The Incredible Journey

Every year, more than five million tourists visit Israel, many of them Christians retracing the footsteps of Jesus. With over two billion followers worldwide, Jesus Christ is regarded as one of the most influential figures in history. Yet one question continues to be asked: did Jesus really exist as a historical person? In this program, we'll investigate the historical evidence for His existe...

In 1903, America had only 150 miles of paved roads, no gas stations, and no highway maps. Crossing the continent by car was deemed impossible until Dr Horatio Nelson Jackson accepted a casual $50 bet to prove the sceptics wrong. Alongside mechanic Sewall K. Crocker and a goggle-wearing pit bull named Bud, Jackson embarked on a gruelling, breakdown-riddled, 63-day journey that changed transportatio...

This program follows the extraordinary story of the Japanese Kamikaze pilots of World War II. At 7:25 am on 25 October 1944, just five days after the Kamikaze Corps was formed, Lieutenant Yukio Seki took off from this very location on the first official Kamikaze attack mission. Three hours and twenty minutes later, at 10:45 am, his unit reached enemy targets in the Gulf of Leyte. Seki was the firs...

Al Capone, a name that still echoes through the annals of American crime history, was one of the most notorious gangsters of all time. Born in 1899 to Italian immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, Alphonse Gabriel Capone rose from humble beginnings to become the kingpin of organised crime in Chicago during the Prohibition era.  Known for his charismatic personality and ruthless tactics, Capone...

After the test on Mount Moriah, Abraham buries Sarah and secures the first piece of the Promised Land. His servant finds Rebekah for Isaac, and through Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, and Jacob, God’s covenant continues. Abraham’s story becomes a lasting legacy of faith pointing toward the promised Messiah. How does one life of faith continue to shape generations yet to come?

After waiting decades, Isaac is born, but joy turns to testing as Abraham sends Hagar and Ishmael away and is then asked to offer Isaac. He obeys and journeys to Mount Moriah, where his faith reaches its peak in one of the Bible’s most powerful moments, pointing forward to God’s sacrifice. What does ultimate faith look like when God asks for what you love most?

Abram leaves Ur at God’s call, stepping into the unknown and receiving promises of land, descendants, and blessing for all nations. His journey takes him through famine in Egypt, conflict with Lot, rescue missions, and encounters with Melchizedek, ending with God confirming His covenant of land and countless descendants under the stars. But what does it really mean to trust God when everything fam...

Sarai gives Hagar to Abram, leading to Ishmael’s birth and conflict that drives Hagar into the wilderness, where God promises her a future. God renames Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, promising Isaac despite their age. Abraham intercedes for Sodom before its destruction, while Lot escapes. How do human decisions and divine promises collide in moments of doubt and impatience?

M*A*S*H was a hit television show based on the exploits of army doctors in Korea during the Korean War. The public loved the series, and the last episode in 1983 became the most-watched television broadcast in American history.  But few actually know about the horrific war that forms the setting for the series, a war that has theoretically never ended. Often called The Forgotten War, it was oversh...

Like most small towns and villages around Australia, Emmaville has its war memorial, complete with the names of those who volunteered from this area. But the name of Emmaville’s most remarkable son is not here, for by the time he enlisted, he had long moved away — Tom Richards. Richards' grew up to be an athletic young man, and his speed, strength and intelligent play led to his selection in...

In July 1940, Hitler issued a directive formally launching Operation Sea Lion, Nazi Germany's plan to invade and conquer Britain. Despite the fall of France, Britain, under its new Prime Minister Winston Churchill, showed no intention of surrendering. In a series of defiant speeches, Churchill rallied the British people, famously vowing that they would fight on the beaches, in the streets, an...

Reptiles are not only deadly and numerous, they are also creatures who have some of the most bizarre behaviours in the world. Inhabiting every single land mass with the exception of Antarctica, reptiles are everywhere. Reptiles are generally classified into four main groups; crocodiles and alligators, lizards, snakes and turtles and tortoises. They are all cold-blooded, which means they rely on ex...

