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		08/25/2023 3:45 am	Frozen Planet: The Making Of
	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.
Localized series title: Frozen Planet: The Making Of Localized description: 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.
		08/25/2023 4:00 am	The Secret Genius of Modern Life
	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.

		08/25/2023 5:00 am	Deadly 60
	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.

		08/25/2023 5:25 am	Deadly 60
	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.

		08/25/2023 5:55 am	Blue Planet II: The Making Of
	Reveals the challenges involved in capturing the vastness of the ocean. The crew particularly wanted to film one of the most elusive ocean events of all: the boiling sea feeding frenzy.

		08/25/2023 6:05 am	Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
	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.

		08/25/2023 6:50 am	Life Below Zero
	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.

		08/25/2023 7:35 am	World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
	The El Chepe follows miles of spectacular scenery as it winds its way through the Copper Canyon.

		08/25/2023 8:20 am	Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle
	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.

		08/25/2023 9:05 am	Operation Wild
	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.

		08/25/2023 10:00 am	The Secret Genius of Modern Life
	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.

		08/25/2023 11:00 am	Deadly 60
	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.

		08/25/2023 11:25 am	Deadly 60
	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.

		08/25/2023 11:50 am	Life Below Zero
	Jessie Holmes heads to the high country on the quest for food. Ricko DeWilde takes his children out on the open waters for a vital lesson in bush survival.

		08/25/2023 12:35 pm	World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
	Bill Nighy narrates the stories of train journeys through stunning scenery and natural beauty. A 600-mile journey through Finland from Helsinki to Lapland and the Northern Lights.

		08/25/2023 1:20 pm	Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure
	As Joanna's Silk Road Adventure draws to a close, she travels across the stunning yet little-known Central Asian states of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Starting in the Kyzl-Kum desert she explores the Silk Road citadel of Khiva, a town infamous for its history of slavery. In the capital, Tashkent, she marvels at the splendid Soviet-built Metro system and attends a high society wedding as the guest of a famous pop star.

		08/25/2023 2:10 pm	Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle
	Ben travels to Galway in Ireland to meet Mark, an author who is documenting his experiences as he tries to live a 'money-free' life. Ben embraces Mark's frugal lifestyle: collecting water, sparse winter foraging, fishing, sheep-wrangling and more.

		08/25/2023 2:55 pm	Operation Wild
	A vet attempts to treat a moonbear using keyhole brain surgery. Vets try to remove an elephant's massive tusk after he develops an infection, and will a prosthetic tail help a dolphin called Fuji swim again?

		08/25/2023 3:45 pm	The Secret Genius of Modern Life
	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.

		08/25/2023 4:45 pm	Deadly 60
	Steve gets strangled by a python on a night-time river expedition, climbs a 40-metre tree and finds out why our thirst for palm oil is threatening bears and orangutans.

		08/25/2023 5:15 pm	Deadly 60
	Sharks are a mainstay of Steve's Deadly 60, slicing through his ratings with their size, speed and power. They are among the most spectacular predators on the planet - but they're in trouble.

		08/25/2023 5:40 pm	Deadly Disasters
	In 2004 and 2011, two incredible tsunamis hit South and East Asia. Using survivor testimony and fascinating expert insights, this is an investigation into these two unimaginable modern tragedies.

		08/25/2023 6:30 pm	Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
	Joanna kicks off her adventure in Havana in a boxing gym, with one of Cuba's rising female boxing stars. She visits the stars of the cabaret at the National Hotel that pre-dates the revolution, and entertains the cigar workers while they roll cigars in their factory. She visits the small town of Hershey, built on the success of the sugar industry, and visits the tomb of Che Guevara before heading off to Hemingway's favourite beach that is being turned into a five-star luxury complex.

		08/25/2023 7:15 pm	Ancient Egypt's Darkest Hour
	The discovery of a mass grave near Luxor with the bones of nearly 60 people sends archaeologists on a quest into ancient Egypt to who the remains belong to, why they were buried the way they were and what could have led to this mass burial.

		08/25/2023 8:00 pm	Ben Fogle's Lost Worlds
	Cyprus is the jewel in the crown of the Mediterranean. But just a few miles away lies the lost world of an island divided. Ben spends a week with the UN's Peacekeeping Force, who patrol the Buffer Zone, to understand more about the 'Cyprus problem'.

		08/25/2023 8:45 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.

		08/25/2023 9:40 pm	Life Below Zero
	The Alaskans are preparing for the transition to winter. Andy hunts for moose in Eagle, as he and Kate need to restock on meat for the winter.

		08/25/2023 10:25 pm	Deadly Disasters
	In 2004 and 2011, two incredible tsunamis hit South and East Asia. Using survivor testimony and fascinating expert insights, this is an investigation into these two unimaginable modern tragedies.

		08/25/2023 11:15 pm	Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
	Joanna kicks off her adventure in Havana in a boxing gym, with one of Cuba's rising female boxing stars. She visits the stars of the cabaret at the National Hotel that pre-dates the revolution, and entertains the cigar workers while they roll cigars in their factory. She visits the small town of Hershey, built on the success of the sugar industry, and visits the tomb of Che Guevara before heading off to Hemingway's favourite beach that is being turned into a five-star luxury complex.

		08/26/2023 12:05 am	Ancient Egypt's Darkest Hour
	The discovery of a mass grave near Luxor with the bones of nearly 60 people sends archaeologists on a quest into ancient Egypt to who the remains belong to, why they were buried the way they were and what could have led to this mass burial.

		08/26/2023 12:45 am	Ben Fogle's Lost Worlds
	Cyprus is the jewel in the crown of the Mediterranean. But just a few miles away lies the lost world of an island divided. Ben spends a week with the UN's Peacekeeping Force, who patrol the Buffer Zone, to understand more about the 'Cyprus problem'.

		08/26/2023 1:30 am	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.

		08/26/2023 2:30 am	Life Below Zero
	The Alaskans are preparing for the transition to winter. Andy hunts for moose in Eagle, as he and Kate need to restock on meat for the winter.

		08/26/2023 3:15 am	Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti
	Joanna kicks off her adventure in Havana in a boxing gym, with one of Cuba's rising female boxing stars. She visits the stars of the cabaret at the National Hotel that pre-dates the revolution, and entertains the cigar workers while they roll cigars in their factory. She visits the small town of Hershey, built on the success of the sugar industry, and visits the tomb of Che Guevara before heading off to Hemingway's favourite beach that is being turned into a five-star luxury complex.

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

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