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Weekly TV Diary 6 - 12 August (U K Channels) (1 Viewer)

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Monday 6th[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 Scotland 2.10 – 3.10 am Coast – King's Lynn to Felixstowe.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.15 – 3.40 am Savage Planet – Off the Radar - Turbulence[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 9.45 – 10.10 am Really Wild Show with Michaela Strachan, Nick Baker and Steve Backshall – Best Body[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 6.00 – 7.00 pm Animal Park – Wild on the West Coast 10/10 Ben Fogle and Kate Humble explore the wildlife off California's Pacific coast. A baby whale is on the brink of death and must be saved, and the enormous elephant seals turn on a team of scientists. There's dramatic news on the captive great white shark.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Northern Ireland 7.00 – 7.30 pm A Dander with Drennan – Willie enjoys a guided tour of the Glenarm Castle Estate before walking the coast road to Cairncastle[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 North West, London & South East, Scotland & Wales 7.30 – 8.00 pm Super Vets[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 Northern Ireland 7.30 – 8.00 pm Vet Safari [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Border Scottish 8.00 – 8.30 pm River Journeys – Fiona Armstrong travels along the River Esk in Cumbria. Starting high u on Hardknott Pass her journey takes her along the river where she explores a Roman fort and drops in at one of Beatrix Potter's farms in Eskdale to visit a Herdwick sheep farmer. At Muncaster Castle she sees the annual Festival of Fools and then moves on to Ravenglass where the river estuary runs into the Irish Sea.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Meridian 8.00 – 8.30 pm Village Voices New series, where each programme offers a portrait of a village in the south or south east of England. Tonight's episode features the picturesque village of Cheriton in Hampshire, where memories of the bloodiest battle of the English Civil War mix with a modern day murder mystery. Join the locals as they try to find out whodunnit in a village fundraiser with more than a bit of a twist.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Tyne Tees 8.00 – 8.30 pm Northern Eye – Perils of the Silver Screen – With a range of hi-tech gadgets and gizmos readily available on which to watch the latest films, this programme considers whether independent cinemas have a future, and spotlights six small theatres in the region as they reveal their strategy for survival in the 21st century.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Yorkshire 8.00 – 8.30 pm The Real Emmerdale – Annette Crosbie returns with the series that follows a year in the life of residents in Upper Wharfedale in the Yorkshire Dales. Today. Roy Nelson one of Yorkshire's last traditional shepherds, get more than he bargains for when he takes his flock back up to the fells. In some of the remotest hills in Britain he discovers 5,000 people at a Rainbow Peace Camp. Plus, the largest single day show in Yorkshire – the mighty Kilnsey Show.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm Documentary India with Sanjeev Bhaskar 2/4 The Longest Road[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Tuesday 7th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.35 – 4.00 am Savage Planet – Ice Cold Killers - Glaciers[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 9.45 – 10.10 am Really Wild Show – Best Builder - Steve Backshall does some DIY with the best builders of the animal world – African termites, while Nick Baker gets close to orangutans in Borneo. Michaela Strachan meets some owls that are being forced underground in America.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 6.00 – 7.00 pm Animal Park [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 7.30 – 8.00 pm New Series The Cosmos – A Beginner's Guide 1/6 Life in the Cosmos The increasingly bloodhound-esque Adam Hart-Davis begins a series about the universe with a look at the chances of alien life. He meets mildly interesting scientists, but it's the big numbers that hit home. It may not be news that there are 100 billion stars in our galaxy and 100 billion other galaxies, but it still dazzles.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Border & Border Scottish 7.30 – 8.00 pm Out of Town [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 – 8.00 pm Tales from the Country – Selina Scott catches the evening swirl of thousands of starlings in Suffolk. Meanwhile Tony Francis comes face to face with the glis glis or edible dormouse, introduced to Hertfordshire by Baron Rothschild – and it's been driving the locals mad ever since. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 – 8.00 pm Coastal Ways – Chesil Beach in Dorset[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 – 8.00 pm Out of Town – Eric Robson and Raq go for a wander round the countryside[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 pm Coast 8/8 From the Channel Islands the team make their way back to Dover where their epic adventure began.