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05/19/2023 4:00 am |
Big Animal Surgery |
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| Liz Bonnin travels to a sanctuary in South Africa, to witness an extraordinary operation inside the jaws of Ricci, a nine-year-old rescued lion. Ricci has problems with his teeth so severe that they are preventing him from feeding. | |||||
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05/19/2023 4:50 am |
Blue Planet II |
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| Using cutting-edge technology, go on a journey from the intense heat of the tropics to the planet's frozen poles to reveal new worlds and extraordinary animal behaviours. The journey starts in the tropical coral reefs, the most diverse ocean habitat. | |||||
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05/19/2023 5:45 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| In the midst of dark winter, Alaskans burn the midnight oil to complete necessary tasks. | |||||
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05/19/2023 6:35 am |
Robson Green: Coastal Fishing |
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| Robson Green begins by travelling around the southwest of England as he goes on a mission to find the conger eel. | |||||
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05/19/2023 7:15 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Exploring the remarkable railway line that reaches the far north tip of mainland Britain. The Far North Line travels from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland to Wick in Caithness county, with a daily ScotRail service. | |||||
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05/19/2023 8:00 am |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben travels to England's most northerly coastline, Northumberland, to stay with Kezz and Nathalie, a couple who are caretakers of a secluded wood. Ben helps the couple with their straw-bale house and gets a crash course in felling trees. | |||||
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05/19/2023 8:45 am |
Civilisations |
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| Professor Mary Beard explores images of the human body in ancient art, from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China. Mary seeks answers to fundamental questions at the heart of ideas about civilisations. Why have human beings always made art about themselves? What were these images for? And in what ways do some ancient conventions of representing the body still affect people now? | |||||
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05/19/2023 9:40 am |
Big Animal Surgery |
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| Liz Bonnin travels to a sanctuary in South Africa, to witness an extraordinary operation inside the jaws of Ricci, a nine-year-old rescued lion. Ricci has problems with his teeth so severe that they are preventing him from feeding. | |||||
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05/19/2023 10:30 am |
Blue Planet II |
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| Using cutting-edge technology, go on a journey from the intense heat of the tropics to the planet's frozen poles to reveal new worlds and extraordinary animal behaviours. The journey starts in the tropical coral reefs, the most diverse ocean habitat. | |||||
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05/19/2023 11:25 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Alaskans scurry to find precious resources in a constantly changing winter landscape. | |||||
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05/19/2023 12:15 pm |
Robson Green: Coastal Fishing |
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| Robson travels to the west coast of Scotland for some of the area's famous shellfish fishing and on the Island of Mull, meets local fisherman Johnny. | |||||
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05/19/2023 1:00 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Exploring the remarkable railway line that reaches the far north tip of mainland Britain. The Far North Line travels from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland to Wick in Caithness county, with a daily ScotRail service. | |||||
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05/19/2023 1:45 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben Fogle revisits Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen and her husband Clive and experiences the magic of their home and their wholesome way of life. Ben tries his hand at shepherding and discovers that Clive sees life on the farm as almost timeless. | |||||
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05/19/2023 2:30 pm |
Civilisations |
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| Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward description of observed nature, rather it's a projection of dreams and idylls, as well as of escapes and refuges from human turmoil, the elusive paradise on earth. He begins his exploration in the 10th century, in Song dynasty China. | |||||
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05/19/2023 3:25 pm |
Big Animal Surgery |
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| Liz Bonnin travels to a sanctuary in Sierra Leone to witness a life-saving operation on a young chimpanzee. The chimp has a rapidly-growing lump on her abdomen, which her keepers are worried is a cancerous tumour. One of the world's leading wildlife vets uses advanced techniques from human medicine to diagnose and remove the lump. | |||||
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05/19/2023 4:15 pm |
Blue Planet II |
