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Tuesday, May 22 2012
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Walking With Dinosaurs

Using leading-edge computer technology and animatronics, see dinosaurs as never before as we travel back in time to watch living, breathing dinosaurs in their natural habitat.

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Walking With Dinosaurs

Using leading-edge computer technology and animatronics, see dinosaurs as never before as we travel back in time to watch living, breathing dinosaurs in their natural habitat.

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Derren Brown Investigates

Derren meets Lou Gentile, a top American ghost hunter who for the last 20 years, has been helping people rid themselves of unwanted ghostly companions. Lou not only claims that he can prove the existence of spirits, but that they are sometimes powerful enough to kill.

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Top Gear

Jeremy and James invade Greenham Common airbase to ask the question, did the Communists ever make a good car? And, Richard goes crazy in the Veritas, a surprisingly insane car. Boris Johnson is the star in a Reasonably Priced Car.

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Helicopter Heroes

Rav Wilding presents the series following the work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. One of the team collapses with a massive heart attack, and his colleagues fight to save him. Meanwhile, a teenage girl is knocked down outside her home.

Private Life of Plants

David Attenborough journeys to the four corners of the Earth, and encounters some form of plant life everywhere - from the coldest Arctic wastes to the driest deserts, and in the wettest swamplands.

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The Kangaroo Gang

This is the story of the most spectacularly successful shoplifting gang in history, who plundered stores in England and Europe in the 1960s and 1970s - the Kangaroo Gang, led by five master thieves "the Duke" Arthur Delaney, "Wee" Jimmy Lloyd, Jack "The Fibber" Warren, Billy "the General" Hill and "Gorgeous Georgie" Gardener. The story is based on the best selling book: "King of Thieves; the adventures of Arthur Delaney and the Kangaroo Gang" by Adam Shand.

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Murder Of Mutiny?

Pamela Stephenson's great, great grandfather, Captain Samuel Stephenson, was killed in a mutiny on board the Rosalie in Indonesia. Pamela sets out to find out what really happened to Salty Sam.

Derren Brown Investigates

Derren meets Lou Gentile, a top American ghost hunter who for the last 20 years, has been helping people rid themselves of unwanted ghostly companions. Lou not only claims that he can prove the existence of spirits, but that they are sometimes powerful enough to kill.

1
Top Gear

Jeremy and James invade Greenham Common airbase to ask the question, did the Communists ever make a good car? And, Richard goes crazy in the Veritas, a surprisingly insane car. Boris Johnson is the star in a Reasonably Priced Car.

12
Helicopter Heroes

Rav Wilding presents the series following the work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. One of the team collapses with a massive heart attack, and his colleagues fight to save him. Meanwhile, a teenage girl is knocked down outside her home.

Private Life of Plants

David Attenborough journeys to the four corners of the Earth, and encounters some form of plant life everywhere - from the coldest Arctic wastes to the driest deserts, and in the wettest swamplands.

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Murder Of Mutiny?

Pamela Stephenson's great, great grandfather, Captain Samuel Stephenson, was killed in a mutiny on board the Rosalie in Indonesia. Pamela sets out to find out what really happened to Salty Sam.

Top Gear

See the boys find out what it takes to roadie for the world's best band - The Who. And Hammond drives the car built to take on the Porsche. Presented by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.

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Daredevils

Alain Robert, "The Human Spider", is arguably the most daring climber the world has ever seen.Reveals his assault upon the building that has eluded him time and again, the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.

The Survivors

Fugitive from the Fire : Join Richard as he investigates the lucky breaks and evolutionary adaptations that allowed species to survive the disastrous end of the Cretaceous Age when the giants did not.

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Walking with Cavemen

Nearly half a million years ago the most advanced human the world has seen is roaming Europe. Homo heidelbergensis are fierce hunters, they resemble humans both physically and behaviourally - yet something crucial is missing...

