*Stands for repeat programme
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Monday 31st
T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Surival Kopjes:Islands in a Sea of Grass
VP 25223561
T ITV3 6.55 – 7.25 am Savage Planet 21st Century Plague – The series looking at the powerful natural forces which affect the earth examines how the deadly mosquito – which spreads diseases including malaria across several continents and causes the deaths of up to three million people each year – is continuing to expand its reach across the globe.
VP 33592899
“BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal Park
VP 2411528
*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Nick’s Quest Giant River Otter. Nick Baker travels to Karanambo in Guyana where he finds out about efforts to conserve the giant river otter.
VP 6664035
T BBC1 7.00 – 7.30 pm Documentary Trawlermen 1/5 The Great Prawn Hunt Effete landlubbers across the country will surely be unable to resist the temptation to lash themselves to the sofa as Trawlermen churns up the waves every weeknight. Tonight's first episode follows the crews of the prawn boats Amity, an ageing if endearingly rough-andready vessel, and its rival, the state-of-the- art Fruitful Bough, as they leave Peterhead in Aberdeenshire to fish for prawns in the North Sea. This, according to Peter Capaldi's narration, is "the most dangerous job in Britain". Who decided that, I wonder? The men are a cheery lot who belie the programme's attempts to turn the routine disappointments and even dangers of their everyday working lives - which the crews accept with equanimity - into melodrama. Some days they don't catch enough prawns. Some days there are storms. But they carry on to fish another day. Sometimes, programme-makers, things really are that simple.
VP 4431
T ITV1 8.00 – 8.30 pm Is This the Worst Weather Ever? 1/4 Hurricanes Everyone frets about the weather and recently it's given us plenty to get worked up about. Some experts warn of climate meltdown, with every new catastrophe souding alarm bells courtesy of mother nature. This series examines the most extreme weather of recent years and asks is this as bad as it gets - or is it only the beginning? This edition features hurricanes; the tropical storms which bring terror and devastation on an epic scale.
VP 2219
Sorry the following programme is being shown in Northern Ireland on Wednesday
T BBC1 10.35 – 11.05 pm Animal Rescue 3/5 Too Many Pets
VP 176306
Tuesday 1 August
*T BBC1 12.50 – 1.40 am Sign Zone: Horizon The Woman Who thinks like a Cow
VP 4948623
T Channel 4 4.20 – 5.05 am Wild Things
VP 4503913
T ITV3 6.00 – 6.50 am Survival People of the Great Sand Face
VP 5056062
*T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal Park
VP 6794130
*T Channel 4 12.30 – 12.50 pm Small Railway Journeys Jonathan Glancey rides the line of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway.
VP 1317604
*T BBC2 1.00 – 1.25 pm The Future is Wild – Welcome to the Future
VP 58195222
T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Nick’s Quest – Giant Turtles
VP 9366420
T BBC1 7.00 – 7.30 pm Trawlermen 2/5 The Storm
VP 1536
T ITV1 Border & Border Scottish 7.30 – 8.00 pm Vets Following the work of two veterinary practices in Cumbria and South West Scotland.
VP 4
T BBC2 8.00 – 8.30 pm Fred Dibnah’s World of Steam, Steel and Stone 4/12 Men of Steel
VP 8826
T Channel 5 8.00 – 9.00 pm New Series The Perfect Disaster 1/6 Super Tornado
VP 6342517
Wednesday 2nd
*T BBC1 1.20 – 2.20 am Sign Zone: Tribe Nyangatom
VP 1695260
T ITV3 6.00 – 6,55 am Survival – Space for Wildlife
VP 2794531
*T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal Park
VP 6761802
*T BBC2 1.00 – 1.25 pm The Future is Wild – Return of the Ice
VP 37368294
*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Nick’s Quest Gorilla – Nick Baker heads out into Uganda’s impenetrable Bwindi Forest for an encounter with a troop of mountain gorillas, now driven to the edge of extinction.
