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Weekly TV Diary 7 – 13 April 2008 (U K Channels) (1 Viewer)

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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Monday 7th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 12.40 – 1.40 am Sign Zone: Around the World in 80 Gardens – South Africa[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 6839484[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 5.10 – 5.35 am Wildlife SOS[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 51390587[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 65155378[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Zoo Days from Chester Zoo[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5715552[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 7.00 – 7.30 pm The Man Who Cycled the World – The Inside story of Mark Beaumont's extraordinary solo attempt to smash the Guinness World Record for cycling around the world.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4281[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 7.00 – 7.30 pm Wainwright's Walks – Castle Crag[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 216[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.30 – 8.00 pm How Do they Do It? 4/10 Robert Llewellyn learns how diamonds are mined in one of the most inhospitable places on[/FONT] e[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]arth, how the UK's largest power station provides the nation with electricity, and how tenpin bowling machines work.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5711736[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 Wales 10.35 – 11.05 pm Welsh Greats: Wynford Vaughan Thomas[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 894129[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The following programme is being shown in Scotland at 12.20 – 1.20 am VP 5579935 and not in Wales[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 11.20 – 12.20 am BBC Four on BBC Two: Archaeology – Digging the Past: Timeshift – An exploration of the way archaeology has been presented on television over the past 50 years, from panel show Animal, Vegetable Mineral? Which made celebrities out of its host Professor Glyn Daniel and resident character Sir Mortimer Wheeler, to Channel 4's contemporary Time Team. Includes Professor Barry Cunliffe, Tony Robinson and David Attenborough[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 376939[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Tuesday 8th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.25 – 2.55 am Sign Zone: Unknown Africa: Central African Republic with Saba Douglas-Hamilton[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9795601[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Wales 1.30 – 2.00 pm Animal Park – The bird whose eyes are bigger than its brain[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 61040[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Monkey Life from Monkey World Dorset[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5782224[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Wales 7.00 – 7.30 pm Wainwright's Walks – Blencathra[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9243[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.30 – 8.00 pm Jaguar Adventure with Nigel Marven[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5788408[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.30 – 9.00 pm Johnny's New Kingdom 9/10 The New Beast of Exmoor. The time has come to cut the wheat on Johnny's land and he's made an intriguing discovery – it appears wild boar are living there, seemingly from the herd that escaped onto Exmoor two years ago. Johnny is determined to film them.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4798[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 8.00 – 9.00 pm Big, Bigger, Biggest 3 / 4 Bridge – the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan – the world's longest suspension bridge.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Wednesday 9th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.25 – 1.55 am Sign Zone: Unknown Africa: Comoros Islands with Saba Douglas-Hamilton[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 2706070[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.55 – 2.55 am Sign Zone: Life in Cold Blood – Armoured Giants[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 8763286[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Monkey Life from Monkey World Dorset[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5759996[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 8.50 pm Natural World – Reindeer Girls – The Sami People[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 726625[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.50 – 9.00 pm Badlands Raging Bulls – The spectacular landscape of Badlands National Park in America provides an arena for the biggest event on the bison's calendar. One tonne males rut for the right to breed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 677373[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture 2/8 Death – Egyptian temples, Mayan pyramids, Genoese cemeteries and so on. But it's his visit to a beautiful yet macabre ossuary in the Czech Republic that will chill you to the bone. And in the week's most extraordinary and – to many ears and eyes – disturbing interview, he visits a Hindu man in the Varanasi “dying house”, where he's brought his comatose mother to spend her last days before publicly cremating her on the banks of the Ganges.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5985[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Thursday 10th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.35 – 2.05 am Sign Zone: Unknown Africa: Angola [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 3113774[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.05 – 3.35 am Sign Zone: An Island Parish[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 72161774[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Monkey Life from Monkey World Dorset[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5653768[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 Northern Ireland 7.00 – 7.30 pm Blueprint: Off the Beaten Track – Daryyl Grimason inspires us to roam the Fermanagh wilderness on a spectacular hike to the summits of Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Binnian.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 7045[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 – 8.00 pm Tales from the Country – Selina goes to Staffordshire to meet the devotees of a forgotten language – Esperanto. Tony visits the coast to meet the vicars who claim that a barn like building is the oldest cathedral in the UK. And he meets the nation's most eminent moth expert, who has a passion for rock'n'roll.