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Morning

6:00AM

TJC

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8:00AM

Beautiful Serengeti: Family

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.
8:30AM

Born in the Wild: Orangutan

At an orangutan sanctuary deep in the rainforest, Mark and Joy come face-to-face with a super-male and uncover the latest scientific theories on how these orangutan kings exert their power over other males and seduce females in their territory. Orangutans devote around seven years to raising a single newborn. This lengthy period dedicated to raising one child is key to the success of orangutans and all other great apes too – including us humans. Part 3 of 4.
9:30AM

The Silk Road:

In the final episode of the series Dr Sam Willis continues his journey west in Iran. Sam begins in the legendary city of Persepolis - heart of the first Persian Empire. Following an ancient caravan route through Persia's deserts, he visits a Zoroastrian temple where a holy fire has burned for 1,500 years, and Esfahan, one of the Silk Road's architectural jewels and rival to Sam's next destination - Istanbul. In the ancient capital of Byzantium Sam discovers how the eastern Roman Empire was ruled through silk and how Venetian merchants cashed in on the wealth and trade it generated. Sam's last stop takes him full circle to Venice. Visiting Marco Polo's house, Sam reminds us how the great traveller's book was one of the first to link East to West. Part 3 of 3.
10:45AM

Elizabeth I's Secret Agents:

Elizabeth I is dead and King James of Scotland travels south to take the throne at the invitation of Robert Cecil. Meanwhile, John Gerard, a Catholic priest who has dedicated his life to the destruction of the Protestant state that developed in Elizabeth's England, has escaped and made contact with a splinter cell in the Catholic underground containing an extremist called Guy Fawkes, who has a plan to blow up parliament with the king inside. Part 3 of 3.
11:55AM

Hemingway:

Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but eventually is overcome by addiction, physical trauma and depression. Part 6 of 6.

Afternoon

1:00PM

Beautiful Serengeti: Family

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.
1:35PM

Born in the Wild: Orangutan

At an orangutan sanctuary deep in the rainforest, Mark and Joy come face-to-face with a super-male and uncover the latest scientific theories on how these orangutan kings exert their power over other males and seduce females in their territory. Orangutans devote around seven years to raising a single newborn. This lengthy period dedicated to raising one child is key to the success of orangutans and all other great apes too – including us humans. Part 3 of 4.
2:35PM

The Silk Road:

In the final episode of the series Dr Sam Willis continues his journey west in Iran. Sam begins in the legendary city of Persepolis - heart of the first Persian Empire. Following an ancient caravan route through Persia's deserts, he visits a Zoroastrian temple where a holy fire has burned for 1,500 years, and Esfahan, one of the Silk Road's architectural jewels and rival to Sam's next destination - Istanbul. In the ancient capital of Byzantium Sam discovers how the eastern Roman Empire was ruled through silk and how Venetian merchants cashed in on the wealth and trade it generated. Sam's last stop takes him full circle to Venice. Visiting Marco Polo's house, Sam reminds us how the great traveller's book was one of the first to link East to West. Part 3 of 3.
3:55PM

Elizabeth I's Secret Agents:

Elizabeth I is dead and King James of Scotland travels south to take the throne at the invitation of Robert Cecil. Meanwhile, John Gerard, a Catholic priest who has dedicated his life to the destruction of the Protestant state that developed in Elizabeth's England, has escaped and made contact with a splinter cell in the Catholic underground containing an extremist called Guy Fawkes, who has a plan to blow up parliament with the king inside. Part 3 of 3.
5:05PM

Hemingway:

Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but eventually is overcome by addiction, physical trauma and depression. Part 6 of 6.

Evening

6:15PM

Born in the Wild: Orangutan

At an orangutan sanctuary deep in the rainforest, Mark and Joy come face-to-face with a super-male and uncover the latest scientific theories on how these orangutan kings exert their power over other males and seduce females in their territory. Orangutans devote around seven years to raising a single newborn. This lengthy period dedicated to raising one child is key to the success of orangutans and all other great apes too – including us humans. Part 3 of 4.
7:20PM

The Silk Road:

In the final episode of the series Dr Sam Willis continues his journey west in Iran. Sam begins in the legendary city of Persepolis - heart of the first Persian Empire. Following an ancient caravan route through Persia's deserts, he visits a Zoroastrian temple where a holy fire has burned for 1,500 years, and Esfahan, one of the Silk Road's architectural jewels and rival to Sam's next destination - Istanbul. In the ancient capital of Byzantium Sam discovers how the eastern Roman Empire was ruled through silk and how Venetian merchants cashed in on the wealth and trade it generated. Sam's last stop takes him full circle to Venice. Visiting Marco Polo's house, Sam reminds us how the great traveller's book was one of the first to link East to West. Part 3 of 3.
8:40PM

Elizabeth I's Secret Agents:

Elizabeth I is dead and King James of Scotland travels south to take the throne at the invitation of Robert Cecil. Meanwhile, John Gerard, a Catholic priest who has dedicated his life to the destruction of the Protestant state that developed in Elizabeth's England, has escaped and made contact with a splinter cell in the Catholic underground containing an extremist called Guy Fawkes, who has a plan to blow up parliament with the king inside. Part 3 of 3.
9:50PM

Hemingway:

Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but eventually is overcome by addiction, physical trauma and depression. Part 6 of 6.
11:00PM

Born in the Wild: Orangutan

At an orangutan sanctuary deep in the rainforest, Mark and Joy come face-to-face with a super-male and uncover the latest scientific theories on how these orangutan kings exert their power over other males and seduce females in their territory. Orangutans devote around seven years to raising a single newborn. This lengthy period dedicated to raising one child is key to the success of orangutans and all other great apes too – including us humans. Part 3 of 4.
12:00AM

The Silk Road:

In the final episode of the series Dr Sam Willis continues his journey west in Iran. Sam begins in the legendary city of Persepolis - heart of the first Persian Empire. Following an ancient caravan route through Persia's deserts, he visits a Zoroastrian temple where a holy fire has burned for 1,500 years, and Esfahan, one of the Silk Road's architectural jewels and rival to Sam's next destination - Istanbul. In the ancient capital of Byzantium Sam discovers how the eastern Roman Empire was ruled through silk and how Venetian merchants cashed in on the wealth and trade it generated. Sam's last stop takes him full circle to Venice. Visiting Marco Polo's house, Sam reminds us how the great traveller's book was one of the first to link East to West. Part 3 of 3.

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