Schedules
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05/05/2023 4:00 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace visits a family-run factory in the heart of rural Aberdeenshire, which churns out more than 49 tonnes of dairy ice cream every day. Gregg is delighted to learn he's following the entire production of their one-litre tub of honeycomb flavour. Cherry Healey heads to an ice rink in Hull with headache expert Dr Fayyaz Ahmed and enlists an ice hockey team to test the best methods of stopping brain freeze. | |||||
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05/05/2023 4:50 am |
The Mating Game |
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| The grasslands of our planet are some of the most challenging habitats for playing the mating game. They are an open stage where potential partners and jealous rivals can witness your every move and every failure. To win here, a player must give everything. Strategies used by animals here are as plentiful as they are unique, there are show-offs, fighters, scoundrels and cheats, and all are competing for their chance to mate. | |||||
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05/05/2023 5:50 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| In the desolate Arctic of Alaska, the only thing you can depend on is change. And with summer quickly arriving, change is sure to come. | |||||
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05/05/2023 6:35 am |
The Lakes with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon meets some of the Cumbrian characters with different visions for the future of England's biggest National Park, including a campaign group trying to protect the remaining red squirrel populations. | |||||
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05/05/2023 7:30 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| A journey through Sicily that takes in seven Unesco World Heritage sites, with the first stop being a visit to a castle whose baron was inspired by Hampton Court. There's a meeting in Modica with Sicily's most famous chocolatier, and more. | |||||
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05/05/2023 8:15 am |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben Fogle visits an ex-photographer who has turned his back on the rat-race to live an isolated life in the wilds of Oregon. | |||||
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05/05/2023 9:00 am |
Coast |
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| At the Cornish fishing harbour of Newlyn, Nick Crane re-lives an astonishing, unsung feat of heroic British seamanship when, in 1854, a tiny fishing boat set sail from Newlyn to Melbourne. | |||||
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05/05/2023 9:50 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace visits a family-run factory in the heart of rural Aberdeenshire, which churns out more than 49 tonnes of dairy ice cream every day. Gregg is delighted to learn he's following the entire production of their one-litre tub of honeycomb flavour. Cherry Healey heads to an ice rink in Hull with headache expert Dr Fayyaz Ahmed and enlists an ice hockey team to test the best methods of stopping brain freeze. | |||||
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05/05/2023 10:45 am |
The Mating Game |
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| The grasslands of our planet are some of the most challenging habitats for playing the mating game. They are an open stage where potential partners and jealous rivals can witness your every move and every failure. To win here, a player must give everything. Strategies used by animals here are as plentiful as they are unique, there are show-offs, fighters, scoundrels and cheats, and all are competing for their chance to mate. | |||||
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05/05/2023 11:40 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Glenn prepares for his fall sheep hunt by scouting for the animals and building a camp. Meanwhile, Sue struggles to get her camp up and running and has no choice but to call in for reinforcements. | |||||
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05/05/2023 12:25 pm |
The Lakes with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon looks at the impact of humans on England's biggest and most popular national park. He goes wild swimming in the crystal-clear lake of Buttermere, before taking a look at the less-fortunate Derwent Water. | |||||
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05/05/2023 1:20 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| In the Italian province of Liguria, a journey along the Mediterranean's most spectacular stretch of coastline into the Apennine Mountains aboard a lovingly restored vintage train. | |||||
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05/05/2023 2:05 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Lifestyle series in which Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to the Pembrokeshire coast to live with Matthew (43) and Charis (35) Watkinson. | |||||
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05/05/2023 2:50 pm |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane leads a journey around the wildest shores of the British Isles to explore dramatic untold stories of peril from the seas. Nick tells the astonishing tale of the Great Storm of 1703, the most devastating weather event ever to hit southern Britain, when lethal winds whipped in from the Atlantic to claim the lives of one in five seamen of the Royal Navy. | |||||
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05/05/2023 3:40 pm |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace visits the biggest tortilla factory in Europe. The Coventry site covers more than 21,000 square meters, the size of three football pitches, and makes 60,000 tonnes of snacks every year. | |||||
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05/05/2023 4:35 pm |
The Mating Game |
