*Stands for repeat programme
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Hi Folks,
I have tried a new format. I have typed in bold programmes that some of us have missed previously or would like to see again. Does it work? It is your diary, any comments always appreciated, should it be scrapped? Joke Derek and Christine.
Thanks
Ann
Monday 27th
*T BBC 1.00 - 1.10 am Northern Ireland - Sky High a Bird’s eye view of Northern Ireland from the Sky High Helicopter
VP 9961244
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm Elephants of Samburu - The lives and loves of Africa’s elephants are laid bare in the first of two programmes based in Kenya’s Samburu reserve. Saba Douglas-Hamilton, who grew up among Africa’s elephants, is on home ground as she opens up their world.
VP 7553
T BBC2 Scotland 8.00 - 8.30 pm Karluk Surviving the Arctic - Account of the ill-fated Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913 when a group of scientists were sent to the Arctic to look for a new continent on the eve of WW1.
VP 7553
Tuesday 28th
T Channel 4 4.20 - 5.10 am Wild Things
VP 6365935
*T BBC2 11.10 - 12.00 pm Horizon - The Day the Earth Nearly Died - Some 250 million years ago, all but five per cent of life on Earth was wiped out in the greatest disaster our planet has ever experienced, yet the cause of this event has long remained a mystery. Palaentologists in Greenland explain the answers to this great mystery.
VP 7439664
*T BBC2 Scotland 1.30 - 2.30 pm British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History Chris Packham looks at current campaigns, large and small, to promote wildlife across the British Isles. Examples include the transformation of an old railway yard in London, the rebuilding of England’s wetlands and efforts to encourage the return of woodlands in Northern Ireland.
VP 61867
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon
VP 1319596
T BBC2 8.00 - 9.00 pm New Series It is not Easy being Green 1/7 Dick Strawbridge and his family have taken over a neglected farm in Cornwall and are embarking on a “planet-loving lifestyle”. Strawbridge, a big jolly man whose moustache probably has its own ecosystem, is keen to emphasise that, for him, going green doesn’t mean doing without comforts. “I want a coffee machine and a dishwasher, “ he growls. And his wife Brigit admits she’s more attached to her daily hot bath than is ecologically correct. But they make an impressive start, and if you can cope with Strawbridge’s burly ego and papa-bear bonhomie, it’s inspiring TV.
VP 3119
*T BBC2 11.20 - 12.10 am Congo 3/3 Footprints in the Forest
VP 377225
Wednesday 29th
T Channel 4 4.45 - 5.30 am Wild Things
VP 3500417
*BBC2 1.00 - 1.30 pm Wildlife on Two - Ospreys the Fish Hawks - Documentary following the trials and tribulations of a pair of Ospreys as they raise their young off the coastal waters off the coastal waters of Newfoundland, Canada. Narrated by David Attenborough
VP 84981
Sorry Scotland you saw this Programme on Tuesday
*T BBC2 North 2.00 - 3.00 pm British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History Chris Packham looks at current campaigns, large and small, to promote wildlife across the British Isles. Examples include the transformation of an old railway yard in London, the rebuilding of England’s wetlands and efforts to encourage the return of woodlands in Northern Ireland.
VP 67726
T Channel 5 8.00 - 9.00 pm New Series Alive: Back to the Andes 1/3 This series recreates the epic ten day journey attempted by two survivors from the famous Andes plane crash in 1972. Lord Freddie Windsor, Cherie Blair’s former lifestyle guru Carole Caplin, top chef Jean-Christophe Novelli and former ‘Coronation Street’ star and prospective Tory MP Adam Rickitt follow the same route undertaken by survivors Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa. This week the team learn emergency survival techniques and find their route to the crash site blocked by a snowstorm.
VP 7983900
Thursday 30th
T Channel 4 3.25 - 4.10 am Wild Things
VP 2550924
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon
VP 1273740
T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 - 8.00 pm Coastal Inspirations - Art enthusiast and travel writer Paul Gogarty sails an old fishing smack the Excelsior along the east coast, stopping off to visit the artists, writers, musicians and craftspeople who live, work and draw inspiration from this beautiful coastline, Paul visit’s the handsome market town of Maldon in Essex, where photographer Den Phillips specialises in black and white pictures of Thames barges and shares her passion for the area. And renowned sculptor John Doubleday shows us progress on one of his latest commissions.
