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		08/13/2022 4:00 am	Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore
	Join mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe as he focuses on change and what we can learn from how animals adapt to changes in the world around them. Why is a chameleon's ability to alter its appearance crucial to its survival and what lessons are there from understanding how elephants grieve? Learning to be mindful can help us cope with life's stresses, and Andy shows how focusing on the sights and sounds of the natural world can help us deal with change in our lives.
Localized series title: Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore Localized description: Join mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe as he focuses on change and what we can learn from how animals adapt to changes in the world around them. Why is a chameleon's ability to alter its appearance crucial to its survival and what lessons are there from understanding how elephants grieve? Learning to be mindful can help us cope with life's stresses, and Andy shows how focusing on the sights and sounds of the natural world can help us deal with change in our lives.
		08/13/2022 4:25 am	Life Below Zero
	In Noorvik, Chip races to set whitefish nets on thin ice for the last catch of the season, and Andy tests the safety of the river.

		08/13/2022 5:10 am	Life Below Zero
	Sue discovers thieves have stolen her fuel supply. Chip and Agnes must barter the supplies they have for the essential items they lack.

		08/13/2022 5:55 am	Life Below Zero
	As a blizzard descends on the Kavik River Camp, Sue rushes to set up hand lines so she can find her most critical buildings.

		08/13/2022 6:45 am	Life Below Zero
	Chip's life grounds to a halt when his snow machine breaks, meaning no hunting, no fishing, and most importantly, no trade.

		08/13/2022 7:30 am	Life Below Zero
	A fierce winter storm threatens Sue's fuel supply and Erik struggles to capture a thieving wolf.

		08/13/2022 8:15 am	Planet Earth II
	Remote islands offer sanctuary for some of the planet's strangest and rarest creatures. The rare pygmy three-toed sloth enjoys a peaceful existence on an idyllic Caribbean island, while nesting albatross thrive in predator-free isolation. However, island life always comes at a cost. On the Galapagos Islands young marine iguana must escape an onslaught of deadly racer snakes the moment they hatch from the sand.

		08/13/2022 9:15 am	Planet Earth II
	The great mountain ranges are some of the planet's most spectacular landscapes, but they are unforgiving places to live in. Only few pioneering animals have what it takes to endure at extreme altitude. Mountain animals are also amongst the most elusive in the world, yet this film provides unique and intimate glimpses into their secretive lives. Witness the moment four snow leopards come together when a mother and cub become trapped between two rival males.

		08/13/2022 10:15 am	Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
	Dan meets the mummies of Tutankhamun's parents at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and discovers that they were actually brother and sister. CT scans reveal how this incestuous relationship could have been responsible for Tutankhamun's poor health. Raksha heads underground to a rare tomb excavation in the Valley of the Kings which has never been seen before on television.

		08/13/2022 11:05 am	Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
	Picking up the story in 1323BC, the pharaoh sustains the injury that would eventually kill him. On a scan of Tutankhamun's skeleton, Dan sees a break to his thigh bone which could have been a battle injury. John visits Howard Carter's house and probes the 1920s craze of `Tutmania', when the Western world went crazy for all things Egyptian.

		08/13/2022 11:50 am	Egyptian Tomb Hunting
	Tony enters tombs that have been sealed shut for thousands of years, meets mummies, holds an Ancient Egyptian prime minister's heart and discovers hieroglyphs only ever seen by the ancient Egyptians who created them.

		08/13/2022 12:35 pm	Egyptian Tomb Hunting
	Actor, comedian and history fanatic Tony Robinson travels across Egypt where are series of new tomb discoveries are being made. He travels the length of the Nile meeting the archaeologists unearthing extraordinary wonders.

		08/13/2022 1:20 pm	Sacred Wonders
	At Angkor Wat in Cambodia, a man who believes the temples are home to his ancestral spirits risks his life to save them from the jungle. At al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, a young Muslim paramedic battles his own hunger and exhaustion to help other fasting worshippers during Ramadan. At the Shaolin Temple in China, a Buddhist warrior monk faces a test that will change the course of his life forever. Discover just what people do for faith in some of the most stunning sacred places on Earth.

		08/13/2022 2:15 pm	Sacred Wonders
	In Mali, a young Muslim helps to renovate Djenne's Great Mosque, in the hope of earning a place in paradise. At the sacred Natchi waterfalls in Japan, a Shinto devotee undertakes a gruelling challenge to ensure the wellbeing of his country for another year. And at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York, an Anglican priest performs an astonishing ceremony to bring people, and their animals, closer to God.

