Schedules
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05/25/2023 3:50 am |
A Perfect Planet |
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| Humans have now become a force to rival those of nature causing unprecedented change in the oceans, atmosphere and land habitats. | |||||
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05/25/2023 4:00 am |
Blue Planet II: The Making Of |
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| An exploration of how the crew behind the Blue Planet II series manage to capture their spectacular footage. | |||||
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05/25/2023 4:10 am |
Blue Planet II |
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| It is the green of the sea that brings life to oceans. Here, sunlight powers the growth of kelp, mangroves and sea grass. The green seas teem with life, where cuttlefish do battle for a mate and an octopus outwits deadly sharks. | |||||
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05/25/2023 5:10 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| In the final days of winter, Alaskans use their time to prepare for what lies ahead. | |||||
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05/25/2023 5:55 am |
Caribbean with Simon Reeve |
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| 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. | |||||
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05/25/2023 6:50 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Our journey begins in Anchorage, Alaska, where we board a luxury passenger train. Later, we head north to enter the vast wilderness of Alaska, which is America's largest and remotest state. | |||||
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05/25/2023 7:35 am |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben journeys to the most remote inhabited island in the UK - Fair Isle. The Island's only inhabitant is Tommy, originally from America he has resided on Fair Isle for 15 years in an off-grid stone cottage. | |||||
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05/25/2023 8:20 am |
Civilisations |
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| In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. As historian of empire David Olusoga shows, art was always on the frontline. Each cultural contact at this time left a mark on both sides: the magnificent Benin bronzes record the meeting of an ancient West African kingdom and Portuguese voyagers in a spirit of mutual respect and exchange. | |||||
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05/25/2023 9:15 am |
Climate Change: The Facts |
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| We're just two degrees away from a climate catastrophe. If the rate of global warming continues, we'll reach the threshold for permanent environmental damage within 40 years. But we have the power to prevent it. | |||||
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05/25/2023 10:05 am |
Blue Planet II: The Making Of |
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| An exploration of how the crew behind the Blue Planet II series manage to capture their spectacular footage. | |||||
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05/25/2023 10:15 am |
Blue Planet II |
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| It is the green of the sea that brings life to oceans. Here, sunlight powers the growth of kelp, mangroves and sea grass. The green seas teem with life, where cuttlefish do battle for a mate and an octopus outwits deadly sharks. | |||||
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05/25/2023 11:10 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| The arrival of longer days and warmer temperatures makes for easier travel, and Alaskans take advantage by heading out to hunt migrating birds and harvest meat and fur, securing their camps to protect them from flooding in the meantime. | |||||
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05/25/2023 12:00 pm |
Caribbean with Simon Reeve |
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| The second leg of Simon Reeve's journey around the Caribbean Sea takes him from the beautiful islands and along the coast of South America. On the beautiful and wealthy island of Barbados he meets the owner of a traditional chattel house. | |||||
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05/25/2023 12:50 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| The Norwegian Dovre line runs from Oslo to the northern wonderland of Trondheim, passing through the Gudbrandsdal valley and the Dovrefjell mountain plateau. The Rauma line showcases the famous fjords, before the Nordland crosses the Arctic Circle. | |||||
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05/25/2023 1:35 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben revisits Simon and Debbie who run their own off-grid small holding in a picturesque valley in Exmoor National Park. Ben helps give some rescued factory chickens their first real taste of freedom. | |||||
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05/25/2023 2:20 pm |
Civilisations |
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| Simon Schama starts his meditation on colour and civilisation with the Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th century Venice, where masterpieces such as Giovanni Bellini's `San Zaccaria' altarpiece and Titian's `Bacchus and Ariadne' contested the assumption that drawing was superior to colouring. As the Baroque took hold in enlightenment Europe Giambattista Tiepolo created a ceiling fresco: `Apollo and the Four Continents' at the Bishop's palace in Würzburg. | |||||
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05/25/2023 3:15 pm |
Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline |
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| Ade begins in the Solomon Islands, and then travels down the east coast of Australia, from the Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania. He sees missing islands in the Solomon Islands and learns about the `feminisation' of green turtles. | |||||
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05/25/2023 4:05 pm |
Blue Planet II |
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| Revealing the tales behind the filming of Blue Planet II's most memorable moments. An exploration of how the series was created, the people behind the lenses and the advanced technology used for filming. | |||||
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05/25/2023 4:20 pm |
Blue Planet II |
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| Coasts are the most changeable habitats of the ocean world, but they offer great riches. They bring great rewards but also great danger. Here, sea lions beach large tuna and moray eels crawl over land to catch their prey. | |||||
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05/25/2023 5:15 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| Personal stories of those caught up in sometimes deadly natural catastrophes, accompanied by camera footage showing meteorological phenomena, including hurricanes, earthquakes, monsoons and more. | |||||
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05/25/2023 6:05 pm |
Serengeti |
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| 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. | |||||
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05/25/2023 7:05 pm |
Fatal Forecast |
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| Every year, there seems to be an ever-increasing number of news stories about violent storms hitting various areas of the planet. Known as hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean, these tropical storms can reach speeds of up to 160 miles per hour. | |||||
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05/25/2023 8:00 pm |
Universe |
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| Professor Brian Cox begins his exploration of the cosmos with a hymn to the great luminous bodies that bring light and warmth to the universe: the stars. It is estimated that there are two hundred trillion stars in the universe, each playing their part in an epic story of creation, a great saga that stretches from the dawn of time, with the arrival of the first star, through diverse generations until the arrival of our own star, the Sun, and a civilisation that has grown up in its light. | |||||
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05/25/2023 9:00 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Jump aboard New Zealand's famous Northern Explorer, the longest running passenger service in the country. The train travels 423 miles along the historic North Island Main Trunk Line on a 12-hour voyage. | |||||
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05/25/2023 9:45 pm |
The Great British Intelligence Test |
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| The Great British Intelligence Test measures the brainpower of the nation in one of the largest intelligence experiments of its kind. | |||||
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05/25/2023 10:35 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| Personal stories of those caught up in sometimes deadly natural catastrophes, accompanied by camera footage showing meteorological phenomena, including hurricanes, earthquakes, monsoons and more. | |||||
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05/25/2023 11:25 pm |
Serengeti |
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| 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. | |||||
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05/26/2023 12:25 am |
Fatal Forecast |
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| Every year, there seems to be an ever-increasing number of news stories about violent storms hitting various areas of the planet. Known as hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean, these tropical storms can reach speeds of up to 160 miles per hour. | |||||
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05/26/2023 1:20 am |
Universe |
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| Professor Brian Cox begins his exploration of the cosmos with a hymn to the great luminous bodies that bring light and warmth to the universe: the stars. It is estimated that there are two hundred trillion stars in the universe, each playing their part in an epic story of creation, a great saga that stretches from the dawn of time, with the arrival of the first star, through diverse generations until the arrival of our own star, the Sun, and a civilisation that has grown up in its light. | |||||
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05/26/2023 2:20 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Jump aboard New Zealand's famous Northern Explorer, the longest running passenger service in the country. The train travels 423 miles along the historic North Island Main Trunk Line on a 12-hour voyage. | |||||
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05/26/2023 3:05 am |
The Great British Intelligence Test |
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| The Great British Intelligence Test measures the brainpower of the nation in one of the largest intelligence experiments of its kind. | |||||