[A CHAPLIN]

T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.

Monday 26th
T Channel 4 3.20 - 4.05 am Wild Things
VP 2633065
T Channel 4 4.05 - 5.00 am Wild Things
VP 8410152
T BBC2 9.00 - 9.30 am Animal Park
VP 66171
T BBC2 9.30 - 10.30 am Sahara with Michael Palin 2/4 Desintation Timbuktu
VP 49133
*T BBC2 10.30 - 11.30 am Life in the Undergrowth 1/5 Invasion of the Land
VP 23607
T Channel 5 12.30 - 2.00 pm Domino Day Record- breaking extravaganza from the World Domino Toppling Championships in Amsterdam - I wonder if the sparrow sequence will be shown
VP 5174797
Tuesday 27th
T Channel 4 3.30 - 4.20 am Wild Things
VP 8902379
T Channel 4 4.20 - 5.05 am Wild Things
VP 8294911
*T BBC2 10.30 - 11.20 am Life in the Undergrowth 2/5 Taking to the Air
VP 1195824
T ITV1 10.40 - 11.40 am The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 4250244
T BBC2 6.00 - 7.30 pm Best of Springwatch with Bill Oddie - Highlights of this year’s Springwatch programmes from Itchy and Scratchy the Sea Eagle Chicks to Kate Humble’s Blue Tits. We’ll get the latest news on how the various sets of offspring have fared since the series ended and also look ahead to the 2006 Springwatch survey which, thanks to the vagaries of our climate, may be nearer than you’d think.
VP 20973
T Channel 4 8.00 - 10.00 pm The Year the Earth Went Wild - In exploring the numerous natural disasters that occurred throughout the year, this documentary attempts to discover whether 2005 was just an unlucky year, or whether the events signify a real shift in our planet’s behaviour. The programme features footage captured at the time of the disasters and eyewitness accounts from survivors.
VP 7737
Wednesday 28th
BBC1 3.50 - 4.50 am Sign Zone Coast: The Summary
Nicholas Crane concludes his journey around the coast of the UK by paying homage to the diverse people and sights he's seen, and looks ahead to see how our coast is going to change. Miranda Krestovnikoff discovers which animals will be the winners and losers and Mark Horton opens the book on who owns the coast. Alice Roberts investigates how the coast could become Britain's powerhouse with wind turbines dominating the skyline.
VP 7117954
T Channel 4 3.25 - 4.10 am Wild Things
VP 2669480
T Channel 4 4.10 - 4.55 am Wild Things
VP 8247003
*T BBC2 9.00 - 9.30 am Animal Park - Keepers anxiously await the birth of one of the rarest species on earth - the Pere David deer. Plus, the bird whose eyes are bigger than its brain.
VP 75683
T BBC2 9.30 - 10.30 am Sahara with Michael Palin 3/4 Absolute Desert
VP 94683
*T BBC2 10.30 - 11.20am Life in the Undergrowth 3/5 The Silk Spinners
VP 1162596
*T BBC2 Wales only 4.25 - 5.15 pm Natural World Ella: A Meerkat’s Tale
VP 4901596
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.50 pm Natural World Australia: Taking the Heat
VP 212515
T BBC2 8.50 - 9.00 pm Storm Geese - Documentary about the huge skeins of geese that fly out of stormy Atlantic skies to spend winter on the beautiful Scottish island of Islay, making for one of Britain’s most impressive and least known winter wildlife spectacles.
VP 286515
*T Channel 5 8.00 - 9.00 pm Earth Shocks 1 Mega Volcano Documentary explaining how one of the largest volcanic eruptions ever recorded shook planet earth and gave the climate such a knock that it may have tipped it into a global freeze lasing a millennium - and it could happen again.
VP 2843913
Thursday 29th
*T BBC1 2.25 - 2.55 am Sign Zone: Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife -
August in Wiltshire
VP 3235748
*T BBC1 2.55 - 3.25 am Sign Zone: Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife - November by the Severn (Starling Roost)
VP 3708233
