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    08/29/2024 4:00 am

    The Secret Genius of Modern Life

    Hannah Fry finds out how 1970s car crashes helped us to count our steps, why WWII dog-fights led to a crucial health monitor and how fitness trackers are even being used to catch killers.

    08/29/2024 5:05 am

    Wilderness with Simon Reeve

    Simon Reeve travels across the Kalahari in Southern Africa. Along the way, Simon tracks wildebeest with a group of one of the region's indigenous inhabitants, the San, who are renowned for their hunting and tracking techniques.

    08/29/2024 6:10 am

    Life Below Zero

    Sue Aikens travels 150 miles down the icy roads of Fairbanks to investigate when someone tips her off to potential squatters on her property in central Alaska.

    08/29/2024 6:55 am

    Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle

    Ben meets an ex-national athletics coach who now lives a hermit life without basics.

    08/29/2024 7:45 am

    Dogs in the Wild: Meet the Family

    The people going to extraordinary lengths to understand and protect canids, from preventing wild dogs dying of grief in South Africa to protecting the tiny Darwin's fox.

    08/29/2024 9:05 am

    The Secret Genius of Modern Life

    Hannah Fry finds out how 1970s car crashes helped us to count our steps, why WWII dog-fights led to a crucial health monitor and how fitness trackers are even being used to catch killers.

    08/29/2024 10:25 am

    Simon Reeve's South America

    Simon Reeve journeys through the remote and little-visited northeast of the continent, from the tabletop mountain Mount Roraima in Venezuela through Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

    08/29/2024 11:35 am

    Life Below Zero

    Chip builds a freight sled for winter travel when the roads become all but impassable. Sue is stranded in Fairbanks when a blizzard hits and she must brave a dangerous road to get home to Kavik.

    08/29/2024 12:35 pm

    Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle

    Ben Fogle visits a man who has turned his back on the rat-race to live an isolated life in Oregon.

    08/29/2024 1:30 pm

    Blue Planet Revisited

    Chris, Steve and Liz kick off an exciting new series to explore the health of our oceans from three different corners of the planet - Baja in Mexico, the Bahamas, and Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

    08/29/2024 2:45 pm

    The Secret Genius of Modern Life

    Hannah Fry visits eBay's authentication centre, where they are waging war against fake trainers. She discovers how American breakfast waffles transformed trainer soles and how an 18th-century tea set led to the use of celebrity endorsement.

    08/29/2024 4:00 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.

    08/29/2024 5:00 pm

    Life Below Zero

    As winter returns to the Arctic, the Alaskans prepare to survive the coming months. For the Hailstones, time is running out to hunt big game animals.

    08/29/2024 6:00 pm

    Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle

    Ben heads to South-East Asia to meet entrepreneur Niall who traded in his high-flying career, for the beaches of Thailand to help the country's street-dogs, who in turn, have rescued him.

    08/29/2024 7:00 pm

    Wonders of the Solar System

    Professor Brian Cox describes how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the solar system. Brian descends to the bottom of the Pacific in a submarine to witness the extraordinary life forms that survive in the cold, black waters. All life on Earth needs water so the search for aliens in the solar system has followed the search for water.

    08/29/2024 8:10 pm

    Mummies Unwrapped

    The mutilated mummy of the Younger Lady has mystified Egyptologists for over a hundred years; new evidence finally reveals who she was and why her brutal death is directly linked to the world-famous Tutankhamun.

    08/29/2024 9:10 pm

    Simon Reeve's South America

    Simon Reeve journeys through the remote and little-visited northeast of the continent, from the tabletop mountain Mount Roraima in Venezuela through Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

    08/29/2024 10:20 pm

    Life Below Zero

    As winter returns to the Arctic, the Alaskans prepare to survive the coming months. For the Hailstones, time is running out to hunt big game animals.

    08/29/2024 11:25 pm

    Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle

    Ben heads to South-East Asia to meet entrepreneur Niall who traded in his high-flying career, for the beaches of Thailand to help the country's street-dogs, who in turn, have rescued him.

    08/30/2024 12:15 am

    Wonders of the Solar System

    Professor Brian Cox describes how the laws of nature have carved natural wonders across the solar system. Brian descends to the bottom of the Pacific in a submarine to witness the extraordinary life forms that survive in the cold, black waters. All life on Earth needs water so the search for aliens in the solar system has followed the search for water.

    08/30/2024 1:05 am

    Mummies Unwrapped

    The mutilated mummy of the Younger Lady has mystified Egyptologists for over a hundred years; new evidence finally reveals who she was and why her brutal death is directly linked to the world-famous Tutankhamun.

    08/30/2024 1:50 am

    Simon Reeve's South America

    Simon Reeve journeys through the remote and little-visited northeast of the continent, from the tabletop mountain Mount Roraima in Venezuela through Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

    08/30/2024 2:45 am

    Life Below Zero

    As winter returns to the Arctic, the Alaskans prepare to survive the coming months. For the Hailstones, time is running out to hunt big game animals.

    08/30/2024 3:30 am

    Deadly Predators

    Steve finds out which Deadly Predators have the best weapons on earth. Using the latest CGI, we bring the colossal squid to life, test the strength of its tentacles, and show how its mighty beak could slice through a car like butter. When it comes to weapons, snakes have some of the best on earth. Steve goes in search of the adder, the UK's only venomous snake and an endangered species.

    BBC Earth

    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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