VP 93333192
T BBC1 7.00 – 7.30 pm Trawlermen 3/5 The Edge
VP 9227
The following programme is being shown on BBC 1 Scotland at 10.40 – 11.40 pm VP 176685
T BBC1 8.00 – 9.00 pm Seawatch – Kate Humble introduces a one off special that’s a Springwatch like “marine MOT” for our waters
VP 1395
Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Wales
*T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm Three Men in a Boat Griff Rhys Jones, Dara O'Briain, Rory McGrath and a nervous dog called Loli set out from Kingston in a wooden skiff in an attempt to re-trace the journey up the Thames immortalised by Jerome K Jerome in his comedy classic Three Men in a Boat. Along the way they drop in unannounced on a couple of friends ? Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Antony Worrall Thomson. Halfway to Oxford, Rory and Dara have gone to the pub while Griff is left behind to prepare a campfire supper.
VP 9173
T BBC1 Northern Ireland 11.20 – 11.50 pm Animal Rescue
VP 449753
Thursday 3rd
T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Survival – The Rains Came
VP 2761203
ITV3 6.55 – 7.20 am Savage Planet – Buried Alive - Landslides
VP 99132203
*T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal Park
VP 6738574
*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Nick’s Quest – Crocodiles
VP 9300864
T BBC1 7.00 – 7.30 pm Trawlerrmen 4/5 Starting Out
VP 4636
*T Channel 5 7.15 – 8.00 pm Big Cat Predators: Jungle Jaguar
VP 3244999
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. Today, she remembers Dr Ted Ellis, the Norfolk naturalist who died 20 years ago this month, as friends, family and admirers reminisce about the talented writer and scientist.
VP 22
T ITV1 Border & Border Scottish 7.30 – 8.00 pm Dales Diary Luke Casey presents a series that spotlights the people and the sights of the Dales. Luke starts his diary in a pub with a difference, meets one of the youngest shepherds in the country and talks to a couple who make garden sculptures from willow.
VP 22
T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 – 8.00 pm Heart of the Country Youth Hostels have played an integral part in providing rooms for many a weary traveller. Now hostels are changing. Tony Francis heads to Derbyshire to see why Matlock’s hostel is to close and contrasts the luxury of Harington Hall with a night bedding down in a camping barn.
VP 22
T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 – 8.00 Great Country Houses Series investigating how owners of stately houses and historic homes are overcoming escalating costs to keep them running. Presenter Chris Serle visits Forde Abbey in Somerset
VP 22
T ITV1 Granada 7.30 – 8.00 pm Go North West A look at interesting places to visit in the region, presented by Eamonn O'Neal and Lynsey Horn. Today, Eamonn traces Cheshire’s heritage at Quarry Bank Mill, and Willy Wonka’s Candy Man shares his passion for the Lake District.
VP 22
T ITV1 London 7.30 – 8.00 pm Off the Beaten Track with Nigel Farrell Bizarre stories, strange events and odd characters that make up London's colourful history.. Nigel discovers how two of Britain’s most notorious poachers played a part in making fingerprinting a popular police technique, finds out why East London locals believe there was a government cover-up during the Blitz bombing of Hallsville School and learns how Victorian engineering ingenuity helped stop the Thames from drying up and create a wildlife paradise in Richmond.
VP 22
T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 – 8.00 pm Great Country Houses Series investigating how owners of stately houses and historic homes are overcoming escalating costs to keep them running. Presenter Chris Serle visits Forde Abbey in Somerset
VP 22
T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 – 8.00 pm Dales Diary Luke Casey presents a series that spotlights the people and the sights of the Dales. Luke starts his diary in a pub with a difference, meets one of the youngest shepherds in the country and talks to a couple who make garden sculptures from willow.
VP 22
T ITV1 Wales 7.30 – 8.00 pm Great Pubs of Wales series journeying around Wales to discover six of the nation's best-loved watering holes. Today, he is at the Dyffryn Arms and meets the local landlady, Bessie who is even more famous than her beer.
VP 22
T ITV1 West 7.30 – 8.00 pm Great Country Houses Series investigating how owners of stately houses and historic homes are overcoming escalating costs to keep them running Presenter Chris Serle visits Forde Abbey in Somerset
VP 22
T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 – 8.00 pm Dales Diary Luke Casey presents a series that spotlights the people and the sights of the Dales. Luke starts his diary in a pub with a difference, meets one of the youngest shepherds in the country and talks to a couple who make garden sculptures from willow.
