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Walking With Dinosaurs Walking with Dinosaurs employs fascinating technology to screen an amazing story. Witness technological marvels and see how research enabled the BBC to recreate a lost world, complete to the last detail. |
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Walking With Dinosaurs Walking with Dinosaurs employs fascinating technology to screen an amazing story. Witness technological marvels and see how research enabled the BBC to recreate a lost world, complete to the last detail. |
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The Kangaroo Gang This is the story of the most spectacularly successful shoplifting gang in history, who plundered stores in England and Europe in the 1960s and 1970s - the Kangaroo Gang, led by five master thieves "the Duke" Arthur Delaney, "Wee" Jimmy Lloyd, Jack "The Fibber" Warren, Billy "the General" Hill and "Gorgeous Georgie" Gardener. The story is based on the best selling book: "King of Thieves; the adventures of Arthur Delaney and the Kangaroo Gang" by Adam Shand. |
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An Idiot Abroad Karl Pilkington meets with Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant to discuss his travels. Starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. |
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Virgin Swimmers Many of us take swimming for granted but for some adults it's not as easy. The nine adults seen floundering across a pool designed for six year olds in this film are determined to learn but are under constant and growing pressure from an ever pacing and ever haranguing poolside presence: Linda. Instructor Linda has seen it all before. She knows that most of the women will be terrified of getting their hair and faces wet, the men will be embarrassed by their lack of prowess, and all of them will probably have to conquer demons that run much deeper than a fear of water. And she is going to make absolutely sure they crack it. "This is it - it's now or never!" declares 54-year-old Sandy from Southend-on-Sea. But at the end of the second week, still reluctant to get her face wet and asking for armbands, Sandy reveals stories of a cosseted childhood that still haunt her adult years - the girl who was never allowed to play with other children has become the woman who hides behind an ever present mask of mascara and refuses to remove her contact lenses. But dry faces don't wash with Linda. Until now Mandy has spent thirty years never daring to put on a swimming costume. "Quite petrified", she tells Linda before the first lesson begins. "On a scale of one to ten?", "Eight", she says, but she is as determined to be able to swim a full length as well as any one of them. Kitchen salesman Wyn, meanwhile, has got the patter. "Not scared of the water," he tells Linda. Three weeks on, however, he is pouring out his history of nervous tension to his disappointed teacher.Finally, after 12 lessons and six weeks, Linda leads her proteges to the ultimate test in the big pool. But who will sink, and who will swim? |
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True Stories The Silence of the Lambs follows a young ambitious FBI agent as she pursues the serial killer Buffalo Bill, with help from convicted cannibal Hannibal Lecter. Examining the two killers from the film, True Stories reveals the real life inspirations for writer Thomas Harris' creations and how their characters came straight from case files. |
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Climbing Great Buildings Dr Jonathan Foyle, architectural historian and novice climber, scales Britain's most iconic structures. Jonathan's journey takes him to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. |
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Tribe Bruce Parry learns the secrets of the spirits when he joins the Sanema, in Venezuela, to discover the strange dual reality world in which they live. The Sanema believe spirits dwell in everything - the river, the rocks and the animals around them - in a world as real to them as the jungle they live in. And their shamen can commune with such spirits through using hallucinogenic snuff. Now Bruce faces the task of training as a shaman to get an insight into their experiences. His first foray with the snuff makes him light-headed: "It's like having ants up your nose," he reports. And as they prepare him for his big day, the shamen tell him what to look out for in his dreams, which is when the spirits come unbidden. Turtle, armadillo and anteater spirits are all said to circulate. According to the shamen, the spirits will leave a song for Bruce to remember in the morning. When his big day dawns, Bruce is prepared by being painted with red dye and wearing what look like pom-poms on his head. And as the snuff sends him reeling, and he borrows a spirit song from someone to get him in the mood, he is soon sharing one of the strangest experiences of his travels. |
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An Idiot Abroad Karl Pilkington meets with Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant to discuss his travels. Starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. |
