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All week the Animal 24:7 series are featuring the work done by the RSPB and others in protecting our Birds of Prey. I would like to thank them for being there, if only Malta had such people dedicated to saving lives not destroying them.
Monday 6th
[/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Survival – Cuddly Shark[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal 24:7 1/20 Series following people who protect and work closely with wildlife and domestic animals round the clock. Tiggwinkles Wildlife Hospital founder Les Stocker fights to save the life of Pogo the fallow deer, after three of his legs were broken in a road traffic accident. West Yorkshire Police's Wildlife Crime Officers are on the trail of suspected poachers. And Tom Heap joins RSPCA Inspector David McAdam as he discovers a dog kept in some of the worst conditions he's ever seen.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.15 – 10.30 am Our Planet Opposites and Animals Feeding Young[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 4 1.25 – 1.40 pm Seaside Secrets – D-Day at Slapton Sands Tony Livesey visits the Devon coast to unearth a seaside secret that ensured the success of the D-Day landings.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 3.15 – 3.45 pm Castle in the Country John Craven and Nicki Chapman continue to delve into the treasures at Burghley House in Lincolnshire. Nicki discovers the athletic prowess of the Cecil family that led to an Olympic Gold medal and pays a visit to the kitchen to help chef James Martin make a tasty apple and blackcurrant pie. Antiques Roadshow's Lars Tharp has the world in the palm of his hand, as he takes a closer look at Lord Burghley's amazing 16th century atlas.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 7.00 – 8.00 pm Planet Earth 1/6 [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 Northern Ireland 8.30 – 9.00 pm Around the World in 1,080 days. Michael McGarrigle concludes his round the world trip. He flies from Guatemala City to the Cuban capital, Havana, to experience life under communist rule. What he uncovers there and amazes and annoys him in equal measure. He prefers the life he finds in Mexico and muses on the quality of Mexican murals compared to the ones you find in Belfast. His first year on the road ends with a train journey to the Gulf of Mexico. [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Channel 5 9.00 – 10.00 pm A Natural History of Murder – Documentary about Surrey botanist Patricia Wiltshire, the inventor of environmental profiling – a remarkable method of forensic analysis based on pollen.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]BBC1 Northern Ireland 10.40 – 11.10 pm Flight of the Goats – Documentary charting the momentous journey of a large herd of Irish goats bought as ethical Christmas gifts by people from a Limerick-based charity, leaving Northern Ireland for a new life in Tanzania, East Africa[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Tuesday 7th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.40 – 2.10 am Sign Zone: Johnny Kingdom: A Year on Exmoor – Masters of the Moor[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Survival – Killer Cats[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal 24:7 We travel to Cumbria, where RSPCA inspectors and the police have one of their busiest days of the year as the quiet town of Appleby welcomes over 1,500 horses to their annual fair. We join the World Owl Trust in Muncaster to see the work the conservation team are doing to preserve one of Britain's best loved birds, the barn owl.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.15 – 10.30 am Our Planet Animals Changing Colours and Seasons[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 111.10 – 12.00 pm Horizon – Bye Bye Planet Pluto[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 3.00 – 3.15 pm Castle in the Country – John Craven and Nicki Chapman continue to delve into the treasures of Burghley House John goes back to his roots when he reports on the oldest newspaper in Britain. Antiques Roadshow's expert Rupert Maas takes Nicki to see a painting that depicts a romantic tale of love, loss and betrayal. Chef James Martin cooks up a delicious venison dish[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 3.15 – 3.45 pm Castle in the Country – Same details as above[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 7.30 – 8.00 pm Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife – Bill is on home ground as he looks at the wildlife of London's Hampstead Heath. Kestrels squirrels and kingfishers are just some of the delights Bill enjoys when he spends a day's wildlife watching on the Heath in each of the four seasons.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Wales 7.30 – 8.00 pm It is 50 years since Gower was declared Britain's first area of outstanding natural beauty and to celebrate, Jamie Owen climbs aboard an antique VW camper for a weekend of sunshine and surf. There is a rare interview with one of Wales's most celebrated composers Karl Jenkins, who lives and works on the peninsula. There's also fish and chips at Port Eynon and a surfing lesson that's almost spoilt by the glorious summer sunshine.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 9.00 – 10.30 pm Horizon – 6/8 This should really be called “We're all Going to Die Horribly”. It is a relelentlessly grim look at the possibility of a global flu pandemic. Take it seriously and it'll give you sleepless nights for weeks. The gist is that just because a human strain of bird flu didn't sweep the world last winter, it doesn't mean it won't this year – or so the scientists warn.