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    05/10/2023 3:45 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.

    05/10/2023 4:00 am

    Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

    Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs. She also meets with a figure who has been an inspiration to her, Sir David Attenborough.

    05/10/2023 5:00 am

    The Mating Game

    Freshwater covers only a tiny fraction of the earth's surface, but it is a vital meeting place for many animals - the stage on which millions gather to find a mate. Yet with so little of it available, and often only briefly, the challenge for most individuals is how to overcome intense competition when your rivals are just as dependent on the precious freshwater for their success.

    05/10/2023 5:55 am

    Life Below Zero

    The Hailstones cross the ocean to pick up equipment to help them harvest salmon, and Jessie Holmes rushes to get his fish wheel ready for summer salmon run.

    05/10/2023 6:40 am

    Joanna Lumley's Unseen Adventures

    Starting in the Far East on the frozen Japanese sea of Okhotsk, Joanna travels across China and Mongolia and ends at Lake Baikal in Siberia, where she meets some amazing seals.

    05/10/2023 7:30 am

    World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys

    A trip through the Bavarian Alps, with stopping points including a former Olympic village, Germany's highest mountain, and a quick tipple with a beer-brewing monk.

    05/10/2023 8:15 am

    Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

    Ben visits the rugged island of Rathlin, off the coast of Northern Ireland, where he stays with a former HR executive who turned his back on corporate life to move into an ancient family heirloom.

    05/10/2023 9:00 am

    Coast

    Nick Crane digs deep to discover what it is like to live on Britain's most unusual beach, the eerily beautiful, vast shingle spit at Dungeness in Kent. In Scotland, zoologist and ex-soldier Andy Torbet braves one of the most dangerous beaches in Britain. In Jersey, Hermione Cockburn joins the world's best beach artists as they create massive art installations along some of the UK's most spectacular shoreline.

    05/10/2023 9:50 am

    Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

    Greta Thunberg travels from the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs. She also meets with a figure who has been an inspiration to her, Sir David Attenborough.

    05/10/2023 10:50 am

    The Mating Game

    Freshwater covers only a tiny fraction of the earth's surface, but it is a vital meeting place for many animals - the stage on which millions gather to find a mate. Yet with so little of it available, and often only briefly, the challenge for most individuals is how to overcome intense competition when your rivals are just as dependent on the precious freshwater for their success.

    05/10/2023 11:50 am

    Life Below Zero

    In Kavik, Sue heads to a nearby fishing hole to try and replenish her food supply and, in Nenana, Jessie does squirrel maintenance around camp to protect his dog food supply.

    05/10/2023 12:35 pm

    Joanna Lumley's Unseen Adventures

    Joanna travels the length of India, showing us delights like the flower-sellers of Madurai, before taking us back to Uzbekistan for gory tales and gem-making.

    05/10/2023 1:20 pm

    World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys

    A trip through Devon to the tip of Cornwall, going back in time to recapture the golden age of luxury train travel. From Dawlish, it heads to Cornwall and across the Royal Albert Bridge, a masterpiece of railway engineering.

    05/10/2023 2:05 pm

    Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

    Ben journeys to the Scottish Cairngorms and the edge of the mystical Clashindarroch Forest to spend a week with 70-year-old Jake Williams, reputedly one of Britain's only hermits.

    05/10/2023 2:50 pm

    Egyptian Tomb Hunting

    Tony enters tombs that have been sealed shut for thousands of years, meets mummies, holds an Ancient Egyptian prime minister's heart and discovers hieroglyphs only ever seen by the ancient Egyptians who created them.

    05/10/2023 3:35 pm

    Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

    The pandemic reveals the enormity of the challenge that tackling climate change poses as Greta learns the drop in emissions caused by the 2020 lockdowns is not enough to put the world on track to meet its climate goals.

    05/10/2023 4:35 pm

    The Mating Game

    One basic need connects all life on earth - the need to breed. But for a few creatures, the odds of success are overwhelmingly stacked against them. Some must find a partner when there are none to be found, while others must find a way to succeed without breeding at all. And some must try and adapt in a world unrecognisable from when they were born. These are animals that have evolved some of the most extraordinary mating strategies of all.

