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08/24/2023 3:45 am |
Frozen Planet: The Making Of |
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| Filming the spectacular return of the Emperor penguins to Antarctica was a key event for the team, but it required operating in the most dangerous of all polar environments: the edge of the sea ice. | |||||
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08/24/2023 4:00 am |
The Secrets of Your Food |
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| James heads off to Peru to reveal the surprising link that fat-rich, indulgent chocolate has with breast milk. Sometimes these cravings almost become an addiction, like coffee, for example. | |||||
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08/24/2023 4:55 am |
Deadly 60 |
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| Steve heads to the incredible Loango National Park on the western coast of Gabon and home to some awesome Deadly predators. First up, Steve heads out onto the waterways in search of the small but deadly dwarf crocodile. | |||||
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08/24/2023 5:20 am |
Deadly 60 |
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| Steve and his trusty team head to the frozen north of Norway. He follows the tracks of Europe's largest cat, the elusive lynx, up into the hills in the hope of seeing one, and gets a little nervous when he meets some in captivity. Arctic foxes and musk oxen are also on the menu in this deadly snowy episode. | |||||
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08/24/2023 5:50 am |
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure |
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| Joanna follows the Silk Road from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, across the post-Soviet states of Georgia and Azerbaijan. On the way she learns not only about the history, but how these two very countries are still finding their identities. | |||||
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08/24/2023 6:40 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| The Hailstones are faced with a life-or-death decision in high tide. Ricko DeWilde enlists the aid of his children to maintain the family homestead. | |||||
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08/24/2023 7:25 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| A ride on Novos Rail's luxury train that meanders at a leisurely pace from Pretoria to Durban in South Africa. | |||||
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08/24/2023 8:10 am |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben visits the rugged island of Rathlin, off the coast of Northern Ireland, where he stays with a former HR executive who turned his back on corporate life to move into an ancient family heirloom. | |||||
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08/24/2023 8:55 am |
Operation Wild |
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| Clare discovers how vets in China keep baby pandas alive, we see a pioneering operation in Cameroon that could transform the life of Shufai the gorilla, and an elephant in Laos with a gunshot wound has to have an X-ray at a human hospital. | |||||
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08/24/2023 9:45 am |
The Secrets of Your Food |
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| James heads off to Peru to reveal the surprising link that fat-rich, indulgent chocolate has with breast milk. Sometimes these cravings almost become an addiction, like coffee, for example. | |||||
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08/24/2023 10:40 am |
Deadly 60 |
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| Steve heads to the incredible Loango National Park on the western coast of Gabon and home to some awesome Deadly predators. First up, Steve heads out onto the waterways in search of the small but deadly dwarf crocodile. | |||||
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08/24/2023 11:05 am |
Deadly 60 |
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| Steve and his trusty team head to the frozen north of Norway. He follows the tracks of Europe's largest cat, the elusive lynx, up into the hills in the hope of seeing one, and gets a little nervous when he meets some in captivity. Arctic foxes and musk oxen are also on the menu in this deadly snowy episode. | |||||
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08/24/2023 11:35 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Under winter's shadow, Alaskans toil to secure scarce food and opportunity in the final fertile days of summer. Andy Bassich and Denise Becker reckon with the sudden loss of a vital resource. | |||||
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08/24/2023 12:20 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| The El Chepe follows miles of spectacular scenery as it winds its way through the Copper Canyon. | |||||
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08/24/2023 1:05 pm |
Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure |
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| Joanna's Silk Road journey takes her to Iran. Throughout the country she meets people eager to share the culture and innovations of the Persian civilisation which, thanks to the Silk Road, spread far beyond modern-day Iran. | |||||
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08/24/2023 1:50 pm |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben journeys to the Scottish Cairngorms and the edge of the mystical Clashindarroch Forest to spend a week with 70-year-old Jake Williams, reputedly one of Britain's only hermits. | |||||
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08/24/2023 2:35 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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08/24/2023 3:30 pm |
The Secret Genius of Modern Life |
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| Hannah Fry takes a look at the bank card. This humble piece of plastic is often taken for granted, but it's the digital key to accessing cash and is packed full of extraordinary technological innovations. | |||||
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08/24/2023 4:30 pm |
Deadly 60 |
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| Steve starts his South African adventure in one of the weirdest places he's ever gone looking for animals, a power station, in the dark. He's staking the location out for a little big cat that has so far eluded the Deadly 60, the serval. | |||||
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08/24/2023 4:55 pm |
Deadly 60 |
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| Steve and the team head to the remote island of Isla del Plata which has the largest congregation of giant manta rays in the world. Working with one of the world's top manta scientists, Steve heads off to try and dive with these majestic giants. | |||||
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08/24/2023 5:25 pm |
Deadly Disasters |
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| A look at a part of the world which has been popularly known as Tornado Alley, a vast stretch of the Central United States that experiences an unusually high frequency of strong to violent tornadoes each year. | |||||
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08/24/2023 6:15 pm |
North Atlantic |
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| Underwater cameraman Ken O'Sullivan embraces the spirit of early explorers as he gains an understanding of some of the ocean's greatest and most diverse animals. | |||||
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08/24/2023 7:05 pm |
Deadly Disasters |
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| An intense area of low pressure that forms over warm tropical waters, tropical cyclones are responsible for some of the most catastrophic extreme weather events. Their deadly winds and torrential rain wreak destruction on an unprecedented scale. | |||||
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08/24/2023 8:00 pm |
Horizon |
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| The incredible story of how Pluto has been propelled from an unremarkable ball of ice on the edge of the solar system to a world of unimaginable complexity, where some form of alien life might exist. | |||||
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08/24/2023 8:50 pm |
Simon Reeve's South America |
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| Simon visits Brazil, the biggest country on the continent. He starts in one of the remotest regions of the Amazon, with the Waiapi people, who cling on to their traditional way of life, which is under threat from logging and mining interests. | |||||
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08/24/2023 9:45 pm |
The Secrets of Your Food |
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| Michael heads to Spain to search for some of the most powerful tastes on the planet, whilst James travels high in the Peruvian Andes to discover how a bitter potato has been tamed to help the inhabitants survive the extreme altitude. | |||||
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08/24/2023 10:35 pm |
Deadly Disasters |
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| A look at a part of the world which has been popularly known as Tornado Alley, a vast stretch of the Central United States that experiences an unusually high frequency of strong to violent tornadoes each year. | |||||
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08/24/2023 11:30 pm |
North Atlantic |
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| Underwater cameraman Ken O'Sullivan embraces the spirit of early explorers as he gains an understanding of some of the ocean's greatest and most diverse animals. | |||||
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08/25/2023 12:20 am |
Deadly Disasters |
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| An intense area of low pressure that forms over warm tropical waters, tropical cyclones are responsible for some of the most catastrophic extreme weather events. Their deadly winds and torrential rain wreak destruction on an unprecedented scale. | |||||
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08/25/2023 1:10 am |
Horizon |
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| The incredible story of how Pluto has been propelled from an unremarkable ball of ice on the edge of the solar system to a world of unimaginable complexity, where some form of alien life might exist. | |||||
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08/25/2023 2:05 am |
Deadly Disasters |
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| A look at a part of the world which has been popularly known as Tornado Alley, a vast stretch of the Central United States that experiences an unusually high frequency of strong to violent tornadoes each year. | |||||
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08/25/2023 2:55 am |
Simon Reeve's South America |
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| Simon visits Brazil, the biggest country on the continent. He starts in one of the remotest regions of the Amazon, with the Waiapi people, who cling on to their traditional way of life, which is under threat from logging and mining interests. | |||||