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 565[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Granada 7.30 – 8.00 pm Go North – Eamonn O'Neal takes us to the Lakeland Wildlife Centre where he gets up close and personal with some very interesting creatures. We explore the caves at the Heights of Abraham and the beautiful garden at Cholmondeley Castle – while comedian Justin Moorhouse shows us around the town of Cleveleys.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 565[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 London 7.30 – 8.00 pm Tales from the Country – Selina Scott and Tony Francis visit three places showing off their green credentials. Selina heads for a Shropshire town complete with an eco housing estate, while Tony meets the pioneering Berkshire couple making their farm a beacon of the agricultural industry. And Tony is turned on to the wonders of hemp. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 565[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Ways – A film about rural life in Southern England, looking at wildlife, crafts and people.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 565[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Wales 7.30 – 8.00 pm Waterworld – Timothy West and Heledd Fychan meet boaters on the canals, lakes and rivers of the Midlands and Wales. Featuring a boat not to forget – called Senior Moment, why the Wye is a more natural river today than it was centuries ago and a boat horse with his own canal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 565[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 West 7.30 – 8.00 pm – Telling Tails – Behind the scenes at the Bath Cats and Dogs Home.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 565[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 – 8.00 pm Locks and Quays – Matthew Corbett goes on a coast to coast journey from the north Sea to the Irish Sea. Today, he discovers how the Aire and Calder Navigation survived the railway revolution and how water power continues to drive an ancient mill. And, having heard why Wakefield was once the region's 'pantry', he sees how Leeds city centre has continually embraced its waterside existence, and how one part of Ellesmere Port offers boaters a chance to relieve the past.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 565[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland or Wales[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 Coast – Solway Firth to Skye[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 6403[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Friday 11th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.20 – 1.50 am Sign Zone: Johnny's New Kingdom – Spring is in the Air[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4900053[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.50 – 2.20 am Sign Zone: The Twenties in Colour: The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn – The Ashes of Empire[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 2142985[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.20 – 2.50 am Sign Zone: Bill Oddie's Wild Side – John struggles to film a Goshawk, an elusive bird of prey. Bill attempts to locate the murderers of a nest of wrens in his garden. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9634546[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Monkey Life from Monkey World in Dorset[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5613140[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 7.00 – 7.30 pm Landward – Scotland's farming and countryside programme. Ken Rundle investigates whether Angus cattle from Argentina could have an effect on the British beef market.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 7121[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.30 – 8.00 pm Animal Rescue Squad [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5619324[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel Five 8.00 – 9.00 pm Storm Chasers [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 494091[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Saturday 12th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.25 – 3.25 am Sign Zone: Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture Beauty[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 3632541[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.25 – 4.15 am Sign Zone: Natural World – Lobo the Wolf [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 1802725[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 12.40 – 1.10 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries – Plethora of Pythons[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4222980[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 7.30 – 8.30 pm The Lost World of Tibet – Dan Cruickshank presents a documentary about the Dalai Lama, his secret Himalayan kingdom and the story of his exile, using eyewitness accounts from Tibetans including the Dalai Lama himself and colour archive footage of Tibet from the 1930s to 50s.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 57638[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sunday 13th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.00 – 2.05 am The Space Race – Race to the Moon[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4438787[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 4.10 – 5.10 am Salvage Squad – Suggs and the Squad attempt to restore a piece of Britain's engineering heritage to its former glory. This edition features a steam-powered merry go round dating from 1912[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 8225482[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 5.10 – 5.35 am Wildlife SOS[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 51169619[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 65917110[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 11.30 – 12.30 am Animal Park[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 57787[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 11.30 – 12.30 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 27544[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Wales 12.05 – 12.30 pm Waterworld – Featuring a boat not to forget – called Senior Moment, why the Wye is a more natural river today than it was centuries ago and a boat horse with his own canal.