Hi Folks,
Better late than never, the Radio Times Site crashed last night thankfully I had got some done as it has only just come back on line.;
*Stands for repeat programme
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Monday 13th
*T BBC1 9.30 - 10.00 am New Series Documentary Through Hell and High Water - Following Ben Fogle and James Cracknell as they out on one of the world’s toughest challenges - to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the other teams entering the race have spent two years planning, building and fine-tuning their boats for the race. With only two months until race start, Ben and James have everything to do, including building a boat, route planning and training, getting the qualifications that race organisers demand and teaching Ben to row.
VP 53077
T BBC2 800 - 8.30 pm Tales from the Palaces 7/10 The Heritage Theme Park - The Queen’s historic palaces are struggling to cover their costs, so how far should managers go to attract visitors?
VP 3874
Tuesday 14th
T BBC1 9.30 - 10.00 am Through Hell and High Water - With just seven days until race start, Ben and James arrive on La Gomera in the Canaries. From finding a hole in the bottom of their boat to nearly being disqualified, they find themselves battling all the way to the start line. But there is plenty of help on hand as friends and family all rally around to help get the boat ready
VP 32998
T BBC2 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm Valleys - The Sirhowy Valley: Tips for the Future
VP 795
T ITV1 Granada 7.30 - 8.00 pm My North West - Dean Sullivan tours the region meeting people who shape the strong character of the area. This week he meets Namibian-born boxer Ali Nuumembe in Glossop, Derbyshire, retired Manchester United player Lee Martin who scored the winning goal in the 1990 FA Cup final, and spiritualist Janice Barrat in the Stonehenge of the North
VP 849
T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 - 8.00 pm A Wartime Summer - Recreating life on the farm and in the kitchen during World War II. By the end of the war in 1945, the farm is using a combine harvester imported from America. Plus the impact of war on life in the countryside and Marguerite Patten reflects on six years of the kitchen front.
VP 849
T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 - 8.00 pm Special Report - The award-winning current affairs series exposes a Somerset butcher accused of exploiting his foreign workers by housing them in conditions unit for human habitation.
VP 849
T ITV1 West 7.30 - 8.00 pm West Eye View - This edition investigates the exploitation of migrant workers by companies in the region.
VP 849
Sorry the following programme is being shown in Northern Ireland on Wednesday at 6.00 pm
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife - 5/8 Orkney Islands - Early on tonight’s programme - Bill Oddie teaches us how to tell the difference between a common seal and a grey seal. He is in the Orkney Islands and it’s not long before his binoculars are trained on sea birds. (As last week same programme for Northern Ireland but different review, put the 2 together and you could have a longer programme, silly me!)
VP 2375
Wednesday 15th
*T BBC1 3.15 - 3.45 am Sign Zone: Britain’s Best Buildings: Windsor Castle - the largest inhabited castle in the world. Inextricably linked to the monarchy through the ages, the castle has also served as a lunatic asylum and a mausoleum.
VP 40080
T BBC1 9.30 - 10.00 am Through Hell and High Water - As the starting pistol is fired Ben and James pull ahead into the lead. James’s Olympic skills come to the fore, but not for long. The lack of preparation soon strikes again as a vital bit of kit fails. Storms have a long-term effect on the boat, as they soon realise when they start to run out of power on board.
VP 19318
T Channel 4 9.55 - 10.10 am Water Stories - T’ai Chi instructor Peter Chin reveals the healing qualities of water and shows how this ancient Chinese art takes the chore out of housework.
(I couldn’t resist this one for all you trudging marshes, seashores, rivers, etc. remember “water heals”)
VP 1279931
T BBC2 Northern Ireland 6.00 - 6.30 pm How to Watch Wildlife - 5/8 Bill makes his first ever visit to the Orkney Islands, just off the north coast of Scotland. He gets a close view of seal pups, revels in the flight of the British Albatross and is overwhelmed by the sight and sound of 50,000 sea birds on the precipitous cliffs at Marwick Head.
VP 318
T BBC1 Northern Ireland 10.45 - 11.25 pm You Thought You Knew The Border - Jim McDowell walks along the Irish border from Mgilligan Point to Carlingford Lough, meeting the people who live on both sides. He talks to a smuggler in Strabane, a farmer in Clones and a historian in Newry.
