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10/17/2022 4:00 am |
Deadly 60 |
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| The rainforests of Ecuador are some of the most diverse on earth. Brimming with all kinds of unique and weird species that are found nowhere else, and some of the most deadly animals on earth lurking in the shadows. | |||||
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10/17/2022 4:30 am |
How Did They Build That? |
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| We visit Singapore to reveal the engineering secrets of the world's largest glasshouse roof and its forest of tropical trees. And in scorching hot Las Vegas we learn what happens when a man has a dream to build a hospital that makes a big impression. | |||||
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10/17/2022 5:15 am |
The Green Planet |
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| 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. | |||||
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10/17/2022 6:15 am |
Chris Packham's Animal Einsteins |
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| Chris Packham reveals some of the cleverest animal communicators on the planet. For decades, people have longed to emulate Dr Doolittle and be able to understand what animals are communicating to one another. | |||||
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10/17/2022 7:00 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue Aikens must protect Kavik from the dangers that lurk in the shadows. The Hailstones use the cover of night to search for food under the ice. | |||||
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10/17/2022 7:45 am |
Civilisations |
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| David Olusoga explores the artistic reaction to imperialism in the 19th century, showing the growing ambivalence with which artists reacted to the idea of progress, both intellectual and scientific, which underpinned the imperial mission and followed the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. As European artists questioned their civilisation's `advance', American painters sought to capture an idea of their new nation's `manifest destiny' in landscapes. | |||||
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10/17/2022 8:40 am |
How Did They Build That? |
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| We visit Singapore to reveal the engineering secrets of the world's largest glasshouse roof and its forest of tropical trees. And in scorching hot Las Vegas we learn what happens when a man has a dream to build a hospital that makes a big impression. | |||||
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10/17/2022 9:25 am |
The Green Planet |
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| 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. | |||||
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10/17/2022 10:25 am |
Chris Packham's Animal Einsteins |
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| Chris Packham reveals some of the cleverest animal communicators on the planet. For decades, people have longed to emulate Dr Doolittle and be able to understand what animals are communicating to one another. | |||||
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10/17/2022 11:15 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue Aikens must protect Kavik from the dangers that lurk in the shadows. The Hailstones use the cover of night to search for food under the ice. | |||||
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10/17/2022 12:00 pm |
Civilisations |
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| David Olusoga explores the artistic reaction to imperialism in the 19th century, showing the growing ambivalence with which artists reacted to the idea of progress, both intellectual and scientific, which underpinned the imperial mission and followed the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. As European artists questioned their civilisation's `advance', American painters sought to capture an idea of their new nation's `manifest destiny' in landscapes. | |||||
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10/17/2022 12:50 pm |
How Did They Build That? |
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| We visit Singapore to reveal the engineering secrets of the world's largest glasshouse roof and its forest of tropical trees. And in scorching hot Las Vegas we learn what happens when a man has a dream to build a hospital that makes a big impression. | |||||
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10/17/2022 1:35 pm |
Eden: Untamed Planet |
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| Borneo is the richest rainforest island of all, home to 60,000 species of plants and animals. Six thousand of them are unique, and more are discovered almost daily. But this `paradise' is an illusion, the lush forest is effectively growing on a desert, with the soil shallow and poor in nutrients, having been leeched by eons of incessant rain. | |||||
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10/17/2022 2:25 pm |
Chris Packham's Animal Einsteins |
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| Chris reveals some of the best animal builders in the world, a group that is incredibly varied. Accomplished animal architects include everything from beavers to bees and prairie dogs to bowerbirds. | |||||
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10/17/2022 3:15 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| The Hailstones brave the freeze to seek new land for the expanding family. Sue Aikens must replenish her resources in Chena to survive the brutal cold. | |||||
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10/17/2022 4:00 pm |
Civilisations |
