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		05/17/2023 4:00 am	Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
	Dan discovers a series of curious anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how low quality and hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison. John learns how to dance like an Egyptian at a funeral, and investigates the truth of the `Curse of Tutankhamun'.
Localized series title: Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy Localized description: Dan discovers a series of curious anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how low quality and hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison. John learns how to dance like an Egyptian at a funeral, and investigates the truth of the `Curse of Tutankhamun'.
		05/17/2023 4:45 am	A Perfect Planet
	There are not five separate oceans, but one. Its waters linked by powerful forces that keep them on the move.

		05/17/2023 5:45 am	Life Below Zero
	Alaskans race to secure resources and ready their camps for the coming dark winter.

		05/17/2023 6:35 am	Joanna Lumley's Britain
	Joanna travels through Scotland, the Outer Hebrides and Northern Ireland.

		05/17/2023 7:20 am	World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
	Following the train route from Bergen to Oslo, through the extraordinary mountains of southern Norway in winter. This super-fast train travels daily to the country's capital, and the first stop is Dale.

		05/17/2023 8:05 am	Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
	Ben Fogle journeys to the Suffolk countryside and a secretive patch of woodland, to spend the week with the unique character Will Lord, a true British caveman. Ben embraces Will's Stone Age-style existence in the forest.

		05/17/2023 8:50 am	Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy
	Dan discovers a series of curious anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how low quality and hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison. John learns how to dance like an Egyptian at a funeral, and investigates the truth of the `Curse of Tutankhamun'.

		05/17/2023 9:40 am	The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
	Exploring how to stop damaging the oceans and begin to enable their revival. Prince William, founder of the Earthshot Prize, and Earthshot Prize Council members Sir David Attenborough and singer-songwriter Shakira, who has spent her whole life living by the sea, discover how we are damaging the oceans, and they discuss inspiring people and projects across the world that have found ways to revive ocean life.

		05/17/2023 10:35 am	A Perfect Planet
	There are not five separate oceans, but one. Its waters linked by powerful forces that keep them on the move.

		05/17/2023 11:35 am	Life Below Zero
	Alaskans struggle to survive the brief, cold and dark days as winter overtakes the land.

		05/17/2023 12:25 pm	Joanna Lumley's Britain
	Joanna travels from North Wales down to St Michael's Mount and the beautiful West Country, ending in her own home town of London.

		05/17/2023 1:10 pm	World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
	Beginning with a coast-to-coast journey through the Australian outback. Onboard the iconic Indian Pacific, cameras focus on the spectacular Blue Mountains. There's also a look at one of the oldest steam railways in Australia, the Zig Zag Railway.

		05/17/2023 1:55 pm	Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
	Ben is on a unique and tiny island in the Scottish Hebrides, with his host,ex-social care worker Philip, 46. Ben finds out how Philip became a custodian of this coastal island and how he has embraced a new quality of life.

		05/17/2023 2:40 pm	Civilisations
	Simon Schama explores the remote origins of human creativity with the first known marks made some 80,000 years ago in South African caves, marks which were not dictated merely by humanity's physical needs. He marvels at the later caveworks, shapes of hands, in red stencils on the walls of caves, and at the paintings of bison and bulls, and Stone Age carvings.

		05/17/2023 3:35 pm	The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet
	Prince William is joined by David Attenborough and Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an indigenous rights spokesperson from Chad, to explore the story of our wastefulness and how we might move to a waste-free world. They reveal the extent of our careless approach to producing waste, both non-biodegradable and biodegradable, and discover that we can solve the waste problem by reimagining our production lines as materials circles, ensuring that the waste from one process becomes the resource for the next.

		05/17/2023 4:35 pm	A Perfect Planet
	Humans are changing our planet so rapidly, it's affecting earth's life support systems: our weather, our oceans and the living world.

		05/17/2023 5:35 pm	The World's Deadliest Weather
	In the Philippines, the Taal volcano violently erupts, blasting ash and spewing debris over nearby towns and villages. A snowboarder in Utah is left in agony after an off-piste adventure goes wrong, leaving him to rescue himself from a snowy mountain. And in the Grand Canyon, a massive microburst causes a dangerous deluge of mud and rocks to barrel down on a group of unwitting tourists.

		05/17/2023 6:20 pm	Exploration Volcano
	Volcano expert Chris Horsley is called back to the Congo to investigate a potentially lethal threat to over two million people. After a recent eruption, a huge 10-mile-long fracture has appeared in the ground.

		05/17/2023 7:05 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.

		05/17/2023 8:00 pm	Simon Reeve's South America
	Simon travels from Chile's Atacama Desert right down to Tierra Del Fuego, the most southerly inhabited place on Earth. The Atacama, one of the driest places on the planet, has as little as 1mm of rain per year.

		05/17/2023 8:55 pm	Space Volcanoes
	An international team of volcanologists draw parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those on other planets, and reveal how they are not just a destructive force but essential to the formation of atmospheres and even life itself.

		05/17/2023 9:45 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.

		05/17/2023 10:45 pm	The World's Deadliest Weather
	In the Philippines, the Taal volcano violently erupts, blasting ash and spewing debris over nearby towns and villages. A snowboarder in Utah is left in agony after an off-piste adventure goes wrong, leaving him to rescue himself from a snowy mountain. And in the Grand Canyon, a massive microburst causes a dangerous deluge of mud and rocks to barrel down on a group of unwitting tourists.

		05/17/2023 11:35 pm	Exploration Volcano
	Volcano expert Chris Horsley is called back to the Congo to investigate a potentially lethal threat to over two million people. After a recent eruption, a huge 10-mile-long fracture has appeared in the ground.

		05/18/2023 12:20 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.

		05/18/2023 1:15 am	Simon Reeve's South America
	Simon travels from Chile's Atacama Desert right down to Tierra Del Fuego, the most southerly inhabited place on Earth. The Atacama, one of the driest places on the planet, has as little as 1mm of rain per year.

		05/18/2023 2:10 am	Space Volcanoes
	An international team of volcanologists draw parallels between the volcanoes on Earth and those on other planets, and reveal how they are not just a destructive force but essential to the formation of atmospheres and even life itself.

		05/18/2023 3:00 am	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.

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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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