VP 181370
T BBC1 Wales 10.45 - 11.15 pm Sea Empress: 10 Years on - On the tenth anniversary of the oil tanker Sea Empress running aground and spilling more than 70,000 tonnes of oil into the sea, Iolo Williams investigates the long-term effects of one of the world’s worst oil spills, which was a disaster for environmentalists and the people of Milford Haven
VP 181370
Thursday 16th
*T BBC1 1.20 - 2.20 am Sign Zone: Life in the Undergrowth - Taking to the Air
VP 6225239
*T BBC1 2.20 - 2.50 am Sign Zone: Tales from the Palaces - Who Cares?
VP 7811235
T BBC1 9.30 - 10.00 am Through Hell and High Water - Ben and James are adrift - they have run out of electricity and they can’t make water. Finally, on Christmas Day they try their water maker and to cries of joy, it starts up again and they are back in the race. Before long they are facing a life threatening capsize that sees them pushed to the very edge.
VP 72158
Friday 17th
T BBC1 9.30 - 10.00 am Through Hell and High Water - James determination to win pulls them through their darkest hour. But with all their on board systems ruined by salt water, they have few means of letting the outside world know that they are OK. Struggling against the odds, with no water maker, no communications and intermittent navigation, they head towards the finish line.
VP 79388
*T BBC 2 11.00 - 11.30 am Journeys to the Bottom of the Sea - Lost Fleet, this programme follows American adventurer Barry Clifford’s quest to uncover the remains of a French fleet lost in treacherous waters off the Venezuelan coast over 300 years ago. The first clue comes from the discovery of a map said to have drawn at the time of the disaster - a clue which turns out to be more accurate than he could ever have hoped.
VP 5017
*T Channel 5 7.30 - 8.00 pm Built for the Kill - Miniature Assassins - This edition profiles some of the most ferocious killers on earth, including army ants, and black widow spiders - who spin a deadly web five times stronger than steel, to trap even the deadly poisonous scorpion.
VP 7244982
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.00 pm Through Hell and High Water Trying hard to balance getting acquainted with life at sea, fixing broken equipment and James’s determination to win the race, they push themselves to the very limit.
VP 4036
T Channel 5 8.00 - 9.00 pm Killer Snake of the Amazon: Austin Stevens’ Adventures Austin cheats death in the Amazon as he follows the trail of the elusive bushmaster - the largest venomous snake in the Americas. An average 12 foot in length with venom glands and fangs to match their formidable size, they are rarely seen in the wild and have attained near-mythical status among herpetologists and Amazonian Indians alike.
VP 5459235
Saturday 18th
*T BBC1 11.15 - 12.00 pm Animal Park
VP 3840321
*T BBC2 Scotland 3.00 - 3.50 pm Natural World - Ant Attack
VP 5324050
Sunday 19th
T BBC2 4.00 - 4.30 am Education - Ever Wondered? Will Giles finds out about climate control at the Eden Project. Russell Floyd discovers why the ocean is key to accurate weather forecasting
VP 75398
T Channel 4 4.40 - 5.25 am Wild Things Nature stories with an edge, including dangerous encounters between man and beast and heartwarming stories of animal survival
VP 1393068
* T Channel 5 5.05 - 5.30 am Wildlife SOSIII - Documentary showing the drama and emotion involved when injured or orphaned wild animals are rescued and saved by a group of dedicated animal lovers at a wildlife sanctuary
VP 63743364
T BBC2 5.30 - 6.00 am Landscape Mysteries - Britain Before the Ice
VP 88567
*T Channel 5 5.30 - 5.50 am Wildlife SOSIII - Documentary showing the drama and emotion involved when injured or orphaned wild animals are rescued and saved by a group of dedicated animal lovers at a wildlife sanctuary
VP 28262722
*T BBC2 Not in the North West 10.00 - 10.45 am Animal Park
VP 3778180
T BBC1 11.00 - 12.00 pm Countryfile - John Craven and Charlotte Smith take a journey along the Grand Union Canal in Buckinghamshire and Michaela Strachan reports on the role of the Women’s Timber Corps in the Second World War. Plus the controversy surrounding the dairy cows which never set foot in a field.
