Schedules
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10/23/2023 4:00 am |
The Truth About... |
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| During months of having to stay at home, millions of us have swapped the gym for our living room. The numbers doing home workouts has doubled in a year. But exactly what kind of exercise should we be doing, how much of it, and how often? Journalist and blogger Mehreen Baig used to hit the gym four times per week, but now her fitness regime has gone entirely DIY. She wants to use the latest science to make sure she is getting maximum return for her effort. | |||||
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10/23/2023 4:50 am |
The Green Planet |
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| Water plants create some of the most beautiful, bizarre and important habitats on earth. To hold on in torrents, plants use a kind of superglue. Some are armed with vicious weapons to fight titanic battles for space. Others form perfect spheres and escape from animal enemies by rolling. Where nutrients are washed away, plants turn into hunters of animals, laying traps and even counting to ensure their success. | |||||
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10/23/2023 5:45 am |
Simon Reeve's South America |
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| Simon travels through three of the world's most extreme environments: the salt flats of Bolivia, the Brazilian Pantanal and Paraguay's Chaco Forest. In Bolivia, Simon meets a family who makes a living carving salt from the Uyuni salt flats. | |||||
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10/23/2023 6:40 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Andy and Kate are rushing to get their fish wheel ready before the chum salmon run begins. In Kavik, Sue searches for food so she can survive the coming freeze. | |||||
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10/23/2023 7:25 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Cameras focus on the island of Taiwan, and three extraordinary railways. The journey begins in the eastern port city of Hualien, from where it travels north along the rugged Pacific coast. | |||||
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10/23/2023 8:10 am |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben ventures deep into the Scottish Highlands, home to Iona and her young family, on their near 10,000-acre wilderness estate. | |||||
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10/23/2023 9:00 am |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben ventures to the vast freezing seascape of the Arctic Circle and meets Randi. She was the first Norwegian woman to climb Everest, and now she uses her life on a remote Arctic Circle island to inspire others, including Ben. | |||||
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10/23/2023 9:45 am |
The Truth About... |
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| During months of having to stay at home, millions of us have swapped the gym for our living room. The numbers doing home workouts has doubled in a year. But exactly what kind of exercise should we be doing, how much of it, and how often? Journalist and blogger Mehreen Baig used to hit the gym four times per week, but now her fitness regime has gone entirely DIY. She wants to use the latest science to make sure she is getting maximum return for her effort. | |||||
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10/23/2023 10:35 am |
The Green Planet |
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| Water plants create some of the most beautiful, bizarre and important habitats on earth. To hold on in torrents, plants use a kind of superglue. Some are armed with vicious weapons to fight titanic battles for space. Others form perfect spheres and escape from animal enemies by rolling. Where nutrients are washed away, plants turn into hunters of animals, laying traps and even counting to ensure their success. | |||||
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10/23/2023 11:35 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| The entire Hailstone family goes caribou hunting in Noorvik, hoping to find enough meat for the winter. Meanwhile in Kavik, a bear threatens Sue's clients. | |||||
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10/23/2023 12:15 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Cameras focus on Austria's stunning Transalpine railway, which crosses the snowy peaks of the Tirol. The journey begins in the historic city of Graz and heads west through famous alpine beauty spots, including Zell am Zee. | |||||
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10/23/2023 1:00 pm |
Simon Reeve's South America |
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| Simon travels from Chile's Atacama Desert right down to Tierra Del Fuego, the most southerly inhabited place on Earth. The Atacama, one of the driest places on the planet, has as little as 1mm of rain per year. | |||||
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10/23/2023 1:55 pm |
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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10/23/2023 2:40 pm |
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild |
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| Ben heads back to the stunning Saharan landscape of Morocco, where he first met Karen, an extraordinary artist who had turned her back on urban life to live in the middle of the desert. Ben learned how Karen had transformed her arid plot of desert into a stunning artist's retreat. They trekked into the sand dunes, built bamboo shelters and embraced Karen's life in her local Berber village. | |||||
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10/23/2023 3:25 pm |
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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10/23/2023 4:20 pm |
The Green Planet |