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Walking with Cavemen

Nearly half a million years ago the most advanced human the world has seen is roaming Europe. Homo heidelbergensis are fierce hunters, they resemble humans both physically and behaviourally - yet something crucial is missing...

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Blood, Sweat and Luxuries

Six young British consumers swap their luxury lives for the simple mud huts and shanty towns of Africa and Asia to work alongside the people who mine, manufacture, process and recycle luxury goods. On the final leg of their journey the Brits leave Africa for the Philippines to discover where components for our mp3 players, DVDs and computers come from. They join the workers in the ultra-competitive world of electronics, where productivity is everything and factories produce hundreds of thousands of components a day. It's a multi-billion pound industry and with so much at stake five mistakes in a million is too many. When the Brits join the highly disciplined workers on the sterile factory floor, their lack of focus becomes a major issue and Oscar quits. After five long weeks the Brits are due to return home, but not before they learn the level of sacrifice the workers make to support their families and are able to reunite a young woman with her two-year-old son. They also learn that the alternatives to factory life aren't quite what they seem as they meet the families who live and work on the city dumpsites. As they head back to the UK leaving the slums and mud huts behind them, will their luxury lives at home ever be the same again?

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Walking With Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs employs fascinating technology to screen an amazing story. Witness technological marvels and see how research enabled the BBC to recreate a lost world, complete to the last detail.

Walking With Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs employs fascinating technology to screen an amazing story. Witness technological marvels and see how research enabled the BBC to recreate a lost world, complete to the last detail.

Museum Secrets

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Top Gear

Top Gear heads to the Isle of Man for a special edition showing what the team got up to during their summer holidays. They also find out how many caravans a Volvo estate can jump. Guest: Stephen Fry.

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An Idiot Abroad

Karl Pilkington meets with Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant to discuss his travels. Starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington.

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Virgin Swimmers

Many of us take swimming for granted but for some adults it's not as easy. The nine adults seen floundering across a pool designed for six year olds in this film are determined to learn but are under constant and growing pressure from an ever pacing and ever haranguing poolside presence: Linda. Instructor Linda has seen it all before. She knows that most of the women will be terrified of getting their hair and faces wet, the men will be embarrassed by their lack of prowess, and all of them will probably have to conquer demons that run much deeper than a fear of water. And she is going to make absolutely sure they crack it. "This is it - it's now or never!" declares 54-year-old Sandy from Southend-on-Sea. But at the end of the second week, still reluctant to get her face wet and asking for armbands, Sandy reveals stories of a cosseted childhood that still haunt her adult years - the girl who was never allowed to play with other children has become the woman who hides behind an ever present mask of mascara and refuses to remove her contact lenses. But dry faces don't wash with Linda. Until now Mandy has spent thirty years never daring to put on a swimming costume. "Quite petrified", she tells Linda before the first lesson begins. "On a scale of one to ten?", "Eight", she says, but she is as determined to be able to swim a full length as well as any one of them. Kitchen salesman Wyn, meanwhile, has got the patter. "Not scared of the water," he tells Linda. Three weeks on, however, he is pouring out his history of nervous tension to his disappointed teacher.Finally, after 12 lessons and six weeks, Linda leads her proteges to the ultimate test in the big pool. But who will sink, and who will swim?

True Stories

The Silence of the Lambs follows a young ambitious FBI agent as she pursues the serial killer Buffalo Bill, with help from convicted cannibal Hannibal Lecter. Examining the two killers from the film, True Stories reveals the real life inspirations for writer Thomas Harris' creations and how their characters came straight from case files.

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Top Gear

Top Gear heads to the Isle of Man for a special edition showing what the team got up to during their summer holidays. They also find out how many caravans a Volvo estate can jump. Guest: Stephen Fry.

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Daredevils

Alain Robert, "The Human Spider", is arguably the most daring climber the world has ever seen.Reveals his assault upon the building that has eluded him time and again, the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.