*Stands for repeat programme
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Monday 15th
*T BBC1 3.45 - 4.30 am Sign Zone: Animal Park: Wild in Africa
VP 3692689
T BBC1 4.30 - 4.55 pm The Really Wild Show - Best Builder Steve Backshall does some DIY with the best builders of the animal world, African termites, while Nick Baker gets close to orangutans in Borneo. Michaela Strachan meets some owls that are being forced underground in America.
VP 660
The following programme is being shown on BBC2 Wales at 11.50 - 12.40 am VP 612196
*T BBC2 11.20 - 12.10 am Hannibal: The Man, the Myth, the Mystery
VP 2922221
Tuesday 16th
*T BBC 1.20 - 2.20 am Sign Zone: Planet Earth - Fresh Water - This edition takes an epic journey journey following the descent of the planet's mightiest rivers from their mountain sources to the sea. Breathtaking river scenery is revealed by a revolutionary helicopter camera mount - from the world's highest and broadest waterfalls to the awe-inspiring spectacle of the 10,000 strong flocks of greater snow geese in flight.
VP 6547013
*T BBC1 3.20 - 4.05 am Sign Zone: Animal Park: Wild in Africa
VP 1042516
*T BBC2 11.10 - 12.00 pm Horizon - T Rex - Warrior or Wimp A look at the theory that tyrannasaurus rex, famed as a terrifying carnivore, was in fact a lumbering scavenger with bad breath. Featuring fabulous graphics and interviews with experts from around the world.
VP 1909968
*T BBC2 Wales 1.30 - 2.00 pm Hands on Nature . The focus is on grasslands - from the orchids and insect life of the South Downs to the extraordinary Machair of the Outer Hebrides, home to an elusive bird.
VP 86351
T BBC1 4.30 - 4.55 pm The Really Wild Show
VP 806
T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 - 8.00 pm New Series Ice and Fire Andy Burn presents a series that looks into what climate change could mean for the North East. With contradictory theories on what could be on its way, this first edition examines the theory that suggests Britain could become a desert.
VP 603
T ITV1 West Eye View 7.30 - 8.00 pm Porky Pies and Other Organic Foods More and more of us are paying a substantial premium and buying organic food ? but what are we getting for our money? Undercover investigation into the butchers who are breaking the law and the toothless regulators unable to protect consumers.
VP 603
T BBC2 8.30 - 9.00 pm It’s not Easy Being Green - Dick installs a second wind turbine and constructs a composting loo
VP 5852
T BBC1 Northern Ireland 9.30 - 10.00 pm Around the World in 1080 days Michael McGarrigle continues his three year hike round the planet. He becomes a jackaroo on an Australian cattle ranch at the foot of the Kimberley Mountains and discovers that the only way to herd cattle sensibly on a farm the size of County Down is from the air
VP 76974
Wednesday 17th
*T BBC1 3.15 - 4.00 am Sign Zone: Animal Park: Wild in Africa
VP 6814098
*T BBC2 10.40 - 11.30 am Horizon - Snowball Earth
An examination of the theory that life evolved as a result of one particularly severe ice age which covered not just part but the whole of the Earth - even the Tropics - in ice up to a kilometre thick. The film shows how the theory resolves long-standing anomalies, including signs of glaciation in places near the Equator, supposedly beyond old ice margins. It's a story that has taken scientists from Africa to Antarctica.
