Hi Folks,
Love him or loathe him Bill Oddie is on 3 times this week
Ann
*Stands for repeat programme
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Monday 6th
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa A fatal illness has broken out amongst the litter of orphaned wild dog puppies. There’s a deadly situation when a lethal snake gets in the offices and we meet Smudge, a rescued baby otter.
VP 761
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm Tales from the Palaces 9/10 The Great Resource. Heston Blumenthal turns to the Hampton Court food historians when he opens a new venue offering food untried for four years. And following a disastrous fire at a heritage building in the Weimar the palace salvage experts are called in.
VP 7693
Tuesday 7th
*T BBC2 11.10 - 12.00 pm Horizon - Documentary series looks at how Britain could be heading towards an Alaskan-type climate as scientists believe that the Gulf Stream, which keeps temperatures unusually high for such a northerly latitude is gradually being cut off.
VP 7028552
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon
VP 1908484 Any younger members wanting a challenge the BBC are looking for volunteers for their next trip to the Andes.
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - A wild cheetah is caught in a farmer’s trap. Can the rescuers reach him in time. Kate learns about the birds and the bees on the Okavango river and Ben goes fishing in crocodile-infested waters.
VP 649
T BBC 2 Wales 7.00 - 7.30 pm The Welsh Way of Life - The Age of Innocence Documentary looking at how life in the Welsh countryside has changed over the last 50 years - story of how childhood has changed featuring rare clips from the archives.
VP 7129
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. The economic threat to small family farms grows ever more menacing but, in Breconshire, that doesn’t mean that all summer pleasures must be abandoned. The struggle for growth and survival goes on but there are important appointments to be kept, like the YFC Rally and the choir’s annual outing.
VP 113
Sorry the following programme is being shown on BBC2 Northern Ireland on Friday
T BBC2 8.30 - 9.00 pm Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife - Bill’s Favourite Moments - Bill takes a trip down memory lane to revisit some of his favourite wildlife-watching moments of the last 10 years, including swimming with seals, hand-feeding badgers and witnessing a flock of half a million starlings.
VP 2484
T BBC2 11.20 - 11.50 pm Holidays in the Danger Zone: Rivers - Congo - Ben Anderson explores life along some of the world’s great rivers, as his intrepid travels take him along the Congo, where he meets passengers waiting on a ferry that has never left Kinshasa’s port and soldiers extorting taxes from the river traders under the nose of the UN.
VP 824945
*T BBC2 11.50 - 12.40 am The River that Swallows all Rivers. The Congo River is now so wide that animals are unable to cross it. Intelligent but aggressive chimpanzees inhabit the north side, while the more gentle bonobos - pygmy chimps live 10 miles away on the south side. As big as Wales, the Bangweulu Lake and swamps in Zambia are home to a bird as big as a man and arguably the most primitive fish in the world.
VP 843200
Wednesday 8th
Sorry the following programme is not being shown on BBC2 Scotland *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 includes tips on how to appreciate ancient woodlands, pasturelands and meadows.
VP 12953
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - There is a leopard with a dental appointment but the vet has to capture him first. Kate meets a baby vulture who already has a taste for flesh.
VP 137
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.50 pm Natural World - Bonobo: Missing in Action - Documentary about the bonobo, the least known of all the great apes thanks to its remote jungle home in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s a different kind of chimp, shy and peace loving, but unlike the more violent common chimp, lives in societies ruled by females, where aggression is diffused by frequent sex. Recently their forest home has been overtaken by war and scientists fear they’re heading for extinction. Dr Frances White returns to see if the bonobos she once studied have survived.
VP 553601
*T BBC2 8.50 - 9.00 pm Wild Owl Farm - Bill Oddie finds out what’s been happening to the remarkable wild barn own family introduced on Springwatch earlier this year. With unique filming access to the Devon nest site, the whole story of the family’s year is revealed, from nesting through to fledging.
VP 385330
Thursday 9th
*T BBC1 1.05 - 2.05 am Sign Zone: Life in the Undergrowth - Super Societies
VP 7546828
*T BBC1 2.05 - 2.35 am - Sign Zone: Tales from the Palaces - The Secret Lives of Palaces
VP 4389489
*T Channel 4 12.30 - 12.50 pm Small Railways - This edition explores a Victorian railway built to bring together rural communities in County Donegal. The Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway ran from the fishing port of Burtonport all the way to Londonderry.