VP 22
*T Channel 4 8.00 – 8.30 pm The View from River Cottage
VP 2574
Friday 4th
T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Survival – Tumbler in the Sky
VP 2665075
*T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal Park
VP 6632346
*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Nick’s Quest - Elephants
VP 9204636 T BBC1 7.00 – 7.00- 7.30 pm Trawlermen – Coming Home
VP 5891
T BBC1 7.30 – 8.00 pm Working the Sea – John McArdle tells the story of the Isle of Man Steam Packet, the oldest passenger shipping line in the world and a service regarded as the island’s lifeline.
VP 87
*T BBC1 Scotland Shipbuilding – A look at past highs and the present low of Scotland’s shipbuilding industry – from ships such as the Thermopylae the Lusitania and the QE2 to the current silence in the great shipyards.
VP 87
T BBC1 Northern Ireland 7.30 – 8.00 pm Angler Darryl Grimason hunts down six of the largest predators in Irish waters and his target today is the bluefin tuna.
VP 87
*T BBC1 Wales – Jamie Owen’s Magic Harbours – Jamie Owen sets sail aboard the 100 year old pilot cutter Mascotte for a journey of discovery around the coast of Wales. The series begins at Cardiff, where Jamie meets up with the boat’s crew.
VP 87
T Channel 5 8.00 – 9.00 pm Austin Stevens Adventures – Desert Giants: Austin sets out to photograph elephants in the Namib Desert. The animals must cover vast distances to find enough food and water to survive here, which means that they will do what it takes to stay alive.
VP 3585664
Saturday 5th
*T BBC1 1.25 – 2.25 am Sign Zone: Tribe – Nyangatom
VP 1532747
T BBC2 5.30 – 6.00 am Landscape Mysteries In search of Irish Gold Documentary exploring Britain’s landscape before the last ice age. Bronze age people in Ireland had access to large amounts of gold, but it is not clear where it came from. Aubrey Manning goes in search of a lost Eldorado on the Emerald Isle.
VP 75376
*T Channel 5 5.30 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS
VP 4495389
*T ITV1 3.25 – 3.55 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 2324292
*T BBC2 5.50 – 6.00 pm Coast: Cuttlefish and Pompey (Portsmouth)
VP 490582
T ITV1 7.25 – 8.25 pm Prehistoric Park Back in prehistory, the world was populated by some of the most amazing creatures that have ever lived. But today, 99 percent of them are gone. What if we could bring back some of them back from extinction? Using his knowledge of today's animal kingdom and the latest research, wildlife adventurer Nigel Marven journeys through time into the past, on a quest to rescue these long lost creatures. In this edition, he travels back in time to prehistoric China in search of one of the strangest dinosaurs the world has ever known – the four winged flying Microraptor. At the park, Martha, the Mammoth is feeling the heat, and the two T-Rex reach boiling point.
VP 260969
Sunday 6th
T BBC2 3.30 – 4.20 am Education The Cretaceous Greenhouse World: Poles Apart How plants and plant fossils, can provide detailed information about the Earth’s climate.
VP 1221457
*T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS
VP 53120728
T ITV3 6.00 – 7.00 am Survival – Legends of the Lightning Bird
VP 8415322
T ITV3 6.55 – 7.55 am Survival – Mysterious Journey
VP 2410051
T BBC1 11.00 – 12.10 pm Countryfile The people and the stories at the heart of the British countryside. John Craven and Adam Henson take to the water for the 180th Cowes regatta. Ben Fogle heads to Dorset to discover how the landscape inspired Enid Blyton and Tom Heap reports on how plans for wave energy machines off north Cornwall are splitting the surfing community.
VP 192296
T ITV1 Wales 4.55 – 5.30 pm Fishlock’s Wild Tracks Bala
VP 6594506
T ITV1 5.00 – 6.00 pm Prehistoric ParkBack in prehistory, the world was populated by some of the most amazing creatures that have ever lived. But today, 99 percent of them are gone. What if we could bring back some of them back from extinction? Using his knowledge of today's animal kingdom and the latest research, wildlife adventurer Nigel Marven journeys through time into the past, on a quest to rescue these long lost creatures. In this edition, he travels back in time to prehistoric China in search of one of the strangest dinosaurs the world has ever known – the four winged flying Microraptor. At the park, Martha the Mammoth is feeling the heat, and the two T-Rex reach boiling point.
