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Exploring the many different concepts of family in the natural world: getting together, the raising of cubs and chicks and how family bonds can determine an animal’s fate. Part 5 of 12.
As global warming heads to 2 degrees Celsius, heat waves are on the rise, as well as droughts, fires and floods. Some cities are seeing the highest monthly temperatures in history. Ocean water is heating up, aquatic life is migrating north to more comfortable temperatures, impacting ocean-based industries such as lobster fishing. Heat blobs – flash heat waves in the ocean - are leading to toxic levels of algae and plankton. This episode tells first-hand stories of an east coast fishing community facing the end of an industry and an epic heat wave in Montreal. Part 8 of 10.
In 1945, President Nasser’s project to build a lake in Southern Egypt threatened to submerge hundreds of ancient temples, including those of Ramses II and Cleopatra. Thanks to an unprecedented international mobilisation, discover how this exceptional heritage was saved.
The Army has now made its way back to the coast, but there are far too many men to evacuate in the time that is left before the Germans are expected to take Dunkirk. More boats are needed so the Admiralty begins to requisition a fleet of small craft including cockle fishing boats from Leigh-on-Sea. The crew of The Renown decide they will sail their boat themselves. Meanwhile fleets of naval ships are continuing to lift as many men as they can from the beaches and the pier. The French, who until now have been kept in the dark about plans for a full scale British evacuation, learn that their allies are leaving them. In order to allow the Anglo-French alliance to continue, Churchill orders that French troops be lifted 50/50 with the English, doubling the number of men to be evacuated in a single stroke. The Leigh boys, who set out knowing little of what to expect, find themselves sailing into a scene of desperation and mayhem, but in spite of the dangers they begin to lift men off the beaches. When the tide makes their work there impossible, they too begin to lift men off the pier. As the strain on the little boat begins to tell the engine fails. Under tow on their way home they hit a mine and are killed. They are among the first civilian casualties of the war. Their community mourns, realising the cost of the successful evacuation, and the country is left to face the threat of invasion. Part 2 of 3.
For the first time, previously unpublished material reveals the secrets of Operation Oak, the rescue of deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1943 by German special forces. Testimonies, memories, film footage, photographs and documents hidden away in Italian archives demolish the official Nazi version and finally make it possible for the extraordinary chain of events to be recounted in detail.
In April 1967, fifteen colonels staged a coup and installed a dictatorship in Greece. This dictatorship was the last stage of a deep social division that had already begun in the Greek civil war. Part 1 of 2.