VP 8684123
T BBC1 4.30 - 4.55 pm The Really Wild Show
VP 524
T BBC1 Northern Ireland 7.00 - 7.30 pm Belfast Zoo
VP 7369
T BBC1 Wales 7.00 - 7.30 pm Iolo’s Welsh Safari. Iolo Williams returns to follow the trail of the best wildlife in Wales, this week visiting the RSPB reserve at Conwy
VP 7369
Thursday 18th
*T BBC1 2.55 am - 3.40 Sign Zone: Animal Park: Wild in Africa
VP 4828012
T Channel 4 4.25 - 5.10 am Wild Things
VP 4289050
T BBC1 4.30 - 5.00 pm The Really Wild Show
VP 470
T BBC2 Scotland 7.00 - 7.30 pm Tir is Teanga Hillwalker Colin MacLeod discovers the meaning of the place names of the Highland landscape. He explores the Lewis area of Scotland
VP 3215
T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 - 8.00 pm Coastal Inspirations - Paul visits Cromer while the pier is captured on canvas, and then watches the Sheringham Shantymen rehearsing in the lifeboat shed. And watercolour artist Martin Sexton shares his passion for the Norfolk coastline.
VP 895
T ITV1 Border & ITV Border Scottish 7.30 - 8.00 pm Solway
VP 895
T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 - 8.00 pm Sky High - Lucy Kite flies by helicopter across the 18 counties that make up the Midlands. Today’s journey begins with Nottinghamshire and its historic past, before heading north into Derbyshire and the heart of the Peak District which has some of the most glorious scenery in the country.
VP 895
T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 - 8.00 pm Bendell’s West country - Ron Bendell takes us on a trip to deepest Dorset and meets up with Billy Bragg at a Union festival, walks Somerset country lanes in the company of friends and tastes a bit of funky food in rural Cornwall
VP 895
T ITV1 Granada 7.30 - 8.00 pm - Cookery - Grub’s Up
VP 895
T ITV1 London 7.30 - 8.00 pm New Series - Off the Beaten Track with Nigel Farrell - Bizarre stories, strange events and odd characters that make up London’s colourful history. In today’s programme, Louis Wain, the frequently forged artist who made the British love cats, the bizarre burial of the man desperate to escape the body snatchers, and the Victorian plant hunter who helped create the nation’s tea drinking habit.
VP 895
T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 - 8.00 pm Coastal Ways During the height of summer on the South Coast, there is no better place to end up than on the Isle of Wight. Shanklin is an ideal stopping place for those who enjoy old fashioned seaside pleasures.
VP 895
T ITV1 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm Stories from the Street Priory Street in
Monmouth, a genteel Victorian row with an association to a playboy aristocrat who in his day was a pioneering daredevil of the car and aeroplane. The street was also home to a 12th century equivalent to J K Rowling.
VP 895
T ITV1 West 7.30 - 8.00 pm - Slimbridge at Sixty A six part series celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge. Office workers swap their suits for wellies to lend the Slimbridge’s grounds manager a hand. Meanwhile staff head to Iceland to fit ID tags on wild Whooper Swans, before they make the long flight to the Severn estuary.
VP 895
T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 - 8.00 pm Zoo Vet at Large - Series following the work of zoo vet Matt Brash at Flamingoland in North Yorkshire. Today, he treats a limping ostrich, health checks four trainee guide dogs for fitness to clear them for their future careers, and sees what is afflicting an Arab gelding with a painful sore. And he is asked to save the life of a beloved chicken
VP 895
Friday 19th
*T BBC1 2.20 - 3.05 am Sign Zone: Animal Park: Wild in Africa
VP 5341884
T Channel 4 4.25 -5.10 am Wild Things
VP 4256722
T BBC2 Northern Ireland 7.30 - 8.00 pm A Dander with Drennan - Willie Drennan walks around the Province. Willie entertains the children of Hazelbank School en-route to Slemish, the spiritual heart of County Antrim.
VP 987
T Channel 5 7.30 - 8.30 pm Alligator Attack
VP 5160249
The following programme is on BBC2 Wales 9.30 - 10.20 pm VP 601797
*T BBC2 9.00 - 9.50 am Timewatch - The Princess Spy - Documentary about
Noor Inayat Khan, who in 1943 became the first woman wireless operator to be sent into war torn France. It was the most dangerous job in SOE, Churchill’s secret army, and she was not expected to survive long. The daughter of an Indian mystic and a writer of children’s stories in war torn Paris, she was a curious choice for a secret agent but became England’s vital link with Nazi occupied Paris. Betrayed, captured and tortured Noor revealed nothing before she was executed.
