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		11/15/2022 5:00 am	Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
	Joanna completes her Cuban journey by visiting the infamous town of Guantanamo. Giving the prison a wide berth, she discovers that the song `Guantanamera' was born in the town, and she meets a talented young singer who is recording the track herself. Fifty-seven miles across the Windward Passage to Haiti, she discovers a very different country, currently the poorest in the western world. She visits the Citadel, a mighty fortress built to deter the colonial powers of France, Spain and England.
Localized series title: Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti Localized description: Joanna completes her Cuban journey by visiting the infamous town of Guantanamo. Giving the prison a wide berth, she discovers that the song `Guantanamera' was born in the town, and she meets a talented young singer who is recording the track herself. Fifty-seven miles across the Windward Passage to Haiti, she discovers a very different country, currently the poorest in the western world. She visits the Citadel, a mighty fortress built to deter the colonial powers of France, Spain and England.
		11/15/2022 5:45 am	Blue Planet II: The Making Of
	An exploration of how the crew behind the Blue Planet II series manage to capture their spectacular footage.

		11/15/2022 5:55 am	The Blue Planet
	The fragile ecosystems that have grown around the worlds coral reefs. The reefs take hundreds of years to develop and are adorned with spectacularly colourful life. However, this is not always an idyllic tropical paradise: one big storm can threaten the entire community.

		11/15/2022 6:45 am	What Are We Feeding Our Kids?
	Asking whether ultra-processed food is causing obesity in children, and if could it even be addictive. Dr Chris van Tulleken investigates as he undergoes a gruelling self-experiment that even shocks the scientists. Across the world, childhood obesity rates have risen tenfold in 50 years. In the UK, 21 per cent of children are living with obesity when they leave primary school, which is the highest it has ever been.

		11/15/2022 7:40 am	Life Below Zero
	As winter's chill grips the Arctic, the path forward will require trial and error.

		11/15/2022 8:25 am	Inside the Factory
	Gregg Wallace is in Burton upon Trent at Britain's biggest brewery, where they produce three million pints of beer a day. He follows the production of Britain's best-selling lager, and gets to grips with brewing terms.

		11/15/2022 9:15 am	Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
	Joanna completes her Cuban journey by visiting the infamous town of Guantanamo. Giving the prison a wide berth, she discovers that the song `Guantanamera' was born in the town, and she meets a talented young singer who is recording the track herself. Fifty-seven miles across the Windward Passage to Haiti, she discovers a very different country, currently the poorest in the western world. She visits the Citadel, a mighty fortress built to deter the colonial powers of France, Spain and England.

		11/15/2022 10:05 am	The Blue Planet
	The fragile ecosystems that have grown around the worlds coral reefs. The reefs take hundreds of years to develop and are adorned with spectacularly colourful life. However, this is not always an idyllic tropical paradise: one big storm can threaten the entire community.

		11/15/2022 10:55 am	What Are We Feeding Our Kids?
	Asking whether ultra-processed food is causing obesity in children, and if could it even be addictive. Dr Chris van Tulleken investigates as he undergoes a gruelling self-experiment that even shocks the scientists. Across the world, childhood obesity rates have risen tenfold in 50 years. In the UK, 21 per cent of children are living with obesity when they leave primary school, which is the highest it has ever been.

		11/15/2022 11:50 am	Life Below Zero
	As winter's chill grips the Arctic, the path forward will require trial and error.

		11/15/2022 12:35 pm	Inside the Factory
	Gregg Wallace is in Burton upon Trent at Britain's biggest brewery, where they produce three million pints of beer a day. He follows the production of Britain's best-selling lager, and gets to grips with brewing terms.

		11/15/2022 1:25 pm	Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
	Joanna completes her Cuban journey by visiting the infamous town of Guantanamo. Giving the prison a wide berth, she discovers that the song `Guantanamera' was born in the town, and she meets a talented young singer who is recording the track herself. Fifty-seven miles across the Windward Passage to Haiti, she discovers a very different country, currently the poorest in the western world. She visits the Citadel, a mighty fortress built to deter the colonial powers of France, Spain and England.