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 8.00 – 9.00 pm Stonehenge – The Ultimate Experiment – Historical documentary in which a team of archaeologists attempts to rebuild Stonehenge, while exploring how and why the circle was originally built.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm Saira Khan's Pakistan Adventure 2/2[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Wednesday 8th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 9.45 – 10.10 am Really Wild Show – Athlete – Steve Backshall finds that rocket frogs make great animal athletes, Nick Baker tracks down snakes and lizards that can actually fly and Michaela Strachan investigates the real lives of the animals that are film stars.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 6.00 – 7.00 pm Animal Park [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC 1 Northern Ireland 7.30 – 8.00 pm Vet Safari[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 8.30 – 9.00 pm Vet Safari 8/8[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Thursday 9th[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 12.35 – 1.35 am Sign Zone: Coast – From the Channel Islands the team make their way back to Dover where their epic adventure began[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 1.35 – 2.35 am Sign Zone: Wainwright – The Man who Loved the Lakes[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.35 – 3.35 am Sign Zone: India with Sanjeev Bhaskar – Bombay Dreams[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 9.45 – 10.10 am Really Wild Show – Rarest – Steve meets some very rare mountain gorillas and Nick tracks down the pygmy elephants of Borneo. Michaela investigates why supermarket shopping could be driving some animals towards extinction.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 2.10 – 2.45 pm Hands on Nature with Chris Packham – He reveals how to get close to seal pups in East Anglia and the mudlarks and waders of one of Devon's most beautiful estuaries.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 6.00 – 7.00 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 7.00 – 8.00 pm Top Wild Dives with Tanya Streeter[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 – 8.00 pm New Series Eastern Skies – Susan Rae takes a helicopter flight on a grand aerial tour of Eastern England. Starting in the west above Northampton, Susan flies east through Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire before finishing near the Suffolk coast near Ipswich. There are two thousand years of history on show, as the helicopter flies over Elizabethan mansions, medieval castles and Roman roads.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Border & Border Central 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Dales Diary – Luke Casey visits a Wharfedale based cottage industry turning out mouth watering produce, catches up with two anglers on the River Teviot and goes to the moorland village of Harome, to gain an insight into a unique poultry farm.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton Central 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Way We Were – Return of the award winning series that takes a nostalgic look at how life and times have changed in the Midlands since the 1930s. How our diet has changed with Chris Tarrant, Antony Worrall Thompson and Marguerite Patten[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton West Country 7.30 – 8.00 pm Great Little Escapes – Sheds and Shacks, series uncovering the myriad of places to which people escape in their spare time, including beach huts, caravans, fishermen's huts and even railway carriages. Tonight Julie Fisher talks to the man in Gloucestershire who transformed his garden shed into a pub and visits a music studio shed in Wiltshire that looks like a yule log.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 London 7.30 – 8.00 pm Luton Airport[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Meridian 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Way We Were – A nostalgic look at yesteryear, featuring the south's favourite celebrities and rare archive footage – never before seen on British television. This week's episode focuses on days out, from the Big Smoke to Bognor in the 60s.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Dales Diary – Luke Casey visits a Wharfedale based cottage industry turning out mouth watering produce, catches up with two anglers on the River Teviot and goes to the moorland village of Harome, to gain an insight into a unique poultry farm.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 West 7.30 – 8.00 pm Great Little Escapes – Sheds and Shacks, series uncovering the myriad of places to which people escape in their spare time, including beach huts, caravans, fishermen's huts and even railway carriages. Tonight Julie Fisher talks to the man in Gloucestershire who transformed his garden shed into a pub and visits a music studio shed in Wiltshire that looks like a yule log.