VP 479
T ITV1 Border & ITV Border Scottish 7.30 - 8.00 pm Out of Town - Giving a whole new meaning to the phrase taking the dog for a walk, Eric Robson and a border terrier on a string head for the great outdoors, get under the skin of fascinating glimpses of history and up the nose of officialdom in all its guises.
VP 479
T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 - 8.00 pm Water world - Why a retired Navy commander who sailed battleships all over the world loves cruising the canals on a narrow boat. Plus the 200 year old Blisworth Tunnel and Pontycylite Aqueduct - engineering marvels of the canals era.
vP 479
T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 - 8.00 pm Lifeboat
VP 479
T ITV1 Granada 7.30 - 8.00 pm - That’s Rich - This programme meets a member of the landed gentry who is carving out a career on his thousand-acre estate, Yvette Fielding chooses her wardrobe for a magazine photoshoot and World Boxing Champ Ricky Hatton meets his idol Sugar Ray Leonard
VP 479
T ITV1 London 7.30 - 8.00 pm Tales from the Country - Tony Francis visit’s a tea room with a difference in Surrey. How Chris and Amanda Dennis run the foremost citrus nursery in the UK, based in West Sussex. And Wayne and Jimmy are called in by a local farmer in Surrey to offer their vermin control service.
VP 479
T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 - 8.00 pm The Way we Were - A return to the time when Bognor, Bournemouth and Brighton were the places to live it up.
VP 479
T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 - 8.00 pm Out of Town - Eric Robson and his disgruntled border terrier head for the great outdoors in search of secret corners, hidden byways, history magic and great views.
VP 479
T ITV1 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm Great Welsh Roads.
VP 479
T ITV1 West 7.30 - 8.00 pm - Lifeboat - In at the Deep End After a year long probation, the volunteers must spend a week at the RNLI training school in Dorset learning fire-fighting, first aid, casualty-handling and surviving in stormy seas - the most gruelling test of all.
VP 479
T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 - 8.00 pm Zoo Vet at Large - Series following the work of zoo vet Matt Brash at Flamingoland in North Yorkshire. Today greyhound trainer John Thompson calls on Matt for help to get his lame star runner back on track. Matt worries that a tawny owl with a broken wing may never be well enough to return to the wild, and tragedy strikes when a fox breaks into an aviary at Flamingoland.
VP 479
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm New Series The Curious House Guest 1/8 Holkham Hall. It’s a tough job - staying the weekend at some of the country’s grandest houses, being wined, dined and treated as one of the family while poking your nose into every nook and cranny and asking questions about every aspect of the place - but architectural historian Jeremy Musson is just the man to do it. He starts this new series with a view to Holkham Hall in Norfolk, the fabulous Palladian home of Eddy and Sarah - or Lord and Lady Leicester, to you and me. Musson is a supremely knowledgeable chap without being too pompous about his subject, but even he didn’t know that the bowler hat first came into being at Holkham. Apparently it was devised as protective headwear for the estate’s gamekeepers for those occasions when they came to blows with poachers
VP 8721
Friday 3st
Sorry the following programme is being shown in Northern Ireland tomorrow Saturday
*T BBC1 12.25 - 1.15 am Sign Zone: Natural World - Big Sky Bears Documentary about Montana’s Rocky Mountain black bears. A mother has just given birth to two tiny cubs. The forest looks an idyllic playground but it will take all mother’s skill, and plenty of luck, if the twins are to survive the summer and learn to fend for themselves. She teaches them how to find food by raiding ants nests, picking berries and catching trout, but her greatest challenge is avoiding the wolves, coyotes and grizzlies. To keep them alive, she must teach them to climb trees.
VP 2703986
T Channel 4 4.30 - 5.20 am Wild Things
VP 8285615
Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland or Wales
*T BBC2 7.30 - 8.00 pm Hands on Nature - Chris Packham visit’s the UK’s woodlands to reveal the secrets of successful badger watching and discovers the best place to see our biggest game birds as they strut their stuff in the Scottish Highlands
VP 141
T Channel 5 8.00 - 9.00 pm The Dark Side of Hippos - Documentary about the creatures usually seen as fat, jolly vegetarians but which in truth are actually far from it. They are responsible for killing more people in Africa than any other animal. This documentary reveals the truth about these aggressive, bad-tempered beasts.
