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    11/02/2022 5:00 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.

    11/02/2022 5:45 am

    Life Story

    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.

    11/02/2022 6:45 am

    Addicted to Painkillers? Britain's Opioid Crisis

    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.

    11/02/2022 7:35 am

    Life Below Zero

    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.

    11/02/2022 8:20 am

    The Secrets of Your Food

    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.

    11/02/2022 9:10 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.

    11/02/2022 10:00 am

    Life Story

    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.

    11/02/2022 11:00 am

    Addicted to Painkillers? Britain's Opioid Crisis

    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.

    11/02/2022 11:50 am

    Life Below Zero

    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.

    11/02/2022 12:35 pm

    The Secrets of Your Food

    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.

    11/02/2022 1:25 pm

    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.

    11/02/2022 2:10 pm

    The Age of Nature

    A new awareness of nature helps to restore ecosystems from Panama to Mozambique; repairing man-made damage and restoring reefs, rivers and animal populations.

    11/02/2022 3:05 pm

    Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?

    Doctor Javid Abdelmoneim investigates medicinal cannabis and whether it helps or harms patients. Javid meets with the epilepsy patient who was responsible for changing the laws around cannabis in the UK and sees the effects firsthand.

    11/02/2022 4:00 pm

    Life Below Zero

    Jessie Holmes heads to the high country on the quest for food. Ricko DeWilde takes his children out on the open waters for a vital lesson in bush survival.

    11/02/2022 4:45 pm

    The Secrets of Your Food

    Michael heads to Spain to search for some of the most powerful tastes on the planet, whilst James travels high in the Peruvian Andes to discover how a bitter potato has been tamed to help the inhabitants survive the extreme altitude.

    11/02/2022 5:35 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.

    11/02/2022 6:25 pm

    Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

    Ben is much closer to home than usual - he's in rural Oxfordshire with a multi-generational family. Ben learns about the obstacles the family have overcome and how they've spent two decades honing their skills and living off the land.

    11/02/2022 7:10 pm

    Earth's Great Rivers

    From crystal-clear waterfalls to baby turtles the size of a thumb nail, explore the magical wonders of the Danube. Branching out across Europe, its tributaries gather water from 19 countries, making it the world's most international river.

    11/02/2022 8:10 pm

    Climate Change: The Facts

    Intimate stories get inside the lives of the people affected by climate change, and those fighting it. And world-leading experts reveal the developments that are redefining our horizons.

    11/02/2022 9:00 pm

    The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

    Romesh heads off on a journey to Romania. With the help of activist and media expert Angi Serban, he explores the many amazing things that are overlooked in this vast slice of eastern Europe.

    11/02/2022 9:50 pm

    Exploration Volcano

    Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupts. It engulfs the nearby city of Goma with lava, taking thirty-three lives and destroying almost four-thousand homes.

    11/02/2022 10:35 pm

    Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

    Ben is much closer to home than usual - he's in rural Oxfordshire with a multi-generational family. Ben learns about the obstacles the family have overcome and how they've spent two decades honing their skills and living off the land.

    11/02/2022 11:20 pm

    Earth's Great Rivers

    From crystal-clear waterfalls to baby turtles the size of a thumb nail, explore the magical wonders of the Danube. Branching out across Europe, its tributaries gather water from 19 countries, making it the world's most international river.

    11/03/2022 12:25 am

    Climate Change: The Facts

    Intimate stories get inside the lives of the people affected by climate change, and those fighting it. And world-leading experts reveal the developments that are redefining our horizons.

    11/03/2022 2:15 am

    The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

    Romesh heads off on a journey to Romania. With the help of activist and media expert Angi Serban, he explores the many amazing things that are overlooked in this vast slice of eastern Europe.

    11/03/2022 2:05 am

    Exploration Volcano

    Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupts. It engulfs the nearby city of Goma with lava, taking thirty-three lives and destroying almost four-thousand homes.

    11/03/2022 3:05 am

    Earth's Great Rivers

    From crystal-clear waterfalls to baby turtles the size of a thumb nail, explore the magical wonders of the Danube. Branching out across Europe, its tributaries gather water from 19 countries, making it the world's most international river.

    11/03/2022 4:05 am

    Climate Change: The Facts

    Intimate stories get inside the lives of the people affected by climate change, and those fighting it. And world-leading experts reveal the developments that are redefining our horizons.

    BBC Earth

    Available schedules: 03/26/2022 - 12/28/2024 Time zone: Central European Time (CET) UTC +1 Country: United States Language: English

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