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Dales Diary – Luke Casey visits a Wharfedale based cottage industry turning out mouth watering produce, catches up with two anglers on the River Teviot and goes to the moorland village of Harome, to gain an insight into a unique poultry farm.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Friday 10th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.30 – 3.50 am Savage Planet – Cape Horn[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 9.45 – 10.10 am The Really Wild Show – Wildlife Oscars – A look back at the highs and lows of the show as CBC stars present the team with their very own wildlife awards.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 6.00 – 7.00 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 7.00 – 7.30 pm Landward Borders Food/Red Kites. This week, Red Kites fly in Aberdeenshire for the first time in 150 years.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]ITV1 Border & Border Scottish 8.00 – 8.30 pm Nature Watchers – In this edition, baby barn owls tucking into a good meal and the story of a stunning butterfly brought back from the brink of extinction in Cumbria.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton Central 8.00 – 8.30 pm Blenheim – Access all areas documentary series charting life at the magnificent stately home where Winston Churchill was born. It's jousting day at Blenheim and a few knights take a tumble. Meanwhile the Palace opens its new 1.5 million visitor attraction – but will everything go to plan.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 London 8.00 – 8.30 pm London Ambulance[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Meridian 8.00 – 8.30 pm The Estate – Series charting life on the West Dean Estate in Sussex, where farms, forestry and gardens sit alongside a world famous arts and crafts college. The college was established by eccentric multi-millionaire Edward James and today runs more than 500 courses each year and the restored gardens and regular spectacular events attract over 75,000 visitors to the estate. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Tyne Tees 8.00 – 8.30 pm Northern Eye – Wor Billy – A look at the success of the film Billy Elliot, the tale of a young male ballet dancer growing up in county Durham during the miners strike and how it subsequently influenced the lives of others.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Wales 8.00 – 8.30 pm Whacky Welsh Weddings[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 8.00 – 9.00 pm Monster Rattlers: Austin Stevens Adventures[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 9.00 – 9.50 pm The Ganges 2/3 River of Life - A gorgeous series on India's most venerated river, wonderful scenery, wonderful animals and birds.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Saturday 11th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 Scotland 1.55 – 2.55 am Sign Zone – Coast – From the Channel Islands the team make their way back to Dover where their epic journey began.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.35 – 4.00 am Savage Planet – Restless Giants - Volcanoes[/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 Channel 5 10.00 – 11.00 am The Perfect Disaster: Super Typhoon[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 11.50 – 12.50 pm Nick Baker's Weird Creatures Star-nosed Mole[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 12.20 - 1.20 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 12.50 – 1.40 pm Great Ocean Adventures: The Great British Sea Monster[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 1.20 – 2.10 pm Natural World – War Wrecks of the Coral Seas that have been transformed into spectacular living reefs.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 4.35 – 4.45 pm A Wild Irish Summer – The Blasket Islands[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 6.10 – 7.10 pm Coast – The Channel Islands to Dover[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 7.05 – 8.05 pm Deadliest Catch - Long Sleepless Nights – The fishermen await the captain's call to start fishing, following a long night of baiting and setting crab pots.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 8.05 – 9.10 pm Swimming with Sharks[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sunday 12th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 5.35 – 6.00 am Wildlife SOS[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 11.00 – 12.00 pm Countryfile – Countryfile heads for the beach in Newquay, the surfing capital of Britain. Adam Henson gets back in the saddle for a horse trek in Ireland and there's a look at how the long wet summer has affected the countryside.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 11.30 – 12.30 pm Steve Irwin: Giant Crocs of Oz[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 4.10 – 4.50 pm Racing with Camels – For centuries the Bedouin people have lived the Nomadic life deep in the heart of the Egyptian desert. Saba Douglas-Hamilton joins them to experience their way of life and to find out all about the one animal that has made their existence possible – the camel. And what better way to do that than to learn how to race one?