		11/15/2022 2:10 pm	The Blue Planet
	All over the world tides create opportunities for marine life. Giant stingrays glide on currents for a rest, the fastest snail of all surfs waves in pursuit of dinner, crabs play football on the beach, and dolphins play a game of catch.

		11/15/2022 3:00 pm	Chris Packham: 7.7 Billion People and Counting
	According to the UN, it's predicted that the human population could reach 10 billion people by the year 2050. For broadcaster and naturalist Chris Packham, who's dedicated his life to championing the natural world, the subject of our growing population and the impact it's having on our planet is one of the most vital, and often overlooked, topics of discussion in an era of increasing environmental awareness.

		11/15/2022 3:55 pm	Life Below Zero
	Despite the deepening cold, those living in the Arctic must constantly brave the elements and the unknown of the natural landscape.

		11/15/2022 4:40 pm	Inside the Factory
	Gregg Wallace is in Germany, at a historic factory which produces 600,000 pencils a day. At materials intake he is astonished that the main material in a pencil is not lead, but graphite. He helps mix this with clay to produce a 250-kilo batch, enough for 200,000 pencils.

		11/15/2022 5:35 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.

		11/15/2022 6:30 pm	Civilisations
	Simon Schama goes both east and west, to Papal Rome but also to Ottoman Istanbul and Mughal Lahore and Agra, exploring their connections and rivalries, and examining how the role of artists from the different traditions of West and East developed in the years following the Renaissances. Their rivalry unfolded most spectacularly in the creation of domes: in Ottoman Istanbul Mimar Sinan builds the light-flooded Süleymaniye mosque, while in Rome Michelangelo designs the dome of St Peter's Basilica.

		11/15/2022 7:20 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.

		11/15/2022 8:15 pm	Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle
	Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to the mountains of central Portugal, to live with Alex, a British man who traded in his lucrative retail career for his own mountainside hideaway. Later, Ben lollipops trees to protect them from forest fires.

		11/15/2022 9:00 pm	Life Below Zero
	Alaskans make use of the final days of the brief Arctic fall season.

		11/15/2022 9:50 pm	The World's Deadliest Weather
	Witness some of our planet's most disastrous and deadly natural catastrophes that can happen right on your own doorstep.

		11/15/2022 10:40 pm	Civilisations
	Simon Schama goes both east and west, to Papal Rome but also to Ottoman Istanbul and Mughal Lahore and Agra, exploring their connections and rivalries, and examining how the role of artists from the different traditions of West and East developed in the years following the Renaissances. Their rivalry unfolded most spectacularly in the creation of domes: in Ottoman Istanbul Mimar Sinan builds the light-flooded Süleymaniye mosque, while in Rome Michelangelo designs the dome of St Peter's Basilica.

		11/15/2022 11:30 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.

		11/16/2022 12:25 am	Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle
	Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to the mountains of central Portugal, to live with Alex, a British man who traded in his lucrative retail career for his own mountainside hideaway. Later, Ben lollipops trees to protect them from forest fires.

		11/16/2022 1:15 am	Life Below Zero
	Alaskans make use of the final days of the brief Arctic fall season.

		11/16/2022 1:55 am	The World's Deadliest Weather
	Witness some of our planet's most disastrous and deadly natural catastrophes that can happen right on your own doorstep.

		11/16/2022 2:45 am	Civilisations
	Simon Schama goes both east and west, to Papal Rome but also to Ottoman Istanbul and Mughal Lahore and Agra, exploring their connections and rivalries, and examining how the role of artists from the different traditions of West and East developed in the years following the Renaissances. Their rivalry unfolded most spectacularly in the creation of domes: in Ottoman Istanbul Mimar Sinan builds the light-flooded Süleymaniye mosque, while in Rome Michelangelo designs the dome of St Peter's Basilica.

		11/16/2022 3:40 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.

		11/16/2022 4:30 am	Deadly 60
	Steve gets strangled by a python on a night-time river expedition, climbs a 40-metre tree and finds out why our thirst for palm oil is threatening bears and orangutans.

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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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