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Weekly TV Diary 10 – 16 September (U K Channels) (1 Viewer)

A CHAPLIN

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Monday 10th[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.00 – 3.30 am Sign Zone: Vet Safari[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 25213[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 12.00 – 12.30 pm Wildlife on Two Rainbow Warrior – The Chameleon narrated by Sir David Attenborough[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 3.00 – 3.15 pm Coast – Cromer[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.30 pm RSPCA Have You Got What it Takes Series following six trainee RSPCA inspectors as they attempt to make it onto the front line of animal welfare.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Tuesday 11th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.30 – 4.00 am Savage Planet – Dangerous Waters[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 1695527[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 4 4.25 – 5.25 am Extreme Archaeology – The Tintagel Connection – Series exploring important archaeological sites throughout Britain which are almost inaccessible. Dr Mark Davies and his team of young archaeologists search Tintagel in Cornwall for evidence of trading activity conducted by Roman occupiers with the Mediterranean world.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 3.00 – 3.15 pm Coast – East Coast Smugglers, Alum and Scarborough Bay[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.30 pm RSPCA Have you Got What it Takes Series following six trainee RSPCA inspectors as they attempt to make it onto the front line of animal welfare.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9394898[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Cosmos – A Beginner's Guide Is there another Earth? Adam Hart-Davis is on the summit of La Palma in the Canary Islands, searching for planets around other suns. He discovers how it is possible to find planets too small to see and tells the story of how the first ever planet outside our solar system was found – an event that rocked the world of astronomy. Janet Sumner visits the Virtual Planet Laboratory, where they invent inhabited planets so that astronomers know what to look for.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Border & Border Scottish 7.30 – 8.00 pm Dales Diary – Luke Casey meets two young men in North Yorkshire who are dedicated to saving the lives of injured swans, looks back at the life of renowned Dales artist Fred Lawson and visits a thriving archery business in the Scottish Borders.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Lives – Miranda Krestovnikoff discovers that the ancient art of storytelling is alive in Shropshire and a woodland bodger teaches the craft of making chairs from green branches in Herefordshire.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 – 8.00 pm And Every Life was Saved – When dense fog and rough seas caused the 12,000 tonne liner Suevic to run onto rocks on the coast of Cornwall in 1907, four brave teams of lifeboat crew arrived on site and managed to save the lives of all 525 people on board. Photographs and dramatic reconstructions reveal how hundreds of passengers, crew and stowaways were saved during the night's massive effort, which led to the award of six silver medals for gallantry.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Granada 7.30 – 8.00 pm Wainwright Country – Fred Talbot completes his Lakeland adventure with a tough climb in bad weather to the summit of Yewbarrow above Wasdale in the glorious Western Fells.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 London 7.30 – 8.00 pm Waterworld – Actor and boater Timothy West presents a series about the inland waterways, from the working boats of two centuries ago to the pleasure craft of today. Rastafarian poet and writer Benjamin Zephaniah explains why he thinks there are so few black boaters. Historic boat Vulcan hitches a lift with another icon of the canal age. Plus advice on tackling the growing problems of finding boat moorings – especially in London.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 – 8.00 pm Northern Skies – This flight illustrates how small is beautiful, as it drops in on some of the North East's fascinating towns and villages with flying visits to busy towns like Bishop Auckland and Whitby, and a new perspective on quiet pretty villages such as Northumberland's Ford and Etal. Pam Royle narrates.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 West 7.30 – 8.00 pm Skywalkers Documentary following a daredevil team of young women who strap themselves to the upper wings of vintage biplanes and dive, loop and roll through the sky. Flying out from a small airfield in the Cotswolds, they are the world's only formation wing-walking team[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 121[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 pm Great British Journeys – Gerald of Wales' Journey through Wales - Nicholas Crane attempts to retrace a journey first made 800 years ago. In 1188 writer, scholar and churchman Gerald of Wales set out on a treacherous expedition to recruit men for a crusade against the armies of Saladin, then occupying the holy land. Nick hopes to find Gerald's exact route, from the English border to the remotest parts of North Wales.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4689[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 8.00 – 9.00 pm The Aztec Massacre Revealed: Historical documentary focusing on the Aztec Empire. Between the 14th and the 16th century, the Aztecs dominated the lands of present day Mexico, until the arrival of the Spanish brought their world to a sudden end. This film probes the mystery behind the 400 dismembered bodies unearthed in the ruins of an Aztec city. Knife cuts and teeth marks on the bones indicate that the victims' flesh was stripped off and eaten. But who were these victims and why did they meet such a terrible fate?