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    05/22/2023 3:50 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.

    05/22/2023 4:00 am

    David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

    Some animals appear to have stretched their natural gifts to the limits. Sir David Attenborough looks at the giraffe, who must reach the tallest branches to find food, and the chameleon, who must use their camouflage to hide from predators.

    05/22/2023 4:20 am

    Blue Planet II

    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.

    05/22/2023 5:20 am

    Life Below Zero

    Alaskans scurry to find precious resources in a constantly changing winter landscape.

    05/22/2023 6:10 am

    Robson Green: Coastal Fishing

    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.

    05/22/2023 6:50 am

    World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys

    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.

    05/22/2023 7:35 am

    Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

    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.

    05/22/2023 8:20 am

    Civilisations

    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.

    05/22/2023 9:15 am

    Big Animal Surgery

    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.

    05/22/2023 10:05 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.

    05/22/2023 10:15 am

    Blue Planet II

    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.

    05/22/2023 11:15 am

    Life Below Zero

    At the apex of winter, a lack of snowfall in the Arctic makes basic tasks more difficult.

    05/22/2023 12:00 pm

    Robson Green: Coastal Fishing

    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.

    05/22/2023 12:45 pm

    World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys

    The magnificent steam train Tornado is coupled with 13 luxury vintage carriages on a six-hour journey through Yorkshire to Northumbria and the Borders. Travelling in style from York to Edinburgh on a 200-mile historic trip.

    05/22/2023 1:30 pm

    Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

    Ben Fogle visits people who have chosen to live their life off-grid. He revisits Emma, who has embraced a truly organic life, hidden away in overgrown woodland in wildest Wales.

    05/22/2023 2:15 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.

    05/22/2023 3:10 pm

    Big Animal Surgery

    Liz Bonnin travels to Tbilisi in Georgia, to witness a life-saving operation on a magnificent Asian elephant named Grande. Having survived a catastrophic flood at the zoo where he lives, Grande has a badly infected tusk. One of the world's top wildlife vets attempts to remove it in a race against the clock, as every minute Grande is under anaesthetic, the weight of his own body risks damaging his vital organs.

    05/22/2023 4:00 pm

    Blue Planet II: The Making Of

    An exploration of how the crew behind the Blue Planet II series manage to capture their spectacular footage.

    05/22/2023 4:10 pm

    Blue Planet II

    Corals build themselves homes of limestone in the warm, clear, shallow seas of the tropics. Their reefs occupy less than one tenth of one per cent of the ocean floor, yet they are home to a quarter of all known marine species.

    05/22/2023 5:10 pm

    The World's Deadliest Weather

    Easter Sunday brings a dangerous tornado spree to the southern states of the USA as a total of 140 tornados touch down across 10 states, inflicting catastrophic damage. Major flooding in Indonesia leads to dramatic fast-water rescues.

    05/22/2023 6:00 pm

    Dogs in the Wild: Meet the Family

    The secrets of canid success and their incredible strategies for survival, from leaping jackals to sneezing African wild dogs, and gray foxes that climb trees.

    05/22/2023 7:00 pm

    The Green Planet

    Deserts are hostile: temperatures soar, and water is rare. Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage, and surprising alliances with animals.

    05/22/2023 8:00 pm

    The Secret Genius of Modern Life

    Hannah Fry tucks into the tech behind food delivery apps like Deliveroo and Just Eat, which are now used by 24 million people in the UK. Hannah meets the R&D team behind food delivery titan Deliveroo, finds out how pensioners ordering Greggs revolutionised food delivery, and discovers how pizza made us fall in love with the internet in the 1990s.

    05/22/2023 9:00 pm

    Cornwall with Simon Reeve

    Simon journeys through some of the most beautiful coastal locations Britain has to offer and meets the incredible Cornish characters who make the county unique.

    05/22/2023 9:50 pm

    Coast

    Nick Crane explores the exotic Isles of Scilly and joins the locals to attempt one of the most bizarre walks in Britain, as they try to wade on foot through the surging seas from island to island. Nick also visits the last house on the very tip of the most westerly inhabited isle. On precipitous slopes, beyond the edge of Devon, Ruth Goodman follows in the footsteps of the remarkable Branscombe cliff farmers.

    05/22/2023 10:45 pm

    The World's Deadliest Weather

    Easter Sunday brings a dangerous tornado spree to the southern states of the USA as a total of 140 tornados touch down across 10 states, inflicting catastrophic damage. Major flooding in Indonesia leads to dramatic fast-water rescues.

    05/22/2023 11:35 pm

    Dogs in the Wild: Meet the Family

    The secrets of canid success and their incredible strategies for survival, from leaping jackals to sneezing African wild dogs, and gray foxes that climb trees.

    05/23/2023 12:35 am

    The Green Planet

    Deserts are hostile: temperatures soar, and water is rare. Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage, and surprising alliances with animals.

    05/23/2023 1:35 am

    The Secret Genius of Modern Life

    Hannah Fry tucks into the tech behind food delivery apps like Deliveroo and Just Eat, which are now used by 24 million people in the UK. Hannah meets the R&D team behind food delivery titan Deliveroo, finds out how pensioners ordering Greggs revolutionised food delivery, and discovers how pizza made us fall in love with the internet in the 1990s.

    05/23/2023 2:35 am

    Cornwall with Simon Reeve

    Simon journeys through some of the most beautiful coastal locations Britain has to offer and meets the incredible Cornish characters who make the county unique.

    05/23/2023 3:25 am

    David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities

    Sir David Attenborough reveals nature's evolutionary anomalies. Here he looks at the platypus and the curious case of the male Midwife Toad.

    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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