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		08/06/2022 4:00 am	Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore
	How does connecting with the images and sounds of the natural world help us gain a greater sense of ease, perspective and connection? This first episode is about breathing. By immersing ourselves in images of jellyfish floating, elephants swimming and lemurs swinging through the rainforest, we learn to focus on our breathing and are reminded that we are not separate from the world around us. What is the relationship between each breath and mindfulness, and why is breathing so important.
Localized series title: Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore Localized description: How does connecting with the images and sounds of the natural world help us gain a greater sense of ease, perspective and connection? This first episode is about breathing. By immersing ourselves in images of jellyfish floating, elephants swimming and lemurs swinging through the rainforest, we learn to focus on our breathing and are reminded that we are not separate from the world around us. What is the relationship between each breath and mindfulness, and why is breathing so important.
		08/06/2022 4:30 am	Dynasties
	In Senegal, west Africa, lives a group of chimpanzees led by an alpha male named David. He has already been alpha for three years, a time when leaders here are usually overthrown, and he finds himself surrounded by rivals who all want his crown.

		08/06/2022 5:30 am	Dynasties
	A colony of emperor penguins gather in Atka Bay, on the coast of Antarctica, after three months feeding at sea. They arrive as the sea freezes over and all the other Antarctic animals have left the continent for the relative safety of the sea. The penguins have come here to raise the next generation in their emperor's dynasty, but to do so they will have to work together to keep themselves and their chicks alive through the coming winter: the coldest and cruellest on earth.

		08/06/2022 6:30 am	Dynasties
	The Marsh Pride of Kenya's Masai Mara is in a unique situation in their history. They have been abandoned by all of the adult males, and just two adult females are left to feed and protect their eight youngsters. The future of the whole family rests entirely on the shoulders of these two mothers, Charm and her cousin Sienna. They need to raise their cubs to adulthood if this great dynasty is to continue, and they all face the great perils of the African savannah.

		08/06/2022 7:30 am	Dynasties
	The leader of a great painted wolf family is growing old, and her power to keep the peace is waning. Tensions are rising, and a feud with her ambitious daughter whose own pack is running out of space threatens to bring the dynasty down.

		08/06/2022 8:30 am	Dynasties
	Tigress Raj Bhera lives in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in India. She holds the perfect territory, with dense jungle, spring-fed ponds and rich grasslands teeming with prey, and now has four tiny newborn cubs to care for. They are the future of her dynasty, but the idyllic world that she inhabits is changing.

		08/06/2022 9:30 am	Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough
	Sir David Attenborough presents this landmark documentary which brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the lost world of the very last days of the dinosaurs. Searching in the hills of North Dakota, paleontologist Robert DePalma makes an incredible discovery in a prehistoric graveyard known as Tanis - fossilised creatures, astonishingly well-preserved like the bodies found at Pompeii.

		08/06/2022 11:00 am	Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
	Starting in Venice, Joanna sees how the travels of Venetian hero Marco Polo and Silk Road traders influenced its growth. In Albania, Joanna walks the beginning of the Via Egnatia, an ancient network that once linked the entirety of the Roman Empire.

		08/06/2022 11:50 am	Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
	Joanna follows the Silk Road from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, across the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Azerbaijan. On the way she learns not only about the history, but how these two very countries are still finding their identities.

		08/06/2022 12:40 pm	Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
	Joanna's Silk Road journey takes her to Iran. Throughout the country she meets people eager to share the culture and innovations of the Persian civilisation which, thanks to the Silk Road, spread far beyond modern-day Iran.

		08/06/2022 1:25 pm	Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
	As Joanna's Silk Road Adventure draws to a close, she travels across the stunning yet little-known Central Asian states of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Starting in the Kyzl-Kum desert she explores the Silk Road citadel of Khiva, a town infamous for its history of slavery. In the capital, Tashkent, she marvels at the splendid Soviet-built Metro system and attends a high society wedding as the guest of a famous pop star.

		08/06/2022 2:15 pm	Japan with Sue Perkins
	Sue Perkins starts her journey in Tokyo, Japan's glittering capital city and home to 36 million people. She trains with a female sumo wrestling team, meets a family who live with robots and attends a solo-wedding.

		08/06/2022 3:10 pm	Japan with Sue Perkins
	Sue Perkins spends an enjoyable evening in Kyoto. There she meets Japan's geishas, goes free diving with ama divers, visits Hiroshima, and explores how the Japanese are tackling the future in Tokyo.

