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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Video Plus+ Nos.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Hi Everybody,[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Not a lot this week, the tv channels know you will of course be out shopping and partying but for fans of the Blue Planet series one episode is being shown on Saturday afternoon, sorry not in Scotland so hope you aren't snowed in.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]In case anyone is away over Christmas and New Year Best Wishes to everybody enjoy yourselves and don't forget the birds.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Ann[/FONT]
Monday 17th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.50 – 3.40 am Sign Zone Nature of Britain – Wilderness Britain[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 1274746[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.10 – 3.40 am Savage Planet – Dangerous Waters[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 32720833[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.40 - 4.40 am Sign Zone Nature of Britain – Secret Britain[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5948833[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.00 – 2.00 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 78494[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The following programme is not being shown in Scotland or Wales[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 7.00 – 7.30 pm Bears on the Black Run – Nature documentary following the adventures of two families of black bears who have made their homes on and around the world famous Whistler Mountain ski resort in Canada, living close to skiers and tourists.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4443[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Polar Bear Week with Nigel Marven 1/5 Marven has spent nine months around Churchill, the “polar bear capital of the world”, exploring its wildlife as the seasons change and his findings will be shown every night this week except Thursday. It's not just polar bears he spots – there are also Arctic foxes, beluga whales, harp seal cubs (runners-up in the top ten of adorable animals) and caribou. “It's minus 30 below but these little cubs are melting my heart,” says Marven as he watches a pair of bear cubs tumbling about in the snow.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9214291[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.00 – 10.00 pm New Series Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work – The Queen and Us – the palace garden party.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5388[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Tuesday 18th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV1 Wales 12.10 – 12.35 am Great Welsh Roads – The Wild East – This week Mike Parker ventures from the moody heights of the Horseshoe Pass, where he samples the delights of the Ponderosa Cafe, a legendary stop off for bikers for eighty years, down to Ladies Day at Bangor's Dee racecourse.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 7634944[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.45 – 3.15 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station – The Devil in the Detail[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 78429[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.35 – 4.00 am Savage Planet – Dangerous Waters[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 27427944[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.00 - 200 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 52429[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Granada 7.30 – 8.00 pm Eye in the Sky – Morecambe to The Isle of Man – This edition takes a look around Morecambe Bay and its surrounding areas, stopping by at Holker Hall and Conishead Priory before ending at Barrow in Furness, once home of a great ship building tradition. Then, a leap over the Irish sea to visit The Isle of Man, a self governing island with some marvellous scenery, including an exploration of the capital Douglas, before following the electric railway up Snaefell, stopping off at a giant waterwheel before heading back to the coast and the Calf of Man, and finally to the island's old capital, Castletown.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 437[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Polar Bear Week with Nigel Marven – 2/5 – Nigel returns to Churchill where the Arctic foxes have had nine tiny cubs and beluga whales have appeared in the river. The first polar bears of summer are also arriving and Nigel is delighted to encounter one swimming at sea. With the weather getting ever warmer, he is able to venture further north and visits Cambridge Bay, where he witnesses a breathtaking wolf attack on a herd of musk oxen.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9281963[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm Earth: The Power of the Planet – 5/5 Rare Earth[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9505[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Wednesday 19th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.50- 4.20 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station - Deadline[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 35538345[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 4.20 – 4.50 am Sign Zone: Karachi Uncovered[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 31298797[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Polar Bear Week with Nigel Marven 3/5 Summer arrives in the Inuit community of Igloolik in the far north of the country where Nigel watches bowhead whales and dives from an iceberg to swim with walruses. In Churchill, he catches up with the nine fox cubs; attempts to catch a speeding lemming and dives with beluga whales in the freezing river. In the boreal forest to the south, the great grey owl chicks are climbing the trees.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9258635[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Thursday 20th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.15 – 2.45 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway – The Inspection[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 29556[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.45– 3.45m Sign Zone: The Power of the Planet : Rare Earth[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 934469[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 4 3.10 – 4.10 am Wild Things[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 6566223[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.00 – 2.00 pm Animal Park [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 22827[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 – 8.00 pm Bygones – Eddie Anderson and Wendy Hurrell celebrate with archive film of Christmas spent with Dick Joice a cracker collector, trips to the Fenland Farm Museum and the lost art of Thetford pulpware.