VP 7577235
T ITV1 Wales 5.30 – 6.00 pm Grass Roots Hywel James hits the trail with a rather unusual tour guide – a llama.
VP 544
ITV1 Carlton Central 6.00 – 6.25 pm Safari Park Researchers arrive at the West Midlands Safari Park to find out just what elephants do when they go to sleep? With surprising results. A rare Madagascan jumping rat is readied to be transported to a zoo in eastern Europe. Narrated by Paul McGann.
VP 285235
T ITV1 Carlton West Country 6.00 – 6.25 pm John Nettles presents a journey through the life and times of John Betjeman, to mark the centenary of his birth. Betjeman’s alienation from his father was to haunt him throughout his life. It drove him as a young man out into the Cornish lanes on his ike, where he was to discover the beauty of Blisland, which became one of his favourite haunts. The programme also looks at a charming film the poet made in Malmesbury and revisits his footsteps on a visit to Devizes in Wiltshire.
VP 285235
T ITV1 Meridian 6.00 – 6.25 pm John Nettles presents a journey through the life and times of John Betjeman, to mark the centenary of his birth. . Betjeman’s alienation from his father was to haunt him throughout his life. It drove him as a young man out into the Cornish lanes on his ike, where he was to discover the beauty of Blisland, which became one of his favourite haunts. The programme also looks at a charming film the poet made in Malmesbury and revisits his footsteps on a visit to Devizes in Wiltshire.
VP 285235
T ITV1 Tyne Tees 6.00 – 6.25 pm Theme Park Vicky Locklin narrates a series that goes behind-the-scenes at Flamingoland Theme Park and Zoo in North Yorkshire. Today, a family of primates are moved to a new enclosure, and Hayley the choreographer has problems with her staff accommodation
VP 285235
T ITV1 West 6.00 – 6.25 pm John Nettles presents a journey through the life and times of John Betjeman, to mark the centenary of his birth. Betjeman’s alienation from his father was to haunt him throughout his life. It drove him as a young man out into the Cornish lanes on his ike, where he was to discover the beauty of Blisland, which became one of his favourite haunts. The programme also looks at a charming film the poet made in Malmesbury and revisits his footsteps on a visit to Devizes in Wiltshire.
VP 285235
T ITV1 Yorkshire 6.00 – 6.25 pm Theme Park Vicky Locklin narrates a series that goes behind-the-scenes at Flamingoland Theme Park and Zoo in North Yorkshire. Today, a family of primates are moved to a new enclosure, and Hayley the choreographer has problems with her staff accommodation
VP 285235
T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 pm Journeys into the Ring of Fire Indonesia Iain Stewart tours the perilous and spectacular landscape of the Pacific Rim to discover how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped human history. In this edition, he visits the world's most awesome volcanoes in Indonesia. One huge eruption may have wiped out up to three quarters of the world's population. Other mighty explosions caused famine in Europe and the US and influenced all apsects of society.
VP 1983
T Channel 4 8.00 – 9.00 pm Alive – Escape from the Amazon Inspired by true events, the series continues with the story of three backpackers lured deep into the South American Jungle by the promise of unseen wonders, only to have their adventure halted when illness strikes. They then have to face the agonising decision of either splitting up to improve their chances of rescue, or staying together to battle against the unforgiving environment
VP 6051
T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm Blizzard: Race to the Pole First of a new series with two teams of explorers recreating the 1911 race between Amundsen and Scott.
VP 8419
T BBC1 10.15 – 10.55 pm Panorama Whose Water is it Anyway? An investigation into the UK water companies accused of putting profits before consumers. Fifteen years after water privatisation large parts of Britain are experiencing drought orders and hosepipe bans, while nationally the system loses five billion litres of fresh water a day in leaks and domestic bills are at record highs.