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Wednesday 8th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 Scotland 12.30 – 1.00 am Sign Zone: Johnny Kingdom: A year on Exmoor – Masters of the Moor[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.00 – 3.00 am Sign Zone: Coast – Dover to Isle of Wight[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.00 – 4.00 am Sign Zone: Lost Cities of the Ancients – The Vanished Capital of the Pharoah Piramesse[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV3 6.00 – 7.00 am Survival – Night Raiders – Spain's little seen genet[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal 24:7 Wildlife Crime Officers are on the trail of specialist egg collectors, as they protect the rare peregrine falcon. Tom Heap is in Muncaster where the team at the World Owl Trust discover if their barn owl nest box programme has been a success.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.15 – 10.30 am Our Planet- Sharks and Baby Animals[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.30 – 11.30 am What the Ancients Did for Us – The Egyptians[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC 2 Scotland 2.00 – 2.30 pm pm Castle in the Country John Craven and Nicki Chapman continue to delve into the treasures at Burghley House in Lincolnshire. Nicki takes the reins as she discovers the history of the Burghley horse trials and John finds out what it would have been like to work as a coachman in the dangerous days of Highwaymen and robbers. Meanwhile James Martin cooks up a delicious dripping cake inspired by his granny's recipe.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 7.00 – 8.00 pm Coast 2/8 Geographer Nicholas Crane presents a 13 part journey around the coast of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.15 – 8.00 pm Game Ranger 4/10 [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*BBC2 Wales 7.30 – 8.00 pm Johnny Kingdom: A Year on Exmoor – When Johnny met Tommy[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 Northern Ireland 8.00 – 8.30 pm Waterworld Presenter Daryyl Grimason continues his ocean odyssey diving into the “deep blue” to find out what lies beneath the waters of County Antrim's north coast.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 8.50 pm Natural World – Bear Man of Kamchatka. Charlie Russell is an exceptional man. At an age when most people are taking it easier, he's been living in a cabin in the remote Russian province of Southern Kamchatka, where he teaches orphaned grizzly bear cubs how to survive in the wild. He is, in effect, a surrogate mother to them. Andy and Mallish are his current charges and he shows them how to catch spawning salmon and where to find roots and berries. He even defends them against other predatory male bears, not by using violence but by standing firm and shouting “Get out of here, you b****r, you leave them alone”. It is one of the most astounding sights in the film and demonstrates his belief that grizzlies aren't nearly as dangerous as everyone assumes. Full of scenes of frolicking bear cubs, this is a delightful, gentle documentary that could almost stray into Dr Doolittle territory (Charlie constantly and tenderly chats to the cubs as if they were human), were it not for its serious side – and be warned – its desperately sad ending.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 8.50 – 9.00 pm Deer in the City – Short documentary about a pair of roe deer who have made a Scottish cemetery their home. Surrounded on all sides by a sprawling metropolis, these normally shy creatures are a magical addition to the city's urban population.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Thursday 9th[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.10 – 2.10 am Sign Zone: Incredible Animal Journeys – Running with Wild Dogs[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 6.00 – 7.00 am Survival – Search for the Shinohara[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal 24:7 Peterborough RSPCA Inspector Lewis Trickey visits a house overrun with neglected cats whose owner isn't too pleased to see him. In the heart of the Pennines, Steve Downing abseils down a 100 foot cliff to protect a peregrine falcon's nest. The Dangerous Wild Animal Facility in Southend welcomes Tom Heap as they take delivery of a collection of exotic and potentially life threatening animals[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.15 – 10.30 am Our Planet – City Dwellers Fast and Slow[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 3.15 – 3.45 pm Castle in the Country John Craven and Nicki Chapman discover more treasures at Burghley House.[/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]John visits the Lincolnshire home of Isaac Newton, and Lars Tharp discovers an incredibly rare antique that until recently was used as a doorstop. James Martin cooks a nutritious and delicious spinach recipe.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 6.30 – 7.00 pm Air Bharr nan Tonn – The first in a series of six which examines lifestyles, pastimes and events connected to the sea. This edition comes from Grimsay.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Wales 7.00 – 7.30 pm The Trees that Made Britain – Ash[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Days Pam Rhodes meets people who preserve the best of the region's countryside traditions and wildlife. She visits Pensthorpe where rare cranes and corncrakes are bred for recolonisation, sees a taxidermist who puts life into dead birds, competes in a ploughing contest and meets people who live in railway carriages.