Hi Folks,
Please read carefully, don't want you to miss anything, I know of course we read every item carefully, don't we? The BBC were confused about Hands on Nature Sunday 26th I am now totally confused with this week's diary. Hands on Nature lovers - Same programme listed Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons under different titles A Users Guide to Natural History etc. (looks like the missed programme to me, or how many series has Chris Packham done?). I will check daily to see if one or both programmes are switched or removed. Also please note some regional differences in timing of some programmes, not many blink and you miss them.
I know many people think Animal Park is for youngsters etc. but please watch, there are birds (feathered varieties boys) there too and big ones. Tuesday's episode has Giant Eagle Owls in it.
Ann
*Stands for repeat programme
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Monday 27th
T BBC2 6,00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa 1/15 Ben Fogle and Kate Humble are on safari in Namibia as they come face to face with some of Africa’s wildest animals. A bull elephant faces certain death unless the wildlife vet can reach him in time. Kate tracks wild rhino on foot in the bush and Ben comes face to face with Africa’s most dangerous animal.
VP 398
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm Tales from the Palaces 8/10 The Secret Lives of Palaces - Behind the scenes and after hours, the real work takes place there is an attempt to date the oldest part of the Tower of London, a massive salvage exercise prepares Kensington Palace for disaster and there is confusion when a bear arrives at Hampton Court
VP 9398
Tuesday 28th
*T BBC2 1.30 - 2.30 pm British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History - Chris Packham leads a team of local reporters and enthusiasts, who offer hints on how to appreciate natural history. This edition looks at coastal and island habitats.
VP 6583
*T Channel 4 12.30 - 12.50 pm Small Railway Journeys - Jonathan Glancey discovers the railway lines that should have disappeared long ago but live on against the odds as he encounters odd characters and peculiar places.
VP 7859480
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon Eight teens are plucked from their normal lives and plonked in an unfamiliar and extreme environment in the heart of the Amazon jungle these intrepid, underage explorers will meet the local tribes people and attempt to save two endangered animal species from extinction. For this gang, encounters with tropical beats (we’re talking tarantulas, snakes and mosquitoes) will soon seem as normal as brushing their teeth.
VP 1668664
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - Seven endangered African wild dog pups face a worrying future after their parents are killed. Kate follows the game capture crew who risk their lives to move animals to safer havens and Ben meets a giant eagle owl that preys on other owls.
VP 157
T BBC2 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm A Farm in Peril - Documentary series following the survival struggles of a family farm over twelve turbulent months. Spring slowly gives way to summer but hill farming can no longer slavishly follow the rhythm of the seasons. It means a sharp break with old ways and the adoption of practices which must be endured if not welcomed.
VP 393
T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 - 8.00 pm Anglia Special Edition - Flagship live current affairs series examining a key issue confronting the region. How can householders cut soaring fuel bills? And is there a cheaper, greener way of producing the energy they need.
VP 119
T ITV1 Carlton 7.30 - 8.00 pm - Investigating the region’s zoos. It is claimed some are operating illegally and that local authorities are struggling to properly manage licensing procedures. Presented by Philippa Matthews.
VP 119
T ITV1 London - 7.30 - 8.00 pm How Green is your House - North London actress and mother-of-three Linda Robson gets an eco-makeover from green lifestyle coach Donnachadh McCarthy. The idea is to change Linda’s everyday habits and routines to save energy and money and to help her do her bit to save the planet. The London Programme finds out how she copes with the new routine.
VP 119
T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 - 8.00 pm Earthquake - A Cry for Help Reporter Jon Hill travels into the mountain villages flattened in the Pakistan earthquake, and meets the people from this region rallying to help communities half a world away.
VP 119
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm New Series The Bart and the Bounder - In Cornwall - There’s an authentic whiff of old England about this rough-and-ready-one-off. Its stars are plumy Sir Richard Heygate (“the Bart) and eccentric Michael Daunt (“the Bounder”), the kind of hearty shootin’ and fishin’ types who rarely make it to our screens these days. Rattling around Cornwall in a Land Rover trying to catch a salmon and bag the ingredients for a pigeon pie, they manage, Two Fat Ladies style, to get across their vision of the joys of country life. Watching Daunt “peel” a pigeon or the pair of them downing smoked eel and sloe gin on a rowing boat, it’s hard not to feel a tweak of nostalgia - and envy.