VP 7927344
T BBC2 9.00 - 10.00 pm Pompeii The Last Day - A reconstruction of the final events leading to one of the worst natural disasters to strike the ancient world. Drawing on contemporary accounts and recent archaeological discoveries, this drama tells the real story of what happened, including the exact cause of the deaths of the 5,000 townspeople
VP 5493
Saturday 1 April
*T BBC1 Northern Ireland 1.25 - 2.15 am Sign Zone: Natural World - Big Sky Bears Documentary about Montana’s Rocky Mountain black bears. A mother has just given birth to two tiny cubs. The forest looks an idyllic playground but it will take all mother’s skill, and plenty of luck, if the twins are to survive the summer and learn to fend for themselves. She teaches them how to find food by raiding ants nests, picking berries and catching trout, but her greatest challenge is avoiding the wolves, coyotes and grizzlies. To keep them alive, she must teach them to climb trees.
VP 5320401
*T BBC2 7.30 - 8.30 pm Planet Earth - Caves
VP 24265
*T BBC2 8.30 - 9.30 pm Around the World in Eighty Treasures - Mali to Egypt
VP 24739
Sunday 2nd
T BBC1 3.30 - 4.00 am Education Why Do Peacocks have Elaborate Trains? - A look at research carried out at Whipsnade Zoo and in Rajasthan into the way peahens choose their mates.
VP 86579
T Channel 5 5.35- 6.00 am Animal Airport - A behind the scenes look at Heathrow Airport’s Animal Reception Centre. Animal Welfare Officer Sharon Edwards is on the hunt for an escaped veisty cat belonging to an important dignitary and the team have problems disembarking seven miniature donkeys when they are unable to find the door to the crate that the animals were travelling in.
VP 35792314
T ITV1 10.30 - 11.30 am The Crocodile Hunter Diaries - Girls Catch Crocs Too
VP 44376
T BBC2 11.30 - 12.00 pm Country File - John Craven travels to the Falkland Islands where the future of the albatross is being threatened by industrial fishing. Miriam O’Reilly reports on how island life has changed since the Argentine invasion 24 years ago.
VP 2395
*T BBC2 4.10 - 5.10 pm Animal Park from Kenya
VP 9450463
*T BBC2 5.10 - 6.00 pm Wild Harvest - Documentary looking at how the rise of organic farming and a brand new system of subsidies has helped British farmland wildlife recover from a serious state of decline. Creatures such as the lapwing, skylark, dormice and barn owls are making a comeback; in Devon horseshoe bats are benefiting from organic cow pats and in Yorkshire black grouse are thriving thanks to later haymaking.
VP 3127550
T ITV1 Wales 5.30 - 6.00 pm Celtic Monsters - Fairies
VP 68
*T BBC2 6.00 - 7.00 pm Coast - Dover to Exmouth
VP 11869
T Channel 4 6.00 - 6.55 pm Time Team - Early Bath - Archaeological series. The team descend on the village of Ffrith in North Wales to discover if it is built on the remains of a Roman mining town.
VP 973717
*T BBC2 8.00 - 9.00 pm Ray Mears’s Extreme Survival - Belarus - Survival expert Ray Mears explores some of the most inhospitable places on Earth. He travels to the ancient forests of Belarus, where he tracks wolves and a herd of native bison, as well as raiding an ants’ nest for nutritious larvae. He also discovers extraordinary hidden villages where thousands of Jews fled to escape Nazi massacres during the Second World War.
VP 4005
T BBC1 9.00 - 10.00 pm Planet Earth - Deserts - This edition looks at deserts, which cover a third of the Earth’s land surface. From space they appear lifeless but a closer look reveals a different picture, from Mongolia’s Gobi desert where wild Bactrian camels have to eat snow in lieu of water to the Atacama in Chile where guanacos survive by licking the dew off cactus spines.