VP 180970
T Stands for Subtitled Programme
Video Plus+ Nos.
Monday 31st
T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Surival Kopjes:Islands in a Sea of Grass
VP 25223561
T ITV3 6.55 – 7.25 am Savage Planet 21st Century Plague – The series looking at the powerful natural forces which affect the earth examines how the deadly mosquito – which spreads diseases including malaria across several continents and causes the deaths of up to three million people each year – is continuing to expand its reach across the globe.
VP 33592899
“BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal Park
VP 2411528
*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Nick’s Quest Giant River Otter. Nick Baker travels to Karanambo in Guyana where he finds out about efforts to conserve the giant river otter.
VP 6664035
T BBC1 7.00 – 7.30 pm Documentary Trawlermen 1/5 The Great Prawn Hunt Effete landlubbers across the country will surely be unable to resist the temptation to lash themselves to the sofa as Trawlermen churns up the waves every weeknight. Tonight's first episode follows the crews of the prawn boats Amity, an ageing if endearingly rough-andready vessel, and its rival, the state-of-the- art Fruitful Bough, as they leave Peterhead in Aberdeenshire to fish for prawns in the North Sea. This, according to Peter Capaldi's narration, is "the most dangerous job in Britain". Who decided that, I wonder? The men are a cheery lot who belie the programme's attempts to turn the routine disappointments and even dangers of their everyday working lives - which the crews accept with equanimity - into melodrama. Some days they don't catch enough prawns. Some days there are storms. But they carry on to fish another day. Sometimes, programme-makers, things really are that simple.
VP 4431
T ITV1 8.00 – 8.30 pm Is This the Worst Weather Ever? 1/4 Hurricanes Everyone frets about the weather and recently it's given us plenty to get worked up about. Some experts warn of climate meltdown, with every new catastrophe souding alarm bells courtesy of mother nature. This series examines the most extreme weather of recent years and asks is this as bad as it gets - or is it only the beginning? This edition features hurricanes; the tropical storms which bring terror and devastation on an epic scale.
VP 2219
Sorry the following programme is being shown in Northern Ireland on Wednesday
T BBC1 10.35 – 11.05 pm Animal Rescue 3/5 Too Many Pets
VP 176306
Tuesday 1 August
*T BBC1 12.50 – 1.40 am Sign Zone: Horizon The Woman Who thinks like a Cow
VP 4948623
T Channel 4 4.20 – 5.05 am Wild Things
VP 4503913
T ITV3 6.00 – 6.50 am Survival People of the Great Sand Face
VP 5056062
*T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal Park
VP 6794130
*T Channel 4 12.30 – 12.50 pm Small Railway Journeys Jonathan Glancey rides the line of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway.
VP 1317604
*T BBC2 1.00 – 1.25 pm The Future is Wild – Welcome to the Future
VP 58195222
T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Nick’s Quest – Giant Turtles
VP 9366420
T BBC1 7.00 – 7.30 pm Trawlermen 2/5 The Storm
VP 1536
T ITV1 Border & Border Scottish 7.30 – 8.00 pm Vets Following the work of two veterinary practices in Cumbria and South West Scotland.
VP 4
T BBC2 8.00 – 8.30 pm Fred Dibnah’s World of Steam, Steel and Stone 4/12 Men of Steel
VP 8826
T Channel 5 8.00 – 9.00 pm New Series The Perfect Disaster 1/6 Super Tornado
VP 6342517
Wednesday 2nd
*T BBC1 1.20 – 2.20 am Sign Zone: Tribe Nyangatom
VP 1695260
T ITV3 6.00 – 6,55 am Survival – Space for Wildlife
VP 2794531
*T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal Park
VP 6761802
*T BBC2 1.00 – 1.25 pm The Future is Wild – Return of the Ice
VP 37368294
*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Nick’s Quest Gorilla – Nick Baker heads out into Uganda’s impenetrable Bwindi Forest for an encounter with a troop of mountain gorillas, now driven to the edge of extinction.