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Border & Border Scottish 7.30 – 8.00 pm Nature Watchers celebrates the wildlife and varied habitats of the Border Region, including remarkable footage taken by local naturalists. Meet the ferocious predators of the insect world and find out why we should love our old trees.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 – 8.00 pm Heart of the Country – Prospective owners of vicarages beware. Tony Francis meets the Warwickshire woman whose new home came complete with an obligation to host the village fete. Plus the country's busiest parish clerk – just how does he keep track of the affairs of 12 different villages.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Lives – The series exploring the people, the food and the wildlife of the South West - Lisa Aziz who this week wanders around Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor, where she meets a woman who loves baking and spends a day with a group of Western fans as they make their very own movie on Dartmoor. Meanwhile Tamasin Day-Lewis [/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]travels to Dorset to catch fish for her supper.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Granada 7.30 – 8.00 pm Eye in the Sky – Today, from Stoke to Manchester via Runcorn and the Manchester Ship Canal, and passing over everything from radio telescopes to Tudor mansions, Salford Quays, football and cricket pitches, shopping malls and more.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 London 7.30 – 8.00 pm How London was Built – Adam Hart-Davis presents a guided tour of London and her landmarks.[/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]He looks at how London is supplied with water and power today, and visits the remains of a medieval conduit – right under modern Cheapside – to find out how clean water was brought to the city 700 years ago. Plus how the Victorians finally dealt with their dirty water.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Lives – Lisa Aziz who this week wanders around Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor, where she meets a woman who loves baking and spends a day with a group of Western fans as they make their very own movie on Dartmoor. Meanwhile Tamasin Day-Lewis [/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]travels to Dorset to catch fish for her supper.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 – 8.00 pm A History of Tyneside with Ant and Dec. And and Dec look back through the history of their Geordie homeland. Tyneside becomes the workshop of the world, but there's revolution in the air – and a massive fire destroys much of Newcastle and Gateshead.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 West 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Lives – The series exploring the people, the food and the wildlife of the South West Lisa Aziz who this week wanders around Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor, where she meets a woman who loves baking and spends a day with a group of Western fans as they make their very own movie on Dartmoor. Meanwhile Tamasin Day-Lewis [/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]travels to Dorset to catch fish for her supper.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 – 8.00 pm Eye in the Sky – Today, from Stoke to Manchester via Runcorn and the Manchester Ship Canal, and passing over everything from radio telescopes to Tudor mansions, Salford Quays, football and cricket pitches, shopping malls and more.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 pm Coast – Arran to Gretna [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 11.00 – 12.05 am – A Natural History of Murder – Repeated from Monday[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Friday 10th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Survival – Mountain Gorilla: A Shattered Kingdom[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal 24:7 – RSPCA Collections Officer Andy Sowdon is on the trail of a runaway cat, injured after a road traffic accident. We visit the Geltsdale Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reserve in Cumbria and get to see the important work of Investigations Officer Guy Shorrock and his dedicated team of workers and volunteers who protect one of England's rarest birds, the hen harrier.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.15 – 10.30 am Our Planet Fish and Weather[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 3.15 – 3.45 pm Castle in the Country John Craven and Nicki Chapman continue to delve into the treasures at Burghley House in Lincolnshire. Nicki visits some feathered friends at Britain's National Parrot Sanctuary, and Julie Edmonstone gets more floral tips from world-renowned flower arranger, George Smith. Paul Atterbury takes John to see some unique Italian furniture in Burghley's medieval hall and its comfort food galore as James Martin creates a warming dish of beef stew and dumplings.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Trees that made Britain 8/8 Future – As the year long journey draws to a close, Tony and Jon discover the secrets of Britain's lost forest and travel to Italy to see the future for our warming landscape before returning to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 8.30 pm Johnny Kingdom – a Year on Exmoor 5/10 Birds and Beasts – Spoonbills one of the migrating birds that visit Exmoor in the winter.