VP 4515
T BBC2 8.30 - 9.00 pm Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife - 7/8 River Frome - Bill Oddie explores the delights of Dorset’s River Frome in autumn and uncovers what could be the real inspiration for Ratty in the Wind in The Willows, one of Bill’s favourite books. He also reveals the enigma of the mute swan and grapples with native crayfish before ending his journey with avocets and little egrets at the river’s mouth in Poole.
VP 3022
Sorry the following two programmes are being shown on BBC2 Wales at 12.20 - 12.50 am & 12.50 - 1.20 pm
VP Nos. 5571284 & 3931994 respectively
T BBC2 11.20 - 11.50 pm Holidays in the Danger Zone: Rivers 3/5 Euphrates - Ben Anderson explores life along some of the world’s great rivers, as his intrepid travels take him to the conflict zone of the Euphrates. An official visit to the Attaturk Dam brings the arrival of secret service agents intent on stopping the team from filming. Ben joins British soldiers on exercise with the Iraqi navy and travels through the famous marshlands, destroyed by Saddam.
VP 616041
Wednesday 1st
T BB2 11.50 - 12.20 am Holidays in the Danger Zone: Rivers 4/5 Jordan - His travels take him to Israel, where he meets devout Christians at the site of Jesus’s baptism on the Jordan river, and is caught in a riot as Palestinians and Israelis fight over the new security wall that may separate Palestinian farmers from their land and water.
VP 654461
Sorry the following programme is not being shown on BBC2 Scotland or BBC2 Wales
*T BBC 2 2.00 - 3.00 pm British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History - Chris Packham leads a team of local reporters and enthusiasts, who offer hints on how to appreciate natural history. This edition looks at coastal and island habitats. (Same programme again?)
VP 70888
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - Ben and Kate meet the big cat scientist who studies the desert lions, and have a close encounter with a herd of over 100 elephant on a bush walk. They also hear the curious story of Adolf Winter, the man who made his money out of bird droppings.
VP 49
*T BBC1 Wales 7.10 - 8.00 pm Flying with Kites - Iolo Williams tries to realise his lifelong dream of flying like a bird, as falconry experts train three young red kites to fly alongside a paraglide that Iolo himself has to learn to pilot. He has to read the landscape as a red kite does, searching for rising air, soaring above mountain ridges and circling to stay in thermals.
VP 691913
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.50 pm Natural World - The Iceberg that Sunk the Titanic - Documentary which explores one crucial piece of the Titanic jigsaw that always escapes attention - the iceberg that caused the catastrophe. Conceived 15,000 years before the Titanic, its life story is very bit as fascinating. With the help of ice scientists, its origins are revealed - its creation in the heart of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Its dramatic birth from the mother glacier and an epic 4,000 mile journey through Arctic seas, towards a terrible date with destiny.
VP 296623
Thursday 2nd
*T BBC1 1.25 - 2.25 am Sign Zone: Life in the Undergrowth - Intimate Relations
VP 7705579
*T BBC1 2.25 - 2.55 am - Sign Zone: Tales from the Palaces - The Heritage Theme Park
VP 4531840
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon - The first night camping out in the heart of the rainforest proves much tougher than expected, and some adventurers reach breaking point.
VP 1106024
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - Three giraffe must be captured and moved to save them from starvation. Also, Ben and Kate are kayaking with seals off the Skeleton Coast
VP 37
*T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Killer Whales - A young killer whale called Delphine is ready to become a top predator. Elephant seals and Emperor penguins are on the menu and she must perfect the technique of catching and eating them if she is to survive into adulthood. It’s a slippery learning curve and Delphine is not a perfect pupil.
VP 9130395
ITV1 Granada 7.30 - 8.00 pm Locks and Quays - Fred Talbot visit’s the historic Glasson Dock and meets the people living on the Lancaster Canal. Plus, a history of the decoration on narrow boats and barges and delving into the famous boat lift in Cheshire.
VP 27
ITV1 Border 7.30 - 8.00 pm Heartland - A personal journey through the history of the Scottish Borders with Alistair Moffat. Stunning aerial photography and sweeping vistas bring this fascinating, centuries-old tale alive. From the centuries following the Ice Age to the building of great abbeys, Sir Walter Scott and more, this is the story of the Borders.
VP 27
ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 - 8.00 pm Water world - Actress Zita Sattar takes a supporting role as her three-month-old daughter steals the show aboard her great, great, great grandfather’s old steamboat. Plus the boatman who met the Queen, and a cruise alone the shortest canal in the country.