VP 93333192
T BBC1 7.00 – 7.30 pm Trawlermen 3/5 The Edge
VP 9227
The following programme is being shown on BBC 1 Scotland at 10.40 – 11.40 pm VP 176685
T BBC1 8.00 – 9.00 pm Seawatch – Kate Humble introduces a one off special that’s a Springwatch like “marine MOT” for our waters
VP 1395
Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Wales
*T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm Three Men in a Boat Griff Rhys Jones, Dara O'Briain, Rory McGrath and a nervous dog called Loli set out from Kingston in a wooden skiff in an attempt to re-trace the journey up the Thames immortalised by Jerome K Jerome in his comedy classic Three Men in a Boat. Along the way they drop in unannounced on a couple of friends ? Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Antony Worrall Thomson. Halfway to Oxford, Rory and Dara have gone to the pub while Griff is left behind to prepare a campfire supper.
VP 9173
T BBC1 Northern Ireland 11.20 – 11.50 pm Animal Rescue
VP 449753
Thursday 3rd
T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Survival – The Rains Came
VP 2761203
ITV3 6.55 – 7.20 am Savage Planet – Buried Alive - Landslides
VP 99132203
*T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal Park
VP 6738574
*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Nick’s Quest – Crocodiles
VP 9300864
T BBC1 7.00 – 7.30 pm Trawlerrmen 4/5 Starting Out
VP 4636
*T Channel 5 7.15 – 8.00 pm Big Cat Predators: Jungle Jaguar
VP 3244999
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. Today, she remembers Dr Ted Ellis, the Norfolk naturalist who died 20 years ago this month, as friends, family and admirers reminisce about the talented writer and scientist.
VP 22
T ITV1 Border & Border Scottish 7.30 – 8.00 pm Dales Diary Luke Casey presents a series that spotlights the people and the sights of the Dales. Luke starts his diary in a pub with a difference, meets one of the youngest shepherds in the country and talks to a couple who make garden sculptures from willow.
VP 22
T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 – 8.00 pm Heart of the Country Youth Hostels have played an integral part in providing rooms for many a weary traveller. Now hostels are changing. Tony Francis heads to Derbyshire to see why Matlock’s hostel is to close and contrasts the luxury of Harington Hall with a night bedding down in a camping barn.
VP 22
T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 – 8.00 Great Country Houses Series investigating how owners of stately houses and historic homes are overcoming escalating costs to keep them running. Presenter Chris Serle visits Forde Abbey in Somerset
VP 22
T ITV1 Granada 7.30 – 8.00 pm Go North West A look at interesting places to visit in the region, presented by Eamonn O'Neal and Lynsey Horn. Today, Eamonn traces Cheshire’s heritage at Quarry Bank Mill, and Willy Wonka’s Candy Man shares his passion for the Lake District.
VP 22
T ITV1 London 7.30 – 8.00 pm Off the Beaten Track with Nigel Farrell Bizarre stories, strange events and odd characters that make up London's colourful history.. Nigel discovers how two of Britain’s most notorious poachers played a part in making fingerprinting a popular police technique, finds out why East London locals believe there was a government cover-up during the Blitz bombing of Hallsville School and learns how Victorian engineering ingenuity helped stop the Thames from drying up and create a wildlife paradise in Richmond.
VP 22
T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 – 8.00 pm Great Country Houses Series investigating how owners of stately houses and historic homes are overcoming escalating costs to keep them running. Presenter Chris Serle visits Forde Abbey in Somerset
VP 22
T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 – 8.00 pm Dales Diary Luke Casey presents a series that spotlights the people and the sights of the Dales. Luke starts his diary in a pub with a difference, meets one of the youngest shepherds in the country and talks to a couple who make garden sculptures from willow.
VP 22
T ITV1 Wales 7.30 – 8.00 pm Great Pubs of Wales series journeying around Wales to discover six of the nation's best-loved watering holes. Today, he is at the Dyffryn Arms and meets the local landlady, Bessie who is even more famous than her beer.
VP 22
T ITV1 West 7.30 – 8.00 pm Great Country Houses Series investigating how owners of stately houses and historic homes are overcoming escalating costs to keep them running Presenter Chris Serle visits Forde Abbey in Somerset
VP 22
T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 – 8.00 pm Dales Diary Luke Casey presents a series that spotlights the people and the sights of the Dales. Luke starts his diary in a pub with a difference, meets one of the youngest shepherds in the country and talks to a couple who make garden sculptures from willow.