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Saturday 11th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif][/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]Sunday 12th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 4 4.00 – 4.50 am Wild Things[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV3 6.00 – 6.25 am Savage Planet Restless Giants[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 11.30 – 12.00 pm Landward - The story behind the contribution of Canadian Lumberjacks to the second world war effort in Scotland. Volunteers get to work on identifying and restoring lost buildings and the lessons for all farmers from a fish farming success story. [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 12.00 – 1.00 pm Countryfile – To mark Remembrance Sunday, John Craven looks at the wartime heritage of Kent and the White Cliffs of Dover. Juliet Morris heads to the Isle of Wight for Europe's biggest extreme sports festival and Adam Henson investigates the environmental cost of our clothing.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.00 – 1.30 pm Animal Park[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 1.15 – 2.00 pm Killers of the Kalahari – Honey Badgers[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.30 – 2.05 pm Wildlife on Two – Spiders from Mars[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 4.55 – 5.55 pm Wild Thing I Love You – Bats – A popular roost for greater horseshoe bats in west Wales is at risk from a new gas pipeline since construction will damage the hedgerows which the bats rely upon for navigation, ultimately threatening them with starvation, Bill and his team therefore devise a plan to create temporary hedgerows which the pipeline constructors can leave in place after they finish work at night.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 6.35 – 7.35 pm Kipling: A Remembrance Tale – A docu-drama presented by Griff Rhys Jones that tells the tragic story of Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling. Although fantastically famous in his lifetime for both novels and poems such as If, Kipling's life was scarred by the loss of his only son Jack in the First World War, a war which we had publicly promoted. Retracing Kipling's extraordinary background, Griff visits the writer's boyhood homes in India and Pakistan as well as Bateman's his elegant home in Britain. Rebuilding an image of Kipling's Edwardian, colonial world Griff uncovers the gruelling and tragic details of Jack's enrolment in the Irish guards and the horror of his untimely death at the Battle of Loos. Meanwhile Peter Guiness brings the complex character of Kipling vividly to life.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 6.30 – 7.00 pm A Wild Cairngorms Winter [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 Northern Ireland Waterworld Darryl Grimason continues his ocean odyssey diving into the “deep blue” to find out what lies beneath the waters of County Antrim's north coast.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 8.00 – 9.00 pm The Great British Summer – Alan Titmarsh leads us through July – that special month when nature puts on its finest display – and so do the British people in all their eccentricities. It's the hottest July on record and we follow the birds, butterflies and British people as they bask in the sunshine . For the first time, Britain's top cloud enthusiast gets as close as he can to the clouds and as July temperatures soar to all time highs, a butterfly expert scours the land, to see what rare butterflies can tell us about our changing climate. On the Thames, they are counting the Queen's swans, while bird fanciers worry about drought on a fast drying wetland. At the Henley Royal Regatta and Cartier Polo, our none-stop socialite Katie, kicks back as Britain's summer, social calendar heats up. In Blackpool, hotelier Bobby is pulling out all the stops to get holiday-makers off the beaches and into his club. An unusual Yorkshire village cricket team has its best summer ever and on the farm all is looking good for the harvest. But of course, this is Britain – and the rain is never far away.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 New Series The Accidental Angler – India – Charles Rangeley-Wilson journeys across the world to locate unusual fish and the stories behind them. His adventure follows in the footsteps of colonial anglers in the heyday of the Raj in search of the legendary and mighty Mahseer – the strongest freshwater fish in the world – also known as the “Tiger of the River”. Charles' search takes him to Mysore in India to fish the Cauvery river.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.00 – 10.00 pm New Series Planet Earth – David Attenborough's natural history series. He looks at the world's great plains – immense wilderness areas that seem empty, but which support the greatest gatherings of wildlife on earth, including two million gazelles on the Mongolian steppes, three million caribou in North America and 1.5 million wildebeest in East Africa. At the heart of all this is a single living thing – grass – able to survive in the baking savannahs of Africa, the frozen tundra of the Arctic and the floodplains of India.[/font]
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All week the Animal 24:7 series are featuring the work done by the RSPB and others in protecting our Birds of Prey. I would like to thank them for being there, if only Malta had such people dedicated to saving lives not destroying them.
