Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 2

Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 2

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Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 2: In the wake of the humiliation of Pearl harbour, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle was asked to mount an astonishing raid. For the first time ever, bombers would be put onto aircraft carriers and shipped over near Japan. They would then hit Tokyo. The trouble was, the bombers couldn’t land on the aircraft carriers. Instead, the crews had to fly to China and then bail out. Many ditched in the sea. Others met up with resistance fighters and then tried to evade the Japanese. Several were captured. This film has exceptional footage of the […]

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Countryfile - Going to Extremes

Countryfile – Going to Extremes

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Countryfile – Going to Extremes: Celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the first recorded summit of the highest point on earth, Mount Everest, Ellie Harrison is in Kettering at one of the world’s most advanced materials research facilities to put outdoor gear – and herself – to the test. As well as getting to grips with a pair of expedition boots that made it to the top of the world, how will Ellie bear up in a cold chamber where the mercury can hit -40 Celsius? The UK may not be able to match the dizzying heights of Everest, but we

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Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs episode 2

Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs episode 2

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Secrets of the Jurassic Dinosaurs episode 2: The plot thickens. As the team uncovers the remains of fearsome Jurassic predators, they consider the possibility that the site was a dinosaur hunting ground. This time, the team tries to figure out if the Jurassic’s most vicious predator was involved in the deaths of super-sized beasts, like the iconic Diplodocus, that are buried at the site, helping to reveal why so many dinosaurs came here and what killed them in such great numbers 150 million years ago.         Liz Bonnin joins an international team of palaeontologists in the remote

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The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023 episode 8

The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023 episode 8

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The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023 episode 8: It’s the quarter-final, and the remaining five potters face an altered reality as they throw and radically alter an abstract coffee set. The bucket of doom returns as judges Keith and Rich set a second challenge to throw multiple high-footed rice bowls under pressure, but who will secure an all-important place in the semi-final? The Great Pottery Throw Down is a popular television show that features talented potters from around the UK. In this episode, the show has reached its quarter-final stage, and there are five remaining potters left in the competition.

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Rick Stein's Cornwall episode 40

Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 40

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Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 40: Rick drops in on the fishing port of Boscastle and finds a fabulous seafood restaurant in a building that once housed rockets used to fire safety ropes out to sinking ships. A trip to Cornwall’s only dedicated organic mushroom farm inspires him to cook a stir-fry with lion’s mane mushrooms, which are said to regrow neurons!         After a surreal afternoon spent watching a German film crew at work in the fishing village of Mousehole, he discovers that a major reason so many Germans love Cornwall is a long-running TV series, watched

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Ancient Aliens – S19 E07 | Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind

Ancient Aliens – S19 E07 | Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind

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Ancient Aliens – S19 E07 | Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: The Center for the Study of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence defines a “Close Encounter of The Fifth Kind” as direct human contact and communication with extraterrestrial life. But is this a classification that will only be useful in the distant future, or have such encounters already taken place… and within the highest levels of the U.S. government?         Ancient Aliens is an American television series that premiered on April 20, 2010, on the History channel. Produced by Prometheus Entertainment in a documentary style, the program presents hypotheses of ancient astronauts and

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Rick Stein's Cornwall episode 39

Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 39

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Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 39: Rick’s idea of bliss is to spend an afternoon scaling and gutting a freshly caught sea bass before using it to make a simple yet delectable dish which ranks amongst his absolute favourites – steamed sea bass with garlic, ginger and spring onions.         He travels to the far west of Cornwall to meet a potter whose work captures the rugged beauty of her surroundings, before heading to the far east of the county on the trail of the poet Charles Causley, who spent his entire life in the Cornish border town

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The Great Pottery Throw Down 2020 episode 1

The Great Pottery Throw Down 2020 episode 1

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The Great Pottery Throw Down 2020 episode 1: Melanie Sykes hosts as 12 amateur potters compete against one another, with judges Keith Brymer Jones and Sue Pryke asking the contenders to throw a breakfast set and then egg cups..         In addition to the impressive pottery creations, the 2020 season of The Great Pottery Throw Down also featured some heartwarming moments. From the contestants supporting each other during challenging times to the judges providing constructive feedback and encouragement, the show highlighted the importance of community and camaraderie in the art world.   The Great Pottery Throw Down

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Rick Stein's Cornwall episode 38

Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 38

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Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 38: Rick delves into the stories of those who worked in Cornwall’s mines, from the men who laboured in extreme heat a full hour’s journey beneath the earth’s surface to the young women known as ‘bal maidens’, who earned their living breaking rocks with heavy sledgehammers.         In the heart of mining country, he discovers a church with some astonishing 600-year-old wall paintings, which rank amongst Britain’s greatest church treasures. And after a merry visit to a maker of botanical spirits, he adds a cheeky nip to his version of the ‘platinum pudding’

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Voyage of the Continents episode 2

Voyage of the Continents episode 2

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Voyage of the Continents episode 2: The history of Asia is awash with superlatives. Along with teams of scientists, we discover the incredible volcanic phenomenon that caused the greatest extinction of all time. Asia was the theatre of the world’s most violent tectonic collision, and has witnessed the birth of the Earth’s highest summits. Today, one of the countries of Asia – which is the world’s most densely populated continent – could be swallowed up, in the ceaseless Voyage of the Continents. Remote Siberia is where Asia was born. A cold and distant land that has seen billions of years

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Joanna Lumley's Japan episode 3

Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 3

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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 3: The actress heads to the island of Shikoku hoping to gain a better understanding of Japanese Buddhism. She then takes a bullet train to another island – Kyushu – where she finds the Henn Na Hotel, the world’s first robot hotel. At Nagasaki, she visits Shiroyama Elementary school, one of the only buildings to survive the atomic bomb dropped on the city in 1945. Joanna then travels to Sakurajima, one of the country’s most active volcanoes, before heading to the islands of Okinawa where one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War was

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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 2

Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 2

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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 2: The actress flies over Tokyo in a helicopter. The city was bombed extensively during the Second World War, so almost all of it is a symbol of the post-war economic boom that saw Japan become the world’s second largest economy. While in the capital, Joanna heads out to a nightclub to see a Japanese girl band and witnesses the largely male audience perform almost as much as the artists on stage. Later, Joanna travels to the Kiso Valley to walk the Nakasendo Way, an ancient route that once linked Tokyo to Kyoto, a place best

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