VP 22
*T Channel 4 8.00 – 8.30 pm The View from River Cottage
VP 2574
Friday 4th
T ITV3 6.00 – 6.55 am Survival – Tumbler in the Sky
VP 2665075
*T BBC1 9.15 – 10.00 am Animal Park
VP 6632346
*T Channel 5 6.30 – 7.00 pm Nick’s Quest - Elephants
VP 9204636 T BBC1 7.00 – 7.00- 7.30 pm Trawlermen – Coming Home
VP 5891
T BBC1 7.30 – 8.00 pm Working the Sea – John McArdle tells the story of the Isle of Man Steam Packet, the oldest passenger shipping line in the world and a service regarded as the island’s lifeline.
VP 87
*T BBC1 Scotland Shipbuilding – A look at past highs and the present low of Scotland’s shipbuilding industry – from ships such as the Thermopylae the Lusitania and the QE2 to the current silence in the great shipyards.
VP 87
T BBC1 Northern Ireland 7.30 – 8.00 pm Angler Darryl Grimason hunts down six of the largest predators in Irish waters and his target today is the bluefin tuna.
VP 87
*T BBC1 Wales – Jamie Owen’s Magic Harbours – Jamie Owen sets sail aboard the 100 year old pilot cutter Mascotte for a journey of discovery around the coast of Wales. The series begins at Cardiff, where Jamie meets up with the boat’s crew.
VP 87
T Channel 5 8.00 – 9.00 pm Austin Stevens Adventures – Desert Giants: Austin sets out to photograph elephants in the Namib Desert. The animals must cover vast distances to find enough food and water to survive here, which means that they will do what it takes to stay alive.
VP 3585664
Saturday 5th
*T BBC1 1.25 – 2.25 am Sign Zone: Tribe – Nyangatom
VP 1532747
T BBC2 5.30 – 6.00 am Landscape Mysteries In search of Irish Gold Documentary exploring Britain’s landscape before the last ice age. Bronze age people in Ireland had access to large amounts of gold, but it is not clear where it came from. Aubrey Manning goes in search of a lost Eldorado on the Emerald Isle.
VP 75376
*T Channel 5 5.30 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS
VP 4495389
*T ITV1 3.25 – 3.55 pm The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
VP 2324292
*T BBC2 5.50 – 6.00 pm Coast: Cuttlefish and Pompey (Portsmouth)
VP 490582
T ITV1 7.25 – 8.25 pm Prehistoric Park Back in prehistory, the world was populated by some of the most amazing creatures that have ever lived. But today, 99 percent of them are gone. What if we could bring back some of them back from extinction? Using his knowledge of today's animal kingdom and the latest research, wildlife adventurer Nigel Marven journeys through time into the past, on a quest to rescue these long lost creatures. In this edition, he travels back in time to prehistoric China in search of one of the strangest dinosaurs the world has ever known – the four winged flying Microraptor. At the park, Martha, the Mammoth is feeling the heat, and the two T-Rex reach boiling point.
VP 260969
Sunday 6th
T BBC2 3.30 – 4.20 am Education The Cretaceous Greenhouse World: Poles Apart How plants and plant fossils, can provide detailed information about the Earth’s climate.
VP 1221457
*T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS
VP 53120728
T ITV3 6.00 – 7.00 am Survival – Legends of the Lightning Bird
VP 8415322
T ITV3 6.55 – 7.55 am Survival – Mysterious Journey
VP 2410051
T BBC1 11.00 – 12.10 pm Countryfile The people and the stories at the heart of the British countryside. John Craven and Adam Henson take to the water for the 180th Cowes regatta. Ben Fogle heads to Dorset to discover how the landscape inspired Enid Blyton and Tom Heap reports on how plans for wave energy machines off north Cornwall are splitting the surfing community.