VP 90548
T BBC1 Scotland 11.30 - 12.00 pm Landward - Scotland’s farming and countryside programme. Featuring the celebrations to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Luing breed of cattle; the young chefs hoping to win a prestigious scholarship with some of the country’s top chefs; and a look at Harvey’s the family map-makers
VP 8890
*T Channel 5 1.10 - 1.55 pm Tim Marlow on? Bowes Museum, Co. Durham - Art Critic guides us round a unique collection of art, the product of two Victorian traits, eccentricity and philanthropy: the Bowes Museum. It’s unique not only because it has one of the greatest collections of art in the North of England but because this beautiful French chateau is found in the heart of Teesdale and was built specifically as a public gallery.
I couldn’t miss this out as I know a few of you live in the area.
VP 5118616
T ITV1 2.40 - 3.10 pm Crocodile Hunter Diaries - Celebrities and Practical Jokes 1
VP 5164722
T ITV1 Wales 4.00 - 5.00 pm Crocodile Hunter Diaries - Backstage Bedlam
VP4560
T Channel 4 5.55 - 6.50 pm Time Team - The Boat on the Rhine On the biggest building site in Europe, Tony Robinson and the team unearth a perfectly preserved Roman boat. Invited by Dutch archaeologists to help rescue crucial evidence from a 35-metre-long barge that once sailed the Rhine, the team have one chance to investigate the boat before the bulldozers move in.
VP320242
T BBC1 Scotland 5.25 - 5.55 pm Highlands and Islands - A focus on Scottish life over the last century, with personal accounts and rare film footage.
VP 1961703
T ITV1 Wales 5.55 - 6.25 pm Your Century Builth Wells - Looks at the developments and changes in built Wells from 1900 to the present. Featuring reminiscences from local people and unique early footage including Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in 1904, motorcycle scrambling, and the Royal Welsh coming as a permanent site to the town in 1963
VP 736797
*T BBC2 7.30 - 8.00 pm Ray Mears Extreme Survival
VP 890
Better late than never, the Radio Times Site crashed last night thankfully I had got some done as it has only just come back on line.;
*Stands for repeat programme
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Monday 13th
*T BBC1 9.30 - 10.00 am New Series Documentary Through Hell and High Water - Following Ben Fogle and James Cracknell as they out on one of the world’s toughest challenges - to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the other teams entering the race have spent two years planning, building and fine-tuning their boats for the race. With only two months until race start, Ben and James have everything to do, including building a boat, route planning and training, getting the qualifications that race organisers demand and teaching Ben to row.
VP 53077
T BBC2 800 - 8.30 pm Tales from the Palaces 7/10 The Heritage Theme Park - The Queen’s historic palaces are struggling to cover their costs, so how far should managers go to attract visitors?
VP 3874
Tuesday 14th
T BBC1 9.30 - 10.00 am Through Hell and High Water - With just seven days until race start, Ben and James arrive on La Gomera in the Canaries. From finding a hole in the bottom of their boat to nearly being disqualified, they find themselves battling all the way to the start line. But there is plenty of help on hand as friends and family all rally around to help get the boat ready
VP 32998
T BBC2 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm Valleys - The Sirhowy Valley: Tips for the Future
VP 795
T ITV1 Granada 7.30 - 8.00 pm My North West - Dean Sullivan tours the region meeting people who shape the strong character of the area. This week he meets Namibian-born boxer Ali Nuumembe in Glossop, Derbyshire, retired Manchester United player Lee Martin who scored the winning goal in the 1990 FA Cup final, and spiritualist Janice Barrat in the Stonehenge of the North
VP 849
T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 - 8.00 pm A Wartime Summer - Recreating life on the farm and in the kitchen during World War II. By the end of the war in 1945, the farm is using a combine harvester imported from America. Plus the impact of war on life in the countryside and Marguerite Patten reflects on six years of the kitchen front.
VP 849
T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 - 8.00 pm Special Report - The award-winning current affairs series exposes a Somerset butcher accused of exploiting his foreign workers by housing them in conditions unit for human habitation.
