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    05/21/2023 3:55 am

    A Perfect Planet

    Spewing super-heated water up to 400C, deep sea vents seem too hostile for life, but incredibly they are home to over 750 species found nowhere else on Earth.

    05/21/2023 4:00 am

    Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore

    The natural world offers a constant source of calm and comfort. How do images of hypnotic starling murmurations or macaques relaxing in hot springs in Japan encourage us to slow down? How can we experience more being and less doing?

    05/21/2023 4:25 am

    Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

    Ben joins fellow Brit Lucy, her husband Tim and their two daughters, a family who traded in their comfortable South London home for a yurt on a woodland river on New Zealand's North Island.

    05/21/2023 5:10 am

    Japan with Sue Perkins

    Sue Perkins starts her journey in Tokyo, Japan's glittering capital city and home to 36 million people. She trains with a female sumo wrestling team, meets a family who live with robots and attends a solo-wedding.

    05/21/2023 6:05 am

    Coast

    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.

    05/21/2023 6:55 am

    Animal Impossible

    Incredible facts and myths about the animal kingdom are put to the test. This time, is it true that an electric eel can kill you?

    05/21/2023 7:45 am

    Inside the Factory

    Malt loaf has been a popular teatime treat for more than 80 years, we get through 130 million of them every year. So to get to grips with how this sweet and squidgy cake-cum-bread is made, Gregg Wallace is rolling up his sleeves to get stuck in.

    05/21/2023 8:35 am

    The World's Deadliest Weather

    Tornadoes tear through Texas, rip tides trap swimmers in Florida, a storm hits holiday makers in Greece and a wave crashes through a restaurant in Italy.

    05/21/2023 9:25 am

    Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

    Ben joins fellow Brit Lucy, her husband Tim and their two daughters, a family who traded in their comfortable South London home for a yurt on a woodland river on New Zealand's North Island.

    05/21/2023 10:10 am

    Japan with Sue Perkins

    Sue Perkins starts her journey in Tokyo, Japan's glittering capital city and home to 36 million people. She trains with a female sumo wrestling team, meets a family who live with robots and attends a solo-wedding.

    05/21/2023 11:05 am

    Coast

    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.

    05/21/2023 11:55 am

    Animal Impossible

    Incredible facts and myths about the animal kingdom are put to the test. This time, is it true that an electric eel can kill you?

    05/21/2023 12:40 pm

    Inside the Factory

    Malt loaf has been a popular teatime treat for more than 80 years, we get through 130 million of them every year. So to get to grips with how this sweet and squidgy cake-cum-bread is made, Gregg Wallace is rolling up his sleeves to get stuck in.

    05/21/2023 1:35 pm

    The World's Deadliest Weather

    Tornadoes tear through Texas, rip tides trap swimmers in Florida, a storm hits holiday makers in Greece and a wave crashes through a restaurant in Italy.

    05/21/2023 2:25 pm

    Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

    Ben joins fellow Brit Lucy, her husband Tim and their two daughters, a family who traded in their comfortable South London home for a yurt on a woodland river on New Zealand's North Island.

    05/21/2023 3:10 pm

    Japan with Sue Perkins

    Sue Perkins starts her journey in Tokyo, Japan's glittering capital city and home to 36 million people. She trains with a female sumo wrestling team, meets a family who live with robots and attends a solo-wedding.

    05/21/2023 4:00 pm

    Serengeti

    As the land dries, everyone struggles to find water. The hippos get trapped in the shrinking lake, and Nalla the elephant finds a clever solution to quench everyone's thirst.

    05/21/2023 5:00 pm

    Penguins: Meet the Family

    A unique celebration of one of Earth's most iconic birds. For the first time, we meet the entire penguin family, all 18 species. This colourful cast of characters may seem familiar, but their incredible diversity won't fail to surprise. New Zealand's lush green forests might not be the first place you would expect to find penguins, but it was here the penguin family first evolved 60 million years ago, and there are now more species living here than anywhere else on earth.

    05/21/2023 5:55 pm

    Ben Fogle: Return to the Wild

    Ben revisits a former fighter pilot who turned his back on Indian high society to live a simple life in the foothills of the Himalayas. A motorcycle accident hampered Steve's plans, but his children help him preserve a small piece of paradise.

    05/21/2023 6:45 pm

    Caribbean with Simon Reeve

    Simon begins his journey around the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola and its two very different countries. The Dominican Republic is a tourist hotspot, but its neighbour Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

    05/21/2023 7:35 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.

    05/21/2023 8:30 pm

    Life Below Zero Canada

    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.

    05/21/2023 9:15 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.

    05/21/2023 10:15 pm

    Penguins: Meet the Family

    A unique celebration of one of Earth's most iconic birds. For the first time, we meet the entire penguin family, all 18 species. This colourful cast of characters may seem familiar, but their incredible diversity won't fail to surprise. New Zealand's lush green forests might not be the first place you would expect to find penguins, but it was here the penguin family first evolved 60 million years ago, and there are now more species living here than anywhere else on earth.

    05/21/2023 11:20 pm

    Ben Fogle: Return to the Wild

    Ben revisits a former fighter pilot who turned his back on Indian high society to live a simple life in the foothills of the Himalayas. A motorcycle accident hampered Steve's plans, but his children help him preserve a small piece of paradise.

    05/22/2023 12:05 am

    Caribbean with Simon Reeve

    Simon begins his journey around the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola and its two very different countries. The Dominican Republic is a tourist hotspot, but its neighbour Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

    05/22/2023 1:00 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.

    05/22/2023 1:55 am

    Life Below Zero Canada

    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.

    05/22/2023 2:40 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.

    05/22/2023 3:40 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.

    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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