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Virgin Swimmers Many of us take swimming for granted but for some adults it's not as easy. The nine adults seen floundering across a pool designed for six year olds in this film are determined to learn but are under constant and growing pressure from an ever pacing and ever haranguing poolside presence: Linda. Instructor Linda has seen it all before. She knows that most of the women will be terrified of getting their hair and faces wet, the men will be embarrassed by their lack of prowess, and all of them will probably have to conquer demons that run much deeper than a fear of water. And she is going to make absolutely sure they crack it. "This is it - it's now or never!" declares 54-year-old Sandy from Southend-on-Sea. But at the end of the second week, still reluctant to get her face wet and asking for armbands, Sandy reveals stories of a cosseted childhood that still haunt her adult years - the girl who was never allowed to play with other children has become the woman who hides behind an ever present mask of mascara and refuses to remove her contact lenses. But dry faces don't wash with Linda. Until now Mandy has spent thirty years never daring to put on a swimming costume. "Quite petrified", she tells Linda before the first lesson begins. "On a scale of one to ten?", "Eight", she says, but she is as determined to be able to swim a full length as well as any one of them. Kitchen salesman Wyn, meanwhile, has got the patter. "Not scared of the water," he tells Linda. Three weeks on, however, he is pouring out his history of nervous tension to his disappointed teacher.Finally, after 12 lessons and six weeks, Linda leads her proteges to the ultimate test in the big pool. But who will sink, and who will swim? |
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True Stories The Silence of the Lambs follows a young ambitious FBI agent as she pursues the serial killer Buffalo Bill, with help from convicted cannibal Hannibal Lecter. Examining the two killers from the film, True Stories reveals the real life inspirations for writer Thomas Harris' creations and how their characters came straight from case files. |
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Baboon Woman For most of us, monkeys are mischievous creatures we love to visit at the zoo. But for South African Karin Sachs the animals are more than an exotic pet - they're her life. Baboons are genetically similar to humans and share 91 per cent of our DNA, but in South Africa the animals are seen as pests. In search of food, the primates have begun to encroach on populated areas. Infuriated by their destructive behaviour, farmers often shoot the wild creatures on sight. "Even animal conservationists hate baboons," admits Justin O'Riain, Director of Baboon Research at Cape Town University. But Karin Sachs has devoted ten years of her life to living and working with baboon troops, and has even learned how to talk to them. Obsessed with primates since childhood, Karin now lives with her boyfriend John and 13 vervet monkeys. She has befriended a local Gaia baboon troop and often takes care of abandoned primates found in her local community. The latest arrival to Karin's make-shift animal sanctuary is two-year-old Kajika. But taking in the sick animal brings back painful memories for Karin, who lost a baby baboon in her care when it was attacked and killed by a wild male. Will Karin be able to help the adolescent primate to be accepted by his own kind in the wild? More to the point, after caring for Kajika for months, will she be able to let him go? |
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Tribe Bruce Parry learns the secrets of the spirits when he joins the Sanema, in Venezuela, to discover the strange dual reality world in which they live. The Sanema believe spirits dwell in everything - the river, the rocks and the animals around them - in a world as real to them as the jungle they live in. And their shamen can commune with such spirits through using hallucinogenic snuff. Now Bruce faces the task of training as a shaman to get an insight into their experiences. His first foray with the snuff makes him light-headed: "It's like having ants up your nose," he reports. And as they prepare him for his big day, the shamen tell him what to look out for in his dreams, which is when the spirits come unbidden. Turtle, armadillo and anteater spirits are all said to circulate. According to the shamen, the spirits will leave a song for Bruce to remember in the morning. When his big day dawns, Bruce is prepared by being painted with red dye and wearing what look like pom-poms on his head. And as the snuff sends him reeling, and he borrows a spirit song from someone to get him in the mood, he is soon sharing one of the strangest experiences of his travels. |
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Top Gear See the boys find out what it takes to roadie for the world's best band - The Who. And Hammond drives the car built to take on the Porsche. Presented by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond. |
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Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll Forty years ago, Bernard Braden recorded interviews with some of the sixties' most iconic and recognised faces. Forty years on and we'll examine what has changed, politically, socially and culturally. |
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Top Gear Jeremy and James invade Greenham Common airbase to ask the question, did the Communists ever make a good car? And, Richard goes crazy in the Veritas, a surprisingly insane car. Boris Johnson is the star in a Reasonably Priced Car. |
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Helicopter Heroes Rav Wilding presents the series following the work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. One of the team collapses with a massive heart attack, and his colleagues fight to save him. Meanwhile, a teenage girl is knocked down outside her home. |