VP 6227
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Hi Folks,
I have tried a new format. I have typed in bold programmes that some of us have missed previously or would like to see again. Does it work? It is your diary, any comments always appreciated, should it be scrapped? Joke Derek and Christine.
Thanks
Ann
Monday 27th
*T BBC 1.00 - 1.10 am Northern Ireland - Sky High a Bird’s eye view of Northern Ireland from the Sky High Helicopter
VP 9961244
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm Elephants of Samburu - The lives and loves of Africa’s elephants are laid bare in the first of two programmes based in Kenya’s Samburu reserve. Saba Douglas-Hamilton, who grew up among Africa’s elephants, is on home ground as she opens up their world.
VP 7553
T BBC2 Scotland 8.00 - 8.30 pm Karluk Surviving the Arctic - Account of the ill-fated Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913 when a group of scientists were sent to the Arctic to look for a new continent on the eve of WW1.
VP 7553
Tuesday 28th
T Channel 4 4.20 - 5.10 am Wild Things
VP 6365935
*T BBC2 11.10 - 12.00 pm Horizon - The Day the Earth Nearly Died - Some 250 million years ago, all but five per cent of life on Earth was wiped out in the greatest disaster our planet has ever experienced, yet the cause of this event has long remained a mystery. Palaentologists in Greenland explain the answers to this great mystery.
VP 7439664
*T BBC2 Scotland 1.30 - 2.30 pm British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History Chris Packham looks at current campaigns, large and small, to promote wildlife across the British Isles. Examples include the transformation of an old railway yard in London, the rebuilding of England’s wetlands and efforts to encourage the return of woodlands in Northern Ireland.
VP 61867
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon
VP 1319596
T BBC2 8.00 - 9.00 pm New Series It is not Easy being Green 1/7 Dick Strawbridge and his family have taken over a neglected farm in Cornwall and are embarking on a “planet-loving lifestyle”. Strawbridge, a big jolly man whose moustache probably has its own ecosystem, is keen to emphasise that, for him, going green doesn’t mean doing without comforts. “I want a coffee machine and a dishwasher, “ he growls. And his wife Brigit admits she’s more attached to her daily hot bath than is ecologically correct. But they make an impressive start, and if you can cope with Strawbridge’s burly ego and papa-bear bonhomie, it’s inspiring TV.
VP 3119
*T BBC2 11.20 - 12.10 am Congo 3/3 Footprints in the Forest
VP 377225
Wednesday 29th
T Channel 4 4.45 - 5.30 am Wild Things
VP 3500417
*BBC2 1.00 - 1.30 pm Wildlife on Two - Ospreys the Fish Hawks - Documentary following the trials and tribulations of a pair of Ospreys as they raise their young off the coastal waters off the coastal waters of Newfoundland, Canada. Narrated by David Attenborough
VP 84981
Sorry Scotland you saw this Programme on Tuesday
*T BBC2 North 2.00 - 3.00 pm British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History Chris Packham looks at current campaigns, large and small, to promote wildlife across the British Isles. Examples include the transformation of an old railway yard in London, the rebuilding of England’s wetlands and efforts to encourage the return of woodlands in Northern Ireland.
VP 67726
T Channel 5 8.00 - 9.00 pm New Series Alive: Back to the Andes 1/3 This series recreates the epic ten day journey attempted by two survivors from the famous Andes plane crash in 1972. Lord Freddie Windsor, Cherie Blair’s former lifestyle guru Carole Caplin, top chef Jean-Christophe Novelli and former ‘Coronation Street’ star and prospective Tory MP Adam Rickitt follow the same route undertaken by survivors Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa. This week the team learn emergency survival techniques and find their route to the crash site blocked by a snowstorm.
VP 7983900
Thursday 30th
T Channel 4 3.25 - 4.10 am Wild Things
VP 2550924
T BBC1 5.00 - 5.25 pm Serious Amazon
VP 1273740
T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 - 8.00 pm Coastal Inspirations - Art enthusiast and travel writer Paul Gogarty sails an old fishing smack the Excelsior along the east coast, stopping off to visit the artists, writers, musicians and craftspeople who live, work and draw inspiration from this beautiful coastline, Paul visit’s the handsome market town of Maldon in Essex, where photographer Den Phillips specialises in black and white pictures of Thames barges and shares her passion for the area. And renowned sculptor John Doubleday shows us progress on one of his latest commissions.