VP 192296
T ITV1 Wales 4.55 – 5.30 pm Fishlock’s Wild Tracks Bala
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T ITV1 5.00 – 6.00 pm Prehistoric ParkBack in prehistory, the world was populated by some of the most amazing creatures that have ever lived. But today, 99 percent of them are gone. What if we could bring back some of them back from extinction? Using his knowledge of today's animal kingdom and the latest research, wildlife adventurer Nigel Marven journeys through time into the past, on a quest to rescue these long lost creatures. In this edition, he travels back in time to prehistoric China in search of one of the strangest dinosaurs the world has ever known – the four winged flying Microraptor. At the park, Martha the Mammoth is feeling the heat, and the two T-Rex reach boiling point.
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T ITV1 Wales 5.30 – 6.00 pm Grass Roots Hywel James hits the trail with a rather unusual tour guide – a llama.
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ITV1 Carlton Central 6.00 – 6.25 pm Safari Park Researchers arrive at the West Midlands Safari Park to find out just what elephants do when they go to sleep? With surprising results. A rare Madagascan jumping rat is readied to be transported to a zoo in eastern Europe. Narrated by Paul McGann.
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T ITV1 Carlton West Country 6.00 – 6.25 pm John Nettles presents a journey through the life and times of John Betjeman, to mark the centenary of his birth. Betjeman’s alienation from his father was to haunt him throughout his life. It drove him as a young man out into the Cornish lanes on his ike, where he was to discover the beauty of Blisland, which became one of his favourite haunts. The programme also looks at a charming film the poet made in Malmesbury and revisits his footsteps on a visit to Devizes in Wiltshire.
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T ITV1 Meridian 6.00 – 6.25 pm John Nettles presents a journey through the life and times of John Betjeman, to mark the centenary of his birth. . Betjeman’s alienation from his father was to haunt him throughout his life. It drove him as a young man out into the Cornish lanes on his ike, where he was to discover the beauty of Blisland, which became one of his favourite haunts. The programme also looks at a charming film the poet made in Malmesbury and revisits his footsteps on a visit to Devizes in Wiltshire.
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T ITV1 Tyne Tees 6.00 – 6.25 pm Theme Park Vicky Locklin narrates a series that goes behind-the-scenes at Flamingoland Theme Park and Zoo in North Yorkshire. Today, a family of primates are moved to a new enclosure, and Hayley the choreographer has problems with her staff accommodation
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T ITV1 West 6.00 – 6.25 pm John Nettles presents a journey through the life and times of John Betjeman, to mark the centenary of his birth. Betjeman’s alienation from his father was to haunt him throughout his life. It drove him as a young man out into the Cornish lanes on his ike, where he was to discover the beauty of Blisland, which became one of his favourite haunts. The programme also looks at a charming film the poet made in Malmesbury and revisits his footsteps on a visit to Devizes in Wiltshire.
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T ITV1 Yorkshire 6.00 – 6.25 pm Theme Park Vicky Locklin narrates a series that goes behind-the-scenes at Flamingoland Theme Park and Zoo in North Yorkshire. Today, a family of primates are moved to a new enclosure, and Hayley the choreographer has problems with her staff accommodation
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T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 pm Journeys into the Ring of Fire Indonesia Iain Stewart tours the perilous and spectacular landscape of the Pacific Rim to discover how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped human history. In this edition, he visits the world's most awesome volcanoes in Indonesia. One huge eruption may have wiped out up to three quarters of the world's population. Other mighty explosions caused famine in Europe and the US and influenced all apsects of society.
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T Channel 4 8.00 – 9.00 pm Alive – Escape from the Amazon Inspired by true events, the series continues with the story of three backpackers lured deep into the South American Jungle by the promise of unseen wonders, only to have their adventure halted when illness strikes. They then have to face the agonising decision of either splitting up to improve their chances of rescue, or staying together to battle against the unforgiving environment
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T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm Blizzard: Race to the Pole First of a new series with two teams of explorers recreating the 1911 race between Amundsen and Scott.
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T BBC1 10.15 – 10.55 pm Panorama Whose Water is it Anyway? An investigation into the UK water companies accused of putting profits before consumers. Fifteen years after water privatisation large parts of Britain are experiencing drought orders and hosepipe bans, while nationally the system loses five billion litres of fresh water a day in leaks and domestic bills are at record highs.
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