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Private Life of Plants David Attenborough journeys to the four corners of the Earth, and encounters some form of plant life everywhere - from the coldest Arctic wastes to the driest deserts, and in the wettest swamplands. |
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Walking With Dinosaurs Walking with Dinosaurs employs fascinating technology to screen an amazing story. Witness technological marvels and see how research enabled the BBC to recreate a lost world, complete to the last detail. |
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Walking With Dinosaurs Walking with Dinosaurs employs fascinating technology to screen an amazing story. Witness technological marvels and see how research enabled the BBC to recreate a lost world, complete to the last detail. |
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Metropolis Like human arteries, motorways, roads and train-lines are the lifeblood of any healthy megacity. Whether smoothly flowing or clogged, a city's transport routes affect its inhabitants' quality of life. Andrew Marr finds out how the monstrous megacities stay fed. He also finds out just how hard it is to ride a rickshaw taxi in Dhaka, and discovers how the London tube, once the most ground-breaking transport system in the world, has been usurped by modern transport like Shanghai's 400km/hour magnetic railway. Andrew joins Mexico City's traffic cops in the air, then finds out who is in charge of unblocking Mexico's most filthy canals. He looks into Dhaka's waste management problems, and sees what Britain's fast food obsession is doing to London's sewers. |
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Top Gear Top Gear heads to the Isle of Man for a special edition showing what the team got up to during their summer holidays. They also find out how many caravans a Volvo estate can jump. Guest: Stephen Fry. |
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Dragon's Den Enter the Dragons' Den for the chance of a lifetime where the reward is capital investment in an idea, dream or company. But it's not easy, the Dragons are five successful entrepreneurs and business leaders who've done it all! The Dragons' Den is a series where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to secure investment finance from the Dragons... Britain's elite in business expertise. |
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The Chinese Are Coming The concluding part of Justin's Rowlatt's epic journey to discover the spread of Chinese influence around the planet sees him cross Brazil and the United States. In Rio, local industries, including bikini factories, are threatened by cheap Chinese imports while in the Amazon Justin witnesses the phenomenal impact of the Chinese hunger for resources on the indigenous people and the environment. In the United States, from California to the rust belt, he encounters the rising undercurrent of American fury over their own decline in the face of competition from China. |
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Louis Theroux Louis Theroux visits Central Valley, California - home to some of the most impoverished rural towns in America, where crystal-meth addiction is among the most prolific in the USA. In Fresno, Louis finds a community ravaged by this cheap and highly addictive drug. It is hard to find anyone whose life hasn't been touched by this drug in one way or another. As he infiltrates the town, Louis comes face to face with meth abuse as addicts invite him into their homes. He becomes surrounded by the madness of daily addiction and the meth-addled confusion which is breaking this society apart. Louis sees its impact through the eyes of the local police force and meets Diane and Karl, a couple who have sustained their marriage, despite 25 years of meth addiction and the loss of the custody of their five children. At residential centre Westcare, Louis sees the work being done to combat the destruction caused by the drug. Run by ex-addicts, the centre offers a six-month rehab programme. Louis sees the extraordinary challenges faced by the centre which deals with a whole range of issues: from old timers, who repeatedly return to rehab programmes; to young meth-addicted families; and babies who are born, hooked, to mothers who are trying to care for them while trying to kick their own habit. At Westcare, Louis meets Senteka, the mother of a teenaged daughter. Senteka is making a last-ditch attempt to kick meth in order to make up for missing her daughter's childhood. As the majority of those attempting to kick their addiction eventually relapse, all Louis can do is hope that Senteka is telling the truth when she swears that she is "clean". Addiction is laid bare as Louis seeks out the stories and the people behind the drug. |
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Top Gear Top Gear heads to the Isle of Man for a special edition showing what the team got up to during their summer holidays. They also find out how many caravans a Volvo estate can jump. Guest: Stephen Fry. |
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Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll Forty years ago, Bernard Braden recorded interviews with some of the sixties' most iconic and recognised faces. Forty years on and we'll examine what has changed, politically, socially and culturally. |
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