VP 1542002
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon - Emergency Survival training leads to serious arguments in the team as they are called on to slaughter some frogs. Lunch survival-style also includes tarantulas and cockroaches. The adventurers see their first pink river dolphins, and one lucky team member has a magical late night trip up the Amazon in search of anacondas and crocodiles.
VP 1942828
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - A mystery illness is sweeping through the wild jackal population on the Skeleton Coast. Ben comes face to face with a sidewinder snake in the desert and Kate meets a chameleon with a nasty reputation.
VP 625
T BBC2 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm - The Drowning of a Village - The story of Capel Celyn, a valley drowned and decimated by Liverpool Corporation in the late 1950’s. Residents speak of their experiences for the first time ever on national television about the loss of the traditions and the culture of generations of farmers and their facilities that now lie beneath the cold waters of the Tryweryn reservoir.
VP 489
T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Rogue Raiders: Baboon Badlands New Wildlife series investigating the antisocial side of animals. Wildlife specialist Jake Willers travels to Cape Town’s baboon badlands to find out why these rogue monkeys are terrorising the local residents. But he discovers that they are not only at war with the residents; there is also unrest on monkey mountain.
VP 9976199
ITV1 Granada 7.30 - 8.00 pm Locks and Quays - Fred Talbot travels along the Lancaster Canal through Lancaster and across the Lune Aqueduct structure, explores the history of the Manchester Ship Canal and the regeneration of Salford Quays and takes a trip with a group of school children on the Bridgewater Canal.
VP 915
ITV1 Border & ITV Border Scottish 7.30 - 8.00 pm Out of Town Eric Robson and his trusty border head for secret corners of the northern landscape and elevate being cantankerous to an art form.
VP 915
ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 - 8.00 pm Water world - Today’s programme looks at boating on a budget, with a scheme for sharing the cost of a narrow boat with other owners. Kelly and Paul continue fitting out the boat they had as a wedding gift. And young crews on the London Challenge begin to wonder how working boatmen did it for a living.
VP 915
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 915
ITV1 London 7.30 - 8.00 pm Tales from the Country - Tony Francis meets the landowners of the South East who are turning to the production of sparkling wine, and the Essex farmer who has added a burial plot to boost the family income.
VP 915
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 a celebration from bygone days at the Silver Jubilee carnival.
VP 915
ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 - 8.00 pm Out of Town Eric Robson and his trusty border head for secret corners of the northern landscape and elevate being cantankerous to an art form.
VP 915
ITV1 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm Great Welsh Roads - The Road to Oblivion - Travel writer Mike Parker explores Wales in a camper van. In today’s edition, he travels through the limestone belt of the Upper Swansea Valley, accompanied by a posse of Hell’s Angels.
VP 915
ITV1 West 7.30 - 8.00 pm Mining 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 visit’s the hilltop village of Shipham in Somerset, under which is a vast mineral treasure - calamine a zinc ore was found there in the middle ages. Plus Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean, where iron ore was mined for at least 3,000 years.
VP 915
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 915
T BBC2 9.00 - 9.50 pm Horizon - The Lost Civilisation of Peru - Documentary which traces the rise and fall of one of the greatest civilisations of the ancient world - the mysterious and little known Moche who ruled the northern coast of Peru 2,000 years ago. They built huge pyramids, produced exquisite jewellery, founded an empire that lasted for hundreds of years, but then simply vanished.
VP 573489
T BBC2 Scotland 9.00 - 9.50 pm Timewatch - Missing in Action
VP 573489
Friday 10th
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - At Africat, it’s time for the wild dog puppies to move out before they destroy the house and eat their carers. Ben meets a small snake with a big reputation, plus the orphans who are seeing their country for the very first time.
VP 213
Sorry the following programme is not on BBC2 Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland
*T BBC2 7.30 - 8.00 pm Hands on Nature - Chris Packham reveals the best places to spot wildlife on the UK’s waterways - from a four foot long sea monster in a Welsh river to one of Nature’s great migration stories at Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland
VP 749
*T BBC2 Northern Ireland 7.30 - 8.00 pm - Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife Bill’s Favourite Moments - Bill takes a trip down memory lane to revisit some of his favourite wildlife-watching moments of the last 10 years, including swimming with seals, hand-feeding badgers and witnessing a flock of half a million starlings.