VP 27
ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 - 8.00 pm The Forgotten Farm - Fern Britton narrates the series charting the ambitious plans for Holwell Farm on Dartmoor
VP 27
ITV1 London 7.30 - 8.00 pm Tales from the Country - Tony Francis investigates the charms of the Lee Valley - hinterland of the winning London 2012 Olympic bid. He encounters glasshouses growing the nation’s cucumbers, derelict gunpowder mills and coots at every turn. But what changes will the Olympics bring to one of the few havens of countryside left in the cityscape?
VP 27
ITV1 Meridian 7.30 - 8.00 pm The Way we Were - A nostalgic look back in time featuring vintage footage from the South and the memories of local personalities. This week growing pains from that first nerve-wracking date to faux pas fashions.
VP 27
ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 - 8.00 pm The Way we Were - Home Made Hollywood - In this edition, a tribute to the movie-makers who passed on their unique records of life in past in the North East.
VP 27
ITV1 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm Great Welsh Roads - Against the Flow - Travel writer Mike Parker explores Wales in a camper van. In today’s edition, he journeys from Birmingham to mid-Wales, tracing the pipeline of the Elan Valley reservoirs.
VP 27
ITV1 West 7.30 - 8.00 pm New Series Tunnels Chris Serle presents a series about some of the region’s most interesting underground sites including caves, calamine and iron mines, underground funiculars, subterranean sabotage shelters and a sub-aqua railway tunnel. This programme recalls the lively history of a railway tunnel that was vital to the people of Hotwells and Clifton during the 1940s, and explores two underground shelters from the second world war.
VP 27
ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 - 8.00 pm The Way we Were - Nostalgic series using archive film and real-life experiences to illustrate how life has changed over the past 100 years, exploring family life, wartime experiences, work, the countryside, leisure and schooldays.
VP 27
Friday 3rd
*T Channel 4 4.45 - 5.30 am Wild Things
Nature stories with an edge, including dangerous encounters between man and beast and heartwarming stories of animal survival
VP 3460845
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - Ben and Kate meet a lion who faces an amputation unless the vet can treat his injured paw. Plus a day in the life of a waterhole, why elephants prefer to drink alone.
VP 25
*T BBC2 7.30 - 8.00 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 61
*T Channel 5 7.30 - 8.30 pm Snake Hunter: Search for the King Cobra - Austin Stevens tries to find the world’s biggest and deadliest snakes. In this edition he goes to India in search of the king cobra, the biggest venomous snake in the world. Along the way he also gets a look at the spectacled cobra, wraps a tiger python around and body, and witnesses the deadly bite of a Russell’s Viper.
VP 3380116
T BBC2 9.00 - 9.50 pm Timewatch - Missing in Action - During the intense aerial campaigns of the Vietnam War, more than 1,300 American pilots would be declared missing in action. 30 years after the end of the war, a unique unit of the American military goes in search of two pilots who were shot down in 1967 whilst returning from a bombing mission over Hanoi. The US government has a mandate to search for all servicemen missing from all previous conflicts, but the wife of one of the missing pilots believes the search for her husband should stop.
VP 722135
Saturday 4th
*T BBC1 1.55 - 2.55 am Sign Zone: Life in the Undergrowth - Intimate Relations
VP 882636
T Channel 4 4.30 - 5.15 am Wild Things
VP 3374094
*T BBC2 Scotland 1.10 - 2.10 pm British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History - This edition looks back to the industrial revolution and offers some ideas on the best industrial landscapes to explore.
VP 7073029
T BBC2 Scotland 4.30 - 5.00 pm Animal Park Wild in Africa - They meet a lion who faces an amputation unless the vet can treat his injured paw. Plus a day in the life of a waterhole - why elephants prefer to drink alone.
VP 520
Just for Oddie & The Goodies Fans - Sorry Euan you have got Masterchef in Scotland & Wales has Snooker
T BBC2 London & South East/North West/Northern Ireland 7.10 - 7.40 pm The Goodies - Winter Olympics Classic comedy. The Minister of Sport persuades the Goodies to represent Britain in the Winter Olympics at the North Pole.
VP 673487
Sunday 5th
T BBC2 3.00 - 3.30 am Education - The Science of Climate - This programme asks if humans are responsible for global warming, or if it’s a natural process of the Earth’s climate.