VP 228987
Saturday 20th
T Channel 4 3.55 - 4.40 am Wild Things
VP 3476643
T Channel 5 5.30 - 6.00 am Wildlife Down Under with Nick Baker - Cassowary
VP 3235488
*T Channel 5 12.35 - 1.25 pm Rogue Raiders - Bears
VP 1332407
Sunday 21st
T Channel 4 4.25 - 5.10 am Wild Things
VP 4127266
*T Channel 5 5.35 - 6.00 am Animal Airport - Staff are kept on their toes by vultures, tortoises and puppies, and a long running quarantine finally comes to an end.
VP 74608247
T ITV1 10.15 - 11.15 am The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 319155
T BBC2 11.30 - 12.00 pm Country File - John Craven is on Merseyside, perhaps an unlikely location for what is being dubbed Britain’s greenest school. Charlotte Smith heads for Jersey to explore the lunar landscape revealed at low tide. This week’s video diary is from a man who is passionate about shire horses.
VP 5957
T ITV1 2.30 - 3.00 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries - A Plethora of Pythons
VP 112
T Channel 4.50 - 5.55 pm Time Team Special - The King of Bling This programme focuses on an important discovery in Southend - an Anglo Saxon tomb crammed with impressive gold artefacts. Specialists from around the world decipher the ritual significance of the precious finds in the burial chamber. Will Tony Robinson and Professor Mick Aston be able to piece together the evidence and name the so called “King of Bling”?
VP 8965599
*T BBC2 Wales 5.30 - 6.30 pm Coast - Aberystwyth to the Wirral
VP 42995
*T BBC2 6.00 - 7.00 pm Coast - Northern Ireland
VP 79518
T ITV1 Meridian 6.00 - 6.25 pm Monkey Business
VP 257957
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Monday 15th
*T BBC1 3.45 - 4.30 am Sign Zone: Animal Park: Wild in Africa
VP 3692689
T BBC1 4.30 - 4.55 pm The Really Wild Show - Best Builder Steve Backshall does some DIY with the best builders of the animal world, African termites, while Nick Baker gets close to orangutans in Borneo. Michaela Strachan meets some owls that are being forced underground in America.
VP 660
The following programme is being shown on BBC2 Wales at 11.50 - 12.40 am VP 612196
*T BBC2 11.20 - 12.10 am Hannibal: The Man, the Myth, the Mystery
VP 2922221
Tuesday 16th
*T BBC 1.20 - 2.20 am Sign Zone: Planet Earth - Fresh Water - This edition takes an epic journey journey following the descent of the planet's mightiest rivers from their mountain sources to the sea. Breathtaking river scenery is revealed by a revolutionary helicopter camera mount - from the world's highest and broadest waterfalls to the awe-inspiring spectacle of the 10,000 strong flocks of greater snow geese in flight.
VP 6547013
*T BBC1 3.20 - 4.05 am Sign Zone: Animal Park: Wild in Africa
VP 1042516
*T BBC2 11.10 - 12.00 pm Horizon - T Rex - Warrior or Wimp A look at the theory that tyrannasaurus rex, famed as a terrifying carnivore, was in fact a lumbering scavenger with bad breath. Featuring fabulous graphics and interviews with experts from around the world.
VP 1909968
*T BBC2 Wales 1.30 - 2.00 pm Hands on Nature . The focus is on grasslands - from the orchids and insect life of the South Downs to the extraordinary Machair of the Outer Hebrides, home to an elusive bird.
VP 86351
T BBC1 4.30 - 4.55 pm The Really Wild Show
VP 806
T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 - 8.00 pm New Series Ice and Fire Andy Burn presents a series that looks into what climate change could mean for the North East. With contradictory theories on what could be on its way, this first edition examines the theory that suggests Britain could become a desert.
