Airdate: Uncovered

In May and June BBC Knowledge will screen a selection of  human interest documentaries every Friday night, set to air under the banner of ‘Uncovered.’

The first features Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy, but others to come are Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook, Space Dive, Me My Sex & I and Discovering Lennon.

Tim Christlieb, Head of Programming & Production for BBC Worldwide Australasia comments, “We have a really strong line-up of fascinating one-off documentaries and launching ‘Uncovered’ gives us a chance to package these up in a regular timeslot. The BBC Knowledge audience has varied and topical interests, ‘Uncovered’ will feed their appetite for quality factual content.”

One of the key titles for Uncovered in May is the spectacular feature-length documentary Space Dive, screening first on Foxtel. Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner entered the history books last October when he jumped from 128,100 feet (39,045 metres) above the Earth’s surface and landed safely on the ground. This documentary explores the story behind the headlines.

Other titles to feature in Uncovered include Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy, Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook, Me, My Sex & I, Discovering Lennon and coming up in June Rocket Men and Meet Britain’s Chinese Tiger Mums. Covering a diverse and at times provocative range of topics and personalities, these programmes have talkability – providing audiences with the opportunity to share their new-found knowledge with family and friends.

‘Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy’

Featuring interviews with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, this portrait of Steve Jobs uncovers how Apple became the company it is today. A brand that defines cool consumerism, Apple has become one of the biggest corporations in the world. Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy decodes the formula that took Apple from suburban garage to global supremacy.

Friday May 3 at 9.30pm