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07/10/2023 4:00 am |
Frozen Planet: The Making Of |
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| Veteran Canadian cameraman Jeff Turner attempted to film Bison Wolves 15 years ago but couldn't keep up with the wolves on the ground. This time he's back with an aerial team, cameraman Mike Kelem and director Chadden Hunter. | |||||
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07/10/2023 4:10 am |
What Are We Feeding Our Kids? |
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| Asking whether ultra-processed food is causing obesity in children, and if could it even be addictive. Dr Chris van Tulleken investigates as he undergoes a gruelling self-experiment that even shocks the scientists. Across the world, childhood obesity rates have risen tenfold in 50 years. In the UK, 21 per cent of children are living with obesity when they leave primary school, which is the highest it has ever been. | |||||
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07/10/2023 5:05 am |
Dynasties |
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| In Amboseli, Kenya, an incredibly rare event pushes a struggling elephant family to its limits. Their only chance to save their dynasty is to work together and overcome the challenge of a lifetime. | |||||
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07/10/2023 6:05 am |
Joanna Lumley's Britain |
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| Starting at Tilbury Docks in Essex, Joanna Lumley heads north, making a nostalgic return to Coronation Street before ending the journey in Whitby. | |||||
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07/10/2023 6:50 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue wolverine-proofs her camp, Ricko hunts Moose, Jessie rescues his boat, and the Hailstones prepare for winter. | |||||
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07/10/2023 7:40 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Starting in Pwllheli, the Cambrian Line travels 200km to Shrewsbury, following lines built in the slate industry's heyday, passing the fairytale village of Portmeiron, through agricultural landscapes and the `ancient capital of Wales', Machynlleth. | |||||
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07/10/2023 8:25 am |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben travels to the deserts of Arizona to meet Dee - a modern-day nomad travelling across the US. He discovers that disabled retiree Dee began her journey in a former military transport vehicle, which she has turned into a cosy home. | |||||
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07/10/2023 9:10 am |
Exploration Volcano |
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| Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupts. It engulfs the nearby city of Goma with lava, taking thirty-three lives and destroying almost four-thousand homes. | |||||
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07/10/2023 9:55 am |
What Are We Feeding Our Kids? |
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| Asking whether ultra-processed food is causing obesity in children, and if could it even be addictive. Dr Chris van Tulleken investigates as he undergoes a gruelling self-experiment that even shocks the scientists. Across the world, childhood obesity rates have risen tenfold in 50 years. In the UK, 21 per cent of children are living with obesity when they leave primary school, which is the highest it has ever been. | |||||
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07/10/2023 10:50 am |
Dynasties |
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| In Amboseli, Kenya, an incredibly rare event pushes a struggling elephant family to its limits. Their only chance to save their dynasty is to work together and overcome the challenge of a lifetime. | |||||
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07/10/2023 11:45 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue searches for food, Ricko teaches his children to hunt, Jessie packs down a trail for his dogs, and the Hailstones go ice fishing. | |||||
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07/10/2023 12:35 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| From Tirano in Italy, this route spirals upwards in the Alps into Switzerland and St Moritz to pick up the Glacier Express, which crosses the Landvasser Viaduct. Finally at Disentis, the track becomes a cog railway to climb the steep mountain route. | |||||
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07/10/2023 1:20 pm |
Joanna Lumley's Britain |
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| Joanna travels through Scotland, the Outer Hebrides and Northern Ireland. | |||||
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07/10/2023 2:05 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| After six years globetrotting, Scott and Casey gambled their life savings on a kite-surfing school in a remote stretch of the Peruvian coast. As Ben lives their day-to-day life, he also learns what led them both to this decision. | |||||
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07/10/2023 2:50 pm |
Exploration Volcano |
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| Chris Horsley heads to Mount Etna, Europe's largest and most active volcano, as it experiences a period of heightened activity and examines the events that led up to the eruptions. | |||||
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07/10/2023 3:35 pm |
Horizon |
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| Hannah Fry investigates the questions the British public want answered about the future. Hannah will try to discover whether we could ever live forever or if there will ever be a cure for cancer. | |||||
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07/10/2023 4:30 pm |
Dynasties |
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| On Zambia's plains, a cheetah mother must keep her precious cubs safe, preparing them for life without her. They take on dangerous prey, battle hyenas and learn that even tiny neighbours can bite back. | |||||
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07/10/2023 5:30 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| Hurricane Sandy hits America, cavers in California are caught in flash floods, and wild winds cause a hot air balloon crash in Canada. | |||||
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07/10/2023 6:15 pm |
Our Changing Planet |
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| The second year of the BBC's ambitious, seven-year, natural history project sees six presenters visit six of the planet's most threatened ecosystems to meet the people fighting to restore the earth's delicate balance. | |||||
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07/10/2023 7:10 pm |
The Blue Planet |
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| The fragile ecosystems that have grown around the worlds coral reefs. The reefs take hundreds of years to develop and are adorned with spectacularly colourful life. However, this is not always an idyllic tropical paradise: one big storm can threaten the entire community. | |||||
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07/10/2023 8:00 pm |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace gets exclusive access to a factory that builds red London buses, while Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory and Ruth Goodman learns about London's earliest double-deckers. | |||||
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07/10/2023 8:50 pm |
Incredible Journeys with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon focuses on some of the incredible wildlife stories he's encountered, from the eccentric Yorkshireman who founded a giant tortoise sanctuary on his island in the Seychelles to the armed conservationists defending a forest in Belize. | |||||
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07/10/2023 9:40 pm |
Art of Scandinavia |
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| In the final instalment of Andrew Graham-Dixon's windswept journey through the art of the Norselands, we arrive in Sweden - home of IKEA and a tradition of brilliant furniture design stretching back to the early years of the 20th century. Sweden has made its modern democratic mission one of comfort and civilised living for the masses. | |||||
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07/10/2023 10:30 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| Hurricane Sandy hits America, cavers in California are caught in flash floods, and wild winds cause a hot air balloon crash in Canada. | |||||
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07/10/2023 11:20 pm |
Our Changing Planet |
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| The second year of the BBC's ambitious, seven-year, natural history project sees six presenters visit six of the planet's most threatened ecosystems to meet the people fighting to restore the earth's delicate balance. | |||||
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07/11/2023 12:10 am |
The Blue Planet |
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| The fragile ecosystems that have grown around the worlds coral reefs. The reefs take hundreds of years to develop and are adorned with spectacularly colourful life. However, this is not always an idyllic tropical paradise: one big storm can threaten the entire community. | |||||
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07/11/2023 1:00 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace gets exclusive access to a factory that builds red London buses, while Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory and Ruth Goodman learns about London's earliest double-deckers. | |||||
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07/11/2023 1:55 am |
Incredible Journeys with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon focuses on some of the incredible wildlife stories he's encountered, from the eccentric Yorkshireman who founded a giant tortoise sanctuary on his island in the Seychelles to the armed conservationists defending a forest in Belize. | |||||
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07/11/2023 2:45 am |
Art of Scandinavia |
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| In the final instalment of Andrew Graham-Dixon's windswept journey through the art of the Norselands, we arrive in Sweden - home of IKEA and a tradition of brilliant furniture design stretching back to the early years of the 20th century. Sweden has made its modern democratic mission one of comfort and civilised living for the masses. | |||||
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07/11/2023 3:35 am |
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities |
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| Sir David Attenborough reveals nature's evolutionary anomalies. Here he looks at the platypus and the curious case of the male Midwife Toad. | |||||