VP 11501
T BBC2 5.00 - 5.30 am Rapid Climate Change - Three Scientists visit their former research sites to explain the effects of climate change during the Quaternary period.
VP 60389
T BBC2 5.30 - 6.00 am Landscape Mysteries - The Tower People of Shetland - Documentary exploring the history of Britain’s landscape. In Shetland, on the far edge of Europe, a series of monumental stone towers called brochs once dominated the landscape, but their origin is a mystery. Aubrey Manning sets off on a journey to discover who might have built the towers and to find out what purpose they served.VP 10259
* T Channel 5 4.50 - 5.10 am Wildlife SOS - 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 52996230
*T Channel 5 5.10 - 5.35 am Wildlife SOS
VP 20038218
T BBC1 11.00 - 12.00 am Countryfile - John Craven and Charlotte Smith find out how prehistoric man has left his mark on the North Wessex Downs. Adam Henson reports on controversial plans to build a 180-mile gas pipeline through the Welsh countryside. Plus, the ancient art of dry-stone walling and a journey along the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire.
VP 74691
T BBC1 Scotland 11.30 - 12.00 pm Landward - Scotland’s farming and countryside programme. The team reveal new evidence that Ragwort may be causing more equine deaths than originally thought. And the winner of a write in competition gets to spend the day on a dairy farm.
VP 9747
T ITV1 Wales 11.55 - 12.25 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 7442211
T ITV1 Wales 12.25 - 12.55 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 7639495
Sorry the following programme is not being shown in the North West
*T BBC2 12.55 - 1.25 pm Wildlife - no details
VP 9575132
*T Channel 5 1.10 - 1.40 pm Animals at War
VP 19765698
*T BBC2 Wales 4.30 - 5.00 pm Hands on Nature - Chris Packham heads for the uplands to show you how to spot the mysterious mountain animals of the Cairngorms and discover why Dartmoor if a hotspot for pied flycatchers, tree creepers and wood ants.
VP 308
T Channel 4 5.55 - 6.50 pm Time Team - The Monks’ Manor Tony Robinson’s archaeological team travel to the Yorkshire Dales to meet Chris and Barbara Bradley on their farm to uncover the remains of a monastic grange - a medieval forerunner to the grand country house.
VP 803143
*T BBC2 5.30 - 6.10 pm Wild Mallorca a unique island tour of the Mediterranean’s Galapagos, seen through the eyes of local people and full of the rare wildlife they are helping to protect. Midwife toads still sing in mountain canyons, and black vultures are the emblem of the mountain people. Offshore, protected islets are release sites for rescued loggerhead turtles and home to friendly lizards and endangered Balearic shearwaters and next to the high rise hotels is the Albufera swamp, home to purple swamp hens and egret colonies.
VP 880327
Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland or Wales *T BBC2 6.10 - 7.00 pm Natural World The Iceberg that Sunk the Titanic - Documentary which explores one crucial piece of the Titanic jigsaw that always escapes attention - the iceberg that caused the catastrophe. Conceived 15,000 years before the Titanic, its life story is very bit as fascinating. With the help of ice scientists, its origins are revealed - its creation in the heart of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Its dramatic birth from the mother glacier and an epic 4,000 mile journey through Arctic seas, towards a terrible date with destiny.
VP 595747
* T BBC1 Scotland 6.15 - 6.45 pm Scotland on Film - Aberdeen and Grampian A focus on Scottish life over the last century, with personal accounts and rare film footage. Aberdonians remember the grey granite city in it’s hey day: a harbour that was home to 200 fishing boats and a market that sold 600 tons of fish a day.
VP 143650
T ITV1 Wales 6.00 - 6.30 pm New Series Celtic Monsters - Dragons and Serpents - Ancient Celtic tales for the 21st Century, presented by poet and singer Twm Morys. This edition goes in search of dragons and serpents from Dinas Emrys and Llyn Tegid in Wales, to Loch Ness in Scotland, and the River Shannon Snake in Ireland. T James Jones, Dewi Bowen and Sian James are among those who relate these stories.
VP 327
T BBC1 9.00 - 10.00 pm New Series Planet Earth - From Pole to Pole - Documentary series which celebrates our planet in all its glory, both its spectacular scenery and its captivating natural history. This episode journeys across the planet, following the influence of the sun and discovering how its seasonal journey affects the lives of all who live on earth. As spring arrives in the Arctic, a mother polar bear emerges from her den with two tiny cubs. At the other end of the planet winter arrives and Emperor penguins are plunged into darkness for four months.