*T BBC1 3.25 - 3.55 am Sign Zone: Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife - Devon VP 91862097
T Channel 4 4.10 - 4.55 am Wild Things
VP 8141875
*T BBC2 10.30 - 11.30 am Life in the Undergrowth 4/5 Intimate Relations
VP 1066368
*T BBC2 Scotland only 5.30 - 6.00 pm Map Man John Ogilby’s Britannia - Nicholas Crane uses the first ever road map from 1675 to lead him over the notorious trans-Pennine pass from York to Lancaster.
VP 233
Friday 30th
T Channel 4 3.35 - 4.20 am Wild Things
VP 8841214
T Channel 4 4.20 - 5.05 am Wild Things
VP 8132127
T BBC2 9.00 - 9.30 am Animal Park - The bird of the pharaohs, the Sacred Ibis, starts nesting in the aviary.
VP 11295
T BBC2 9.30 - 10.30 am Sahara with Michael Palin 4/4 Dire Straits
VP 81437
*T BBC2 10.30 - 11.20am Life in the Undergrowth 5/5 Super societies
VP 1026740
For the Bill Oddie Fan Club
T BBC2 9.00 - 10.30 pm Return of the Goodies
It's one of the great TV puzzles of recent decades. Why, considering the Goodies were so huge in the 1970s, have their shows not been endlessly repeated on digital and cable stations à la Monty Python and Fawlty Towers? Why did this much-loved show vanish when it should for so long have been part of our cultural fabric? (For those of you not around at the time, think of the current success of Little Britain, then double it - The Goodies was that big). This 90-minute special attempts to explain just what happened, and why. Preview tapes were not available, but the show will combine documentary footage with some of The Goodies' best-loved moments. There'll be audience participation, too, thanks to the central conceit, whereby Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor break into their old studio to take questions from an audience.
VP 8566
Saturday 31st
*T BBC1 2.45 - 3.45 am Sign Zone: Unstoppable Wave
VP 211219
T Channel 4 3.35 - 4.25 am Wild Things
VP 8809238
T Channel 4 4.25 - 5.10 am Wild Things
VP 9191870
*T BBC2 6.00 - 7.00 am Dinosaurs and Duplicity - The discovery of dinosaur bones by amateur geologist Gideon Mantell in September 1824 and the 1953 revelation that the Pitdown Man, hitherto regarded as one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century, was an elaborate hoax.
VP 62035
Sunday 1st
T BBC2 1.05 - 3.25 am Live 8 Story
No VP no.
T Channel 4 4.25 - 5.10 am Wild Things
VP 8700410
T BBC2 10.00 - 10.30 am Animal Park
VP 60401
*T BBC2 10.30 - 11.15 am Life in the Undergrowth - Fly on the Wall
VP 2301975

[delia todd]

Hi Ann

You've done well again for us over the holiday. Storm Geese is the one I'm really looking forward to
- memories of Islay and the Greenland Whitefronts and... so many others species.

Happy Christmas to you and hope you have a brilliant 2006.

D

[A CHAPLIN]

Hi Delia,

I am glad I typed that in bold as I am sure there are a lot of us want to see it. I was surprised it wasn't shown as a repeat so must be brand new. Right time of year to show it too..

Enjoy your happy memories.

Best Wishes for Christmas and a Happy New Year

Ann

[delia todd]

I've just been into the Islay Birding News website and discovered that poor Jeremy has broken his collar bone and won't be fit to do any tours until after the new year.

We went out for the day with him and learnt so much. A great guy.

His website is: http://www.islaybirding.co.uk/birding-news.asp

for anyone interested.

D

[Marmot]

Hope you don't mind me putting this one on.

Tues 27th December at 8.30 pm

BBC4 - Sky 116, Ntl 127/12, Freeview 9

Winged Migration - Film Documentary.

[A CHAPLIN]

Thank you Marmot,

I know a lot of people who are waiting to see that film, I hope they have freeview.

Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year

Ann

[christineredgate]

Thanks,Ann.