		08/13/2022 3:05 pm	Sacred Wonders
	When a miracle happens at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, an orthodox Christian must deliver the holy flame into the hands of his bishop. In Nepal, at the Buddanath, a Buddhist painter battles the elements in honour of Buddha's birthday. And in Lalish in Iraq a young Yazedi woman goes in search of salvation after being traumatised in the recent conflict. Discover what people do for faith in some of the most sacred places on the planet.

		08/13/2022 4:00 pm	Deadly Predators
	Steve goes in search of the wildest Deadly Predators and takes a closer look at what makes them weird. He goes diving in Dorset to look for one of the sea's weirdest deadly fish: seahorses. They may be small, but seahorses are incredibly successful hunters, using a devastating super-suction method which hoovers up its prey so fast it's almost impossible to film.

		08/13/2022 4:30 pm	Spectacular Earth
	Volcan del Fuego in Guatemala is one of the most `explosive' volcanoes of them all. To reveal what's happening within the volcano, visit the 'new' Island of Surtsey, flamingos flocking in Kenya, and a boiling geyser in Iceland.

		08/13/2022 5:20 pm	Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline
	Ade begins in the Solomon Islands, and then travels down the east coast of Australia, from the Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania. He sees missing islands in the Solomon Islands and learns about the `feminisation' of green turtles.

		08/13/2022 6:15 pm	Seven Worlds, One Planet
	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.

		08/13/2022 7:05 pm	Civilisations
	Simon Schama starts his meditation on colour and civilisation with the Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th century Venice, where masterpieces such as Giovanni Bellini's `San Zaccaria' altarpiece and Titian's `Bacchus and Ariadne' contested the assumption that drawing was superior to colouring. As the Baroque took hold in enlightenment Europe Giambattista Tiepolo created a ceiling fresco: `Apollo and the Four Continents' at the Bishop's palace in Würzburg.

		08/13/2022 8:00 pm	Universe
	Professor Brian Cox begins his exploration of the cosmos with a hymn to the great luminous bodies that bring light and warmth to the universe: the stars. It is estimated that there are two hundred trillion stars in the universe, each playing their part in an epic story of creation, a great saga that stretches from the dawn of time, with the arrival of the first star, through diverse generations until the arrival of our own star, the Sun, and a civilisation that has grown up in its light.

		08/13/2022 9:05 pm	Deadly Predators
	Steve goes in search of the wildest Deadly Predators and takes a closer look at what makes them weird. He goes diving in Dorset to look for one of the sea's weirdest deadly fish: seahorses. They may be small, but seahorses are incredibly successful hunters, using a devastating super-suction method which hoovers up its prey so fast it's almost impossible to film.

		08/13/2022 9:30 pm	Spectacular Earth
	Volcan del Fuego in Guatemala is one of the most `explosive' volcanoes of them all. To reveal what's happening within the volcano, visit the 'new' Island of Surtsey, flamingos flocking in Kenya, and a boiling geyser in Iceland.

		08/13/2022 10:25 pm	Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline
	Ade begins in the Solomon Islands, and then travels down the east coast of Australia, from the Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania. He sees missing islands in the Solomon Islands and learns about the `feminisation' of green turtles.

		08/13/2022 11:20 pm	Seven Worlds, One Planet
	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.

		08/14/2022 12:15 am	Civilisations
	Simon Schama starts his meditation on colour and civilisation with the Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th century Venice, where masterpieces such as Giovanni Bellini's `San Zaccaria' altarpiece and Titian's `Bacchus and Ariadne' contested the assumption that drawing was superior to colouring. As the Baroque took hold in enlightenment Europe Giambattista Tiepolo created a ceiling fresco: `Apollo and the Four Continents' at the Bishop's palace in Würzburg.

		08/14/2022 1:10 am	Universe
	Professor Brian Cox begins his exploration of the cosmos with a hymn to the great luminous bodies that bring light and warmth to the universe: the stars. It is estimated that there are two hundred trillion stars in the universe, each playing their part in an epic story of creation, a great saga that stretches from the dawn of time, with the arrival of the first star, through diverse generations until the arrival of our own star, the Sun, and a civilisation that has grown up in its light.

		08/14/2022 2:10 am	Spectacular Earth
	Volcan del Fuego in Guatemala is one of the most `explosive' volcanoes of them all. To reveal what's happening within the volcano, visit the 'new' Island of Surtsey, flamingos flocking in Kenya, and a boiling geyser in Iceland.

		08/14/2022 3:05 am	Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline
	Ade begins in the Solomon Islands, and then travels down the east coast of Australia, from the Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania. He sees missing islands in the Solomon Islands and learns about the `feminisation' of green turtles.

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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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