VP 603
T ITV1 West Eye View 7.30 - 8.00 pm Porky Pies and Other Organic Foods More and more of us are paying a substantial premium and buying organic food ? but what are we getting for our money? Undercover investigation into the butchers who are breaking the law and the toothless regulators unable to protect consumers.
VP 603
T BBC2 8.30 - 9.00 pm It’s not Easy Being Green - Dick installs a second wind turbine and constructs a composting loo
VP 5852
T BBC1 Northern Ireland 9.30 - 10.00 pm Around the World in 1080 days Michael McGarrigle continues his three year hike round the planet. He becomes a jackaroo on an Australian cattle ranch at the foot of the Kimberley Mountains and discovers that the only way to herd cattle sensibly on a farm the size of County Down is from the air
VP 76974
Wednesday 17th
*T BBC1 3.15 - 4.00 am Sign Zone: Animal Park: Wild in Africa
VP 6814098
*T BBC2 10.40 - 11.30 am Horizon - Snowball Earth
An examination of the theory that life evolved as a result of one particularly severe ice age which covered not just part but the whole of the Earth - even the Tropics - in ice up to a kilometre thick. The film shows how the theory resolves long-standing anomalies, including signs of glaciation in places near the Equator, supposedly beyond old ice margins. It's a story that has taken scientists from Africa to Antarctica.
VP 8684123
T BBC1 4.30 - 4.55 pm The Really Wild Show
VP 524
T BBC1 Northern Ireland 7.00 - 7.30 pm Belfast Zoo
VP 7369
T BBC1 Wales 7.00 - 7.30 pm Iolo’s Welsh Safari. Iolo Williams returns to follow the trail of the best wildlife in Wales, this week visiting the RSPB reserve at Conwy
VP 7369
Thursday 18th
*T BBC1 2.55 am - 3.40 Sign Zone: Animal Park: Wild in Africa
VP 4828012
T Channel 4 4.25 - 5.10 am Wild Things
VP 4289050
T BBC1 4.30 - 5.00 pm The Really Wild Show
VP 470
T BBC2 Scotland 7.00 - 7.30 pm Tir is Teanga Hillwalker Colin MacLeod discovers the meaning of the place names of the Highland landscape. He explores the Lewis area of Scotland
VP 3215
T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 - 8.00 pm Coastal Inspirations - Paul visits Cromer while the pier is captured on canvas, and then watches the Sheringham Shantymen rehearsing in the lifeboat shed. And watercolour artist Martin Sexton shares his passion for the Norfolk coastline.
VP 895
T ITV1 Border & ITV Border Scottish 7.30 - 8.00 pm Solway
VP 895
T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 - 8.00 pm Sky High - Lucy Kite flies by helicopter across the 18 counties that make up the Midlands. Today’s journey begins with Nottinghamshire and its historic past, before heading north into Derbyshire and the heart of the Peak District which has some of the most glorious scenery in the country.
VP 895
T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 - 8.00 pm Bendell’s West country - Ron Bendell takes us on a trip to deepest Dorset and meets up with Billy Bragg at a Union festival, walks Somerset country lanes in the company of friends and tastes a bit of funky food in rural Cornwall
VP 895
T ITV1 Granada 7.30 - 8.00 pm - Cookery - Grub’s Up
VP 895
T ITV1 London 7.30 - 8.00 pm New Series - Off the Beaten Track with Nigel Farrell - Bizarre stories, strange events and odd characters that make up London’s colourful history. In today’s programme, Louis Wain, the frequently forged artist who made the British love cats, the bizarre burial of the man desperate to escape the body snatchers, and the Victorian plant hunter who helped create the nation’s tea drinking habit.
VP 895
T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 - 8.00 pm Coastal Ways During the height of summer on the South Coast, there is no better place to end up than on the Isle of Wight. Shanklin is an ideal stopping place for those who enjoy old fashioned seaside pleasures.