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Border & Border Central 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Dales Diary – In a special Christmas edition of the Dales Diary, Luke Casey visits the Swaledale village of Reeth, where the local folk museum has discovered a pantomime script dating back to 1949. Using some of the original cast, the village have decided to restage “Beauty and the Beast”, bringing together the past and the present – along with a lot of hilarity and laughter. Watch out, they're behind you Luke![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Granada 7.30 – 8.00 pm Eye in the Sky – Lucy Meacock presents the series that takes an aerial tour of the region. This journey starts at Oswestry at Whittington before moving on to look at the magnificent Telford designed viaduct at Chirk. From there, a route following the river Dee, stopping at Bangor Racecourse and Erddig House along the way, as well as the neighbouring villages of Holt and Farndon, in England and Wales respectively. Flying over South Cheshire there's a look at the hunting-inspired Dorfold Hall before continuing through Cheshire, with a view of some of the great houses. Then, following the Manchester Ship Canal before joining the Mersey, and finishing the journey at the fifth largest city in the UK, Liverpool.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 London 7.30 – 8.00 pm How London was Built – Adam Hart-Davis makes his own paper and operates an early printing press as he looks at the history of the written word in London.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]ITV1 Meridian 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Lives - Lisa Aziz meets people with a passion for what they do and where they live. Tonight she visits a fruit farm in Somerset and picks some raspberries for Jason, who uses them in a jelly with basil and black pepper. Lisa also meets a park keeper in Bristol and sees some Exmoor ponies being put through their paces at the Dunster Show.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Dales Diary – In a special edition of the Dales Diary, Luke Casey visits the Swaledale village of Reeth, where the local folk museum has discovered a pantomime script dating back to 1949. Using some of the original cast, the village have decided to restage “Beauty and the Beast”, bringing together the past and the present – along with a lot of hilarity and laughter. Watch out, they're behind you Luke![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Wales 7.30 – 8.00 pm Fishlock's Castles of Wales[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 West 7.30 – 8.00 pm Up on the Downs – Spring – Series about the 400 acres of grassland in the heart of Bristol known as The Downs, and the vast number of activities it plays host to throughout a typical year. In Spring, birdwatchers take part in a dawn walk, a food caravan serves breakfast to truck drivers and thousands of women join the Race for Life.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Dales Diary – In a special edition of the Dales Diary, Luke Casey visits the Swaledale village of Reeth, where the local folk museum has discovered a pantomime script dating back to 1949. Using some of the original cast, the village have decided to restage “Beauty and the Beast”, bringing together the past and the present – along with a lot of hilarity and laughter. Watch out, they're behind you Luke![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Anglia 11.35 – 12.05 am Secret Rivers – Paul Heiney canoes part of the river Nene, which flows 90 miles from its source near Daventry to the Wash. Along the way he paddles under a railway line, a canal and a Roman road near Watford Gap, goes past the historic Fotheringhay castle and finally hitches a lift on a steam train..[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 448431[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Friday 21st[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.20 – 3.50 am Savage Planet – Bolts from the Blue[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 78048179[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.30 – 2.00 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 94266[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 1.35 – 2.40 pm George Washington[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4461334[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 7.00 – 7.30 pm Landward – Nick Nairn and the team travel across Scotland feeling the festive spirit. Sarah Mack joins the Nairn bell-ringers, and there's a review of the Landward year.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 7727[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Polar Bear Week with Nigel Marven – Nigel witnesses a flurry of polar bear activity in Igloolik as the predators wait patiently for some walrus to show up. In the south, more bears patrol Churchill town, waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze over so they can hunt at sea. Nigel uses a “tundra buggy” to get around, as large males play-fight in the middle of a snowstorm.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9129179[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 8.00 – 9.00 pm Penguin Adventure with Nigel Marven – Nigel meets and documents four different species of penguin in their own environment – the sub Antarctic island of South Georgia.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9253044[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Saturday 22nd[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.35 – 4.00 am Savage Planet – Bolts from the Blue[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 27325532[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 11.30 – 12.35 pm Nigel Marven's Alligator Adventure[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 42588990[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]BBC2 3.20 – 4.20 pm The Blue Planet – Tidal Seas with David Attenborough[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 1725700[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 635 – 7.20 pm Polar Bear Week with Nigel Marven – On the shores of the Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba, a mother polar bear and her two cubs head out onto the newly formed ice for the first time. Nigel reflects on the highlights of his Arctic year, including harp seal babies on sea ice, walrus basking on ice floes and diving underwater, Arctic foxes feeding lemmings to their nine cubs and polar bears invading the rocky shores around Churchill.