VP 3679
Please read carefully, don't want you to miss anything, I know of course we read every item carefully, don't we? The BBC were confused about Hands on Nature Sunday 26th I am now totally confused with this week's diary. Hands on Nature lovers - Same programme listed Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons under different titles A Users Guide to Natural History etc. (looks like the missed programme to me, or how many series has Chris Packham done?). I will check daily to see if one or both programmes are switched or removed. Also please note some regional differences in timing of some programmes, not many blink and you miss them.
I know many people think Animal Park is for youngsters etc. but please watch, there are birds (feathered varieties boys) there too and big ones. Tuesday's episode has Giant Eagle Owls in it.
Ann
*Stands for repeat programme
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Monday 27th
T BBC2 6,00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa 1/15 Ben Fogle and Kate Humble are on safari in Namibia as they come face to face with some of Africa’s wildest animals. A bull elephant faces certain death unless the wildlife vet can reach him in time. Kate tracks wild rhino on foot in the bush and Ben comes face to face with Africa’s most dangerous animal.
VP 398
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm Tales from the Palaces 8/10 The Secret Lives of Palaces - Behind the scenes and after hours, the real work takes place there is an attempt to date the oldest part of the Tower of London, a massive salvage exercise prepares Kensington Palace for disaster and there is confusion when a bear arrives at Hampton Court
VP 9398
Tuesday 28th
*T BBC2 1.30 - 2.30 pm British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History - Chris Packham leads a team of local reporters and enthusiasts, who offer hints on how to appreciate natural history. This edition looks at coastal and island habitats.
VP 6583
*T Channel 4 12.30 - 12.50 pm Small Railway Journeys - Jonathan Glancey discovers the railway lines that should have disappeared long ago but live on against the odds as he encounters odd characters and peculiar places.
VP 7859480
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon Eight teens are plucked from their normal lives and plonked in an unfamiliar and extreme environment in the heart of the Amazon jungle these intrepid, underage explorers will meet the local tribes people and attempt to save two endangered animal species from extinction. For this gang, encounters with tropical beats (we’re talking tarantulas, snakes and mosquitoes) will soon seem as normal as brushing their teeth.
VP 1668664
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - Seven endangered African wild dog pups face a worrying future after their parents are killed. Kate follows the game capture crew who risk their lives to move animals to safer havens and Ben meets a giant eagle owl that preys on other owls.
VP 157
T BBC2 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm A Farm in Peril - Documentary series following the survival struggles of a family farm over twelve turbulent months. Spring slowly gives way to summer but hill farming can no longer slavishly follow the rhythm of the seasons. It means a sharp break with old ways and the adoption of practices which must be endured if not welcomed.
VP 393
T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 - 8.00 pm Anglia Special Edition - Flagship live current affairs series examining a key issue confronting the region. How can householders cut soaring fuel bills? And is there a cheaper, greener way of producing the energy they need.
VP 119
T ITV1 Carlton 7.30 - 8.00 pm - Investigating the region’s zoos. It is claimed some are operating illegally and that local authorities are struggling to properly manage licensing procedures. Presented by Philippa Matthews.
VP 119
T ITV1 London - 7.30 - 8.00 pm How Green is your House - North London actress and mother-of-three Linda Robson gets an eco-makeover from green lifestyle coach Donnachadh McCarthy. The idea is to change Linda’s everyday habits and routines to save energy and money and to help her do her bit to save the planet. The London Programme finds out how she copes with the new routine.
VP 119
T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 - 8.00 pm Earthquake - A Cry for Help Reporter Jon Hill travels into the mountain villages flattened in the Pakistan earthquake, and meets the people from this region rallying to help communities half a world away.
VP 119
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm New Series The Bart and the Bounder - In Cornwall - There’s an authentic whiff of old England about this rough-and-ready-one-off. Its stars are plumy Sir Richard Heygate (“the Bart) and eccentric Michael Daunt (“the Bounder”), the kind of hearty shootin’ and fishin’ types who rarely make it to our screens these days. Rattling around Cornwall in a Land Rover trying to catch a salmon and bag the ingredients for a pigeon pie, they manage, Two Fat Ladies style, to get across their vision of the joys of country life. Watching Daunt “peel” a pigeon or the pair of them downing smoked eel and sloe gin on a rowing boat, it’s hard not to feel a tweak of nostalgia - and envy.
