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07/03/2023 3:55 am |
A Perfect Planet |
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| 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. | |||||
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07/03/2023 4:00 am |
The Secret Genius of Modern Life |
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| 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. | |||||
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07/03/2023 5:00 am |
Dynasties |
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| The Marsh Pride of Kenya's Masai Mara is in a unique situation in their history. They have been abandoned by all of the adult males, and just two adult females are left to feed and protect their eight youngsters. The future of the whole family rests entirely on the shoulders of these two mothers, Charm and her cousin Sienna. They need to raise their cubs to adulthood if this great dynasty is to continue, and they all face the great perils of the African savannah. | |||||
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07/03/2023 6:00 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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07/03/2023 6:10 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Andy returns home to pick up the pieces. Jessie must harvest salmon before the close of the fishing season. Sue searches the local waterways for winter food and the Hailstones gather key resources. | |||||
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07/03/2023 6:55 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| 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. | |||||
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07/03/2023 7:40 am |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben Fogle ventures to the `Emerald Isle' to visit Georg and Bettina, an elderly European couple from Austria and Germany who made the Irish wilderness their home nearly 40 years ago. | |||||
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07/03/2023 8:25 am |
Civilisations |
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| Simon Schama looks at the rise of art as a tradeable commodity and its fate in the machine and profit-driven world. He asks whether art should create a realm separate from the modern world, a place where we can escape and pull the ladder up after us, or whether it should plunge headlong into the chaos and cacophony while transforming the way we see it and live in it. | |||||
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07/03/2023 9:15 am |
The Secret Genius of Modern Life |
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| 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. | |||||
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07/03/2023 10:15 am |
Dynasties |
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| The Marsh Pride of Kenya's Masai Mara is in a unique situation in their history. They have been abandoned by all of the adult males, and just two adult females are left to feed and protect their eight youngsters. The future of the whole family rests entirely on the shoulders of these two mothers, Charm and her cousin Sienna. They need to raise their cubs to adulthood if this great dynasty is to continue, and they all face the great perils of the African savannah. | |||||
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07/03/2023 11:15 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Alaskans harvest the last of summer's bounty; Sue Aikens tracks a lone predator; the Hailstones are presented with a key resource; Andy Bassich races the clock to provide food for himself and his sled dogs. | |||||
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07/03/2023 12:00 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| A magical mid-summer railway journey through central Sweden starts in Mora on the Inlandsbanan. This traditional town is in the county of Dalarna, the heart of Swedish traditional culture and often known as`Sweden in miniature'. | |||||
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07/03/2023 12:45 pm |
Japan with Sue Perkins |
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| 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. | |||||
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07/03/2023 1:35 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben Fogle ventures to the Greek island of Andros to visit Sandy, founder of a remote animal shelter perched on the slopes of the island's highest peak. Ben embraces sharing a home with 25 dogs, eight donkeys, a horse, a mule and more than 20 cats. | |||||
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07/03/2023 2:25 pm |
Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs |
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| Packed with over a dozen skeletons, including predators such as the fearsome Allosaurus and iconic giants like Diplodocus, as well as fossilised plants and footprints, the site is a treasure trove. | |||||
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07/03/2023 3:25 pm |
The Secret Genius of Modern Life |
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| Hannah Fry delves into the inner workings of virtual assistants, such as Google Assistant and Siri, which are now found in almost half of all UK homes. Hannah goes behind the scenes with Alexa's chief scientist, reveals how secret technology invented to hunt U-boats led to their targeted hearing, and discovers modern wireless networks' debt to a 1940s Hollywood star. | |||||
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07/03/2023 4:20 pm |
Dynasties |
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| The leader of a great painted wolf family is growing old, and her power to keep the peace is waning. Tensions are rising, and a feud with her ambitious daughter whose own pack is running out of space threatens to bring the dynasty down. | |||||
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07/03/2023 5:20 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| Hurricane Michael hits Florida, a group of fishermen capsize in rough seas and a police officer is hurt by a car careering out of control in the snow. | |||||
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07/03/2023 6:10 pm |
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World |
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| The pandemic reveals the enormity of the challenge that tackling climate change poses as Greta learns the drop in emissions caused by the 2020 lockdowns is not enough to put the world on track to meet its climate goals. | |||||
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07/03/2023 7:10 pm |
The Blue Planet |
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| An exploration of the seasonal changes in the richest waters on Earth, where the annual cycle of the sun drives an explosion of life. Featuring an extraordinary variety of marine animals, including seals, dolphins and the bizarre walking handfish. | |||||
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07/03/2023 8:00 pm |
Inside the Factory |
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| When he was a child, Gregg loved playing with toy trainsets. Now he's got special access to learn how the ultimate model is made: a huge 187 tonne, five carriage electric train. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey travels to Scotland to visit the UK's last remaining factory that produces aluminium via smelting. Historian Ruth Goodman is energised by the history of electric trains as she learns that the UK's first was a tourist train that is still in use along the Brighton seafront. | |||||
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07/03/2023 8:50 pm |
Incredible Journeys with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon focuses on some of the dodgiest and most dangerous situations he's found himself in while travelling the globe, from coming under fire in war torn Mogadishu to squaring off with a female wrestler in Mexico City. | |||||
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07/03/2023 9:50 pm |
Art of Scandinavia |
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| Denmark emerges from modest beginnings to become one of the greatest powers and arbiters of taste in northern Europe, a story of incredible transformation befitting the homeland of the greatest fairytale spinner of them all, Hans Christian Anderson, creator of `The Ugly Duckling' and `The Emperor's New Clothes'. | |||||
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07/03/2023 10:40 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| Hurricane Michael hits Florida, a group of fishermen capsize in rough seas and a police officer is hurt by a car careering out of control in the snow. | |||||
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07/03/2023 11:30 pm |
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World |
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| The pandemic reveals the enormity of the challenge that tackling climate change poses as Greta learns the drop in emissions caused by the 2020 lockdowns is not enough to put the world on track to meet its climate goals. | |||||
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07/04/2023 12:30 am |
The Blue Planet |
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| An exploration of the seasonal changes in the richest waters on Earth, where the annual cycle of the sun drives an explosion of life. Featuring an extraordinary variety of marine animals, including seals, dolphins and the bizarre walking handfish. | |||||
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07/04/2023 1:15 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| When he was a child, Gregg loved playing with toy trainsets. Now he's got special access to learn how the ultimate model is made: a huge 187 tonne, five carriage electric train. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey travels to Scotland to visit the UK's last remaining factory that produces aluminium via smelting. Historian Ruth Goodman is energised by the history of electric trains as she learns that the UK's first was a tourist train that is still in use along the Brighton seafront. | |||||
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07/04/2023 2:10 am |
Incredible Journeys with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon focuses on some of the dodgiest and most dangerous situations he's found himself in while travelling the globe, from coming under fire in war torn Mogadishu to squaring off with a female wrestler in Mexico City. | |||||
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07/04/2023 3:05 am |
Art of Scandinavia |
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| Denmark emerges from modest beginnings to become one of the greatest powers and arbiters of taste in northern Europe, a story of incredible transformation befitting the homeland of the greatest fairytale spinner of them all, Hans Christian Anderson, creator of `The Ugly Duckling' and `The Emperor's New Clothes'. | |||||