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 8904716[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sunday 23rd[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.10 – 3.40 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station – The Icon Men[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 64316656[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.40 - 4.10 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station – The Sharp End[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 35366120[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 4.10 – 4.40 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station – The Unveiling[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 31199472[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 3.45 – 4.45 am Extreme Archaeology – Bridge on the River Wye – Series exploring important archaeological sites throughout Britain which are almost inaccessible. Dr Mark Davies leads EXA, a team of young archaeologists on a mission to uncover the foundations of a Roman bridge spanning the River Wye between England and Wales. Their efforts to retrieve artefacts and evidence are at risk from the tide and famously lethal/mudflats.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 875168[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.30 – 4.00 am Savage Planet – Fatal Tide[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 8714694[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 6.00 – 6.30 am Savage Planet – Fatal Tide[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4835694[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 6.30 – 7.30 am Abraham Lincoln[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 6442014 [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.00 – 11.00 am New Series How We Built Britain – The East: A New Dawn – David Dimbleby journeys through Britain and through 1,000 years of our history, to discover the buildings that have made us who we are. His journey begins in the east of England, in medieval times the richest place in Britain and home to some of our most spectacular buildings. He climbs the tower of Ely Cathedral, explores magnificent castles, learns how to build a medieval barn, goes on a pilgrimage, experiences life in a great hall and learns how the Black Death turned England upside down.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 16491[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 3.40 – 4.40 pm Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas. Rhys Jones discovers the origins of baubles, trees, turkey for dinner and Christmas carols. God bless us, every one![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 2607052[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 3.45 - 4.15 pm An Otter in the Family – Part 2 Philippa Forrester and her partner Charlie Hamilton-James have adopted an otter cub called Grace. Grace is becoming aggressive, so Charlie and the kids try to keep her entertained but Grace is injured, damaging her chances of returning to the wild.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 703217[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 4.20 – 5.25 pm Killer Whale Attack – on 13 May 2004, a small tourist boat set out from the Californian harbour town of Moss Landing and entered the cold waters of Monterey Bay. The passengers on board were expecting a nature-watching pleasure trip – but what they were about to witness was something quite extraordinary. Using eyewitness accounts, reconstruction and video footage from the day, this documentary examines what happened when a gang of killer whales attacked a California grey whale mother and infant.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 54709859[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.00 – 10.00 pm Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 8014[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Stands for Subtitled Programme[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Video Plus+ Nos.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Hi Everybody,[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Not a lot this week, the tv channels know you will of course be out shopping and partying but for fans of the Blue Planet series one episode is being shown on Saturday afternoon, sorry not in Scotland so hope you aren't snowed in.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]In case anyone is away over Christmas and New Year Best Wishes to everybody enjoy yourselves and don't forget the birds.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Ann[/FONT]
Monday 17th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.50 – 3.40 am Sign Zone Nature of Britain – Wilderness Britain[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 1274746[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.10 – 3.40 am Savage Planet – Dangerous Waters[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 32720833[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.40 - 4.40 am Sign Zone Nature of Britain – Secret Britain[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5948833[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.00 – 2.00 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 78494[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The following programme is not being shown in Scotland or Wales[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 7.00 – 7.30 pm Bears on the Black Run – Nature documentary following the adventures of two families of black bears who have made their homes on and around the world famous Whistler Mountain ski resort in Canada, living close to skiers and tourists.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 4443[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Polar Bear Week with Nigel Marven 1/5 Marven has spent nine months around Churchill, the “polar bear capital of the world”, exploring its wildlife as the seasons change and his findings will be shown every night this week except Thursday. It's not just polar bears he spots – there are also Arctic foxes, beluga whales, harp seal cubs (runners-up in the top ten of adorable animals) and caribou. “It's minus 30 below but these little cubs are melting my heart,” says Marven as he watches a pair of bear cubs tumbling about in the snow.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9214291[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.00 – 10.00 pm New Series Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work – The Queen and Us – the palace garden party.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 5388[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Tuesday 18th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV1 Wales 12.10 – 12.35 am Great Welsh Roads – The Wild East – This week Mike Parker ventures from the moody heights of the Horseshoe Pass, where he samples the delights of the Ponderosa Cafe, a legendary stop off for bikers for eighty years, down to Ladies Day at Bangor's Dee racecourse.