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| Between the tropics and the frozen poles lies a region dominated by relentless change in the form of the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Each one presents plants with huge challenges, from ice and snow to raging fires, from intense competition to surprising enemies. This is a world of astonishing variety and vibrant colour. To survive here plants must use strategy, deception and remarkable feats of engineering. Most importantly, they must get their timing right. | |||||
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10/23/2023 5:20 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| A violent tornado outbreak unleashes carnage on Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. A Swedish snow mobile rider gets lost in the mountains during a night-time adventure. And a record breaking super typhoon brings down the roof on a wedding in the Philippines, making it a memorable day for the bewildered bride for all the wrong reasons. | |||||
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10/23/2023 6:10 pm |
A Perfect Planet |
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| A look at how the planet's limited fresh water is distributed around the globe thanks to storms, and how animals manage in the driest habitats on Earth. | |||||
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10/23/2023 7:10 pm |
Eden: Untamed Planet |
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| At the far tip of South America lies a magical realm that seems frozen in time: Patagonia, known as `the end of the world'. Voyaging from the high Andes to coastal fjords, to survive here you have to be as extreme as the country itself, either specialising in one habitat or being tough enough to live in them all. | |||||
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10/23/2023 8:00 pm |
Earth |
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| Today, Earth is a human world. Humans now have a greater effect in shaping Earth's surface than many natural processes. Chris Packham explores how dramatic twists in Earth's story enabled humans to go from being part of nature to controlling it. | |||||
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10/23/2023 8:55 pm |
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan |
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| Everyone Romesh has ever met has told him how amazing the Scottish islands are, but nobody he knows has actually ever been there. Now, in a year when travel abroad has been all but forbidden, he is heading to the Hebrides to find out if you can really have a proper adventure so close to home, spending a week visiting the isles of Skye, Harris and Lewis. | |||||
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10/23/2023 9:50 pm |
Civilisations |
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| Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward description of observed nature, rather it's a projection of dreams and idylls, as well as of escapes and refuges from human turmoil, the elusive paradise on earth. He begins his exploration in the 10th century, in Song dynasty China. | |||||
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10/23/2023 10:45 pm |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| A violent tornado outbreak unleashes carnage on Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. A Swedish snow mobile rider gets lost in the mountains during a night-time adventure. And a record breaking super typhoon brings down the roof on a wedding in the Philippines, making it a memorable day for the bewildered bride for all the wrong reasons. | |||||
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10/23/2023 11:35 pm |
A Perfect Planet |
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| A look at how the planet's limited fresh water is distributed around the globe thanks to storms, and how animals manage in the driest habitats on Earth. | |||||
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10/24/2023 12:30 am |
Eden: Untamed Planet |
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| At the far tip of South America lies a magical realm that seems frozen in time: Patagonia, known as `the end of the world'. Voyaging from the high Andes to coastal fjords, to survive here you have to be as extreme as the country itself, either specialising in one habitat or being tough enough to live in them all. | |||||
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10/24/2023 1:20 am |
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan |
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| Everyone Romesh has ever met has told him how amazing the Scottish islands are, but nobody he knows has actually ever been there. Now, in a year when travel abroad has been all but forbidden, he is heading to the Hebrides to find out if you can really have a proper adventure so close to home, spending a week visiting the isles of Skye, Harris and Lewis. | |||||
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10/24/2023 2:15 am |
Civilisations |
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| Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward description of observed nature, rather it's a projection of dreams and idylls, as well as of escapes and refuges from human turmoil, the elusive paradise on earth. He begins his exploration in the 10th century, in Song dynasty China. | |||||
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10/24/2023 3:10 am |
The World's Deadliest Weather |
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| A violent tornado outbreak unleashes carnage on Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. A Swedish snow mobile rider gets lost in the mountains during a night-time adventure. And a record breaking super typhoon brings down the roof on a wedding in the Philippines, making it a memorable day for the bewildered bride for all the wrong reasons. | |||||