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| The deep is perhaps the most hostile environment on earth, a world of crushing pressure, brutal cold and utter darkness. Exploration has barely begun, and yet it is the largest living space on the planet. Scientists already think that there is more life in the deep than anywhere else on earth. | |||||
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05/19/2023 5:15 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| A violent tornado outbreak unleashes carnage on Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. A Swedish snow mobile rider gets lost in the mountains during a night-time adventure. And a record breaking super typhoon brings down the roof on a wedding in the Philippines, making it a memorable day for the bewildered bride for all the wrong reasons. | |||||
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05/19/2023 6:05 pm |
Simon Reeve's South America |
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| Simon visits Brazil, the biggest country on the continent. He starts in one of the remotest regions of the Amazon, with the Waiapi people, who cling on to their traditional way of life, which is under threat from logging and mining interests. | |||||
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05/19/2023 7:00 pm |
Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs |
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| Liz Bonnin joins a team of palaeontologists in the remote badlands of Wyoming as they investigate a dinosaur graveyard. The team tries to figure out if the Jurassic's most vicious predator was involved in the deaths of super-sized beasts, like the iconic Diplodocus, that are buried at the site, helping to reveal why so many dinosaurs came here and what killed them in such great numbers 150 million years ago. | |||||
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05/19/2023 8:00 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben Fogle revisits Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen and her husband Clive and experiences the magic of their home and their wholesome way of life. Ben tries his hand at shepherding and discovers that Clive sees life on the farm as almost timeless. | |||||
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05/19/2023 8:45 pm |
Eden: Untamed Planet |
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| The Namib Desert is one of the oldest deserts of all, and it is also one of the most diverse, with 50-degree temperatures and half a millimetre of rainfall annually. | |||||
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05/19/2023 9:30 pm |
Life Below Zero Canada |
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| Becky braves sub-zero temperatures to fish a remote, frozen lake, Pike Mike searches for a precious source of bush medicine, Kim and Pierre break camp and begin their winter trapping season, and Bentley heads cross-county with a fishing boat in tow. | |||||
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05/19/2023 10:15 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| A violent tornado outbreak unleashes carnage on Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. A Swedish snow mobile rider gets lost in the mountains during a night-time adventure. And a record breaking super typhoon brings down the roof on a wedding in the Philippines, making it a memorable day for the bewildered bride for all the wrong reasons. | |||||
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05/19/2023 11:05 pm |
Simon Reeve's South America |
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| Simon visits Brazil, the biggest country on the continent. He starts in one of the remotest regions of the Amazon, with the Waiapi people, who cling on to their traditional way of life, which is under threat from logging and mining interests. | |||||
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05/20/2023 12:00 am |
The Last Battle of the Vikings |
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| Marine archeologist Dr Jon Henderson tells the incredible story of the Norsemen in Scotland. Visiting fascinating archeological sites across Scotland and Norway, he reveals that, although the battle at Largs marked the end of an era for the Norsemen, their presence continued to shape the identity and culture of the Scottish nation to the present day. | |||||
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05/20/2023 12:50 am |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben Fogle revisits Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen and her husband Clive and experiences the magic of their home and their wholesome way of life. Ben tries his hand at shepherding and discovers that Clive sees life on the farm as almost timeless. | |||||
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05/20/2023 1:35 am |
Eden: Untamed Planet |
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| The Namib Desert is one of the oldest deserts of all, and it is also one of the most diverse, with 50-degree temperatures and half a millimetre of rainfall annually. | |||||
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05/20/2023 2:25 am |
Life Below Zero Canada |
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| Becky braves sub-zero temperatures to fish a remote, frozen lake, Pike Mike searches for a precious source of bush medicine, Kim and Pierre break camp and begin their winter trapping season, and Bentley heads cross-county with a fishing boat in tow. | |||||
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05/20/2023 3:10 am |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| A violent tornado outbreak unleashes carnage on Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. A Swedish snow mobile rider gets lost in the mountains during a night-time adventure. And a record breaking super typhoon brings down the roof on a wedding in the Philippines, making it a memorable day for the bewildered bride for all the wrong reasons. | |||||