VP 4515
T BBC2 8.30 - 9.00 pm Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife - 7/8 River Frome - Bill Oddie explores the delights of Dorset’s River Frome in autumn and uncovers what could be the real inspiration for Ratty in the Wind in The Willows, one of Bill’s favourite books. He also reveals the enigma of the mute swan and grapples with native crayfish before ending his journey with avocets and little egrets at the river’s mouth in Poole.
VP 3022
Sorry the following two programmes are being shown on BBC2 Wales at 12.20 - 12.50 am & 12.50 - 1.20 pm
VP Nos. 5571284 & 3931994 respectively
T BBC2 11.20 - 11.50 pm Holidays in the Danger Zone: Rivers 3/5 Euphrates - Ben Anderson explores life along some of the world’s great rivers, as his intrepid travels take him to the conflict zone of the Euphrates. An official visit to the Attaturk Dam brings the arrival of secret service agents intent on stopping the team from filming. Ben joins British soldiers on exercise with the Iraqi navy and travels through the famous marshlands, destroyed by Saddam.
VP 616041
Wednesday 1st
T BB2 11.50 - 12.20 am Holidays in the Danger Zone: Rivers 4/5 Jordan - His travels take him to Israel, where he meets devout Christians at the site of Jesus’s baptism on the Jordan river, and is caught in a riot as Palestinians and Israelis fight over the new security wall that may separate Palestinian farmers from their land and water.
VP 654461
Sorry the following programme is not being shown on BBC2 Scotland or BBC2 Wales
*T BBC 2 2.00 - 3.00 pm British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History - Chris Packham leads a team of local reporters and enthusiasts, who offer hints on how to appreciate natural history. This edition looks at coastal and island habitats. (Same programme again?)
VP 70888
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - Ben and Kate meet the big cat scientist who studies the desert lions, and have a close encounter with a herd of over 100 elephant on a bush walk. They also hear the curious story of Adolf Winter, the man who made his money out of bird droppings.
VP 49
*T BBC1 Wales 7.10 - 8.00 pm Flying with Kites - Iolo Williams tries to realise his lifelong dream of flying like a bird, as falconry experts train three young red kites to fly alongside a paraglide that Iolo himself has to learn to pilot. He has to read the landscape as a red kite does, searching for rising air, soaring above mountain ridges and circling to stay in thermals.
VP 691913
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.50 pm Natural World - The Iceberg that Sunk the Titanic - Documentary which explores one crucial piece of the Titanic jigsaw that always escapes attention - the iceberg that caused the catastrophe. Conceived 15,000 years before the Titanic, its life story is very bit as fascinating. With the help of ice scientists, its origins are revealed - its creation in the heart of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Its dramatic birth from the mother glacier and an epic 4,000 mile journey through Arctic seas, towards a terrible date with destiny.
VP 296623
Thursday 2nd
*T BBC1 1.25 - 2.25 am Sign Zone: Life in the Undergrowth - Intimate Relations
VP 7705579
*T BBC1 2.25 - 2.55 am - Sign Zone: Tales from the Palaces - The Heritage Theme Park
VP 4531840
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon - The first night camping out in the heart of the rainforest proves much tougher than expected, and some adventurers reach breaking point.
VP 1106024
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - Three giraffe must be captured and moved to save them from starvation. Also, Ben and Kate are kayaking with seals off the Skeleton Coast
VP 37
*T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Killer Whales - A young killer whale called Delphine is ready to become a top predator. Elephant seals and Emperor penguins are on the menu and she must perfect the technique of catching and eating them if she is to survive into adulthood. It’s a slippery learning curve and Delphine is not a perfect pupil.
VP 9130395
ITV1 Granada 7.30 - 8.00 pm Locks and Quays - Fred Talbot visit’s the historic Glasson Dock and meets the people living on the Lancaster Canal. Plus, a history of the decoration on narrow boats and barges and delving into the famous boat lift in Cheshire.
VP 27
ITV1 Border 7.30 - 8.00 pm Heartland - A personal journey through the history of the Scottish Borders with Alistair Moffat. Stunning aerial photography and sweeping vistas bring this fascinating, centuries-old tale alive. From the centuries following the Ice Age to the building of great abbeys, Sir Walter Scott and more, this is the story of the Borders.
