Escape to River Cottage

Elizabeth Staton travels around the world with friends

Welcome to Rudy Maxa's World, the ultimate travel experience with America's leading high-end travel expert. Join Rudy Maxa, public radio's original Savvy Traveler and contributing editor for National Geographic Traveler magazine.

Enter a world where military enthusiasts, collectors, and restorers bring the greatest battle tanks of all time back to life. Follow each tank's story from the original salvage to the rebuilding process, to the historical innovation behind each machine.

Explore the Earth and the most beautiful natural paradises in the world. These stunning locales are preserved thanks to the dedication of local populations. Meet the inhabitants of these lands who have developed small businesses to welcome visitors in their environment, and helped create a new form of travel: sustainable tourism. Shot in stunning high definition, Green Paradise tells the stories of these magical places, the inhabitants who cherish the land, and those visitors who come to experience its splendors.

Follow In a brand-new Sky HISTORY show, Ross Kemp dives on a series of incredible shipwrecks around the British coastline to reveal some of the nation's murkiest and best-kept secrets. From the remains of a slave ship discovered off Plymouth, to the Kaiser's sunken Imperial Fleet in Scapa Flow and an experimental submarine aircraft carrier, which sank with all passengers and crew on deck during its sea trials, Ross uncovers Britain's hidden maritime past.