Even the most dangerous creatures can be very useful when creating medicine.

7 - Lightning

"How does lightning work?" - The sizzling science behind nature's most violent storms.

8 - DNA

"Is every human being unique?" - We learn how the instruction manual responsible for making human beings is also responsible for making up all living things and find out about identical twins.

9 - Compass

"How does a compass work?" - Travel back to Ancient China and to the core of the earth on a voyage of discovery.

10 - Crying

"Why do we cry?" - The science of how and why we shed tears.

11 - Cats

"Why do cats purr?" - We travel deep into the feline brain to discover why scientists think cats might make their unique purring sound.

12 - Eyesight

"Which animal has the best eyesight?" - Creatures with truly amazing vision - from the bug-eyed to the eagle-eyed and those that can see in the dark.

13 - Beards

"Why can't girls grow beards?" - Facts about what makes girls and boys different and what would happen if a man never shaved.

14 - Goldfish

"Do goldfish have bad memories?" - Some fishy facts about goldfish, how to look after them and what makes them tick.

15 - Largest

"What is the largest animal of all time?" - We travel back in time and to the bottom of the sea to meet some truly massive beasts.

16 - Space

"What is a black hole?" - Some very weird and wonderful things about gravity and the black holes in space that suck in everything that crosses their path.

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Episode length - 45 minutes

Join Mr Bloom and the Tiddlers for an exciting day - the Woodland Cross Wood Race! The officials are at the starting line with fans waiting to cheer on their favourite runners. But who will race the current champion - the extremely fast Hare? Dance performances by Northern Ballet make this telling of Aesop's Fable a perfect treat!

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Format: CD 

Runing time approx. 16 mins

Machines cause mayhem in these hi-tech tales. The robot racers are in a fight to the finish line. Luke Lively's tidybot is out of control. And mechanical muscle is used to rob a bank. Stand back and watch the sparks fly!

1 - The Terrible Tidybot (05:35)
2 - Robot Robbery (04:00)
3 - Robot Racers (06:13)

Read by: Jonathan Kydd

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Running time approx. 16 mins

Horrid Henry's favourite author in the whole world, TJ Fizz,is coming to school. So when Miss Battle-Axe sends him out of the class in disgrace, Henry knows he HAS to get back in - but how?

Read by: Miranda Richardson

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Episode length - 30 minutes

Join Radzi on his journey to the deep south in the USA, where he retraces the route of a civil rights march that changed the course of history - the walk that changed the world.

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Episode length - 10 minutes

Andy travels back to prehistoric times and has adventures while meeting the dinosaurs and ice-age beasts that once roamed our planet.

See also: BD0009 Dinosaurs

1 - Argentinosaurus & Eggshell - Andy embarks on another exciting prehistoric adventure, travelling back 95 million years in search of an eggshell belonging to one of the biggest animals ever to walk the earth.

2 - Paraceratherium & Footpring - Andy travels through time on another prehistoric adventure, this time landing 30 million years ago in Mongolia, where he meets the paraceratherium, a giant mammal five times the size of a rhinocerous.

3 - Woolly Mammoth & Tusk - When disaster strikes at the National Museum, Andy sets off on a prehistoric adventure using his trusty, time travelling clock.

4 - Spinosaurus & Scan - Andy travels 100 million years back into prehistoric times to meet spinosaurus, a massive meat-eating dinosaur even bigger than T-Rex. On his adventure he rides a speedy ouranosaurus and takes a dip in a prehistoric river.

5 - Epidexipterux & Tail Feather - Andy Day heads 160 million years into the past in search of a feather belonging to a tiny prehistoric dinosaur, the epidexipteryx, but he is left stranded in the tree tops after encountering a meat-eating dinosaur.

6 - Leptictidium & Fig - Andy goes on another adventure in seach of the tiny leptictidium, a furry mammal that used to bounce around the forests of Europe 50 million years ago.

7 - Northtoheriops & Dung - Andy travels 15,000 years into the past to meet a giant prehistoric sloth. On the way he is stalked by a sabre-toothed cat and rides a colossal Columbian mammoth.

8 - Wooly Rhino & Flowers - Andy goes in search of the woolly rhino, travelling back 50,000 years to a snowy prehistoric mountain range; but can he find the rhino's favourite food and get back to his time-travelling clock before it returns to the museum?

9 - Opthalmosaurus & Painting - Andy plunges into an underwater prehistoric adventure, 150 million years back in time, in search of a giant swimming reptile the size of an elephant. However, after being chased by a scary shark he finds himself lost at sea.

10 - Camptosaurus & Call - Andy goes on another adventure after an accident at the museum ruins his new prehistoric exhibit. Arriving 150 million years in the past he tracks down the peculiar camptosaurus and plays hide and seek with a fierce allosaurus.