VP 749
*T Channel 5 7.30 - 8.00 pm Built for the Kill - Poisonous Predators - Cobras, black widow spiders and green dart frogs.
VP 5354294
*T Channel 5 8.00 - 9.00 pm Snake Hunter: Search for the Deadliest Snakes - Austin searches Africa for the deadliest snakes in the world, including the puff adder and the Gaboon snake.
VP 7689132
T BBC2 9.00 - 9.50 pm The Secret History of Genghis Khan Documentary. The Secret History of the Mongols said to have been written by Genghis Khan’s adopted son, reveals a very different man to the brutal butcher of Western legend. Devoted husband as well as womaniser, politician as well as warrior, legislator as well as conqueror and a man who wanted the lessons he had learnt to be passed on to this successors. Within its pages likes the story of how an illiterate nomad inspired his successors to conquer the largest land empire the world has ever seen.
VP 907565
Saturday 11th
*T BBC2 6.30 - 7.30 pm 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 31343
Sunday 12th
T Channel 4 4.25 - 5.10 am Wild Things
VP 8345928
*T Channel 5 4.55 - 5.20 am Wildlife SOS
VP 23892218
*T Channel 5 5.20 - 54.5 am Wildlife SOS
VP 70427831
T BBC2 5.30 - 6.00 am Landscape Mysteries - The Abandoned Marsh Prof. Aubrey Manning sets out to discover why Romney Marsh in Kent is now one of the most deserted areas in the country after being home to an expanding population in the 13thCentury.
VP 45034
Sorry to Scottish readers the BBC seem to have lost Landward when they find it I will let you know.
T BBC1 11.00 - 12.00 am Countryfile - Charlotte Smith and Ben Fogle are in Windermere to report on the impact of the speedboat ban. John Craven heads to Buckinghamshire to explore the Chiltern Hills. Adam Henson examines what would happen to the British countryside if farmland was allowed to revert to its natural state.
VP 64034
*T BBC2 North West 11.40 - 12.40 am British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History - In this edition, the team discover dinosaur footprints in Wales, desert sands in Cheshire and volcanic remains in Leicestershire.
VP 7285724
*T Channel 5 1.00 - 1.35 pm Wildlife Down Under with Nick Baker - Tree Kangaroo
VP 2425183
T ITV1 4.15 - 4.40 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 1245893
*T BBC2 4.30 - 5.30 pm Animal Park
VP 12454
T ITV1 Wales 4.40 - 5.10 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 4053102
Sorry the following programme is on BBC2 Wales at 6.20 - 7.00 pm VP 954928
*T BBC2 5.30 - 6.10 pm Bill Oddie Goes Wild in Cape Town
VP 329183
*T BBC2 6.10 - 7.00 pm Natural World- Bonobo Missing in Action Repeated from Wednesday
VP 111760
T Channel 4 5.50 - 6.45 pm Time Team - Castle in the Round At the mouth of the Thames, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, lie the remains of Queenborough Castle, built by Edward III during the Hundred Years War. The Time Team excavate the castle mound, but its circular design makes analysis difficult, and opinion is divided whether the castle was built for defence or as a royal bolthole from the plague. The surrounding town is also explored, leading to the recreation of a bizarre journey using a paper boat paddled by oars made of cod.
VP 439909
T ITV1 Wales 6.00 - 6.30 pm Celtic Monsters - Omens of Death This edition recalls the omens of death that have been terrifying the Celts for centuries from the Banshee in Ireland to the Toili in Wales
VP 626837
T BBC1 9.00 - 10.00 pm Planet Earth - Mountains This edition looks at mountains, beginning with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth, and ending at the summit of Everest. Experience the full force of an avalanche in the Rockies, where grizzlies survive the harsh winters deep inside the dangerous slopes, and fly alongside demoiselle cranes as they attempt to cross the Himalayas.