    05/10/2023 5:35 pm

    The World's Deadliest Weather

    In Tennessee, a violent tornado touches down in downtown Nashville, interrupting a live news broadcast and raking through the city. At the Hamma Hamma Falls, a kayaker races to rescue his friend from a terrifying ordeal above a 60-foot waterfall. Two weather enthusiasts get more than they bargained for when a bolt of lightning fries their car, with them inside.

    05/10/2023 6:20 pm

    Exploration Volcano

    After the Icelandic fishing village of Grindavik is rocked by earthquakes, the volcano of Fagradasfjall is born. Chris Horsley's mission is to help predict the path it may take in the future.

    05/10/2023 7:05 pm

    Civilisations

    Professor Mary Beard broaches the controversial, sometimes dangerous, topic of religion and art. For millennia, art has inspired religion as much as religion has inspired art. Yet there are fundamental problems, which all religions share, in making god or gods visible in the human world. Mary Beard visits sacred sites across the world to examine the contested boundaries between religion and art.

    05/10/2023 8:00 pm

    Simon Reeve's South America

    Simon travels through three of the world's most extreme environments: the salt flats of Bolivia, the Brazilian Pantanal and Paraguay's Chaco Forest. In Bolivia, Simon meets a family who makes a living carving salt from the Uyuni salt flats.

    05/10/2023 8:55 pm

    Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time

    Brian explores a simple question that is causing a big stir today: what is time? Modern science shows it to be far stranger than we think. He recalls some highlights from his TV series that touch upon different sides of this physics conundrum.

    05/10/2023 9:45 pm

    The Mating Game

    Freshwater covers only a tiny fraction of the earth's surface, but it is a vital meeting place for many animals - the stage on which millions gather to find a mate. Yet with so little of it available, and often only briefly, the challenge for most individuals is how to overcome intense competition when your rivals are just as dependent on the precious freshwater for their success.

    05/10/2023 10:45 pm

    The World's Deadliest Weather

    In Tennessee, a violent tornado touches down in downtown Nashville, interrupting a live news broadcast and raking through the city. At the Hamma Hamma Falls, a kayaker races to rescue his friend from a terrifying ordeal above a 60-foot waterfall. Two weather enthusiasts get more than they bargained for when a bolt of lightning fries their car, with them inside.

    05/10/2023 11:35 pm

    Exploration Volcano

    After the Icelandic fishing village of Grindavik is rocked by earthquakes, the volcano of Fagradasfjall is born. Chris Horsley's mission is to help predict the path it may take in the future.

    05/11/2023 12:20 am

    Civilisations

    Professor Mary Beard broaches the controversial, sometimes dangerous, topic of religion and art. For millennia, art has inspired religion as much as religion has inspired art. Yet there are fundamental problems, which all religions share, in making god or gods visible in the human world. Mary Beard visits sacred sites across the world to examine the contested boundaries between religion and art.

    05/11/2023 1:15 am

    Simon Reeve's South America

    Simon travels through three of the world's most extreme environments: the salt flats of Bolivia, the Brazilian Pantanal and Paraguay's Chaco Forest. In Bolivia, Simon meets a family who makes a living carving salt from the Uyuni salt flats.

    05/11/2023 2:05 am

    Brian Cox's Adventures in Space and Time

    Brian explores a simple question that is causing a big stir today: what is time? Modern science shows it to be far stranger than we think. He recalls some highlights from his TV series that touch upon different sides of this physics conundrum.

    05/11/2023 3:00 am

    The Mating Game

    Freshwater covers only a tiny fraction of the earth's surface, but it is a vital meeting place for many animals - the stage on which millions gather to find a mate. Yet with so little of it available, and often only briefly, the challenge for most individuals is how to overcome intense competition when your rivals are just as dependent on the precious freshwater for their success.

    BBC Earth

    Available schedules: 03/26/2022 - 12/28/2024 Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST) UTC +2 Country: United States Language: English

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