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07/30/2022 4:00 am |
Seven Worlds, One Planet |
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| Antarctica, a land of survivors enduring the most hostile conditions on Earth. Ninety eight per cent of the mainland is covered by ice on which virtually nothing can live. Even the sea freezes over, but the Weddell seal manages to survive here by keeping its breathing holes open by using its teeth to grind away the ice. | |||||
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07/30/2022 4:50 am |
Seven Worlds, One Planet |
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| Asia is the largest and most extreme continent on the planet, stretching from the Arctic Circle in the north to the tropical forests on the equator. The animals here face the hottest deserts, tallest jungles and highest mountains found anywhere on Earth, but the continent has not always looked like this. | |||||
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07/30/2022 5:40 am |
Seven Worlds, One Planet |
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| From the bone-dry deserts of the Atacama, where penguins weave their way through a minefield of snapping sea lions, to the lush cloud forests of the Andes, where Andean bears scale 30-metre trees in search of elusive fruits, South America is full of the unusual and ingenious. | |||||
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07/30/2022 6:30 am |
Seven Worlds, One Planet |
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| Australia, a land cast adrift at the time of the dinosaurs. Isolated for millions of years, the weird and wonderful animals marooned here are like nowhere else on Earth. In the north of this island continent is the Daintree, one of the world's oldest tropical forests. | |||||
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07/30/2022 7:25 am |
Seven Worlds, One Planet |
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| High above the city of Gibraltar, Barbary macaques, Europe's only non-human primates, live lives full of kidnappings and high drama, whilst in the cemeteries of Vienna `grave robbing' European hamsters do battle with each other for food. | |||||
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07/30/2022 8:15 am |
Seven Worlds, One Planet |
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| More than any other continent, North America is defined by extreme weather and seasonal change. For animals that live here this poses great challenges, but for those with a pioneering spirit it can also offer great rewards. | |||||
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07/30/2022 9:05 am |
Seven Worlds, One Planet |
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| Africa, home to the greatest wildlife gatherings on Earth. But even in this land of plenty, wildlife faces huge challenges. At its heart is a vast tropical rainforest full of life. Here young chimpanzees learn how to use tools to make the most of the jungles riches. With knowledge passed down from generation to generation, they can access the best forest foods. | |||||
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07/30/2022 9:55 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Cameras focus on Austria's stunning Transalpine railway, which crosses the snowy peaks of the Tirol. The journey begins in the historic city of Graz and heads west through famous alpine beauty spots, including Zell am Zee. | |||||
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07/30/2022 10:40 am |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane follows a centuries-old tourist trail out of London and heads for Margate, via Southend-on-Sea. At Southend, he asks why Britain's longest pier was built here. As he makes his way to Margate, Nick discovers why this resort once literally saved lives and how it has reinvented itself for the modern tourist by relying on some old traditions. | |||||
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07/30/2022 11:30 am |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane is on an island odyssey in the Faroes on a mission to gather all manner of bounty to take to a traditional feast. He starts by diving for 50-year-old mussels before discovering how the Faroese like to eat their sheep. | |||||
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07/30/2022 12:25 pm |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane follows the Welsh Coastal Path around Anglesey and takes in 700 years of inspired thinking and ingenious isles. At South Stack, he investigates how an innovative lighthouse was constructed on a precarious piece of rock. | |||||
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07/30/2022 1:20 pm |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane hops on a ferry across the Irish Sea and washes into Dublin on her tumultuous tides. Mark Horton is at Maryport, where archaeologists have discovered two Roman temples and one of the earliest Christian churches in Britain. | |||||
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07/30/2022 2:10 pm |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane travels to the north east coast, one of Britain's most hazardous with 780 shipwrecks along a 65-mile stretch. Mark Horton takes the helm of a roll-on roll-off ferry to explore how these beasts of the maritime highway cope with stormy seas. | |||||
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07/30/2022 3:05 pm |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane travels to Jersey in search of some of the most spectacular caves and coves in Europe. Ian McMillan turns storytelling sleuth on Scotland's Ayrshire coast as he delves into the story of Sawney Bean. Andy Torbet travels to the sea cave capital of Britain: the Shetland Isles. | |||||