VP 6893
Love him or loathe him Bill Oddie is on 3 times this week
Ann
*Stands for repeat programme
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Monday 6th
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa A fatal illness has broken out amongst the litter of orphaned wild dog puppies. There’s a deadly situation when a lethal snake gets in the offices and we meet Smudge, a rescued baby otter.
VP 761
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm Tales from the Palaces 9/10 The Great Resource. Heston Blumenthal turns to the Hampton Court food historians when he opens a new venue offering food untried for four years. And following a disastrous fire at a heritage building in the Weimar the palace salvage experts are called in.
VP 7693
Tuesday 7th
*T BBC2 11.10 - 12.00 pm Horizon - Documentary series looks at how Britain could be heading towards an Alaskan-type climate as scientists believe that the Gulf Stream, which keeps temperatures unusually high for such a northerly latitude is gradually being cut off.
VP 7028552
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon
VP 1908484 Any younger members wanting a challenge the BBC are looking for volunteers for their next trip to the Andes.
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - A wild cheetah is caught in a farmer’s trap. Can the rescuers reach him in time. Kate learns about the birds and the bees on the Okavango river and Ben goes fishing in crocodile-infested waters.
VP 649
T BBC 2 Wales 7.00 - 7.30 pm The Welsh Way of Life - The Age of Innocence Documentary looking at how life in the Welsh countryside has changed over the last 50 years - story of how childhood has changed featuring rare clips from the archives.
VP 7129
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. The economic threat to small family farms grows ever more menacing but, in Breconshire, that doesn’t mean that all summer pleasures must be abandoned. The struggle for growth and survival goes on but there are important appointments to be kept, like the YFC Rally and the choir’s annual outing.
VP 113
Sorry the following programme is being shown on BBC2 Northern Ireland on Friday
T BBC2 8.30 - 9.00 pm Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife - Bill’s Favourite Moments - Bill takes a trip down memory lane to revisit some of his favourite wildlife-watching moments of the last 10 years, including swimming with seals, hand-feeding badgers and witnessing a flock of half a million starlings.
VP 2484
T BBC2 11.20 - 11.50 pm Holidays in the Danger Zone: Rivers - Congo - Ben Anderson explores life along some of the world’s great rivers, as his intrepid travels take him along the Congo, where he meets passengers waiting on a ferry that has never left Kinshasa’s port and soldiers extorting taxes from the river traders under the nose of the UN.
VP 824945
*T BBC2 11.50 - 12.40 am The River that Swallows all Rivers. The Congo River is now so wide that animals are unable to cross it. Intelligent but aggressive chimpanzees inhabit the north side, while the more gentle bonobos - pygmy chimps live 10 miles away on the south side. As big as Wales, the Bangweulu Lake and swamps in Zambia are home to a bird as big as a man and arguably the most primitive fish in the world.
VP 843200
Wednesday 8th
Sorry the following programme is not being shown on BBC2 Scotland *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 includes tips on how to appreciate ancient woodlands, pasturelands and meadows.
VP 12953
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - There is a leopard with a dental appointment but the vet has to capture him first. Kate meets a baby vulture who already has a taste for flesh.
VP 137
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.50 pm Natural World - Bonobo: Missing in Action - Documentary about the bonobo, the least known of all the great apes thanks to its remote jungle home in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s a different kind of chimp, shy and peace loving, but unlike the more violent common chimp, lives in societies ruled by females, where aggression is diffused by frequent sex. Recently their forest home has been overtaken by war and scientists fear they’re heading for extinction. Dr Frances White returns to see if the bonobos she once studied have survived.
VP 553601
*T BBC2 8.50 - 9.00 pm Wild Owl Farm - Bill Oddie finds out what’s been happening to the remarkable wild barn own family introduced on Springwatch earlier this year. With unique filming access to the Devon nest site, the whole story of the family’s year is revealed, from nesting through to fledging.
VP 385330
Thursday 9th
*T BBC1 1.05 - 2.05 am Sign Zone: Life in the Undergrowth - Super Societies
VP 7546828
*T BBC1 2.05 - 2.35 am - Sign Zone: Tales from the Palaces - The Secret Lives of Palaces
VP 4389489
*T Channel 4 12.30 - 12.50 pm Small Railways - This edition explores a Victorian railway built to bring together rural communities in County Donegal. The Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway ran from the fishing port of Burtonport all the way to Londonderry.