VP 27
ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 - 8.00 pm Water world - Actress Zita Sattar takes a supporting role as her three-month-old daughter steals the show aboard her great, great, great grandfather’s old steamboat. Plus the boatman who met the Queen, and a cruise alone the shortest canal in the country.
VP 27
ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 - 8.00 pm The Forgotten Farm - Fern Britton narrates the series charting the ambitious plans for Holwell Farm on Dartmoor
VP 27
ITV1 London 7.30 - 8.00 pm Tales from the Country - Tony Francis investigates the charms of the Lee Valley - hinterland of the winning London 2012 Olympic bid. He encounters glasshouses growing the nation’s cucumbers, derelict gunpowder mills and coots at every turn. But what changes will the Olympics bring to one of the few havens of countryside left in the cityscape?
VP 27
ITV1 Meridian 7.30 - 8.00 pm The Way we Were - A nostalgic look back in time featuring vintage footage from the South and the memories of local personalities. This week growing pains from that first nerve-wracking date to faux pas fashions.
VP 27
ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 - 8.00 pm The Way we Were - Home Made Hollywood - In this edition, a tribute to the movie-makers who passed on their unique records of life in past in the North East.
VP 27
ITV1 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm Great Welsh Roads - Against the Flow - Travel writer Mike Parker explores Wales in a camper van. In today’s edition, he journeys from Birmingham to mid-Wales, tracing the pipeline of the Elan Valley reservoirs.
VP 27
ITV1 West 7.30 - 8.00 pm New Series Tunnels Chris Serle presents a series about some of the region’s most interesting underground sites including caves, calamine and iron mines, underground funiculars, subterranean sabotage shelters and a sub-aqua railway tunnel. This programme recalls the lively history of a railway tunnel that was vital to the people of Hotwells and Clifton during the 1940s, and explores two underground shelters from the second world war.
VP 27
ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 - 8.00 pm The Way we Were - Nostalgic series using archive film and real-life experiences to illustrate how life has changed over the past 100 years, exploring family life, wartime experiences, work, the countryside, leisure and schooldays.
VP 27
Friday 3rd
*T Channel 4 4.45 - 5.30 am Wild Things
Nature stories with an edge, including dangerous encounters between man and beast and heartwarming stories of animal survival
VP 3460845
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - Ben and Kate meet a lion who faces an amputation unless the vet can treat his injured paw. Plus a day in the life of a waterhole, why elephants prefer to drink alone.
VP 25
*T BBC2 7.30 - 8.00 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.
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*T Channel 5 7.30 - 8.30 pm Snake Hunter: Search for the King Cobra - Austin Stevens tries to find the world’s biggest and deadliest snakes. In this edition he goes to India in search of the king cobra, the biggest venomous snake in the world. Along the way he also gets a look at the spectacled cobra, wraps a tiger python around and body, and witnesses the deadly bite of a Russell’s Viper.
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T BBC2 9.00 - 9.50 pm Timewatch - Missing in Action - During the intense aerial campaigns of the Vietnam War, more than 1,300 American pilots would be declared missing in action. 30 years after the end of the war, a unique unit of the American military goes in search of two pilots who were shot down in 1967 whilst returning from a bombing mission over Hanoi. The US government has a mandate to search for all servicemen missing from all previous conflicts, but the wife of one of the missing pilots believes the search for her husband should stop.
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Saturday 4th
*T BBC1 1.55 - 2.55 am Sign Zone: Life in the Undergrowth - Intimate Relations
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T Channel 4 4.30 - 5.15 am Wild Things
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*T BBC2 Scotland 1.10 - 2.10 pm British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History - This edition looks back to the industrial revolution and offers some ideas on the best industrial landscapes to explore.
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T BBC2 Scotland 4.30 - 5.00 pm Animal Park Wild in Africa - They meet a lion who faces an amputation unless the vet can treat his injured paw. Plus a day in the life of a waterhole - why elephants prefer to drink alone.
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Just for Oddie & The Goodies Fans - Sorry Euan you have got Masterchef in Scotland & Wales has Snooker
T BBC2 London & South East/North West/Northern Ireland 7.10 - 7.40 pm The Goodies - Winter Olympics Classic comedy. The Minister of Sport persuades the Goodies to represent Britain in the Winter Olympics at the North Pole.
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Sunday 5th
T BBC2 3.00 - 3.30 am Education - The Science of Climate - This programme asks if humans are responsible for global warming, or if it’s a natural process of the Earth’s climate.
