Schedules
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06/04/2023 4:00 am |
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities |
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| Sir David Attenborough shines the spotlight on nature's most amazing animals. David looks at the zebra's stripes and the wings of the butterfly. | |||||
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06/04/2023 4:25 am |
Operation Wild |
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| Vets call on a plastic surgeon to give a rhino a skin-graft operation. Rosemary, a blind orang-utan, has microsurgery to try to restore her sight and a seal with a mystery illness is diagnosed using a scanner usually seen in a human hospital. | |||||
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06/04/2023 5:20 am |
Robson Green: Coastal Fishing |
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| Robson is in his home county of Northumberland in search of the great British staple - scampi. He starts at Fish Quay in North Shields, the busiest prawn port in the UK. He meets skipper John and boards his boat, the Tori Allana. | |||||
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06/04/2023 6:05 am |
Mummies Unwrapped |
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| The horrifying remains of the 3,000-year-old Screaming Mummy have haunted Egyptologists for decades; a team of experts reexamines the evidence, revealing an epic conspiracy to murder a king and a punishment intended to curse a soul for eternity. | |||||
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06/04/2023 6:50 am |
Chris Packham's Animal Einsteins |
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| Chris Packham looks at social intelligence in the animal kingdom, and finds out why it is that, for animals, being together means being clever. He looks at how lions hunt in teams, in which each holds a very specific position. | |||||
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06/04/2023 7:40 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace visits the biggest tortilla factory in Europe. The Coventry site covers more than 21,000 square meters, the size of three football pitches, and makes 60,000 tonnes of snacks every year. | |||||
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06/04/2023 8:40 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| To prepare for a dark and cold winter, Alaskans must harvest necessary resources in unfamiliar territories. | |||||
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06/04/2023 9:25 am |
Operation Wild |
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| Vets call on a plastic surgeon to give a rhino a skin-graft operation. Rosemary, a blind orang-utan, has microsurgery to try to restore her sight and a seal with a mystery illness is diagnosed using a scanner usually seen in a human hospital. | |||||
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06/04/2023 10:20 am |
Robson Green: Coastal Fishing |
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| Robson is in his home county of Northumberland in search of the great British staple - scampi. He starts at Fish Quay in North Shields, the busiest prawn port in the UK. He meets skipper John and boards his boat, the Tori Allana. | |||||
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06/04/2023 11:05 am |
Mummies Unwrapped |
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| The horrifying remains of the 3,000-year-old Screaming Mummy have haunted Egyptologists for decades; a team of experts reexamines the evidence, revealing an epic conspiracy to murder a king and a punishment intended to curse a soul for eternity. | |||||
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06/04/2023 11:50 am |
Chris Packham's Animal Einsteins |
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| Chris Packham looks at social intelligence in the animal kingdom, and finds out why it is that, for animals, being together means being clever. He looks at how lions hunt in teams, in which each holds a very specific position. | |||||
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06/04/2023 12:40 pm |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace visits the biggest tortilla factory in Europe. The Coventry site covers more than 21,000 square meters, the size of three football pitches, and makes 60,000 tonnes of snacks every year. | |||||
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06/04/2023 1:35 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| To prepare for a dark and cold winter, Alaskans must harvest necessary resources in unfamiliar territories. | |||||
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06/04/2023 2:20 pm |
Operation Wild |
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| Vets call on a plastic surgeon to give a rhino a skin-graft operation. Rosemary, a blind orang-utan, has microsurgery to try to restore her sight and a seal with a mystery illness is diagnosed using a scanner usually seen in a human hospital. | |||||
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06/04/2023 3:15 pm |
Robson Green: Coastal Fishing |
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| Robson is in his home county of Northumberland in search of the great British staple - scampi. He starts at Fish Quay in North Shields, the busiest prawn port in the UK. He meets skipper John and boards his boat, the Tori Allana. | |||||
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06/04/2023 4:00 pm |
The Green Planet |
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| More kinds of plants are crammed together in the tropical rainforests than anywhere else on Earth. The result is astonishing beauty and intense competition, a plant battleground. New filming techniques make it possible to enter the plants' world and see it from their perspective and on their timescale. From fast-growing trees to flowers that mimic dead animals, this is a journey into a magical world. | |||||
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06/04/2023 5:00 pm |
Animal Impossible |
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| Incredible facts and myths about the animal kingdom are put to the test. This time, is it true that cats always land on their feet? | |||||
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06/04/2023 5:50 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben returns to the swampland of southern Georgia to revisit former businessman Colbert who gave everything up to live off the land and water. | |||||
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06/04/2023 6:35 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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06/04/2023 7:30 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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06/04/2023 8:20 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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06/04/2023 9:05 pm |
Waterhole: Africa's Animal Oasis |
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| The waterhole is built in the middle of an open patch of savannah, to enable wildlife to approach it from all directions. The team excavate one hundred tonnes of soil and lay eight kilometres of fibre optic cable and piping. Sixty thousand litres of sustainable groundwater is pumped in, filling two pools, thus giving more water edges for thirsty animals to access. | |||||
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06/04/2023 10:00 pm |
The Green Planet |
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| More kinds of plants are crammed together in the tropical rainforests than anywhere else on Earth. The result is astonishing beauty and intense competition, a plant battleground. New filming techniques make it possible to enter the plants' world and see it from their perspective and on their timescale. From fast-growing trees to flowers that mimic dead animals, this is a journey into a magical world. | |||||
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06/04/2023 11:00 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben returns to the swampland of southern Georgia to revisit former businessman Colbert who gave everything up to live off the land and water. | |||||
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06/04/2023 11:45 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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06/05/2023 12:35 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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06/05/2023 1:30 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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06/05/2023 2:15 am |
Waterhole: Africa's Animal Oasis |
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| The waterhole is built in the middle of an open patch of savannah, to enable wildlife to approach it from all directions. The team excavate one hundred tonnes of soil and lay eight kilometres of fibre optic cable and piping. Sixty thousand litres of sustainable groundwater is pumped in, filling two pools, thus giving more water edges for thirsty animals to access. | |||||
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06/05/2023 3:10 am |
Animal Impossible |
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| Incredible facts and myths about the animal kingdom are put to the test. This time, is it true that cats always land on their feet? | |||||