VP 1542002
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon - Emergency Survival training leads to serious arguments in the team as they are called on to slaughter some frogs. Lunch survival-style also includes tarantulas and cockroaches. The adventurers see their first pink river dolphins, and one lucky team member has a magical late night trip up the Amazon in search of anacondas and crocodiles.
VP 1942828
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - A mystery illness is sweeping through the wild jackal population on the Skeleton Coast. Ben comes face to face with a sidewinder snake in the desert and Kate meets a chameleon with a nasty reputation.
VP 625
T BBC2 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm - The Drowning of a Village - The story of Capel Celyn, a valley drowned and decimated by Liverpool Corporation in the late 1950’s. Residents speak of their experiences for the first time ever on national television about the loss of the traditions and the culture of generations of farmers and their facilities that now lie beneath the cold waters of the Tryweryn reservoir.
VP 489
T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Rogue Raiders: Baboon Badlands New Wildlife series investigating the antisocial side of animals. Wildlife specialist Jake Willers travels to Cape Town’s baboon badlands to find out why these rogue monkeys are terrorising the local residents. But he discovers that they are not only at war with the residents; there is also unrest on monkey mountain.
VP 9976199
ITV1 Granada 7.30 - 8.00 pm Locks and Quays - Fred Talbot travels along the Lancaster Canal through Lancaster and across the Lune Aqueduct structure, explores the history of the Manchester Ship Canal and the regeneration of Salford Quays and takes a trip with a group of school children on the Bridgewater Canal.
VP 915
ITV1 Border & ITV Border Scottish 7.30 - 8.00 pm Out of Town Eric Robson and his trusty border head for secret corners of the northern landscape and elevate being cantankerous to an art form.
VP 915
ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 - 8.00 pm Water world - Today’s programme looks at boating on a budget, with a scheme for sharing the cost of a narrow boat with other owners. Kelly and Paul continue fitting out the boat they had as a wedding gift. And young crews on the London Challenge begin to wonder how working boatmen did it for a living.
VP 915
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 915
ITV1 London 7.30 - 8.00 pm Tales from the Country - Tony Francis meets the landowners of the South East who are turning to the production of sparkling wine, and the Essex farmer who has added a burial plot to boost the family income.
VP 915
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 a celebration from bygone days at the Silver Jubilee carnival.
VP 915
ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 - 8.00 pm Out of Town Eric Robson and his trusty border head for secret corners of the northern landscape and elevate being cantankerous to an art form.
VP 915
ITV1 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm Great Welsh Roads - The Road to Oblivion - Travel writer Mike Parker explores Wales in a camper van. In today’s edition, he travels through the limestone belt of the Upper Swansea Valley, accompanied by a posse of Hell’s Angels.
VP 915
ITV1 West 7.30 - 8.00 pm Mining 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 visit’s the hilltop village of Shipham in Somerset, under which is a vast mineral treasure - calamine a zinc ore was found there in the middle ages. Plus Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean, where iron ore was mined for at least 3,000 years.
VP 915
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 915
T BBC2 9.00 - 9.50 pm Horizon - The Lost Civilisation of Peru - Documentary which traces the rise and fall of one of the greatest civilisations of the ancient world - the mysterious and little known Moche who ruled the northern coast of Peru 2,000 years ago. They built huge pyramids, produced exquisite jewellery, founded an empire that lasted for hundreds of years, but then simply vanished.
VP 573489
T BBC2 Scotland 9.00 - 9.50 pm Timewatch - Missing in Action
VP 573489
Friday 10th
T BBC2 6.00 - 6.30 pm Animal Park: Wild in Africa - At Africat, it’s time for the wild dog puppies to move out before they destroy the house and eat their carers. Ben meets a small snake with a big reputation, plus the orphans who are seeing their country for the very first time.