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| Simon Schama looks at the rise of art as a tradeable commodity and its fate in the machine and profit-driven world. He asks whether art should create a realm separate from the modern world, a place where we can escape and pull the ladder up after us, or whether it should plunge headlong into the chaos and cacophony while transforming the way we see it and live in it. | |||||
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10/17/2022 4:45 pm |
How Did They Build That? |
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| We visit an extraordinary bridge that spans a vast valley and becomes the tallest in the world, a luxury hotel was built upside down in an abandoned quarry in China, and what happens when you build a forest in the sky in the middle of a city. | |||||
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10/17/2022 5:30 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| Witness some of our planet's most disastrous and deadly natural catastrophes that can happen right on your own doorstep. | |||||
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10/17/2022 6:20 pm |
Science's Greatest Mysteries |
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| Professor Brian Cox joins the Jet Propulsion laboratory team as they navigate the rover's every move across the floor of the Jezero crater towards the remains of an ancient river delta that may contain the evidence of ancient life on Mars. | |||||
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10/17/2022 7:15 pm |
Secrets of the Superfactories |
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| Cars, chips, toys and toilets. Behind the scenes at Maserati, Frito-Lay, Bandai and Armitage Shanks, we see how these useful products are innovatively produced. | |||||
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10/17/2022 8:00 pm |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane explores the exotic Isles of Scilly and joins the locals to attempt one of the most bizarre walks in Britain, as they try to wade on foot through the surging seas from island to island. Nick also visits the last house on the very tip of the most westerly inhabited isle. On precipitous slopes, beyond the edge of Devon, Ruth Goodman follows in the footsteps of the remarkable Branscombe cliff farmers. | |||||
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10/17/2022 8:55 pm |
Trust Me, I'm a Doctor |
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| Michael Mosley finds out why fizzy drinks make you eat more. GP Dr Zoe Williams investigates whether caffeine boosts physical performance. Geneticist Dr Giles Yeo discovers what men can do about baldness. Surgeon Gabriel Weston looks into the new artificial pancreas that could transform life for diabetics. And Dr Alain Gregoire gives the psychiatrist's guide to obsessive compulsive disorder. | |||||
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10/17/2022 9:45 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| Witness some of our planet's most disastrous and deadly natural catastrophes that can happen right on your own doorstep. | |||||
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10/17/2022 10:35 pm |
Science's Greatest Mysteries |
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| Professor Brian Cox joins the Jet Propulsion laboratory team as they navigate the rover's every move across the floor of the Jezero crater towards the remains of an ancient river delta that may contain the evidence of ancient life on Mars. | |||||
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10/17/2022 11:25 pm |
Secrets of the Superfactories |
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| Cars, chips, toys and toilets. Behind the scenes at Maserati, Frito-Lay, Bandai and Armitage Shanks, we see how these useful products are innovatively produced. | |||||
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10/18/2022 12:10 am |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane explores the exotic Isles of Scilly and joins the locals to attempt one of the most bizarre walks in Britain, as they try to wade on foot through the surging seas from island to island. Nick also visits the last house on the very tip of the most westerly inhabited isle. On precipitous slopes, beyond the edge of Devon, Ruth Goodman follows in the footsteps of the remarkable Branscombe cliff farmers. | |||||
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10/18/2022 1:05 am |
Trust Me, I'm a Doctor |
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| Michael Mosley finds out why fizzy drinks make you eat more. GP Dr Zoe Williams investigates whether caffeine boosts physical performance. Geneticist Dr Giles Yeo discovers what men can do about baldness. Surgeon Gabriel Weston looks into the new artificial pancreas that could transform life for diabetics. And Dr Alain Gregoire gives the psychiatrist's guide to obsessive compulsive disorder. | |||||
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10/18/2022 1:55 am |
Science's Greatest Mysteries |
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| Professor Brian Cox joins the Jet Propulsion laboratory team as they navigate the rover's every move across the floor of the Jezero crater towards the remains of an ancient river delta that may contain the evidence of ancient life on Mars. | |||||
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10/18/2022 2:45 am |
Secrets of the Superfactories |
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| Cars, chips, toys and toilets. Behind the scenes at Maserati, Frito-Lay, Bandai and Armitage Shanks, we see how these useful products are innovatively produced. | |||||
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10/18/2022 3:30 am |
Deadly 60 |
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| Steve and the crew travel 4,000 miles to the Loango National Park in Gabon. Steve heads out into Loango's maze of rivers on a mission to try and find an animal that is critically endangered but packs a mighty punch, the western lowland gorilla. | |||||