Monday 6th
[/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Survival – Cuddly Shark[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal 24:7 1/20 Series following people who protect and work closely with wildlife and domestic animals round the clock. Tiggwinkles Wildlife Hospital founder Les Stocker fights to save the life of Pogo the fallow deer, after three of his legs were broken in a road traffic accident. West Yorkshire Police's Wildlife Crime Officers are on the trail of suspected poachers. And Tom Heap joins RSPCA Inspector David McAdam as he discovers a dog kept in some of the worst conditions he's ever seen.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.15 – 10.30 am Our Planet Opposites and Animals Feeding Young[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 4 1.25 – 1.40 pm Seaside Secrets – D-Day at Slapton Sands Tony Livesey visits the Devon coast to unearth a seaside secret that ensured the success of the D-Day landings.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 3.15 – 3.45 pm Castle in the Country John Craven and Nicki Chapman continue to delve into the treasures at Burghley House in Lincolnshire. Nicki discovers the athletic prowess of the Cecil family that led to an Olympic Gold medal and pays a visit to the kitchen to help chef James Martin make a tasty apple and blackcurrant pie. Antiques Roadshow's Lars Tharp has the world in the palm of his hand, as he takes a closer look at Lord Burghley's amazing 16th century atlas.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 7.00 – 8.00 pm Planet Earth 1/6 [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 Northern Ireland 8.30 – 9.00 pm Around the World in 1,080 days. Michael McGarrigle concludes his round the world trip. He flies from Guatemala City to the Cuban capital, Havana, to experience life under communist rule. What he uncovers there and amazes and annoys him in equal measure. He prefers the life he finds in Mexico and muses on the quality of Mexican murals compared to the ones you find in Belfast. His first year on the road ends with a train journey to the Gulf of Mexico. [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Channel 5 9.00 – 10.00 pm A Natural History of Murder – Documentary about Surrey botanist Patricia Wiltshire, the inventor of environmental profiling – a remarkable method of forensic analysis based on pollen.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]BBC1 Northern Ireland 10.40 – 11.10 pm Flight of the Goats – Documentary charting the momentous journey of a large herd of Irish goats bought as ethical Christmas gifts by people from a Limerick-based charity, leaving Northern Ireland for a new life in Tanzania, East Africa[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Tuesday 7th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.40 – 2.10 am Sign Zone: Johnny Kingdom: A Year on Exmoor – Masters of the Moor[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Survival – Killer Cats[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal 24:7 We travel to Cumbria, where RSPCA inspectors and the police have one of their busiest days of the year as the quiet town of Appleby welcomes over 1,500 horses to their annual fair. We join the World Owl Trust in Muncaster to see the work the conservation team are doing to preserve one of Britain's best loved birds, the barn owl.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.15 – 10.30 am Our Planet Animals Changing Colours and Seasons[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 111.10 – 12.00 pm Horizon – Bye Bye Planet Pluto[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 3.00 – 3.15 pm Castle in the Country – John Craven and Nicki Chapman continue to delve into the treasures of Burghley House John goes back to his roots when he reports on the oldest newspaper in Britain. Antiques Roadshow's expert Rupert Maas takes Nicki to see a painting that depicts a romantic tale of love, loss and betrayal. Chef James Martin cooks up a delicious venison dish[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 3.15 – 3.45 pm Castle in the Country – Same details as above[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 7.30 – 8.00 pm Bill Oddie's How to Watch Wildlife – Bill is on home ground as he looks at the wildlife of London's Hampstead Heath. Kestrels squirrels and kingfishers are just some of the delights Bill enjoys when he spends a day's wildlife watching on the Heath in each of the four seasons.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Wales 7.30 – 8.00 pm It is 50 years since Gower was declared Britain's first area of outstanding natural beauty and to celebrate, Jamie Owen climbs aboard an antique VW camper for a weekend of sunshine and surf. There is a rare interview with one of Wales's most celebrated composers Karl Jenkins, who lives and works on the peninsula. There's also fish and chips at Port Eynon and a surfing lesson that's almost spoilt by the glorious summer sunshine.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 9.00 – 10.30 pm Horizon – 6/8 This should really be called “We're all Going to Die Horribly”. It is a relelentlessly grim look at the possibility of a global flu pandemic. Take it seriously and it'll give you sleepless nights for weeks. The gist is that just because a human strain of bird flu didn't sweep the world last winter, it doesn't mean it won't this year – or so the scientists warn.