VP 213
Sorry the following programme is not on BBC2 Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland
*T BBC2 7.30 - 8.00 pm Hands on Nature - Chris Packham reveals the best places to spot wildlife on the UK’s waterways - from a four foot long sea monster in a Welsh river to one of Nature’s great migration stories at Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland
VP 749
*T BBC2 Northern Ireland 7.30 - 8.00 pm - Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife Bill’s Favourite Moments - Bill takes a trip down memory lane to revisit some of his favourite wildlife-watching moments of the last 10 years, including swimming with seals, hand-feeding badgers and witnessing a flock of half a million starlings.
VP 749
*T Channel 5 7.30 - 8.00 pm Built for the Kill - Poisonous Predators - Cobras, black widow spiders and green dart frogs.
VP 5354294
*T Channel 5 8.00 - 9.00 pm Snake Hunter: Search for the Deadliest Snakes - Austin searches Africa for the deadliest snakes in the world, including the puff adder and the Gaboon snake.
VP 7689132
T BBC2 9.00 - 9.50 pm The Secret History of Genghis Khan Documentary. The Secret History of the Mongols said to have been written by Genghis Khan’s adopted son, reveals a very different man to the brutal butcher of Western legend. Devoted husband as well as womaniser, politician as well as warrior, legislator as well as conqueror and a man who wanted the lessons he had learnt to be passed on to this successors. Within its pages likes the story of how an illiterate nomad inspired his successors to conquer the largest land empire the world has ever seen.
VP 907565
Saturday 11th
*T BBC2 6.30 - 7.30 pm 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 31343
Sunday 12th
T Channel 4 4.25 - 5.10 am Wild Things
VP 8345928
*T Channel 5 4.55 - 5.20 am Wildlife SOS
VP 23892218
*T Channel 5 5.20 - 54.5 am Wildlife SOS
VP 70427831
T BBC2 5.30 - 6.00 am Landscape Mysteries - The Abandoned Marsh Prof. Aubrey Manning sets out to discover why Romney Marsh in Kent is now one of the most deserted areas in the country after being home to an expanding population in the 13thCentury.
VP 45034
Sorry to Scottish readers the BBC seem to have lost Landward when they find it I will let you know.
T BBC1 11.00 - 12.00 am Countryfile - Charlotte Smith and Ben Fogle are in Windermere to report on the impact of the speedboat ban. John Craven heads to Buckinghamshire to explore the Chiltern Hills. Adam Henson examines what would happen to the British countryside if farmland was allowed to revert to its natural state.
VP 64034
*T BBC2 North West 11.40 - 12.40 am British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History - In this edition, the team discover dinosaur footprints in Wales, desert sands in Cheshire and volcanic remains in Leicestershire.
VP 7285724
*T Channel 5 1.00 - 1.35 pm Wildlife Down Under with Nick Baker - Tree Kangaroo
VP 2425183
T ITV1 4.15 - 4.40 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 1245893
*T BBC2 4.30 - 5.30 pm Animal Park
VP 12454
T ITV1 Wales 4.40 - 5.10 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 4053102
Sorry the following programme is on BBC2 Wales at 6.20 - 7.00 pm VP 954928
*T BBC2 5.30 - 6.10 pm Bill Oddie Goes Wild in Cape Town
VP 329183
*T BBC2 6.10 - 7.00 pm Natural World- Bonobo Missing in Action Repeated from Wednesday
VP 111760
T Channel 4 5.50 - 6.45 pm Time Team - Castle in the Round At the mouth of the Thames, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, lie the remains of Queenborough Castle, built by Edward III during the Hundred Years War. The Time Team excavate the castle mound, but its circular design makes analysis difficult, and opinion is divided whether the castle was built for defence or as a royal bolthole from the plague. The surrounding town is also explored, leading to the recreation of a bizarre journey using a paper boat paddled by oars made of cod.
VP 439909
T ITV1 Wales 6.00 - 6.30 pm Celtic Monsters - Omens of Death This edition recalls the omens of death that have been terrifying the Celts for centuries from the Banshee in Ireland to the Toili in Wales
VP 626837
T BBC1 9.00 - 10.00 pm Planet Earth - Mountains This edition looks at mountains, beginning with the birth of a mountain at one of the lowest places on Earth, and ending at the summit of Everest. Experience the full force of an avalanche in the Rockies, where grizzlies survive the harsh winters deep inside the dangerous slopes, and fly alongside demoiselle cranes as they attempt to cross the Himalayas.
VP 6893
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