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 7360077[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Wales 12.30 – 1.20 pm Dog Rescue[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 1236058[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 5.45 – 6.45 pm Secrets of the Stately Garden: A Time Team Special – Tony Robinson follows an ambitious two year restoration of Prior Park garden near Bath, while also exploring the secrets of England's stately gardens. Their story combines exotic exploration, scientific innovation and revolutionary thought, not to mention an unexpected helping of sexual innuendo.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 431690[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Wales[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 5.50 – 6.40 pm Natural World – Reindeer Girls[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 239597[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Northern Ireland 5.50 – 6.40 pm Blueprint NI – William Crawley and a team of experts peel back 600 million years of history to chronicle the incredible story of Northern Ireland's spectacular landscape, plants, animals and people.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 239597[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 45.30 – 6.00 pm Dog Rescue[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 139[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Border and Border Scottish 6.00 – 6.25 pm Conquer the Castle – Six urbanites swap the city for a crash course in country estate life.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 152503[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton Central 6.00 – 6.25 pm Tales from the Country – Today three towns which once boasted famous ports that have now faded into memory. Selina visits Littleport, which has links to the founds of Harley-Davidson motorbikes, but was a thriving harbour before silt in the river Ouse prevented navigation. Tony investigates Faversham's naval past and meets the people trying to bring the Gloucestershire port of Lydney back to life.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 152503[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV` Carlton West Country 6.00 - 6.25 pm A Tale of Two Castles – Documentary series following the families and staff who live in the castles at Sherborne in Dorset and St Michael's Mount in Cornwall[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 152503[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV 1 Granada 6.00 – 6.25 pm A Very Exotic Vet [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 152503[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 West 6.00 - 6.25 pm A Tale of Two Castles – Documentary series following the families and staff who live in the castles at Sherborne in Dorset and St Michael's Mount in Cornwall[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 152503[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 London 6.00 – 6.25 pm Tales From the Country – Selina Scott takes to the Thames to travel with the man dubbed England's most eccentric – in his pedal powered bath chair. Tony Francis meets the Sri Lankan millionaire who owns a village cricket team populated entirely by his countrymen and travels through the night with cyclists from London to the Suffolk coast.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 152503[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Meridian 6.00 – 6.25 pm Along these Lines - Castleman's Corkscrew – New series in which Hannah Shellswell explores the disused railway lines of the south. This week, she follows the twists and turns of Castleman's Corkscrew to meet railway royalty, visiting the scene of a gruesome murder and returning to one former station with the children of the New Forest who once lived there.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 152503 [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Tyne Tees 6.00 – 6.25 pm Vets – including an owl with a broken wing[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 152503[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Wales 6.00 – 6.25 pm Down to Earth – First in a new series of programmes in which Hywel James looks at life in the Welsh countryside through the eyes of some of the characters living at the heart of the rural scene.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 152503 [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 West 6.00 - 6.25 pm A Tale of Two Castles – Documentary series following the families and staff who live in the castles at Sherborne in Dorset and St Michael's Mount in Cornwall[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 152503[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 8.00 – 9.00 Tiger – Spy in the Jungle – David Attenborough narrates the lives of four growing tiger cubs using footage collected by hidden camera carrying elephants. Over two years the elephants help capture the most intimate portrait of tigers ever filmed. The cubs are now a year and a half old and their biggest challenge is learning to hunt for themselves, but their mother soon loses patience. Many new animal stars make their appearance, including an irresistible jackal family that has to cope when the tiger family invades their backyard and a flock of peacocks that tease the tigers by playing a game of dare.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 2597[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 8.00 – 9.00 pm Bear Grylls : Born Survivor – Bear demonstrates how to withstand the blistering heat and searing sandstorms of the arid Sahara Desert. He also shows how to get nourishment from a deadly scorpion.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 1435[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 10.45 – 11.45 pm Melvyn Bragg's Travels in Written Britain – London and the Thames – Melvyn Bragg embarks on a literary tour of the UK to chart the development of British writing and examine how local geography has inspired some of our finest writers. Continuing his literary tour of the UK, Melvyn Bragg journeys south to wander through the chartered streets of London. Starting at Westminster Bridge he travels by boat down the Thames and traverses the West End on a double decker bus, before heading out to the city's farther reaches, taking in Tower Bridge,Canary Wharf and Wapping as he reveals London's dense and often dark literary heritage.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 702690[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 11.45 – 1.05 am Britain's Biggest Storm – On 16 October 1987, the biggest storm for 300 years raged across southern England. With wind speeds almost double that of a hurricane, it killed 19 people, ripped up 15 million trees and cost the country a billion pounds – yet no one knew it was coming. Using state of the art CGI, reconstruction and first hand accounts, this programme dramatically recreates the horrors and heroism of that fateful night.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 244232[/FONT]
 
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