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12/15/2022 5:00 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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12/15/2022 5:55 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. | |||||
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12/15/2022 6:25 am |
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities |
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| Sir David Attenborough reveals nature's evolutionary anomalies. Here he looks at the platypus and the curious case of the male Midwife Toad. | |||||
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12/15/2022 6:50 am |
The Truth About... |
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| Due to the coronavirus, the health market has exploded with products promising to boost, support or supercharge flagging natural defences. Find out which of these products, superfoods and supplements have the science to back up their claims. | |||||
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12/15/2022 7:40 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue travels to Fairbanks to officially buy her Kavik River Camp, and Andy and Kate must move their dogs to save them from a flood. | |||||
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12/15/2022 8:25 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace is in Derbyshire, at an enormous coffee factory where they produce 175,000 jars of instant coffee every day. He follows the production of freeze-dried instant coffee, from the arrival of 27 tonnes of Brazilian green coffee beans right through to dispatch. | |||||
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12/15/2022 9:15 am |
Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World |
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| Joanna's first view of Paris is from a hot air balloon. She visits the damaged Notre-Dame, meets the heiress Daphne Guinness, buys a vintage Chanel suit and meets Ibrahim, a refugee turned inner-city beekeeper. | |||||
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12/15/2022 10:00 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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12/15/2022 11:00 am |
The Truth About... |
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| Due to the coronavirus, the health market has exploded with products promising to boost, support or supercharge flagging natural defences. Find out which of these products, superfoods and supplements have the science to back up their claims. | |||||
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12/15/2022 11:50 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue travels to Fairbanks to officially buy her Kavik River Camp, and Andy and Kate must move their dogs to save them from a flood. | |||||
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12/15/2022 12:35 pm |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace is in Derbyshire, at an enormous coffee factory where they produce 175,000 jars of instant coffee every day. He follows the production of freeze-dried instant coffee, from the arrival of 27 tonnes of Brazilian green coffee beans right through to dispatch. | |||||
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12/15/2022 1:25 pm |
Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World |
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| Joanna's first view of Paris is from a hot air balloon. She visits the damaged Notre-Dame, meets the heiress Daphne Guinness, buys a vintage Chanel suit and meets Ibrahim, a refugee turned inner-city beekeeper. | |||||
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12/15/2022 2:10 pm |
Life Story |
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| Animals overcome their first great hurdle, surviving infancy. Flightless barnacle goose chicks face their greatest challenge at the start of their lives. In order to find food they must leap 400 feet down a cliff, from the ledge where they hatched. | |||||
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12/15/2022 3:10 pm |
Blue Planet II: The Making Of |
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| An exploration of how the crew behind the Blue Planet II series manage to capture their spectacular footage. | |||||
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12/15/2022 3:20 pm |
The Truth About... |
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| During months of having to stay at home, millions of us have swapped the gym for our living room. The numbers doing home workouts has doubled in a year. But exactly what kind of exercise should we be doing, how much of it, and how often? Journalist and blogger Mehreen Baig used to hit the gym four times per week, but now her fitness regime has gone entirely DIY. She wants to use the latest science to make sure she is getting maximum return for her effort. | |||||
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12/15/2022 4:10 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| In Kavik, Sue's camp is being harassed by grizzly bears. Meanwhile, in Eagle, Andy and Kate have run out of fish - their most vital resource. | |||||
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12/15/2022 4:55 pm |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace explores the Manchester factory that produces 700,000 toilet rolls a day. He begins 940 miles away in Sweden where the raw material, wood, is harvested from a sustainable forest of one billion spruce trees. Most of the wood is used for timber, but the off cuts are turned into sheets of wood pulp. Gregg follows this pulp to Manchester where he learns that two types of wood fibre, long and short, are required for loo roll, to give it strength but also softness. | |||||
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12/15/2022 5:40 pm |
Joanna Lumley's Great Cities of the World |
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| Joanna's visit to Rome includes the Trevi Fountain, a meeting with a famous paparazzo, the privilege of unlocking the Sistine Chapel with its single key, and meeting famous movie star Gina Lollobrigida at Bulgari's flagship store. | |||||
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12/15/2022 6:30 pm |
Blue Planet II: The Making Of |
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| An exploration of how the crew behind the Blue Planet II series manage to capture their spectacular footage. | |||||
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12/15/2022 6:40 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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12/15/2022 7:25 pm |
Secrets of the Superfactories |
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| Revealing the inner workings of UPS, delivering to the world Brompton bicycles, Rold locking washing machines, and Nongshim instant noodles. | |||||
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12/15/2022 8:10 pm |
Aliens: The Big Think |
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| Professor Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, takes up the search for extra-terrestrials. Looking for aliens is no longer science fiction,it is a question that's engaging some of the greatest minds in science. As our knowledge of the universe has increased, we're getting closer to answers. | |||||
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12/15/2022 9:00 pm |
Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time |
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| Brian takes a fresh look at the concept of gravity, revealing it to be far more than just the force that makes things fall to the ground. Recent scientific breakthroughs are challenging physicists' ideas of the very nature of reality. He recalls some of his most iconic TV moments: being first on the scene to meet a space capsule returning three astronauts from the International Space Station, and demonstrating how a bowling ball and feather fall at the same speed. | |||||
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12/15/2022 9:50 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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12/15/2022 10:35 pm |
Secrets of the Superfactories |
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| Revealing the inner workings of UPS, delivering to the world Brompton bicycles, Rold locking washing machines, and Nongshim instant noodles. | |||||
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12/15/2022 11:20 pm |
Aliens: The Big Think |
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| Professor Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, takes up the search for extra-terrestrials. Looking for aliens is no longer science fiction,it is a question that's engaging some of the greatest minds in science. As our knowledge of the universe has increased, we're getting closer to answers. | |||||
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12/16/2022 12:15 am |
Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time |
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| Brian takes a fresh look at the concept of gravity, revealing it to be far more than just the force that makes things fall to the ground. Recent scientific breakthroughs are challenging physicists' ideas of the very nature of reality. He recalls some of his most iconic TV moments: being first on the scene to meet a space capsule returning three astronauts from the International Space Station, and demonstrating how a bowling ball and feather fall at the same speed. | |||||
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12/16/2022 1:05 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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12/16/2022 1:50 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. | |||||
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12/16/2022 2:15 am |
Secrets of the Superfactories |
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| Revealing the inner workings of UPS, delivering to the world Brompton bicycles, Rold locking washing machines, and Nongshim instant noodles. | |||||
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12/16/2022 3:05 am |
Aliens: The Big Think |
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| Professor Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, takes up the search for extra-terrestrials. Looking for aliens is no longer science fiction,it is a question that's engaging some of the greatest minds in science. As our knowledge of the universe has increased, we're getting closer to answers. | |||||
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12/16/2022 3:55 am |
Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time |
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| Brian takes a fresh look at the concept of gravity, revealing it to be far more than just the force that makes things fall to the ground. Recent scientific breakthroughs are challenging physicists' ideas of the very nature of reality. He recalls some of his most iconic TV moments: being first on the scene to meet a space capsule returning three astronauts from the International Space Station, and demonstrating how a bowling ball and feather fall at the same speed. | |||||