VP 849
T ITV1 West 7.30 - 8.00 pm West Eye View - This edition investigates the exploitation of migrant workers by companies in the region.
VP 849
Sorry the following programme is being shown in Northern Ireland on Wednesday at 6.00 pm
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife - 5/8 Orkney Islands - Early on tonight’s programme - Bill Oddie teaches us how to tell the difference between a common seal and a grey seal. He is in the Orkney Islands and it’s not long before his binoculars are trained on sea birds. (As last week same programme for Northern Ireland but different review, put the 2 together and you could have a longer programme, silly me!)
VP 2375
Wednesday 15th
*T BBC1 3.15 - 3.45 am Sign Zone: Britain’s Best Buildings: Windsor Castle - the largest inhabited castle in the world. Inextricably linked to the monarchy through the ages, the castle has also served as a lunatic asylum and a mausoleum.
VP 40080
T BBC1 9.30 - 10.00 am Through Hell and High Water - As the starting pistol is fired Ben and James pull ahead into the lead. James’s Olympic skills come to the fore, but not for long. The lack of preparation soon strikes again as a vital bit of kit fails. Storms have a long-term effect on the boat, as they soon realise when they start to run out of power on board.
VP 19318
T Channel 4 9.55 - 10.10 am Water Stories - T’ai Chi instructor Peter Chin reveals the healing qualities of water and shows how this ancient Chinese art takes the chore out of housework.
(I couldn’t resist this one for all you trudging marshes, seashores, rivers, etc. remember “water heals”)
VP 1279931
T BBC2 Northern Ireland 6.00 - 6.30 pm How to Watch Wildlife - 5/8 Bill makes his first ever visit to the Orkney Islands, just off the north coast of Scotland. He gets a close view of seal pups, revels in the flight of the British Albatross and is overwhelmed by the sight and sound of 50,000 sea birds on the precipitous cliffs at Marwick Head.
VP 318
T BBC1 Northern Ireland 10.45 - 11.25 pm You Thought You Knew The Border - Jim McDowell walks along the Irish border from Mgilligan Point to Carlingford Lough, meeting the people who live on both sides. He talks to a smuggler in Strabane, a farmer in Clones and a historian in Newry.
VP 181370
T BBC1 Wales 10.45 - 11.15 pm Sea Empress: 10 Years on - On the tenth anniversary of the oil tanker Sea Empress running aground and spilling more than 70,000 tonnes of oil into the sea, Iolo Williams investigates the long-term effects of one of the world’s worst oil spills, which was a disaster for environmentalists and the people of Milford Haven
VP 181370
Thursday 16th
*T BBC1 1.20 - 2.20 am Sign Zone: Life in the Undergrowth - Taking to the Air
VP 6225239
*T BBC1 2.20 - 2.50 am Sign Zone: Tales from the Palaces - Who Cares?
VP 7811235
T BBC1 9.30 - 10.00 am Through Hell and High Water - Ben and James are adrift - they have run out of electricity and they can’t make water. Finally, on Christmas Day they try their water maker and to cries of joy, it starts up again and they are back in the race. Before long they are facing a life threatening capsize that sees them pushed to the very edge.
VP 72158
Friday 17th
T BBC1 9.30 - 10.00 am Through Hell and High Water - James determination to win pulls them through their darkest hour. But with all their on board systems ruined by salt water, they have few means of letting the outside world know that they are OK. Struggling against the odds, with no water maker, no communications and intermittent navigation, they head towards the finish line.
VP 79388
*T BBC 2 11.00 - 11.30 am Journeys to the Bottom of the Sea - Lost Fleet, this programme follows American adventurer Barry Clifford’s quest to uncover the remains of a French fleet lost in treacherous waters off the Venezuelan coast over 300 years ago. The first clue comes from the discovery of a map said to have drawn at the time of the disaster - a clue which turns out to be more accurate than he could ever have hoped.
VP 5017
*T Channel 5 7.30 - 8.00 pm Built for the Kill - Miniature Assassins - This edition profiles some of the most ferocious killers on earth, including army ants, and black widow spiders - who spin a deadly web five times stronger than steel, to trap even the deadly poisonous scorpion.
