'How Earth Made Us' is coming soon

We're just putting the finishing touches to 'How Earth Made Us', the series that I've spent the past year working on. It will be ready to air on BBC2 as early as the first week of January 2010, to coincide with the launch of the BBC Year of Science... BBC Productions

Iain Stewart filming in Svalbard (copyright BBC)

Following on from Earth: The Power Of The Planet, geologist and presenter Professor Iain Stewart returns to BBC Two to continue the epic story of the relationship between human civilisation and Earth.
How Earth Made Us explores how geology, geography and climate have influenced and continue to shape human history. Each episode examines a different force, including the effects of deep earth, wind, fire and water. The series concludes with a look at how the human race has become a geological force in its own right.

Travelling to some of the most iconic locations on the planet, Professor Stewart discovers how the river Nile caused Egypt to dominate the ancient world, how the break up of a super-continent 200 million years ago shaped an energy revolution, and how wind changed the history of China and Australia.