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Wednesday 8th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 Scotland 12.30 – 1.00 am Sign Zone: Johnny Kingdom: A year on Exmoor – Masters of the Moor[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.00 – 3.00 am Sign Zone: Coast – Dover to Isle of Wight[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.00 – 4.00 am Sign Zone: Lost Cities of the Ancients – The Vanished Capital of the Pharoah Piramesse[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV3 6.00 – 7.00 am Survival – Night Raiders – Spain's little seen genet[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal 24:7 Wildlife Crime Officers are on the trail of specialist egg collectors, as they protect the rare peregrine falcon. Tom Heap is in Muncaster where the team at the World Owl Trust discover if their barn owl nest box programme has been a success.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.15 – 10.30 am Our Planet- Sharks and Baby Animals[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.30 – 11.30 am What the Ancients Did for Us – The Egyptians[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC 2 Scotland 2.00 – 2.30 pm pm Castle in the Country John Craven and Nicki Chapman continue to delve into the treasures at Burghley House in Lincolnshire. Nicki takes the reins as she discovers the history of the Burghley horse trials and John finds out what it would have been like to work as a coachman in the dangerous days of Highwaymen and robbers. Meanwhile James Martin cooks up a delicious dripping cake inspired by his granny's recipe.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 7.00 – 8.00 pm Coast 2/8 Geographer Nicholas Crane presents a 13 part journey around the coast of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.15 – 8.00 pm Game Ranger 4/10 [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*BBC2 Wales 7.30 – 8.00 pm Johnny Kingdom: A Year on Exmoor – When Johnny met Tommy[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 Northern Ireland 8.00 – 8.30 pm Waterworld Presenter Daryyl Grimason continues his ocean odyssey diving into the “deep blue” to find out what lies beneath the waters of County Antrim's north coast.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 8.50 pm Natural World – Bear Man of Kamchatka. Charlie Russell is an exceptional man. At an age when most people are taking it easier, he's been living in a cabin in the remote Russian province of Southern Kamchatka, where he teaches orphaned grizzly bear cubs how to survive in the wild. He is, in effect, a surrogate mother to them. Andy and Mallish are his current charges and he shows them how to catch spawning salmon and where to find roots and berries. He even defends them against other predatory male bears, not by using violence but by standing firm and shouting “Get out of here, you b****r, you leave them alone”. It is one of the most astounding sights in the film and demonstrates his belief that grizzlies aren't nearly as dangerous as everyone assumes. Full of scenes of frolicking bear cubs, this is a delightful, gentle documentary that could almost stray into Dr Doolittle territory (Charlie constantly and tenderly chats to the cubs as if they were human), were it not for its serious side – and be warned – its desperately sad ending.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 8.50 – 9.00 pm Deer in the City – Short documentary about a pair of roe deer who have made a Scottish cemetery their home. Surrounded on all sides by a sprawling metropolis, these normally shy creatures are a magical addition to the city's urban population.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Thursday 9th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland or Wales[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.10 – 2.10 am Sign Zone: Incredible Animal Journeys – Running with Wild Dogs[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 6.00 – 7.00 am Survival – Search for the Shinohara[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal 24:7 Peterborough RSPCA Inspector Lewis Trickey visits a house overrun with neglected cats whose owner isn't too pleased to see him. In the heart of the Pennines, Steve Downing abseils down a 100 foot cliff to protect a peregrine falcon's nest. The Dangerous Wild Animal Facility in Southend welcomes Tom Heap as they take delivery of a collection of exotic and potentially life threatening animals[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.15 – 10.30 am Our Planet – City Dwellers Fast and Slow[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 3.15 – 3.45 pm Castle in the Country John Craven and Nicki Chapman discover more treasures at Burghley House.[/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]John visits the Lincolnshire home of Isaac Newton, and Lars Tharp discovers an incredibly rare antique that until recently was used as a doorstop. James Martin cooks a nutritious and delicious spinach recipe.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 6.30 – 7.00 pm Air Bharr nan Tonn – The first in a series of six which examines lifestyles, pastimes and events connected to the sea. This edition comes from Grimsay.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Wales 7.00 – 7.30 pm The Trees that Made Britain – Ash[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Days Pam Rhodes meets people who preserve the best of the region's countryside traditions and wildlife. She visits Pensthorpe where rare cranes and corncrakes are bred for recolonisation, sees a taxidermist who puts life into dead birds, competes in a ploughing contest and meets people who live in railway carriages.