VP 7244982
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.00 pm Through Hell and High Water Trying hard to balance getting acquainted with life at sea, fixing broken equipment and James’s determination to win the race, they push themselves to the very limit.
VP 4036
T Channel 5 8.00 - 9.00 pm Killer Snake of the Amazon: Austin Stevens’ Adventures Austin cheats death in the Amazon as he follows the trail of the elusive bushmaster - the largest venomous snake in the Americas. An average 12 foot in length with venom glands and fangs to match their formidable size, they are rarely seen in the wild and have attained near-mythical status among herpetologists and Amazonian Indians alike.
VP 5459235
Saturday 18th
*T BBC1 11.15 - 12.00 pm Animal Park
VP 3840321
*T BBC2 Scotland 3.00 - 3.50 pm Natural World - Ant Attack
VP 5324050
Sunday 19th
T BBC2 4.00 - 4.30 am Education - Ever Wondered? Will Giles finds out about climate control at the Eden Project. Russell Floyd discovers why the ocean is key to accurate weather forecasting
VP 75398
T Channel 4 4.40 - 5.25 am Wild Things Nature stories with an edge, including dangerous encounters between man and beast and heartwarming stories of animal survival
VP 1393068
* T Channel 5 5.05 - 5.30 am Wildlife SOSIII - Documentary showing the drama and emotion involved when injured or orphaned wild animals are rescued and saved by a group of dedicated animal lovers at a wildlife sanctuary
VP 63743364
T BBC2 5.30 - 6.00 am Landscape Mysteries - Britain Before the Ice
VP 88567
*T Channel 5 5.30 - 5.50 am Wildlife SOSIII - Documentary showing the drama and emotion involved when injured or orphaned wild animals are rescued and saved by a group of dedicated animal lovers at a wildlife sanctuary
VP 28262722
*T BBC2 Not in the North West 10.00 - 10.45 am Animal Park
VP 3778180
T BBC1 11.00 - 12.00 pm Countryfile - John Craven and Charlotte Smith take a journey along the Grand Union Canal in Buckinghamshire and Michaela Strachan reports on the role of the Women’s Timber Corps in the Second World War. Plus the controversy surrounding the dairy cows which never set foot in a field.
VP 90548
T BBC1 Scotland 11.30 - 12.00 pm Landward - Scotland’s farming and countryside programme. Featuring the celebrations to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Luing breed of cattle; the young chefs hoping to win a prestigious scholarship with some of the country’s top chefs; and a look at Harvey’s the family map-makers
VP 8890
*T Channel 5 1.10 - 1.55 pm Tim Marlow on? Bowes Museum, Co. Durham - Art Critic guides us round a unique collection of art, the product of two Victorian traits, eccentricity and philanthropy: the Bowes Museum. It’s unique not only because it has one of the greatest collections of art in the North of England but because this beautiful French chateau is found in the heart of Teesdale and was built specifically as a public gallery.
I couldn’t miss this out as I know a few of you live in the area.
VP 5118616
T ITV1 2.40 - 3.10 pm Crocodile Hunter Diaries - Celebrities and Practical Jokes 1
VP 5164722
T ITV1 Wales 4.00 - 5.00 pm Crocodile Hunter Diaries - Backstage Bedlam
VP4560
T Channel 4 5.55 - 6.50 pm Time Team - The Boat on the Rhine On the biggest building site in Europe, Tony Robinson and the team unearth a perfectly preserved Roman boat. Invited by Dutch archaeologists to help rescue crucial evidence from a 35-metre-long barge that once sailed the Rhine, the team have one chance to investigate the boat before the bulldozers move in.
VP320242
T BBC1 Scotland 5.25 - 5.55 pm Highlands and Islands - A focus on Scottish life over the last century, with personal accounts and rare film footage.
VP 1961703
T ITV1 Wales 5.55 - 6.25 pm Your Century Builth Wells - Looks at the developments and changes in built Wells from 1900 to the present. Featuring reminiscences from local people and unique early footage including Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in 1904, motorcycle scrambling, and the Royal Welsh coming as a permanent site to the town in 1963
VP 736797
*T BBC2 7.30 - 8.00 pm Ray Mears Extreme Survival
VP 890