VP 479
T ITV1 Border & ITV Border Scottish 7.30 - 8.00 pm Out of Town - Giving a whole new meaning to the phrase taking the dog for a walk, Eric Robson and a border terrier on a string head for the great outdoors, get under the skin of fascinating glimpses of history and up the nose of officialdom in all its guises.
VP 479
T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 - 8.00 pm Water world - Why a retired Navy commander who sailed battleships all over the world loves cruising the canals on a narrow boat. Plus the 200 year old Blisworth Tunnel and Pontycylite Aqueduct - engineering marvels of the canals era.
vP 479
T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 - 8.00 pm Lifeboat
VP 479
T ITV1 Granada 7.30 - 8.00 pm - That’s Rich - This programme meets a member of the landed gentry who is carving out a career on his thousand-acre estate, Yvette Fielding chooses her wardrobe for a magazine photoshoot and World Boxing Champ Ricky Hatton meets his idol Sugar Ray Leonard
VP 479
T ITV1 London 7.30 - 8.00 pm Tales from the Country - Tony Francis visit’s a tea room with a difference in Surrey. How Chris and Amanda Dennis run the foremost citrus nursery in the UK, based in West Sussex. And Wayne and Jimmy are called in by a local farmer in Surrey to offer their vermin control service.
VP 479
T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 - 8.00 pm The Way we Were - A return to the time when Bognor, Bournemouth and Brighton were the places to live it up.
VP 479
T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 - 8.00 pm Out of Town - Eric Robson and his disgruntled border terrier head for the great outdoors in search of secret corners, hidden byways, history magic and great views.
VP 479
T ITV1 Wales 7.30 - 8.00 pm Great Welsh Roads.
VP 479
T ITV1 West 7.30 - 8.00 pm - Lifeboat - In at the Deep End After a year long probation, the volunteers must spend a week at the RNLI training school in Dorset learning fire-fighting, first aid, casualty-handling and surviving in stormy seas - the most gruelling test of all.
VP 479
T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 - 8.00 pm Zoo Vet at Large - Series following the work of zoo vet Matt Brash at Flamingoland in North Yorkshire. Today greyhound trainer John Thompson calls on Matt for help to get his lame star runner back on track. Matt worries that a tawny owl with a broken wing may never be well enough to return to the wild, and tragedy strikes when a fox breaks into an aviary at Flamingoland.
VP 479
T BBC2 8.00 - 8.30 pm New Series The Curious House Guest 1/8 Holkham Hall. It’s a tough job - staying the weekend at some of the country’s grandest houses, being wined, dined and treated as one of the family while poking your nose into every nook and cranny and asking questions about every aspect of the place - but architectural historian Jeremy Musson is just the man to do it. He starts this new series with a view to Holkham Hall in Norfolk, the fabulous Palladian home of Eddy and Sarah - or Lord and Lady Leicester, to you and me. Musson is a supremely knowledgeable chap without being too pompous about his subject, but even he didn’t know that the bowler hat first came into being at Holkham. Apparently it was devised as protective headwear for the estate’s gamekeepers for those occasions when they came to blows with poachers
VP 8721
Friday 3st
Sorry the following programme is being shown in Northern Ireland tomorrow Saturday
*T BBC1 12.25 - 1.15 am Sign Zone: Natural World - Big Sky Bears Documentary about Montana’s Rocky Mountain black bears. A mother has just given birth to two tiny cubs. The forest looks an idyllic playground but it will take all mother’s skill, and plenty of luck, if the twins are to survive the summer and learn to fend for themselves. She teaches them how to find food by raiding ants nests, picking berries and catching trout, but her greatest challenge is avoiding the wolves, coyotes and grizzlies. To keep them alive, she must teach them to climb trees.