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Border & Border Scottish 7.30 – 8.00 pm Nature Watchers celebrates the wildlife and varied habitats of the Border Region, including remarkable footage taken by local naturalists. Meet the ferocious predators of the insect world and find out why we should love our old trees.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 – 8.00 pm Heart of the Country – Prospective owners of vicarages beware. Tony Francis meets the Warwickshire woman whose new home came complete with an obligation to host the village fete. Plus the country's busiest parish clerk – just how does he keep track of the affairs of 12 different villages.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Lives – The series exploring the people, the food and the wildlife of the South West - Lisa Aziz who this week wanders around Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor, where she meets a woman who loves baking and spends a day with a group of Western fans as they make their very own movie on Dartmoor. Meanwhile Tamasin Day-Lewis [/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]travels to Dorset to catch fish for her supper.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Granada 7.30 – 8.00 pm Eye in the Sky – Today, from Stoke to Manchester via Runcorn and the Manchester Ship Canal, and passing over everything from radio telescopes to Tudor mansions, Salford Quays, football and cricket pitches, shopping malls and more.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 London 7.30 – 8.00 pm How London was Built – Adam Hart-Davis presents a guided tour of London and her landmarks.[/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]He looks at how London is supplied with water and power today, and visits the remains of a medieval conduit – right under modern Cheapside – to find out how clean water was brought to the city 700 years ago. Plus how the Victorians finally dealt with their dirty water.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Lives – Lisa Aziz who this week wanders around Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor, where she meets a woman who loves baking and spends a day with a group of Western fans as they make their very own movie on Dartmoor. Meanwhile Tamasin Day-Lewis [/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]travels to Dorset to catch fish for her supper.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 – 8.00 pm A History of Tyneside with Ant and Dec. And and Dec look back through the history of their Geordie homeland. Tyneside becomes the workshop of the world, but there's revolution in the air – and a massive fire destroys much of Newcastle and Gateshead.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 West 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Lives – The series exploring the people, the food and the wildlife of the South West Lisa Aziz who this week wanders around Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor, where she meets a woman who loves baking and spends a day with a group of Western fans as they make their very own movie on Dartmoor. Meanwhile Tamasin Day-Lewis [/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]travels to Dorset to catch fish for her supper.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 – 8.00 pm Eye in the Sky – Today, from Stoke to Manchester via Runcorn and the Manchester Ship Canal, and passing over everything from radio telescopes to Tudor mansions, Salford Quays, football and cricket pitches, shopping malls and more.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 pm Coast – Arran to Gretna [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 11.00 – 12.05 am – A Natural History of Murder – Repeated from Monday[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Friday 10th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Survival – Mountain Gorilla: A Shattered Kingdom[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal 24:7 – RSPCA Collections Officer Andy Sowdon is on the trail of a runaway cat, injured after a road traffic accident. We visit the Geltsdale Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reserve in Cumbria and get to see the important work of Investigations Officer Guy Shorrock and his dedicated team of workers and volunteers who protect one of England's rarest birds, the hen harrier.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.15 – 10.30 am Our Planet Fish and Weather[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 3.15 – 3.45 pm Castle in the Country John Craven and Nicki Chapman continue to delve into the treasures at Burghley House in Lincolnshire. Nicki visits some feathered friends at Britain's National Parrot Sanctuary, and Julie Edmonstone gets more floral tips from world-renowned flower arranger, George Smith. Paul Atterbury takes John to see some unique Italian furniture in Burghley's medieval hall and its comfort food galore as James Martin creates a warming dish of beef stew and dumplings.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Trees that made Britain 8/8 Future – As the year long journey draws to a close, Tony and Jon discover the secrets of Britain's lost forest and travel to Italy to see the future for our warming landscape before returning to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 8.30 pm Johnny Kingdom – a Year on Exmoor 5/10 Birds and Beasts – Spoonbills one of the migrating birds that visit Exmoor in the winter.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]Saturday 11th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif][/font][font=Arial, sans-serif]Sunday 12th[/font]