[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm Tribe 4/6 Akie – Bruce Parry has a Room 101 moment with the Akie tribe in Tanzania when he has to confront one of his greatest fears. Yes, Bruce Parry is actually afraid of something – bees. Considering the gut-wrenching horrors he routinely allows himself to be subjected to, such a fear is almost delightfully perverse and twee. But Parry has to dip his into into a bee's nest, as honey is a necessity to the Akie.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Wednesday 12th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.30 – 11.00 am Wildlife on Two – Stoats in the Priory [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 21096[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The following programme is not being shown in Scotland[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 2.40 – 3.15 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4118947[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.30 pm RSPCA Have you Got What it Takes Series following six trainee RSPCA inspectors as they attempt to make it onto the front line of animal welfare.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9354270[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 9.00 – 10.00 pm Time Team Special – Buried by the Blitz – More archaeological investigations with Tony Robinson and the team. To commemorate the 60th anniversary of VE Day, archaeologists from the Museum of London enlisted the help of dozens of volunteers to excavate land under Shoreditch Park, one of the many areas in the capital repeatedly bombed during World War II. As well as coming across some interesting finds the team bring former residents back to relive their experiences during the 1940's.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Anglia 11.35 – 12.05 am Record Weather – The Anglia weather team present a special programme looking back at the remarkable weather to hit the eastern counties in the past year, as the region went from a record breaking heatwave and drought to storms and floods. Hundreds of people were affected by the weather – including a mother and daughter who were struck by lightning but lived to tell the tale.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Thursday 13th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 4 3.45 – 4.30 am Wild Things[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The following programme is not being shown in Scotland[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 12.00 – 12.30 pm Zebras the Trailblazers – Sir David Attenborough examines the reasons why zebras are marked in such a bizarre and conspicuous way.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 Wales 1.00 – 1.45 pm Animal Park – The new white-backed African vultures are settling in and the keepers have arranged a special feast in their honour.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The following programme is not being shown in Wales [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 2.40 – 3.15 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.30 pm RSPCA Have you Got What it Takes 4/13 Series following six trainee RSPCA inspectors as they attempt to make it onto the front line of animal welfare.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9258042[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The following programme is not being shown in Scotland or Northern Ireland[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 7.00 – 8.00 pm Great British Journeys – Gerald of Wales' Journey through Wales - Nicholas Crane attempts to retrace a journey first made 800 years ago. In 1188 writer, scholar and churchman Gerald of Wales set out on a treacherous expedition to recruit men for a crusade against the armies of Saladin, then occupying the holy land. Nick hopes to find Gerald's exact route, from the English border to the remotest parts of North Wales.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 6049[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 Northern Ireland 7.00 – 7.30 pm Big Cat Diaries – Family Histories – Duma a Cheetah cub[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Friday 14th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The following programme is not being shown in Northern Ireland[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.00 – 2.00 am Sign Zone: Tribe Nenets [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 54172[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 Wales 12.45 – 1.15 pm Living with Elephants [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 405086[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 4 1.00 – 1.15 pm Water Stories – The stories of people whose lives are inextricably linked to the rivers, lakes and canals of Great Britain. Dart ferryman Kevin Pyne talks about a poem he wrote for his wife[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 3.00 – 3.15 pm Coast – Wales: The Gower, Rockpools and Dylan Thomas[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4739191[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.30 pm RSPCA Have you Got What it Takes 5/13 Series following six trainee RSPCA inspectors as they attempt to make it onto the front line of animal welfare.