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| The ocean is where life first began, and where it first experimented with the mating game. All the creatures living here face the same challenge - how to find a partner in the largest and least-populated habitat on earth. To solve that challenge, marine animals have developed some of the most ingenious breeding strategies of all. The waters off Hawaii are witness to the largest courtship battles on the planet. | |||||
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05/05/2023 5:35 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| A 19 year-old girl and her father go face-to-face with a fast-moving inferno as wildfires rip through Victoria, Australia. In the French Alps, two British skiers are engulfed by an avalanche. Amidst the searing Texan heat, a skydiving training session ends in disaster when there's a major mid-air collision at 30,000 feet, and in the usually calm city of Amsterdam, two young brothers are chased by a whirling wind spout which threatens to capsize their boat. | |||||
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05/05/2023 6:25 pm |
Robson Green: Coastal Fishing |
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| Robson travels around the Welsh Pembrokeshire coast, where he goes in search of Seabass. In Saundersfoot harbour, Robson meets sustainable fisherman Berwyn, who is lucky enough to own one of the rare sea bass fishing licences. | |||||
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05/05/2023 7:05 pm |
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur |
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| David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long - close to four London buses put end to end - and weighing 70 metric tons, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the earth. | |||||
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05/05/2023 8:00 pm |
Ben Fogle: Return to the Wild |
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| Ben revisits Julia and Gareth who left behind a nine-to-five lifestyle in Britain to start a new life in a ramshackle farmhouse in a remote part of Hungary, a country they had not visited and whose language they did not speak. | |||||
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05/05/2023 8:45 pm |
China: Nature's Ancient Kingdom |
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| Eastern China is one of the most densely populated regions on the planet, but even there, humans provide the necessary space for the animals that inhabit it. Some of the rarest animal species will find a home in one of the four new national parks. | |||||
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05/05/2023 9:35 pm |
Life Below Zero Canada |
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| Kim and Pierre turn their attentions to harvesting big game, and Mike returns home to discover a cabin in much need of repair. In Lutsel K'e, Becky tries to sort out her green team of sled dogs, and Bentley accelerates his winter preparations. | |||||
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05/05/2023 10:20 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| A 19 year-old girl and her father go face-to-face with a fast-moving inferno as wildfires rip through Victoria, Australia. In the French Alps, two British skiers are engulfed by an avalanche. Amidst the searing Texan heat, a skydiving training session ends in disaster when there's a major mid-air collision at 30,000 feet, and in the usually calm city of Amsterdam, two young brothers are chased by a whirling wind spout which threatens to capsize their boat. | |||||
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05/05/2023 11:10 pm |
Robson Green: Coastal Fishing |
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| Robson travels around the Welsh Pembrokeshire coast, where he goes in search of Seabass. In Saundersfoot harbour, Robson meets sustainable fisherman Berwyn, who is lucky enough to own one of the rare sea bass fishing licences. | |||||
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05/05/2023 11:55 pm |
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur |
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| David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long - close to four London buses put end to end - and weighing 70 metric tons, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the earth. | |||||
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05/06/2023 12:50 am |
Ben Fogle: Return to the Wild |
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| Ben revisits Julia and Gareth who left behind a nine-to-five lifestyle in Britain to start a new life in a ramshackle farmhouse in a remote part of Hungary, a country they had not visited and whose language they did not speak. | |||||
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05/06/2023 1:35 am |
China: Nature's Ancient Kingdom |
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| Eastern China is one of the most densely populated regions on the planet, but even there, humans provide the necessary space for the animals that inhabit it. Some of the rarest animal species will find a home in one of the four new national parks. | |||||
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05/06/2023 2:25 am |
Life Below Zero Canada |
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| Kim and Pierre turn their attentions to harvesting big game, and Mike returns home to discover a cabin in much need of repair. In Lutsel K'e, Becky tries to sort out her green team of sled dogs, and Bentley accelerates his winter preparations. | |||||
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05/06/2023 3:10 am |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| A 19 year-old girl and her father go face-to-face with a fast-moving inferno as wildfires rip through Victoria, Australia. In the French Alps, two British skiers are engulfed by an avalanche. Amidst the searing Texan heat, a skydiving training session ends in disaster when there's a major mid-air collision at 30,000 feet, and in the usually calm city of Amsterdam, two young brothers are chased by a whirling wind spout which threatens to capsize their boat. | |||||