Schedules
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08/04/2023 4:00 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace is in Leeds, at an enormous mattress factory where they produce 600 bouncy beds every day. He follows the production of pocket sprung mattresses from the arrival of hard steel right through to soft bedding heading out of dispatch. | |||||
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08/04/2023 4:50 am |
The Mating Game |
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| Freshwater covers only a tiny fraction of the earth's surface, but it is a vital meeting place for many animals - the stage on which millions gather to find a mate. Yet with so little of it available, and often only briefly, the challenge for most individuals is how to overcome intense competition when your rivals are just as dependent on the precious freshwater for their success. | |||||
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08/04/2023 5:50 am |
Blue Planet II: The Making Of |
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| An exploration of what it takes to capture the extraordinary behaviour of animals from the intense heat of the tropics to the planet's frozen poles. | |||||
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08/04/2023 6:00 am |
Caribbean with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon begins his journey around the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola and its two very different countries. The Dominican Republic is a tourist hotspot, but its neighbour Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. | |||||
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08/04/2023 6:55 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Ricko DeWilde races against the freeze to fortify the family cabin, the Hailstones scout the land for seasonal resources, and Sue Aikens must repair vital safety equipment before tundra storms arrive. | |||||
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08/04/2023 7:40 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Jump aboard New Zealand's famous Northern Explorer, the longest running passenger service in the country. The train travels 423 miles along the historic North Island Main Trunk Line on a 12-hour voyage. | |||||
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08/04/2023 8:25 am |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Lifestyle series in which Adventurer Ben Fogle journeys to the Pembrokeshire coast to live with Matthew (43) and Charis (35) Watkinson. | |||||
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08/04/2023 9:10 am |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben Fogle journeys to the Suffolk countryside and a secretive patch of woodland, to spend the week with the unique character Will Lord, a true British caveman. Ben embraces Will's Stone Age-style existence in the forest. | |||||
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08/04/2023 9:55 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace is in Leeds, at an enormous mattress factory where they produce 600 bouncy beds every day. He follows the production of pocket sprung mattresses from the arrival of hard steel right through to soft bedding heading out of dispatch. | |||||
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08/04/2023 10:50 am |
The Mating Game |
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| Freshwater covers only a tiny fraction of the earth's surface, but it is a vital meeting place for many animals - the stage on which millions gather to find a mate. Yet with so little of it available, and often only briefly, the challenge for most individuals is how to overcome intense competition when your rivals are just as dependent on the precious freshwater for their success. | |||||
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08/04/2023 11:45 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Andy Bassich and Denise Becker attempt a harvest that isn't usually available this time of year. Iriqtaiq Hailstone sets out to help her sisters and to teach her son a native skill. | |||||
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08/04/2023 12:30 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Following the train route from Bergen to Oslo, through the extraordinary mountains of southern Norway in winter. This super-fast train travels daily to the country's capital, and the first stop is Dale. | |||||
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08/04/2023 1:15 pm |
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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08/04/2023 2:05 pm |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben is on a unique and tiny island in the Scottish Hebrides, with his host,ex-social care worker Philip, 46. Ben finds out how Philip became a custodian of this coastal island and how he has embraced a new quality of life. | |||||
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08/04/2023 2:50 pm |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben travels to England's most northerly coastline, Northumberland, to stay with Kezz and Nathalie, a couple who are caretakers of a secluded wood. Ben helps the couple with their straw-bale house and gets a crash course in felling trees. | |||||
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08/04/2023 3:35 pm |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace is in Cornwall at an enormous bakery where they produce 180,000 Cornish pasties a day. He follows the production of the pastry snacks from the arrival of two tonnes of swedes right through to dispatch. | |||||
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08/04/2023 4:30 pm |
The Mating Game |
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| One basic need connects all life on earth - the need to breed. But for a few creatures, the odds of success are overwhelmingly stacked against them. Some must find a partner when there are none to be found, while others must find a way to succeed without breeding at all. And some must try and adapt in a world unrecognisable from when they were born. These are animals that have evolved some of the most extraordinary mating strategies of all. | |||||
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08/04/2023 5:30 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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08/04/2023 6:20 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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08/04/2023 7:10 pm |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane leads a journey around the wildest shores of the British Isles to explore dramatic untold stories of peril from the seas. Nick tells the astonishing tale of the Great Storm of 1703, the most devastating weather event ever to hit southern Britain, when lethal winds whipped in from the Atlantic to claim the lives of one in five seamen of the Royal Navy. | |||||
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08/04/2023 8:00 pm |
Foxy's Fearless 48 Hours with... |
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| Comedian Rob Delaney joins Jason Fox, Foxy from SAS: Who Dares Wins, in rural Wales, to take on three petrifying challenges, including a jump off a 40-metre viaduct and crossing a 300-foot-long highline spanning a 250-foot drop. | |||||
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08/04/2023 8:50 pm |
What Killed the Whale? |
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| Biologist Ella Al-Shamahi investigates the rise in whale strandings along the UK coastline. She joins a forensic team as they carry out an autopsy on a washed up whale in an attempt to uncover why whales have been dying in such record numbers. | |||||
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08/04/2023 9:45 pm |
Life Below Zero Canada |
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| While Becky Brodrick and her husband are busy building an exercise enclosure for their working dogs, Pierre-Yves and Kim need to collect berries and fish for a hgh-energy food boost during the winter. Joe is heading out on a seal-hunt. | |||||
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08/04/2023 10:30 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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08/04/2023 11:20 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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08/05/2023 12:10 am |
Coast |
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| Nick Crane leads a journey around the wildest shores of the British Isles to explore dramatic untold stories of peril from the seas. Nick tells the astonishing tale of the Great Storm of 1703, the most devastating weather event ever to hit southern Britain, when lethal winds whipped in from the Atlantic to claim the lives of one in five seamen of the Royal Navy. | |||||
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08/05/2023 1:00 am |
Foxy's Fearless 48 Hours with... |
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| Comedian Rob Delaney joins Jason Fox, Foxy from SAS: Who Dares Wins, in rural Wales, to take on three petrifying challenges, including a jump off a 40-metre viaduct and crossing a 300-foot-long highline spanning a 250-foot drop. | |||||
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08/05/2023 1:50 am |
What Killed the Whale? |
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| Biologist Ella Al-Shamahi investigates the rise in whale strandings along the UK coastline. She joins a forensic team as they carry out an autopsy on a washed up whale in an attempt to uncover why whales have been dying in such record numbers. | |||||
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08/05/2023 2:40 am |
Life Below Zero Canada |
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| While Becky Brodrick and her husband are busy building an exercise enclosure for their working dogs, Pierre-Yves and Kim need to collect berries and fish for a hgh-energy food boost during the winter. Joe is heading out on a seal-hunt. | |||||
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08/05/2023 3:25 am |
Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore |
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| Join mindfulness expert Andy Puddicombe as he focuses on change and what we can learn from how animals adapt to changes in the world around them. Why is a chameleon's ability to alter its appearance crucial to its survival and what lessons are there from understanding how elephants grieve? Learning to be mindful can help us cope with life's stresses, and Andy shows how focusing on the sights and sounds of the natural world can help us deal with change in our lives. | |||||