In 1975, the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh fell to a rebel movement known as the Khmer Rouge. These Marxist revolutionaries seized control of the country and unleashed a reign of terror rarely seen in modern history. Over the next four years, the regime, led by dictator Pol Pot, was responsible for the deaths of nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population. Entire communities were destroyed, and th...

It's 70 years since one of the most extraordinary achievements occurred. This accomplishment is spoken of, remembered, and often used as the gauge of success. And so, it is no surprise that the name of this one man is carved indelibly into history. In his home country, he's considered a hero and has been voted the most admired person in the nation. He even has a commemorative five-stamp...

Nancy Bird Walton, Australia's pioneering female aviator, became the youngest woman in the British Empire to gain a commercial pilot's licence at 19. Her passion for flying started at 13 with a joyride in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth, prompting training with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, purchase of her own plane, and barnstorming tours across New South Wales with Peggy McKillop to offer joy...

In the late eighteenth century, the nations of Europe were plunged into the chaos and terror of a series of bloody revolutions. But England was spared. Not many people know the story of John Wesley, the man who saved England. Today we often focus on economic and military power as the ways that we can save nations. But Wesley did it by bringing about spiritual revival. When France and many other co...

King Solomon, of the royal House of David, is considered the richest human being the world has ever known. For centuries, the legend of his gold mines, said to be the source of much of his immense wealth, has captured the imagination of people from all nations and stations in life. According to the Bible, Solomon, the wise son of King David, ruled from Jerusalem from 970 to 930 BC, presiding over...

Step into one of the most volatile places on earth: the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Despite its name, the DMZ is the most militarised border in the world, a tense strip of land dividing North and South Korea since the 1953 armistice. Technically still at war, the two nations face each other across a boundary where even the smallest incident can ignite global attention. In Panmunjom’s Joint Security...

Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818, one of nine children of Heinrich and Henrietta Marx. The family lived in the Rhineland region of Prussia in western Germany. Although both parents came from Jewish families with notable rabbinical backgrounds, Marx’s father, who worked as a lawyer, converted to Christianity in order to continue his legal career. Following an average school performance, Ma...

Even today, new stories emerge about the Holocaust, and its unrelenting evil remains almost impossible to grasp, coldly calculated cruelty on an unimaginable scale. Perhaps the hardest part to comprehend is that, for the Nazis, being Jewish alone was a death sentence. Children of any age were not spared. Historians estimate that 1.5 million children, mostly Jewish, were murdered. How can we even b...

World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, began on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Adolf Hitler dreamed of uniting Europe and establishing an empire that would rule the world for a thousand years. Yet he could have spared himself and his people immense suffering if he had only paid attention to an extraordinary prophecy written by the Bible prophet Dan...

Arlington National Cemetery is one of the most well-known cemeteries in the world. It’s just outside Washington, DC. 400,000 military veterans and their families are buried there. The most famous tomb of all is also there, the tomb of The Unknown Soldier.  Nobody knows this soldier’s identity.  Do you sometime feel that nobody knows you either? We can feel overwhelmed by the challenges and struggl...

Decades after the war, people from around the world still visit Auschwitz, a solemn place of remembrance for those who perished there. But imagine walking through it alongside the grandson of its ruthless commandant, Rudolf Höss. And what if your father was Martin Bormann, one of Hitler’s closest confidants and a key architect of the Holocaust? Join Gary Kent as he explores the heartbreaking stori...

On the morning of 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand Flight TE901 departed Auckland Airport in Māngere on an 11-hour sightseeing journey to Antarctica. At 1:49 p.m., tragedy struck when the aircraft crashed into the lower slopes of Mt Erebus, claiming the lives of all 237 passengers and 20 crew. It remains the worst civil disaster in New Zealand’s history. In this program, we retrace the flight pat...

The British philosopher Antony Flew was a powerful voice against the existence of God. He was a prominent atheist known for his work in the field of philosophy of religion and his arguments against the existence of God. For more than fifty years, he promoted his atheist agenda in the universities where he taught. However, later in his life, he rejected atheism and became a believer in God. What ch...