The New Zealand Home

To Build or Not to Build

July 2025 •English

Simon O'Brien travels the United Kingdom meeting people building their own homes.

proStory

July 2025 •Czech

Zoom New Zealand

July 2025 •Malay

Backpacking around New Zealand, filled with epic scenery, unique cultural experiences and amazing outdoor activities everywhere will be an eye opener. Fadhlur and Syarif are to go behind the wheels on a road trip where they will drive from one point to the next destination and they make new friends along the way. Getting closer to nature where camping in the wild and hunting for food source will be a challenge for them in order to understand how the aborigines live. In order to receive instructions and for them to send their mission replies, tablets and social networking sites will be used in order to obtain the budget to the next destination.

Drift Lamborghini: Building Mad Mike's Dream Car

July 2025 •English

Mad Mike Whiddett is addicted to building cars and his latest passion is converting a Lamborghini Huracan into a drift supercar. Will he have it ready for the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed?

Grand Designs Finland

July 2025 •Finnish

Under the leadership of architect Samppa Lappalainen, we follow the passion projects of house builders from the beginning, from the design table through construction stages and challenges to the finished dream home. Where did the old dreams start and what kind of work must be done to fulfill the dreams? And was all the hard work worth it?

Secrets of the Manor House

July 2025 •English

Exactly 100 years ago, the world of the British manor house was at its height. It was a life of luxury and indolence for a wealthy few supported by the labor of hundreds of servants toiling ceaselessly "below stairs" to make the lives of their lords and ladies run as smoothly as possible. It is a world that has provided a majestic backdrop to a range of movies and popular costume dramas to this day, including PBS' "Downton Abbey." But what was really going on behind these stately walls? "Secrets of the Manor House" looks beyond the fiction to the truth of what life was like in these British houses of yesteryear. They were communities where two separate worlds existed side by side: the poor worked as domestic servants, while the nation’s wealthiest families enjoyed a lifestyle of luxury, and aristocrats ruled over their servants as they had done for a thousand years.

Kevin McCloud and the Big Town Plan

July 2025 •English

Kevin McCloud follows an innovative community-led regeneration scheme in Castleford.

Futuropolis: Mapping the City of Tomorrow

July 2025 •English

Discover how Singapore's architects and futurists plan to radically transform the city in response to the daunting challenges it faces.

If We Built It Today

July 2025 •English

They are some of the world’s all-time greatest building projects. Most have stood the test of time, but with today’s technology, could they be duplicated and done better?

Grand Designs

July 2025 •English

British television series which features unusual and often elaborate architectural homebuilding projects.

Dreaming The Impossible: Unbuilt Britain

July 2025 •English

The fascinating and dramatic stories behind some of the grandest designs never built.

Kids: An Instruction Manual with Nigel Latta

July 2025 •English

How often have you wished kids came with an instruction manual? Well, Nigel Latta is returning to deliver what every parent has always wanted…a cutting edge, science based, easy to understand guide to solving problems in families.

Building Sights

July 2025 •English

Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.

Grand Designs Abroad

July 2025 •English

Kevin McCloud presents Grand Designs Abroad. The stakes are higher, the risks are multiplied, and the ambition - to build your dream home in the perfect European location - is greater than ever.

The Art of Architecture

July 2025 •English

An exploration of some of the world's most famous structures and the inspirations of the architects behind them.

Nachhaltige Architektur

July 2025 •German

The Age of Concrete

July 2025 •Icelandic

The show traces the history of architecture and urban planning in Reykjavík in the twentieth century. The series begins in 1915, in the big fire where many wooden houses in the town were destroyed. Then the time of the concrete houses began.

Last Chance to See

July 2025 •English

A follow-up to the 1990 Radio 4 series in which the late Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine travelled around the world in search of endangered species. 20 years later Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine go back to see what has become of the animals in two decades, and to discover what has affected their fortunes.

Kiwiland

July 2025 •Czech

Circuit

July 2025 •English

In-depth investigations from the Stuff Circuit team - comprising of an on-screen documentary with interwoven interactive elements.