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9225714[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 Scotland 7.30 – 8.00 pm Living with Elephants Part 2[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 153[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 8.00 – 8.00 pm Up Close and Dangerous – Documentary featuring top wildlife filmakers who share their most hair raising encounters with the natural world. In this programme, a furious buffalo charges a camerawoman, a chimpanzee asserts his dominance in an attack, a reef shark tests the nerves of a diver, a leopard grabs onto a director's leg and a killer whale almost mistakes a cameraman for its favourite snack – a seal.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The following programme is being shown in Northern Ireland at 9.30 – 10.30 pm 91849[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm The Story of India – Ages of Gold[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Saturday 15th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 Northern Ireland 1.35 – 2.35 am Sign Zone Tribe – Nenets[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 6.00 – 6.50 am Cromwell[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 2512757[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 12.00 – 12.30 pm Animal Park – Trevor and Honey become proud parents but will the little Ostrich chick cause traffic chaos?[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 5.30 – 6.30 pm The Blue Planet – Introduction[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 Scotland 5.30 – 6.30 pm Great British Journeys Gerald of Wales' Journey through Wales - Nicholas Crane attempts to retrace a journey first made 800 years ago. In 1188 writer, scholar and churchman Gerald of Wales set out on a treacherous expedition to recruit men for a crusade against the armies of Saladin, then occupying the holy land. Nick hopes to find Gerald's exact route, from the English border to the remotest parts of North Wales.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 48844[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 pm China's Terracotta Army – Documentary following the making of the British Museum's biggest exhibition in a generation and telling the story of its subject, the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi, who founded the world's oldest political entity and created the spectacular Terracotta Army to guard his vast tomb. Dan Snow follows museum curator Jane Portal and the design team as they create the exhibition and travels to China to see the original Great Wall, the sacred mountain Tai Shan and the necropolis at Xian.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9757[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 8.00 – 9.00 pm Deadliest Catch - High Hopes – Fishing for Alaskan king crab in Dutch Harbour. It's 12 hours since the crab season began and already the Bering Sea has claimed six lives. The rest of the fleet begins to pull the pots and hopes are high.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sunday 16th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.30 - 2.30 am Tribe – Akie Explorer Bruce Parry spends time with the Akie people of Tanzania, one of the last groups of hunter-gatherers to live on the African savannah. He is forced to face his biggest fear and put his hand into a bees' nest to gather wild honey.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 88500[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 4 3.10 – 3.55 am Wild Things[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 1884183[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 7528993[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 7.40 – 8.45 am Cromwell[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 11.00 – 12.00 pm Countryfile – The annual photo competition nears its climax as Jo Brand and Chris Packham join John to select a shortlist from all the viewers' entries on the theme of “All Creatures Great and Small, with the final 12 images being put to the public vote. The team also report on the dazzling array of creatures who manage to make their home in our cities.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 11.30 - 12.30 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 85622[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 12.40 – 1.30 pm Galapagos Dinosaur : Great Ocean Adventures[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 7097806[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 7.00 – 8.00 pm Ray Mear's Wild Food Australia[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4603[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 Wales 7.45 – 8.00 pm Coast – Wales: The Gower, Rockpools and Dylan Thomas[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 875158[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.00 – 10.00 pm New Series Michael Palin's New Europe – Michael Palin explores the countries that were for much of his life hidden behind the Iron Curtain but now are very much part of the new Europe of post-soviet times. From high in the Julian Alps of Slovenia, along the magical coast of Croatia and deep into Bosnia and Serbia, he discovers new countries coming to terms with the bloody wars that created them and now enjoying the peace that prevails. From Dubrovnik he sails to Albania where he finds a country adapting to a new openness.[/FONT]
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Great stuff Ann ..a good selection:t:

Regarding your earlier question (sorry- I missed that!) I'm watching pretty much anything to do with the coast, rivers, travel and history in great britain.

Got the whole place to myself next week as my folks are away - which means I get to hog the TV;)

Matt
 
Hi Matt,

Thanks, I seem to be getting the balance of programmes right and picked a good bunch for you to watch. Just don't fall asleep.

Ann :egghead:
 
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