		08/06/2022 4:00 pm	Deadly Predators
	Steve goes in search of the fastest Deadly Predators on earth. Using the latest CGI, Steve high-dives off a rugged cliff in Wales next to a gannet, tests the speed and accuracy of a gannet dive in a sky-high experiment in his deadly junkyard using a crane and an old caravan, and takes to the kayak for an amazing animal encounter with thousands of wild gannets.

		08/06/2022 4:30 pm	Spectacular Earth
	Nazaré in Portugal is the site of the biggest ocean waves ever recorded on Earth. To understand what creates these monsters, plunge beneath the waves to reveal the sprawling landscapes of the seabed, travel to South Africa to witness the Sardine Run.

		08/06/2022 5:20 pm	Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
	The pandemic reveals the enormity of the challenge that tackling climate change poses as Greta learns the drop in emissions caused by the 2020 lockdowns is not enough to put the world on track to meet its climate goals.

		08/06/2022 6:15 pm	The Green Planet
	We rely on plants for almost everything, including the air we breathe and the food we eat. Two in five wild plants are threatened with extinction, but people are finding new ways to help them, from projects in Africa to reseed the landscape to the rebuilding of a tropical forest in Brazil, tree by tree.

		08/06/2022 7:15 pm	Civilisations
	In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. As historian of empire David Olusoga shows, art was always on the frontline. Each cultural contact at this time left a mark on both sides: the magnificent Benin bronzes record the meeting of an ancient West African kingdom and Portuguese voyagers in a spirit of mutual respect and exchange.

		08/06/2022 8:15 pm	Art of Scandinavia
	In the final instalment of Andrew Graham-Dixon's windswept journey through the art of the Norselands, we arrive in Sweden - home of IKEA and a tradition of brilliant furniture design stretching back to the early years of the 20th century. Sweden has made its modern democratic mission one of comfort and civilised living for the masses.

		08/06/2022 9:05 pm	Deadly Predators
	Steve goes in search of the fastest Deadly Predators on earth. Using the latest CGI, Steve high-dives off a rugged cliff in Wales next to a gannet, tests the speed and accuracy of a gannet dive in a sky-high experiment in his deadly junkyard using a crane and an old caravan, and takes to the kayak for an amazing animal encounter with thousands of wild gannets.

		08/06/2022 9:30 pm	Spectacular Earth
	Nazaré in Portugal is the site of the biggest ocean waves ever recorded on Earth. To understand what creates these monsters, plunge beneath the waves to reveal the sprawling landscapes of the seabed, travel to South Africa to witness the Sardine Run.

		08/06/2022 10:20 pm	Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
	The pandemic reveals the enormity of the challenge that tackling climate change poses as Greta learns the drop in emissions caused by the 2020 lockdowns is not enough to put the world on track to meet its climate goals.

		08/06/2022 11:20 pm	The Green Planet
	We rely on plants for almost everything, including the air we breathe and the food we eat. Two in five wild plants are threatened with extinction, but people are finding new ways to help them, from projects in Africa to reseed the landscape to the rebuilding of a tropical forest in Brazil, tree by tree.

		08/07/2022 12:20 am	Civilisations
	In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. As historian of empire David Olusoga shows, art was always on the frontline. Each cultural contact at this time left a mark on both sides: the magnificent Benin bronzes record the meeting of an ancient West African kingdom and Portuguese voyagers in a spirit of mutual respect and exchange.

		08/07/2022 1:15 am	Art of Scandinavia
	In the final instalment of Andrew Graham-Dixon's windswept journey through the art of the Norselands, we arrive in Sweden - home of IKEA and a tradition of brilliant furniture design stretching back to the early years of the 20th century. Sweden has made its modern democratic mission one of comfort and civilised living for the masses.

		08/07/2022 2:10 am	Spectacular Earth
	Nazaré in Portugal is the site of the biggest ocean waves ever recorded on Earth. To understand what creates these monsters, plunge beneath the waves to reveal the sprawling landscapes of the seabed, travel to South Africa to witness the Sardine Run.

		08/07/2022 3:00 am	Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
	The pandemic reveals the enormity of the challenge that tackling climate change poses as Greta learns the drop in emissions caused by the 2020 lockdowns is not enough to put the world on track to meet its climate goals.

BBC Earth

Available schedules: 03/26/2022 - 12/28/2024 •Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST) UTC +2 • Country: United States •Language: English

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