11 - Sabre-toothed Cat and Roar - Andy leaps into his time-travelling clock to visit the fearsome sabre-toothed cat, but when his gizmo malfunctions, he is shrunk down to the size of an insect and must escape from a marauding prehistoric dung beetle!

12 - Centrosaurus & Video - Andy heads back in time to search a prehistoric forest for a plant-munching dinosaur, but he runs into a relative of the T-rex instead, before joining a herd of centrosaurus to escape a flash flood.

13 - Ankylosaur & Club - Andy meets the Ankylosaur, the armoured tank of the dinosaur world, when he travels back in time 70 million years on a mission to replace a broken museum artefact. On his trip he must contend with two fearsome predators - a giant relative of the T-rex and a sneaky pack of velociraptors.

14 - Gigantoraptor & Feather - Andy travels back 85 million years to meet a giant feathered dinosaur that is as tall as a house! Along the way, he helps to protect a nest full of prehistoric eggs and gets caught in a super-sized sand storm.

15 - Australopithecus & Hair - Andy jumps into his time-travelling clock and heads back 3 million years, where he runs into some ancient primates and joins their tribe. Along the way, he helps them fend off a prehistoric big cat, before having his trusty backpack stolen by some hungry vultures.

16 - Gastornis & Egg - Andy heads 49 million years back in time to find out the colour of a prehistoric bird's eggs. But when he finally tracks down a nest, a new chick starts to hatch and he must protect it against a colony of super-sized prehistoric ants.

17 - Kimmerosaurus & Clamshell - A lost earring means Andy must go on another time-travelling adventure, as he returns 160 million years into the past to hunt for a prehistoric clamshell. Plunging into the waters of an ancient ocean, Andy meets some giant swimming reptiles and helps them to escape a colossal creature called Predator X.

18 - Chalicothere & Claw - Andy breaks a valuable museum artefact and has to travel back 30 million years in time to replace it. Landing in an age when giant mammals roamed the Earth, Andy tracks down the peculiar chalicothere and gets chased by a swarm of angry prehistoric hornets.

19 - Magyarosaurus & Reeds - Andy travels back 70 million years to meet the miniature magyarosaurus, a relative of the giant sauropod dinosaurs, which grew no bigger than a pony. But when he arrives on their prehistoric island home, he has to shrink down as well to hide from a giant flying reptile as tall as a giraffe.

20 - Andrewsarchus & Tooth - To finish Mrs Pickles' birthday surprise, Andy travels back 36 million years in time to find a tooth belonging to a giant carnivorous predator, but when his trusty backpack is stolen, he enlists the help of a herd of giant brontothere to get it back.

21 - Woolly Mammoth & Ice - Andy dons his winter coat and heads off on another prehistoric adventure, this time back 30,000 years to the last ice age. On his travels he is stalked by a cave lion, before joining some woolly mammoths on their annual migration and helping out one of the herd when they fall through a hole in the ice.

22 - Paraceratherium & Skin - Andy meets the largest mammal ever to walk the earth when he travels back in Mongolia thirty million years in the distant past. On his travels he has a night-time run-in with some hungry hyaenodons and helps a baby paraceratherium out of a sticky situation.

23 - Basilosaurus & Barnacles - Andy goes on another time-travelling adventure to collect barnacles from a prehistoric ocean for his new museum display. During his journey he meets a troop of noisy primates, explores the seabed with his scuba gear and tracks down a giant prehistoric whale.

24 - Australopithecus & Tool - Andy travels back in time three million years to the Great Rift Valley in Africa to meet one of our very own ancient ancestors, australopithecus. During his adventure he has a narrow escape from an angry relative of the elephant and takes a trip in an inflatable dinghy over a waterfall.

25 - Gigantoraptor & Tumbleweed - When the museum's prized prehistoric tumbleweed goes missing, Andy heads back 85 million years in time to try and find some more. During his search he helps a mother dinosaur protect her nest and manages to get himself covered in dino snot!

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Episode length - 10 minutes

See also: BD0016 Shakespeare

Children's poetry series featuring poems translated into British Sign Language and brought to life with original animation. To celebrate the 400-year-old legacy of William Shakespeare, the cast perform a series of poetry from his plays.

1 - The Tempest - Donna and Simon are sailing the seas in a medieval ship, discovering The Tempest.

2 - Twelfth Night - Ashley and Aimee head to ancient Greece where they discover Twelfth Night.

3 - As You Like It - Ashley and Aimee set up camp in the woods and discover As You Like It.

4 - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Aimee and Ashley head to an enchanted forest to discover A Midsummer Night's Dream.

5 - Romeo and Juliet - Donna and Simon head to ancient Verona and discover the story of Romeo and Juliet.

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