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01/05/2024 5:00 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| When he was a child, Gregg loved playing with toy trainsets. Now he's got special access to learn how the ultimate model is made: a huge 187 tonne, five carriage electric train. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey travels to Scotland to visit the UK's last remaining factory that produces aluminium via smelting. Historian Ruth Goodman is energised by the history of electric trains as she learns that the UK's first was a tourist train that is still in use along the Brighton seafront. | |||||
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01/05/2024 5:50 am |
Life Story |
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| Sir David Attenborough looks at the techniques that animals use in their attempts to win a mate. The competition to breed has created both the most extraordinary beauty and the most violent battles seen in nature. | |||||
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01/05/2024 6:50 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| An insight into the West Highland Line that winds its way from Glasgow, Scotland, all the way to the Isle of Skye. | |||||
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01/05/2024 7:35 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue Aikens must protect Kavik from the dangers that lurk in the shadows. The Hailstones use the cover of night to search for food under the ice. | |||||
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01/05/2024 8:20 am |
Deadly Disasters |
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| This episode focuses on three disastrous mudslides in California, Venezuela, and in the small Welsh mining village of Aberfan. | |||||
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01/05/2024 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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01/05/2024 10:00 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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01/05/2024 10:55 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| When he was a child, Gregg loved playing with toy trainsets. Now he's got special access to learn how the ultimate model is made: a huge 187 tonne, five carriage electric train. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey travels to Scotland to visit the UK's last remaining factory that produces aluminium via smelting. Historian Ruth Goodman is energised by the history of electric trains as she learns that the UK's first was a tourist train that is still in use along the Brighton seafront. | |||||
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01/05/2024 11:50 am |
Life Story |
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| Sir David Attenborough looks at the techniques that animals use in their attempts to win a mate. The competition to breed has created both the most extraordinary beauty and the most violent battles seen in nature. | |||||
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01/05/2024 12:50 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| The Hailstones brave the freeze to seek new land for the expanding family. Sue Aikens must replenish her resources in Chena to survive the brutal cold. | |||||
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01/05/2024 1:35 pm |
Deadly Disasters |
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| Looking at active and dormant volcanoes from Vesuvius in Italy to Ki-lauea in Hawaii. Some of the world's leading volcanologists reveal the deadly secrets of the volcano. | |||||
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01/05/2024 2:25 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| A trip through the Bavarian Alps, with stopping points including a former Olympic village, Germany's highest mountain, and a quick tipple with a beer-brewing monk. | |||||
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01/05/2024 3:10 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. 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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01/05/2024 3:55 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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01/05/2024 4:50 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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01/05/2024 5:45 pm |
Life Story |
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| Animals attempt to rear their offspring. This takes extraordinary commitment, and a parent may even need to risk its own life for its offspring. A female turtle hauls herself up the beach to lay her eggs in a safe place above the tide line. | |||||
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01/05/2024 6:45 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue repairs her cabin in Chena. The DeWildes set a net. Jessie spends time with his young dogs. Chip receives medical attention after an accident. | |||||
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01/05/2024 7:30 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Travelling west from the gelato shops of the seaside town of Pescara, the journey continues across Italy through the remote and wild Apennine Mountains down to the bustling city of Naples. | |||||
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01/05/2024 8:15 pm |
Mummies Unwrapped |
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| The horrifying remains of the 3,000-year-old Screaming Mummy have haunted Egyptologists for decades; a team of experts reexamines the evidence, revealing an epic conspiracy to murder a king and a punishment intended to curse a soul for eternity. | |||||
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01/05/2024 9:00 pm |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben journeys into Zambia to live with a British family who have built a safari lodge on the edge of a national park. In the process, Ben uncovers what motivates them to keep going in the face of challenges including fire and flooding. | |||||
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01/05/2024 9:45 pm |
Fatal Forecast |
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| Every year, there seems to be an ever-increasing number of news stories about violent storms hitting various areas of the planet. Known as hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean, these tropical storms can reach speeds of up to 160 miles per hour. | |||||
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01/05/2024 10:40 pm |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| A trip through the Bavarian Alps, with stopping points including a former Olympic village, Germany's highest mountain, and a quick tipple with a beer-brewing monk. | |||||
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01/05/2024 11:25 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue repairs her cabin in Chena. The DeWildes set a net. Jessie spends time with his young dogs. Chip receives medical attention after an accident. | |||||
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01/06/2024 12:10 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| Travelling west from the gelato shops of the seaside town of Pescara, the journey continues across Italy through the remote and wild Apennine Mountains down to the bustling city of Naples. | |||||
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01/06/2024 12:55 am |
Mummies Unwrapped |
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| The horrifying remains of the 3,000-year-old Screaming Mummy have haunted Egyptologists for decades; a team of experts reexamines the evidence, revealing an epic conspiracy to murder a king and a punishment intended to curse a soul for eternity. | |||||
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01/06/2024 1:45 am |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben journeys into Zambia to live with a British family who have built a safari lodge on the edge of a national park. In the process, Ben uncovers what motivates them to keep going in the face of challenges including fire and flooding. | |||||
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01/06/2024 2:30 am |
Fatal Forecast |
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| Every year, there seems to be an ever-increasing number of news stories about violent storms hitting various areas of the planet. Known as hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean, these tropical storms can reach speeds of up to 160 miles per hour. | |||||
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01/06/2024 3:25 am |
World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys |
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| A trip through the Bavarian Alps, with stopping points including a former Olympic village, Germany's highest mountain, and a quick tipple with a beer-brewing monk. | |||||
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01/06/2024 4:10 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue repairs her cabin in Chena. The DeWildes set a net. Jessie spends time with his young dogs. Chip receives medical attention after an accident. | |||||