VP 2703986
T Channel 4 4.30 - 5.20 am Wild Things
VP 8285615
Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland or Wales
*T BBC2 7.30 - 8.00 pm Hands on Nature - Chris Packham visit’s the UK’s woodlands to reveal the secrets of successful badger watching and discovers the best place to see our biggest game birds as they strut their stuff in the Scottish Highlands
VP 141
T Channel 5 8.00 - 9.00 pm The Dark Side of Hippos - Documentary about the creatures usually seen as fat, jolly vegetarians but which in truth are actually far from it. They are responsible for killing more people in Africa than any other animal. This documentary reveals the truth about these aggressive, bad-tempered beasts.
VP 7927344
T BBC2 9.00 - 10.00 pm Pompeii The Last Day - A reconstruction of the final events leading to one of the worst natural disasters to strike the ancient world. Drawing on contemporary accounts and recent archaeological discoveries, this drama tells the real story of what happened, including the exact cause of the deaths of the 5,000 townspeople
VP 5493
Saturday 1 April
*T BBC1 Northern Ireland 1.25 - 2.15 am Sign Zone: Natural World - Big Sky Bears Documentary about Montana’s Rocky Mountain black bears. A mother has just given birth to two tiny cubs. The forest looks an idyllic playground but it will take all mother’s skill, and plenty of luck, if the twins are to survive the summer and learn to fend for themselves. She teaches them how to find food by raiding ants nests, picking berries and catching trout, but her greatest challenge is avoiding the wolves, coyotes and grizzlies. To keep them alive, she must teach them to climb trees.
VP 5320401
*T BBC2 7.30 - 8.30 pm Planet Earth - Caves
VP 24265
*T BBC2 8.30 - 9.30 pm Around the World in Eighty Treasures - Mali to Egypt
VP 24739
Sunday 2nd
T BBC1 3.30 - 4.00 am Education Why Do Peacocks have Elaborate Trains? - A look at research carried out at Whipsnade Zoo and in Rajasthan into the way peahens choose their mates.
VP 86579
T Channel 5 5.35- 6.00 am Animal Airport - A behind the scenes look at Heathrow Airport’s Animal Reception Centre. Animal Welfare Officer Sharon Edwards is on the hunt for an escaped veisty cat belonging to an important dignitary and the team have problems disembarking seven miniature donkeys when they are unable to find the door to the crate that the animals were travelling in.
VP 35792314
T ITV1 10.30 - 11.30 am The Crocodile Hunter Diaries - Girls Catch Crocs Too
VP 44376
T BBC2 11.30 - 12.00 pm Country File - John Craven travels to the Falkland Islands where the future of the albatross is being threatened by industrial fishing. Miriam O’Reilly reports on how island life has changed since the Argentine invasion 24 years ago.
VP 2395
*T BBC2 4.10 - 5.10 pm Animal Park from Kenya
VP 9450463
*T BBC2 5.10 - 6.00 pm Wild Harvest - Documentary looking at how the rise of organic farming and a brand new system of subsidies has helped British farmland wildlife recover from a serious state of decline. Creatures such as the lapwing, skylark, dormice and barn owls are making a comeback; in Devon horseshoe bats are benefiting from organic cow pats and in Yorkshire black grouse are thriving thanks to later haymaking.
VP 3127550
T ITV1 Wales 5.30 - 6.00 pm Celtic Monsters - Fairies
VP 68
*T BBC2 6.00 - 7.00 pm Coast - Dover to Exmouth
VP 11869
T Channel 4 6.00 - 6.55 pm Time Team - Early Bath - Archaeological series. The team descend on the village of Ffrith in North Wales to discover if it is built on the remains of a Roman mining town.
VP 973717
*T BBC2 8.00 - 9.00 pm Ray Mears’s Extreme Survival - Belarus - Survival expert Ray Mears explores some of the most inhospitable places on Earth. He travels to the ancient forests of Belarus, where he tracks wolves and a herd of native bison, as well as raiding an ants’ nest for nutritious larvae. He also discovers extraordinary hidden villages where thousands of Jews fled to escape Nazi massacres during the Second World War.
VP 4005
T BBC1 9.00 - 10.00 pm Planet Earth - Deserts - This edition looks at deserts, which cover a third of the Earth’s land surface. From space they appear lifeless but a closer look reveals a different picture, from Mongolia’s Gobi desert where wild Bactrian camels have to eat snow in lieu of water to the Atacama in Chile where guanacos survive by licking the dew off cactus spines.
VP 6227
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