Schedules
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11/07/2024 5:00 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace helps to unload a tanker full of sugar from Norfolk and follows it through one of the oldest sweet factories in Britain to see how over 500 workers, as well as some mind boggling machines, transform it into over a hundred million individual sweets within just 24 hours. He'll discover how this factory that produces Lovehearts could be the most romantic in the world because one in four of the people who work there are in a relationship with each other. | |||||
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11/07/2024 6:10 am |
The Lakes with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon looks at the impact of humans on England's biggest and most popular national park. He goes wild swimming in the crystal-clear lake of Buttermere, before taking a look at the less-fortunate Derwent Water. | |||||
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11/07/2024 7:15 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Sue secures her camp before a long trip. Ricko helps repair his uncle's cabin. Jessie competes in a sled dog race. The Hailstones prepare for an intense storm. | |||||
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11/07/2024 8:15 am |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben travels to an island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef to live with former Sydney businessman David Glasheen. Since losing a fortune in the 1987 stock market crash, which also cost him his marriage, David has led a Robinson Crusoe-like existence. | |||||
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11/07/2024 9:15 am |
Primates |
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| A look at the extraordinary strategies monkeys, apes and lemurs must use to survive in the most unexpected places. Times are hard for a troop of bearded capuchins in Brazil's badlands. With no rain for eight months, food and water are scarce. But these monkeys can do something very few primates can: they use tools, and make them too. | |||||
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11/07/2024 10:20 am |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace helps to unload a tanker full of sugar from Norfolk and follows it through one of the oldest sweet factories in Britain to see how over 500 workers, as well as some mind boggling machines, transform it into over a hundred million individual sweets within just 24 hours. He'll discover how this factory that produces Lovehearts could be the most romantic in the world because one in four of the people who work there are in a relationship with each other. | |||||
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11/07/2024 11:30 am |
The Lakes with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon explores the wild and rugged coast of Cumbria and learns how central the county is to many of the challenges facing Britain. The Lake District National Park includes a beautiful stretch of Cumbria's coast, where rare Natterjack Toads inhabit a spectacular sand dune landscape. | |||||
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11/07/2024 12:45 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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11/07/2024 1:45 pm |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben ventures deep into the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee to live with a young `wild' man. | |||||
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11/07/2024 2:45 pm |
Primates |
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| They have the most complex social lives of any animal group on the planet. From dusky leaf monkeys who compete to babysit an infant to gibbons who learn dare-devil treetop acrobatics with their playmates, friends and family are at the heart of primate life. In the Amazon we meet a female spider monkey elder, who leads her troop to a unique food resource: aquatic plants brought within reach on raging floodwaters. | |||||
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11/07/2024 3:50 pm |
Inside the Factory |
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| Gregg Wallace joins a human production line in the largest sports shoe factory in the UK to see how they produce three and a half thousand pairs of trainers every 24 hours by sewing 32 million individual stitches and using 140 miles of thread. He'll make his own pair of shoes and discover how they put together 27 different pieces made from 8 different materials which require auto and manual stitching and finishing with a roughening robot and a hot oven. | |||||
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11/07/2024 4:55 pm |
New York: America's Busiest City |
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| Anita, Ade and Ant trace New York's food back to its source. Ade discovers that New York state produces an astonishing 600,000 tonnes of apples, more than 2.5 times Britain's entire production. Anita visits a cattle farm that supplies the steakhouses of New York and finds their diet includes chocolate, crisps and pasta. | |||||
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11/07/2024 6:00 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| Amid the long days of the Arctic summer, Alaskans learn valuable lessons of survival to help them trough the harsh winter ahead. | |||||
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11/07/2024 7:00 pm |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben journeys to North Africa, to live with American widow Maryanne on the farm she's built on the edge of the Sahara. He discovers why she swapped her city abode for a simpler and tougher way of life in the Egyptian desert. | |||||
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11/07/2024 8:00 pm |
Solar System |
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| Professor Brian Cox explores various extraterrestrial landscapes bursting with fire and ice. There are planets and moons covered in volcanoes, with eruptions so violent that the matter flows into space. | |||||
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11/07/2024 9:10 pm |
Egyptian Tomb Hunting |
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| Tony enters tombs that have been sealed shut for thousands of years, meets mummies, holds an Ancient Egyptian prime minister's heart and discovers hieroglyphs only ever seen by the ancient Egyptians who created them. | |||||
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11/07/2024 10:05 pm |
The Lakes with Simon Reeve |
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| Simon explores the wild and rugged coast of Cumbria and learns how central the county is to many of the challenges facing Britain. The Lake District National Park includes a beautiful stretch of Cumbria's coast, where rare Natterjack Toads inhabit a spectacular sand dune landscape. | |||||
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11/07/2024 11:15 pm |
Life Below Zero |
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| Amid the long days of the Arctic summer, Alaskans learn valuable lessons of survival to help them trough the harsh winter ahead. | |||||
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11/08/2024 12:10 am |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben journeys to North Africa, to live with American widow Maryanne on the farm she's built on the edge of the Sahara. He discovers why she swapped her city abode for a simpler and tougher way of life in the Egyptian desert. | |||||
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11/08/2024 1:05 am |
Solar System |
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| Professor Brian Cox explores various extraterrestrial landscapes bursting with fire and ice. There are planets and moons covered in volcanoes, with eruptions so violent that the matter flows into space. | |||||
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11/08/2024 2:00 am |
Egyptian Tomb Hunting |
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| Tony enters tombs that have been sealed shut for thousands of years, meets mummies, holds an Ancient Egyptian prime minister's heart and discovers hieroglyphs only ever seen by the ancient Egyptians who created them. | |||||
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11/08/2024 2:40 am |
New York: America's Busiest City |
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| Anita, Ade and Ant trace New York's food back to its source. Ade discovers that New York state produces an astonishing 600,000 tonnes of apples, more than 2.5 times Britain's entire production. Anita visits a cattle farm that supplies the steakhouses of New York and finds their diet includes chocolate, crisps and pasta. | |||||
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11/08/2024 3:30 am |
Life Below Zero |
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| Amid the long days of the Arctic summer, Alaskans learn valuable lessons of survival to help them trough the harsh winter ahead. | |||||
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11/08/2024 4:15 am |
Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle |
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| Ben journeys to North Africa, to live with American widow Maryanne on the farm she's built on the edge of the Sahara. He discovers why she swapped her city abode for a simpler and tougher way of life in the Egyptian desert. | |||||