Schedules
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05/26/2023 4:00 am |
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities |
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| Sir David Attenborough looks at some amazing quirks of evolution. David encounters two examples where nature has tinkered with the ageing process. | |||||
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05/26/2023 4:20 am |
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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05/26/2023 5:20 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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05/26/2023 6:10 am |
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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05/26/2023 6:55 am |
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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05/26/2023 7:40 am |
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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05/26/2023 8:30 am |
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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05/26/2023 9:20 am |
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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05/26/2023 10:15 am |
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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05/26/2023 10:25 am |
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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05/26/2023 11:25 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| During the Arctic spring, Alaskans take advantage of the warm weather and 24-hour daylight to complete tasks that are impossible in the winter months. | |||||
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05/26/2023 12:15 pm |
Caribbean with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon begins his journey on the remote Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, travels to the beautiful Honduran island of Roatán and encounters extreme violence on the mainland of Honduras before finishing his adventure on the iconic island of Jamaica. | |||||
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05/26/2023 1:05 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Canada's iconic Rocky Mountaineer train loops from Vancouver to the heart of the Rockies via crystal clear lakes, lush coastal rainforest, and the desert-like splendour of the Fraser Canyon. | |||||
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05/26/2023 1:50 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| People who have chosen to live their life off-grid. Ben revisits the Goddard family, who, five years ago, were living a wild life in a static caravan on the Isle of Rum. | |||||
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05/26/2023 2:35 pm |
Civilisations |
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| David Olusoga explores the artistic reaction to imperialism in the 19th century, showing the growing ambivalence with which artists reacted to the idea of progress, both intellectual and scientific, which underpinned the imperial mission and followed the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. As European artists questioned their civilisation's `advance', American painters sought to capture an idea of their new nation's `manifest destiny' in landscapes. | |||||
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05/26/2023 3:30 pm |
Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline |
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| Ade travels through the stunning water world of Bangladesh's Ganges delta, before heading into the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. The Bangladesh delta is stunning and lush, but it's also under threat from increasingly extreme weather. | |||||
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05/26/2023 4:25 pm |
Blue Planet II |
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| Following on from the 2001 award-winning show `The Blue Planet', this natural history series is an exploration of the world's vast oceans, capturing footage of animals and other living organisms in their natural habitat. | |||||
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05/26/2023 4:35 pm |
Blue Planet II |
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| Uncovering the impact that modern lives are having on ocean creatures, from albatross parents feeding their chicks discarded plastic, to mother dolphins potentially exposing their calves to pollutants through contaminated milk. | |||||
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05/26/2023 5:35 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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05/26/2023 6:20 pm |
Simon Reeve's South America |
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| Simon visits Peru and Bolivia, travelling through the Andes mountains. Simon starts his journey at the world-famous ruins of Machu Pichu, one of the glories of the ancient Inca civilization. | |||||
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05/26/2023 7:15 pm |
Ancient Egypt's Darkest Hour |
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| The discovery of a mass grave near Luxor with the bones of nearly 60 people sends archaeologists on a quest into ancient Egypt to who the remains belong to, why they were buried the way they were and what could have led to this mass burial. | |||||
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05/26/2023 8:00 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben visits Bette in the wilds of northern Queensland, where she's been dealing with snakes, floods and isolation since moving to the harsh Australian wilderness thirty years ago. | |||||
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05/26/2023 8:45 pm |
Eden: Untamed Planet |
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| At the very end of east Africa's Great Rift Valley, there's a `land that time forgot', the rolling grasslands of the Luangwa Valley. Travel through the seasons, and discover the secret to this Eden's great riches: the annual flood of the mighty Luangwa River. | |||||
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05/26/2023 9:35 pm |
Life Below Zero Canada |
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| Kim and Pierre's trapping season is complicated by a troublesome local resident, Becky enlists her dog team to help secure a supply of firewood, Pike Mike hunts for small game, and Bentley teaches his young nephew the tricks of the trapping trade. | |||||
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05/26/2023 10:20 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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05/26/2023 11:10 pm |
Simon Reeve's South America |
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| Simon visits Peru and Bolivia, travelling through the Andes mountains. Simon starts his journey at the world-famous ruins of Machu Pichu, one of the glories of the ancient Inca civilization. | |||||
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05/27/2023 12:05 am |
Ancient Egypt's Darkest Hour |
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| The discovery of a mass grave near Luxor with the bones of nearly 60 people sends archaeologists on a quest into ancient Egypt to who the remains belong to, why they were buried the way they were and what could have led to this mass burial. | |||||
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05/27/2023 12:45 am |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben visits Bette in the wilds of northern Queensland, where she's been dealing with snakes, floods and isolation since moving to the harsh Australian wilderness thirty years ago. | |||||
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05/27/2023 1:35 am |
Eden: Untamed Planet |
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| At the very end of east Africa's Great Rift Valley, there's a `land that time forgot', the rolling grasslands of the Luangwa Valley. Travel through the seasons, and discover the secret to this Eden's great riches: the annual flood of the mighty Luangwa River. | |||||
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05/27/2023 2:25 am |
Life Below Zero Canada |
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| Kim and Pierre's trapping season is complicated by a troublesome local resident, Becky enlists her dog team to help secure a supply of firewood, Pike Mike hunts for small game, and Bentley teaches his young nephew the tricks of the trapping trade. | |||||
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05/27/2023 3:10 am |
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. | |||||