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07/30/2022 4:00 pm |
Deadly Predators |
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| Steve goes in search of Deadly Predators with the greatest super-senses on earth. From echolocating bats to supersonic whales, and a snake that sees its prey in complete darkness. | |||||
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07/30/2022 4:30 pm |
Spectacular Earth |
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| In Arizona, lightning strikes from so high above the ground, through such clear air, that it creates the perfect conditions for the most electrifying show on Earth. | |||||
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07/30/2022 5:20 pm |
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World |
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| Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs. She also meets with a figure who has been an inspiration to her, Sir David Attenborough. | |||||
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07/30/2022 6:20 pm |
The Green Planet |
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| Deserts are hostile: temperatures soar, and water is rare. Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage, and surprising alliances with animals. | |||||
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07/30/2022 7:15 pm |
Civilisations |
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| Simon Schama goes both east and west, to Papal Rome but also to Ottoman Istanbul and Mughal Lahore and Agra, exploring their connections and rivalries, and examining how the role of artists from the different traditions of West and East developed in the years following the Renaissances. Their rivalry unfolded most spectacularly in the creation of domes: in Ottoman Istanbul Mimar Sinan builds the light-flooded Süleymaniye mosque, while in Rome Michelangelo designs the dome of St Peter's Basilica. | |||||
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07/30/2022 8:10 pm |
Art of Scandinavia |
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| Denmark emerges from modest beginnings to become one of the greatest powers and arbiters of taste in northern Europe, a story of incredible transformation befitting the homeland of the greatest fairytale spinner of them all, Hans Christian Anderson, creator of `The Ugly Duckling' and `The Emperor's New Clothes'. | |||||
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07/30/2022 9:00 pm |
Deadly Predators |
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| Steve goes in search of Deadly Predators with the greatest super-senses on earth. From echolocating bats to supersonic whales, and a snake that sees its prey in complete darkness. | |||||
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07/30/2022 9:30 pm |
Spectacular Earth |
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| In Arizona, lightning strikes from so high above the ground, through such clear air, that it creates the perfect conditions for the most electrifying show on Earth. | |||||
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07/30/2022 10:20 pm |
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World |
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| Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs. She also meets with a figure who has been an inspiration to her, Sir David Attenborough. | |||||
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07/30/2022 11:20 pm |
The Green Planet |
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| Deserts are hostile: temperatures soar, and water is rare. Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage, and surprising alliances with animals. | |||||
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07/31/2022 12:20 am |
Civilisations |
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| Simon Schama goes both east and west, to Papal Rome but also to Ottoman Istanbul and Mughal Lahore and Agra, exploring their connections and rivalries, and examining how the role of artists from the different traditions of West and East developed in the years following the Renaissances. Their rivalry unfolded most spectacularly in the creation of domes: in Ottoman Istanbul Mimar Sinan builds the light-flooded Süleymaniye mosque, while in Rome Michelangelo designs the dome of St Peter's Basilica. | |||||
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07/31/2022 1:15 am |
Art of Scandinavia |
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| Denmark emerges from modest beginnings to become one of the greatest powers and arbiters of taste in northern Europe, a story of incredible transformation befitting the homeland of the greatest fairytale spinner of them all, Hans Christian Anderson, creator of `The Ugly Duckling' and `The Emperor's New Clothes'. | |||||
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07/31/2022 2:10 am |
Spectacular Earth |
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| In Arizona, lightning strikes from so high above the ground, through such clear air, that it creates the perfect conditions for the most electrifying show on Earth. | |||||
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07/31/2022 3:00 am |
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World |
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| Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs. She also meets with a figure who has been an inspiration to her, Sir David Attenborough. | |||||