VP 895
T ITV1 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm Stories from the Street Priory Street in
Monmouth, a genteel Victorian row with an association to a playboy aristocrat who in his day was a pioneering daredevil of the car and aeroplane. The street was also home to a 12th century equivalent to J K Rowling.
VP 895
T ITV1 West 7.30 - 8.00 pm - Slimbridge at Sixty A six part series celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge. Office workers swap their suits for wellies to lend the Slimbridge’s grounds manager a hand. Meanwhile staff head to Iceland to fit ID tags on wild Whooper Swans, before they make the long flight to the Severn estuary.
VP 895
T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 - 8.00 pm Zoo Vet at Large - Series following the work of zoo vet Matt Brash at Flamingoland in North Yorkshire. Today, he treats a limping ostrich, health checks four trainee guide dogs for fitness to clear them for their future careers, and sees what is afflicting an Arab gelding with a painful sore. And he is asked to save the life of a beloved chicken
VP 895
Friday 19th
*T BBC1 2.20 - 3.05 am Sign Zone: Animal Park: Wild in Africa
VP 5341884
T Channel 4 4.25 -5.10 am Wild Things
VP 4256722
T BBC2 Northern Ireland 7.30 - 8.00 pm A Dander with Drennan - Willie Drennan walks around the Province. Willie entertains the children of Hazelbank School en-route to Slemish, the spiritual heart of County Antrim.
VP 987
T Channel 5 7.30 - 8.30 pm Alligator Attack
VP 5160249
The following programme is on BBC2 Wales 9.30 - 10.20 pm VP 601797
*T BBC2 9.00 - 9.50 am Timewatch - The Princess Spy - Documentary about
Noor Inayat Khan, who in 1943 became the first woman wireless operator to be sent into war torn France. It was the most dangerous job in SOE, Churchill’s secret army, and she was not expected to survive long. The daughter of an Indian mystic and a writer of children’s stories in war torn Paris, she was a curious choice for a secret agent but became England’s vital link with Nazi occupied Paris. Betrayed, captured and tortured Noor revealed nothing before she was executed.
VP 228987
Saturday 20th
T Channel 4 3.55 - 4.40 am Wild Things
VP 3476643
T Channel 5 5.30 - 6.00 am Wildlife Down Under with Nick Baker - Cassowary
VP 3235488
*T Channel 5 12.35 - 1.25 pm Rogue Raiders - Bears
VP 1332407
Sunday 21st
T Channel 4 4.25 - 5.10 am Wild Things
VP 4127266
*T Channel 5 5.35 - 6.00 am Animal Airport - Staff are kept on their toes by vultures, tortoises and puppies, and a long running quarantine finally comes to an end.
VP 74608247
T ITV1 10.15 - 11.15 am The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 319155
T BBC2 11.30 - 12.00 pm Country File - John Craven is on Merseyside, perhaps an unlikely location for what is being dubbed Britain’s greenest school. Charlotte Smith heads for Jersey to explore the lunar landscape revealed at low tide. This week’s video diary is from a man who is passionate about shire horses.
VP 5957
T ITV1 2.30 - 3.00 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries - A Plethora of Pythons
VP 112
T Channel 4.50 - 5.55 pm Time Team Special - The King of Bling This programme focuses on an important discovery in Southend - an Anglo Saxon tomb crammed with impressive gold artefacts. Specialists from around the world decipher the ritual significance of the precious finds in the burial chamber. Will Tony Robinson and Professor Mick Aston be able to piece together the evidence and name the so called “King of Bling”?
VP 8965599
*T BBC2 Wales 5.30 - 6.30 pm Coast - Aberystwyth to the Wirral
VP 42995
*T BBC2 6.00 - 7.00 pm Coast - Northern Ireland
VP 79518
T ITV1 Meridian 6.00 - 6.25 pm Monkey Business
VP 257957