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 7634944[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.45 – 3.15 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station – The Devil in the Detail[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 78429[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.35 – 4.00 am Savage Planet – Dangerous Waters[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 27427944[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.00 - 200 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 52429[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Granada 7.30 – 8.00 pm Eye in the Sky – Morecambe to The Isle of Man – This edition takes a look around Morecambe Bay and its surrounding areas, stopping by at Holker Hall and Conishead Priory before ending at Barrow in Furness, once home of a great ship building tradition. Then, a leap over the Irish sea to visit The Isle of Man, a self governing island with some marvellous scenery, including an exploration of the capital Douglas, before following the electric railway up Snaefell, stopping off at a giant waterwheel before heading back to the coast and the Calf of Man, and finally to the island's old capital, Castletown.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 437[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Polar Bear Week with Nigel Marven – 2/5 – Nigel returns to Churchill where the Arctic foxes have had nine tiny cubs and beluga whales have appeared in the river. The first polar bears of summer are also arriving and Nigel is delighted to encounter one swimming at sea. With the weather getting ever warmer, he is able to venture further north and visits Cambridge Bay, where he witnesses a breathtaking wolf attack on a herd of musk oxen.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9281963[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 9.00 – 10.00 pm Earth: The Power of the Planet – 5/5 Rare Earth[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9505[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Wednesday 19th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.50- 4.20 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station - Deadline[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 35538345[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 4.20 – 4.50 am Sign Zone: Karachi Uncovered[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 31298797[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Polar Bear Week with Nigel Marven 3/5 Summer arrives in the Inuit community of Igloolik in the far north of the country where Nigel watches bowhead whales and dives from an iceberg to swim with walruses. In Churchill, he catches up with the nine fox cubs; attempts to catch a speeding lemming and dives with beluga whales in the freezing river. In the boreal forest to the south, the great grey owl chicks are climbing the trees.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 9258635[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Thursday 20th[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.15 – 2.45 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway – The Inspection[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 29556[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 2.45– 3.45m Sign Zone: The Power of the Planet : Rare Earth[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 934469[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 4 3.10 – 4.10 am Wild Things[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 6566223[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.00 – 2.00 pm Animal Park [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 22827[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Anglia 7.30 – 8.00 pm Bygones – Eddie Anderson and Wendy Hurrell celebrate with archive film of Christmas spent with Dick Joice a cracker collector, trips to the Fenland Farm Museum and the lost art of Thetford pulpware.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Border & Border Central 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Dales Diary – In a special Christmas edition of the Dales Diary, Luke Casey visits the Swaledale village of Reeth, where the local folk museum has discovered a pantomime script dating back to 1949. Using some of the original cast, the village have decided to restage “Beauty and the Beast”, bringing together the past and the present – along with a lot of hilarity and laughter. Watch out, they're behind you Luke![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Granada 7.30 – 8.00 pm Eye in the Sky – Lucy Meacock presents the series that takes an aerial tour of the region. This journey starts at Oswestry at Whittington before moving on to look at the magnificent Telford designed viaduct at Chirk. From there, a route following the river Dee, stopping at Bangor Racecourse and Erddig House along the way, as well as the neighbouring villages of Holt and Farndon, in England and Wales respectively. Flying over South Cheshire there's a look at the hunting-inspired Dorfold Hall before continuing through Cheshire, with a view of some of the great houses. Then, following the Manchester Ship Canal before joining the Mersey, and finishing the journey at the fifth largest city in the UK, Liverpool.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 London 7.30 – 8.00 pm How London was Built – Adam Hart-Davis makes his own paper and operates an early printing press as he looks at the history of the written word in London.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]ITV1 Meridian 7.30 – 8.00 pm Country Lives - Lisa Aziz meets people with a passion for what they do and where they live. Tonight she visits a fruit farm in Somerset and picks some raspberries for Jason, who uses them in a jelly with basil and black pepper. Lisa also meets a park keeper in Bristol and sees some Exmoor ponies being put through their paces at the Dunster Show.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]ITV1 Tyne Tees 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Dales Diary – In a special edition of the Dales Diary, Luke Casey visits the Swaledale village of Reeth, where the local folk museum has discovered a pantomime script dating back to 1949. Using some of the original cast, the village have decided to restage “Beauty and the Beast”, bringing together the past and the present – along with a lot of hilarity and laughter. Watch out, they're behind you Luke![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Wales 7.30 – 8.00 pm Fishlock's Castles of Wales[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 West 7.30 – 8.00 pm Up on the Downs – Spring – Series about the 400 acres of grassland in the heart of Bristol known as The Downs, and the vast number of activities it plays host to throughout a typical year. In Spring, birdwatchers take part in a dawn walk, a food caravan serves breakfast to truck drivers and thousands of women join the Race for Life.