[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 5.20 – 6.10 pm Natural World – Moose on the Loose[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Anglia 6.00 – 6.25 pm Secret Rivers – Paul Heiney paddles down the River Gipping in Suffolk, from its source near Mendlesham to the centre of Ipswich. On the way, he passes the site of Stowmarket's great explosion of 1871, through newly restored old navigation locks and hears about efforts to clean up the river and improve its wildlife.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton Central 6.00 – 6.25 pm The Zoo Twycross Zoo[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Carlton West Country 6.00 – 6.25 pm John Nettles' West Country[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Granada 6.00 – 6.25 pm Wainwright Country – Today. Fred Talbot climbs to Knott Rigg and Ard Crags in the North Western Fells.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Meridian 6.00 – 6.25 pm Great Country Houses – Chris Serle visits Avington Park and the Bullen family in Hampshire.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Tyne Tees 6.00 – 6.25 pm Out of Town - Eric Robson accompanies Raw for a wander around the countryside to discover secret places and hidden histories and uncover forgotten folklore.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Wales 6.00 – 6.25 pm The Visit – Chris Segar visits the National Eisteddfod, sees how a great crested newt has been captured by schoolchildren[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 West 6.00 – 6.25 pm Telling Tails – Behind the scenes to meet the animals and dedicated staff at the Bath Cats and Dogs Home.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Yorkshire 6.00 – 6.25 pm Zoo Vet at Large[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 6.10 – 7.00 pm Ganges – River of Life – The Gangetic Plains once a rich wilderness teeming with tigers, lions and cheetahs, the plains have been transformed into the most densely populated place on Earth. Nourished by the sacred river's gift of life, this remarkable region has witnessed the rise of great civilisations and the evolution of the Hindu religion, but how has the wildlife of the plains adapted to survive this increasingly human dominated world?[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 7.00 – 8.00 pm Real Men Under Pressure – Jess, Martin and Stu regularly dive to 200 metres under the North Sea to satisfy our insatiable desire for oil. They live for a month in a tiny metal chamber in the heart of a ship, under pressure so that they can make regular excursions to the sea bed without suffering decompression sickness. Breathing a helium/oxygen mix and travelling to the sea bed in a diving bell that looks like a space ship, the trio exist in a bizarre and remarkable world that has rarely been seen before.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 7.00 – 8.00 pm Equator – Indonesia – Three part documentary series in which Simon Reeve takes a 25,000 mile journey as he treks through war zones on his travels around the Equator. He travels across Indonesia where he encounters paradise islands undiscovered by tourists and an environment under threat. In Sumatra and Borneo he meets orangutans and gets adopted by head hunters. His journey ends on the island of Sulawesi, where he takes to the water with the Bajo sea gypsies.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The following programme is not being shown in Scotland and in Wales 8.40 – 9.40 pm VP 593034[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 8.00 – 9.00 pm Coast Revisited – Dover to Northern Ireland[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 8.00 – 9.00 pm Thomas Telford: The Man who Built Britain[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 8.00 – 9.00 pm Britain's Favourite View Katherine Jenkins, Des Lynam, David Dickinson and Rory Bremner present their favourite views in Britain. It's then up to viewers to vote and decide which will make it through to the grand final. Presented by Trevor McDonald.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.00 – 10.00 pm Mountain – The Lakes – Griff Rhys Jones journeys to the Central Highlands, where he explores Glencoe, the Cairngorm range and Britains highest mountain, Ben Nevis. Griff explores ambitious feats of Victorian engineering and finds a stunning example of a Victorian shooting lodge. He also tries his hand at local pursuits including dog sledding and skiing, before joining a group of runners in training for the formidable annual Ben Race.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 10.15 – 11.45 pm 21UP South Africa – Mandela's Children – Part of Granada's 7UP series, this film follows a diverse grou p of South African children from their very separate childhoods under apartheid to the opportunities of young adulthood in the new South Africa – what emerges is an engaging, real-life view of historic social change. Having survived political conflict and violent crime, these youngsters' most deadly battle has been with AIDS.[/FONT]
 
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