Schedules

📅

		07/04/2023 4:00 am	The Secret Genius of Modern Life
	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.
Localized series title: The Secret Genius of Modern Life Localized description: 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.
		07/04/2023 4:55 am	Dynasties
	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.

		07/04/2023 5:55 am	Japan with Sue Perkins
	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.

		07/04/2023 6:45 am	Life Below Zero
	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.

		07/04/2023 7:35 am	Blue Planet II
	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.

		07/04/2023 7:45 am	Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
	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.

		07/04/2023 8:30 am	Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs
	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.

		07/04/2023 9:30 am	The Secret Genius of Modern Life
	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.

		07/04/2023 10:25 am	Dynasties
	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.

		07/04/2023 11:25 am	Life Below Zero
	Alaskans scramble to secure provisions before winter; Andy Bassich must secure clean water to grow vital crops; Sue Aikens stalks a herd of caribou; Jessie Holmes returns to a familiar area to hunt a dangerous predator.

		07/04/2023 12:15 pm	World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
	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.

		07/04/2023 12:55 pm	Japan with Sue Perkins
	Sue Perkins spends an enjoyable evening in Kyoto. There she meets Japan's geishas, goes free diving with ama divers, visits Hiroshima, and explores how the Japanese are tackling the future in Tokyo.

		07/04/2023 1:45 pm	Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
	Ben heads to the cliffs of Cornwall where he meets a couple who left the city to become farmers. Ben learns about the five years the couple have spent turning their seven-acre empty plot into an off-grid farm, and he gets stuck in with their animals.

		07/04/2023 2:35 pm	Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs
	Liz Bonnin joins a team of palaeontologists in the remote badlands of Wyoming as they investigate a dinosaur graveyard. The team tries to figure out if the Jurassic's most vicious predator was involved in the deaths of super-sized beasts, like the iconic Diplodocus, that are buried at the site, helping to reveal why so many dinosaurs came here and what killed them in such great numbers 150 million years ago.

		07/04/2023 3:35 pm	The Secret Genius of Modern Life
	Hannah Fry discovers why innovations in meat packing almost derailed the electric car revolution and how a breakthrough in camcorder batteries led to Elon Musk's electric empire, as well as demonstrating how not to drive a multimillion dollar prototype car of the future.

		07/04/2023 4:30 pm	Dynasties
	Tigress Raj Bhera lives in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in India. She holds the perfect territory, with dense jungle, spring-fed ponds and rich grasslands teeming with prey, and now has four tiny newborn cubs to care for. They are the future of her dynasty, but the idyllic world that she inhabits is changing.

		07/04/2023 5:30 pm	The World's Deadliest Weather
	A wildfire tears across California, a mother runs from a tornado, and a rescue team try to reach a canoeist trapped in a tree during a fatal flood.

		07/04/2023 6:20 pm	Inside the Factory
	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.

		07/04/2023 7:10 pm	First Contact: An Alien Encounter
	Many scientists believe there's a genuine possibility that the first evidence of extra-terrestrial life may be detected soon. This is the story of an encounter with an alien object travelling through the solar system over the course of 12 days.

		07/04/2023 8:00 pm	Deadly Disasters
	A look at droughts. It is not only a lack of rain and high temperatures that causes drought, but also overuse of existing water supplies by an ever-increasing population only adds to the problem.

		07/04/2023 8:50 pm	Frozen Planet II
	Mountains create frozen habitats on every continent on Earth, and each of these high-altitude worlds holds unique challenges for its surprising and remarkable life. The journey begins close to the equator, the furthest point from the poles, in East Africa. Here on the high slopes of Mount Kenya, during the day the tropical sun keeps the cold at bay, but at night the frost descends.

		07/04/2023 9:45 pm	A Perfect Planet
	There are not five separate oceans, but one. Its waters linked by powerful forces that keep them on the move.

		07/04/2023 10:45 pm	The World's Deadliest Weather
	A wildfire tears across California, a mother runs from a tornado, and a rescue team try to reach a canoeist trapped in a tree during a fatal flood.

		07/04/2023 11:35 pm	Inside the Factory
	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.

		07/05/2023 12:25 am	First Contact: An Alien Encounter
	Many scientists believe there's a genuine possibility that the first evidence of extra-terrestrial life may be detected soon. This is the story of an encounter with an alien object travelling through the solar system over the course of 12 days.

		07/05/2023 1:10 am	Deadly Disasters
	A look at droughts. It is not only a lack of rain and high temperatures that causes drought, but also overuse of existing water supplies by an ever-increasing population only adds to the problem.

		07/05/2023 2:00 am	Frozen Planet II
	Mountains create frozen habitats on every continent on Earth, and each of these high-altitude worlds holds unique challenges for its surprising and remarkable life. The journey begins close to the equator, the furthest point from the poles, in East Africa. Here on the high slopes of Mount Kenya, during the day the tropical sun keeps the cold at bay, but at night the frost descends.

		07/05/2023 3:00 am	A Perfect Planet
	There are not five separate oceans, but one. Its waters linked by powerful forces that keep them on the move.

BBC Earth

Available schedules: 03/26/2022 - 12/28/2024 •Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST) UTC +2 • Country: United States •Language: English

New Episodes
Free TV Premiere
New on this channel