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Yorkshire 7.30 – 8.00 pm The Dales Diary – In a special edition of the Dales Diary, Luke Casey visits the Swaledale village of Reeth, where the local folk museum has discovered a pantomime script dating back to 1949. Using some of the original cast, the village have decided to restage “Beauty and the Beast”, bringing together the past and the present – along with a lot of hilarity and laughter. Watch out, they're behind you Luke![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]VP 407[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T ITV1 Anglia 11.35 – 12.05 am Secret Rivers – Paul Heiney canoes part of the river Nene, which flows 90 miles from its source near Daventry to the Wash. Along the way he paddles under a railway line, a canal and a Roman road near Watford Gap, goes past the historic Fotheringhay castle and finally hitches a lift on a steam train..[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Friday 21st[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.20 – 3.50 am Savage Planet – Bolts from the Blue[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 1.30 – 2.00 pm Animal Park[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 1.35 – 2.40 pm George Washington[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC2 Scotland 7.00 – 7.30 pm Landward – Nick Nairn and the team travel across Scotland feeling the festive spirit. Sarah Mack joins the Nairn bell-ringers, and there's a review of the Landward year.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 7.15 - 8.00 pm Polar Bear Week with Nigel Marven – Nigel witnesses a flurry of polar bear activity in Igloolik as the predators wait patiently for some walrus to show up. In the south, more bears patrol Churchill town, waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze over so they can hunt at sea. Nigel uses a “tundra buggy” to get around, as large males play-fight in the middle of a snowstorm.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 8.00 – 9.00 pm Penguin Adventure with Nigel Marven – Nigel meets and documents four different species of penguin in their own environment – the sub Antarctic island of South Georgia.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Saturday 22nd[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.35 – 4.00 am Savage Planet – Bolts from the Blue[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 11.30 – 12.35 pm Nigel Marven's Alligator Adventure[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sorry the following programme is not being shown in Scotland[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]BBC2 3.20 – 4.20 pm The Blue Planet – Tidal Seas with David Attenborough[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 5 635 – 7.20 pm Polar Bear Week with Nigel Marven – On the shores of the Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba, a mother polar bear and her two cubs head out onto the newly formed ice for the first time. Nigel reflects on the highlights of his Arctic year, including harp seal babies on sea ice, walrus basking on ice floes and diving underwater, Arctic foxes feeding lemmings to their nine cubs and polar bears invading the rocky shores around Churchill.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Sunday 23rd[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.10 – 3.40 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station – The Icon Men[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 3.40 - 4.10 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station – The Sharp End[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC1 4.10 – 4.40 am Sign Zone: The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station – The Unveiling[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T Channel 4 3.45 – 4.45 am Extreme Archaeology – Bridge on the River Wye – Series exploring important archaeological sites throughout Britain which are almost inaccessible. Dr Mark Davies leads EXA, a team of young archaeologists on a mission to uncover the foundations of a Roman bridge spanning the River Wye between England and Wales. Their efforts to retrieve artefacts and evidence are at risk from the tide and famously lethal/mudflats.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 3.30 – 4.00 am Savage Planet – Fatal Tide[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 6.00 – 6.30 am Savage Planet – Fatal Tide[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T ITV3 6.30 – 7.30 am Abraham Lincoln[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 10.00 – 11.00 am New Series How We Built Britain – The East: A New Dawn – David Dimbleby journeys through Britain and through 1,000 years of our history, to discover the buildings that have made us who we are. His journey begins in the east of England, in medieval times the richest place in Britain and home to some of our most spectacular buildings. He climbs the tower of Ely Cathedral, explores magnificent castles, learns how to build a medieval barn, goes on a pilgrimage, experiences life in a great hall and learns how the Black Death turned England upside down.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 3.40 – 4.40 pm Charles Dickens and the Invention of Christmas. Rhys Jones discovers the origins of baubles, trees, turkey for dinner and Christmas carols. God bless us, every one![/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T BBC2 3.45 - 4.15 pm An Otter in the Family – Part 2 Philippa Forrester and her partner Charlie Hamilton-James have adopted an otter cub called Grace. Grace is becoming aggressive, so Charlie and the kids try to keep her entertained but Grace is injured, damaging her chances of returning to the wild.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]*T Channel 5 4.20 – 5.25 pm Killer Whale Attack – on 13 May 2004, a small tourist boat set out from the Californian harbour town of Moss Landing and entered the cold waters of Monterey Bay. The passengers on board were expecting a nature-watching pleasure trip – but what they were about to witness was something quite extraordinary. Using eyewitness accounts, reconstruction and video footage from the day, this documentary examines what happened when a gang of killer whales attacked a California grey whale mother and infant.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]T BBC1 9.00 – 10.00 pm Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work [/FONT]
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