Schedules
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11/01/2022 5:00 am |
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure |
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| 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. | |||||
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11/01/2022 5:45 am |
Life Story |
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| Sir David Attenborough looks at the techniques that animals use in their attempts to win a mate. The competition to breed has created both the most extraordinary beauty and the most violent battles seen in nature. | |||||
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11/01/2022 6:45 am |
Trust Me, I'm a Vet |
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| Steve Leonard and his team of vets investigate the best way to de-stress cats and reveal why recycling bins are a danger to dogs. They also witness a groundbreaking operation to save the life of a horse suffering from extreme nerve pain. | |||||
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11/01/2022 7:35 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| The Hailstones are faced with a life-or-death decision in high tide. Ricko DeWilde enlists the aid of his children to maintain the family homestead. | |||||
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11/01/2022 8:20 am |
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon |
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| On the Jurassic coast of Britain a remarkable 200-million-year-old fossil is discovered: the bones of an ichthyosaur, a giant sea dragon. David Attenborough joins the hunt to bring this ancient creature's story to life. Using state-of-the-art imaging technology and CGI, the team reconstruct the skeleton and create the most detailed animation of an ichthyosaur ever made. | |||||
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11/01/2022 9:15 am |
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure |
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| 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. | |||||
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11/01/2022 10:00 am |
Life Story |
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| Sir David Attenborough looks at the techniques that animals use in their attempts to win a mate. The competition to breed has created both the most extraordinary beauty and the most violent battles seen in nature. | |||||
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11/01/2022 11:00 am |
Trust Me, I'm a Vet |
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| Steve Leonard and his team of vets investigate the best way to de-stress cats and reveal why recycling bins are a danger to dogs. They also witness a groundbreaking operation to save the life of a horse suffering from extreme nerve pain. | |||||
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11/01/2022 11:50 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| The Hailstones are faced with a life-or-death decision in high tide. Ricko DeWilde enlists the aid of his children to maintain the family homestead. | |||||
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11/01/2022 12:35 pm |
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon |
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| On the Jurassic coast of Britain a remarkable 200-million-year-old fossil is discovered: the bones of an ichthyosaur, a giant sea dragon. David Attenborough joins the hunt to bring this ancient creature's story to life. Using state-of-the-art imaging technology and CGI, the team reconstruct the skeleton and create the most detailed animation of an ichthyosaur ever made. | |||||
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11/01/2022 1:30 pm |
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure |
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| 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. | |||||
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11/01/2022 2:15 pm |
Life Story |
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| Animals attempt to rear their offspring. This takes extraordinary commitment, and a parent may even need to risk its own life for its offspring. A female turtle hauls herself up the beach to lay her eggs in a safe place above the tide line. | |||||
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11/01/2022 3:15 pm |
Addicted to Painkillers? Britain's Opioid Crisis |
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| Dr Michael Mosley immerses himself on the frontline of our prescription painkiller habit. In America, it is an epidemic. Now, new evidence raises concern about the UK's use of prescription opioids. | |||||
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11/01/2022 4:05 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| Under winter's shadow, Alaskans toil to secure scarce food and opportunity in the final fertile days of summer. Andy Bassich and Denise Becker reckon with the sudden loss of a vital resource. | |||||
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11/01/2022 4:50 pm |
The Secrets of Your Food |
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| Michael and James explore how chemistry fuels and builds human bodies. Michael begins by trying the first meal many people enjoyed, human breast milk, which contains everything a baby needs like fats, carbs, vitamins and minerals. | |||||
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11/01/2022 5:40 pm |
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure |
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| 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. | |||||
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11/01/2022 6:30 pm |
Civilisations |
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| Simon Schama explores the remote origins of human creativity with the first known marks made some 80,000 years ago in South African caves, marks which were not dictated merely by humanity's physical needs. He marvels at the later caveworks, shapes of hands, in red stencils on the walls of caves, and at the paintings of bison and bulls, and Stone Age carvings. | |||||
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11/01/2022 7:20 pm |
Civilisations |
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| Professor Mary Beard explores images of the human body in ancient art, from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China. Mary seeks answers to fundamental questions at the heart of ideas about civilisations. Why have human beings always made art about themselves? What were these images for? And in what ways do some ancient conventions of representing the body still affect people now? | |||||
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11/01/2022 8:15 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben Fogle is reunited with seafarer Rick, who has moved on to pastures new since their original encounter. When Rick last appeared on the series, he was living off the coast of French Polynesia, but he has since made a fresh start on Fiji. | |||||
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11/01/2022 9:00 pm |
Foxy's Fearless 48 Hours with... |
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| TV star and model Maya Jama joins Foxy for a 48-hour experience in Wales she'll never forget. Maya faces three petrifying challenges, each one designed by Foxy to push her boundaries, including a a 75-metre-high bungee jump. | |||||
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11/01/2022 9:50 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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11/01/2022 10:40 pm |
Civilisations |
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| Simon Schama explores the remote origins of human creativity with the first known marks made some 80,000 years ago in South African caves, marks which were not dictated merely by humanity's physical needs. He marvels at the later caveworks, shapes of hands, in red stencils on the walls of caves, and at the paintings of bison and bulls, and Stone Age carvings. | |||||
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11/01/2022 11:30 pm |
Civilisations |
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| Professor Mary Beard explores images of the human body in ancient art, from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China. Mary seeks answers to fundamental questions at the heart of ideas about civilisations. Why have human beings always made art about themselves? What were these images for? And in what ways do some ancient conventions of representing the body still affect people now? | |||||
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11/02/2022 12:25 am |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben Fogle is reunited with seafarer Rick, who has moved on to pastures new since their original encounter. When Rick last appeared on the series, he was living off the coast of French Polynesia, but he has since made a fresh start on Fiji. | |||||
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11/02/2022 2:10 am |
Foxy's Fearless 48 Hours with... |
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| TV star and model Maya Jama joins Foxy for a 48-hour experience in Wales she'll never forget. Maya faces three petrifying challenges, each one designed by Foxy to push her boundaries, including a a 75-metre-high bungee jump. | |||||
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11/02/2022 2:00 am |
Deadly 60 |
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| Setting sail to the magical island of Bali, Steve and the team are out to find the elusive ocean sunfish. These deep ocean giants feed on poisonous jellyfish and ascend to the shallows for a spa session at a cleaner fish station. | |||||
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11/02/2022 2:30 am |
Civilisations |
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| Simon Schama explores the remote origins of human creativity with the first known marks made some 80,000 years ago in South African caves, marks which were not dictated merely by humanity's physical needs. He marvels at the later caveworks, shapes of hands, in red stencils on the walls of caves, and at the paintings of bison and bulls, and Stone Age carvings. | |||||
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11/02/2022 3:20 am |
Civilisations |
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| Professor Mary Beard explores images of the human body in ancient art, from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China. Mary seeks answers to fundamental questions at the heart of ideas about civilisations. Why have human beings always made art about themselves? What were these images for? And in what ways do some ancient conventions of representing the body still affect people now? | |||||
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11/02/2022 4:15 am |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben Fogle is reunited with seafarer Rick, who has moved on to pastures new since their original encounter. When Rick last appeared on the series, he was living off the coast of French Polynesia, but he has since made a fresh start on Fiji. | |||||