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09/05/2024 4:00 am |
The Secret Genius of Modern Life |
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| Hannah Fry discovers the hidden WWII radar technology that heats up baked beans, learns the legend of the melted candy bar in an engineer's pocket that kick-started a kitchen revolution, and puts her life on the line to demonstrate why microwaves zap food but not people! | |||||
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09/05/2024 5:05 am |
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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09/05/2024 6:15 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Survival in an Alaskan winter depends on a gruelling amount of work. In Noorvik, Chip and Agnes Hailstone break trail to the Kiwalik River in preparation of their spring caribou hunt. | |||||
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09/05/2024 7:10 am |
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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09/05/2024 8:10 am |
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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09/05/2024 9:25 am |
The Secret Genius of Modern Life |
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| Hannah Fry discovers the hidden WWII radar technology that heats up baked beans, learns the legend of the melted candy bar in an engineer's pocket that kick-started a kitchen revolution, and puts her life on the line to demonstrate why microwaves zap food but not people! | |||||
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09/05/2024 10:30 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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09/05/2024 11:25 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| In Eagle, Andy constructs wolf snares to protect the moose population in the area. Erik and Martha cut up their last moose quarter and use salvage to construct a smokehouse in Wiseman. | |||||
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09/05/2024 12:25 pm |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben travels to England's most northerly coastline, Northumberland, to stay with Kezz and Nathalie, a couple who are caretakers of a secluded wood. Ben helps the couple with their straw-bale house and gets a crash course in felling trees. | |||||
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09/05/2024 1:30 pm |
The Green Planet |
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| Deserts are hostile: temperatures soar, and water is rare. Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage, and surprising alliances with animals. | |||||
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09/05/2024 2:50 pm |
The Secret Genius of Modern Life |
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| Headphones are worn by over 30 million people in the UK. Hannah Fry visits legendary headphone honchos Bose to find out how today's teeny earbud tech works and meets the human testers with 'golden ears'. | |||||
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09/05/2024 3:55 pm |
Joanna Lumley's Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti |
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| Joanna completes her Cuban journey by visiting the infamous town of Guantanamo. Giving the prison a wide berth, she discovers that the song `Guantanamera' was born in the town, and she meets a talented young singer who is recording the track herself. Fifty-seven miles across the Windward Passage to Haiti, she discovers a very different country, currently the poorest in the western world. She visits the Citadel, a mighty fortress built to deter the colonial powers of France, Spain and England. | |||||
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09/05/2024 5:00 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue assesses the conditions of her new property at Chena River. Meanwhile, Ricko traps for beaver, while Jessie trains new puppies for the dog team. | |||||
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09/05/2024 6:00 pm |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben joins a couple at the start of their new lives in the wild in a two-room derelict farmhouse in rural Hungary that they bought from the internet without ever having visited the country before. | |||||
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09/05/2024 7:00 pm |
Einstein & Hawking: Masters of our Universe |
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| One of 20th century's greatest minds, Einstein, created the theory of relativity, a tool to explore and predict the way the universe works. | |||||
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09/05/2024 8:10 pm |
Mummies Unwrapped |
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| A dusty exhibit from an oddities museum in Niagara Falls could be a genuine long-lost pharaoh from Egypt's most iconic dynasty; a team of experts reexamine the evidence to reveal how a legendary king ended up on the other side of the world. | |||||
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09/05/2024 9:10 pm |
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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09/05/2024 10:10 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue assesses the conditions of her new property at Chena River. Meanwhile, Ricko traps for beaver, while Jessie trains new puppies for the dog team. | |||||
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09/05/2024 11:10 pm |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben joins a couple at the start of their new lives in the wild in a two-room derelict farmhouse in rural Hungary that they bought from the internet without ever having visited the country before. | |||||
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09/06/2024 12:05 am |
Einstein & Hawking: Masters of our Universe |
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| One of 20th century's greatest minds, Einstein, created the theory of relativity, a tool to explore and predict the way the universe works. | |||||
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09/06/2024 12:55 am |
Mummies Unwrapped |
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| A dusty exhibit from an oddities museum in Niagara Falls could be a genuine long-lost pharaoh from Egypt's most iconic dynasty; a team of experts reexamine the evidence to reveal how a legendary king ended up on the other side of the world. | |||||
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09/06/2024 1:45 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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09/06/2024 2:25 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue assesses the conditions of her new property at Chena River. Meanwhile, Ricko traps for beaver, while Jessie trains new puppies for the dog team. | |||||
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09/06/2024 3:15 am |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben joins a couple at the start of their new lives in the wild in a two-room derelict farmhouse in rural Hungary that they bought from the internet without ever having visited the country before. | |||||
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