[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 4 4.00 – 4.50 am Wild Things[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV3 6.00 – 6.25 am Savage Planet Restless Giants[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 11.30 – 12.00 pm Landward - The story behind the contribution of Canadian Lumberjacks to the second world war effort in Scotland. Volunteers get to work on identifying and restoring lost buildings and the lessons for all farmers from a fish farming success story. [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 12.00 – 1.00 pm Countryfile – To mark Remembrance Sunday, John Craven looks at the wartime heritage of Kent and the White Cliffs of Dover. Juliet Morris heads to the Isle of Wight for Europe's biggest extreme sports festival and Adam Henson investigates the environmental cost of our clothing.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.00 – 1.30 pm Animal Park[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 1.15 – 2.00 pm Killers of the Kalahari – Honey Badgers[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.30 – 2.05 pm Wildlife on Two – Spiders from Mars[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 4.55 – 5.55 pm Wild Thing I Love You – Bats – A popular roost for greater horseshoe bats in west Wales is at risk from a new gas pipeline since construction will damage the hedgerows which the bats rely upon for navigation, ultimately threatening them with starvation, Bill and his team therefore devise a plan to create temporary hedgerows which the pipeline constructors can leave in place after they finish work at night.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 6.35 – 7.35 pm Kipling: A Remembrance Tale – A docu-drama presented by Griff Rhys Jones that tells the tragic story of Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling. Although fantastically famous in his lifetime for both novels and poems such as If, Kipling's life was scarred by the loss of his only son Jack in the First World War, a war which we had publicly promoted. Retracing Kipling's extraordinary background, Griff visits the writer's boyhood homes in India and Pakistan as well as Bateman's his elegant home in Britain. Rebuilding an image of Kipling's Edwardian, colonial world Griff uncovers the gruelling and tragic details of Jack's enrolment in the Irish guards and the horror of his untimely death at the Battle of Loos. Meanwhile Peter Guiness brings the complex character of Kipling vividly to life.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 6.30 – 7.00 pm A Wild Cairngorms Winter [/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 Northern Ireland Waterworld Darryl Grimason continues his ocean odyssey diving into the “deep blue” to find out what lies beneath the waters of County Antrim's north coast.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 8.00 – 9.00 pm The Great British Summer – Alan Titmarsh leads us through July – that special month when nature puts on its finest display – and so do the British people in all their eccentricities. It's the hottest July on record and we follow the birds, butterflies and British people as they bask in the sunshine . For the first time, Britain's top cloud enthusiast gets as close as he can to the clouds and as July temperatures soar to all time highs, a butterfly expert scours the land, to see what rare butterflies can tell us about our changing climate. On the Thames, they are counting the Queen's swans, while bird fanciers worry about drought on a fast drying wetland. At the Henley Royal Regatta and Cartier Polo, our none-stop socialite Katie, kicks back as Britain's summer, social calendar heats up. In Blackpool, hotelier Bobby is pulling out all the stops to get holiday-makers off the beaches and into his club. An unusual Yorkshire village cricket team has its best summer ever and on the farm all is looking good for the harvest. But of course, this is Britain – and the rain is never far away.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 New Series The Accidental Angler – India – Charles Rangeley-Wilson journeys across the world to locate unusual fish and the stories behind them. His adventure follows in the footsteps of colonial anglers in the heyday of the Raj in search of the legendary and mighty Mahseer – the strongest freshwater fish in the world – also known as the “Tiger of the River”. Charles' search takes him to Mysore in India to fish the Cauvery river.[/font]
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[font=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.00 – 10.00 pm New Series Planet Earth – David Attenborough's natural history series. He looks at the world's great plains – immense wilderness areas that seem empty, but which support the greatest gatherings of wildlife on earth, including two million gazelles on the Mongolian steppes, three million caribou in North America and 1.5 million wildebeest in East Africa. At the heart of all this is a single living thing – grass – able to survive in the baking savannahs of Africa, the frozen tundra of the Arctic and the floodplains of India.[/font]
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Don't know which you prefer flowers or the hard stuff so I will give you both this week.