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T BBC2 5.00 - 5.30 am Rapid Climate Change - Three Scientists visit their former research sites to explain the effects of climate change during the Quaternary period.
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T BBC2 5.30 - 6.00 am Landscape Mysteries - The Tower People of Shetland - Documentary exploring the history of Britain’s landscape. In Shetland, on the far edge of Europe, a series of monumental stone towers called brochs once dominated the landscape, but their origin is a mystery. Aubrey Manning sets off on a journey to discover who might have built the towers and to find out what purpose they served.VP 10259
* T Channel 5 4.50 - 5.10 am Wildlife SOS - 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
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*T Channel 5 5.10 - 5.35 am Wildlife SOS
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T BBC1 11.00 - 12.00 am Countryfile - John Craven and Charlotte Smith find out how prehistoric man has left his mark on the North Wessex Downs. Adam Henson reports on controversial plans to build a 180-mile gas pipeline through the Welsh countryside. Plus, the ancient art of dry-stone walling and a journey along the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire.
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T BBC1 Scotland 11.30 - 12.00 pm Landward - Scotland’s farming and countryside programme. The team reveal new evidence that Ragwort may be causing more equine deaths than originally thought. And the winner of a write in competition gets to spend the day on a dairy farm.
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T ITV1 Wales 11.55 - 12.25 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
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T ITV1 Wales 12.25 - 12.55 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
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*T BBC2 12.55 - 1.25 pm Wildlife - no details
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*T Channel 5 1.10 - 1.40 pm Animals at War
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*T BBC2 Wales 4.30 - 5.00 pm Hands on Nature - Chris Packham heads for the uplands to show you how to spot the mysterious mountain animals of the Cairngorms and discover why Dartmoor if a hotspot for pied flycatchers, tree creepers and wood ants.
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T Channel 4 5.55 - 6.50 pm Time Team - The Monks’ Manor Tony Robinson’s archaeological team travel to the Yorkshire Dales to meet Chris and Barbara Bradley on their farm to uncover the remains of a monastic grange - a medieval forerunner to the grand country house.
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*T BBC2 5.30 - 6.10 pm Wild Mallorca a unique island tour of the Mediterranean’s Galapagos, seen through the eyes of local people and full of the rare wildlife they are helping to protect. Midwife toads still sing in mountain canyons, and black vultures are the emblem of the mountain people. Offshore, protected islets are release sites for rescued loggerhead turtles and home to friendly lizards and endangered Balearic shearwaters and next to the high rise hotels is the Albufera swamp, home to purple swamp hens and egret colonies.
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Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland or Wales *T BBC2 6.10 - 7.00 pm Natural World The Iceberg that Sunk the Titanic - Documentary which explores one crucial piece of the Titanic jigsaw that always escapes attention - the iceberg that caused the catastrophe. Conceived 15,000 years before the Titanic, its life story is very bit as fascinating. With the help of ice scientists, its origins are revealed - its creation in the heart of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Its dramatic birth from the mother glacier and an epic 4,000 mile journey through Arctic seas, towards a terrible date with destiny.
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* T BBC1 Scotland 6.15 - 6.45 pm Scotland on Film - Aberdeen and Grampian A focus on Scottish life over the last century, with personal accounts and rare film footage. Aberdonians remember the grey granite city in it’s hey day: a harbour that was home to 200 fishing boats and a market that sold 600 tons of fish a day.
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T ITV1 Wales 6.00 - 6.30 pm New Series Celtic Monsters - Dragons and Serpents - Ancient Celtic tales for the 21st Century, presented by poet and singer Twm Morys. This edition goes in search of dragons and serpents from Dinas Emrys and Llyn Tegid in Wales, to Loch Ness in Scotland, and the River Shannon Snake in Ireland. T James Jones, Dewi Bowen and Sian James are among those who relate these stories.
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T BBC1 9.00 - 10.00 pm New Series Planet Earth - From Pole to Pole - Documentary series which celebrates our planet in all its glory, both its spectacular scenery and its captivating natural history. This episode journeys across the planet, following the influence of the sun and discovering how its seasonal journey affects the lives of all who live on earth. As spring arrives in the Arctic, a mother polar bear emerges from her den with two tiny cubs. At the other end of the planet winter arrives and Emperor penguins are plunged into darkness for four months.
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