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Islands of Evolution episode 2 – Madagascar

Science, Nature / 3 minutes of reading / February 13, 2023 / By HDclump

Islands of Evolution episode 2 – Madagascar: Professor Richard Fortey travels to the rainforests of Madagascar – an ancient island that has spawned some of the most extraordinary groups of plants and animals anywhere in the world. From beautiful Indri lemurs, toxic frogs, and the cat-like giant mongoose called the fossa, to evolutionary oddities like the giraffe-necked weevil and the otherworldly aye-aye, he uncovers the secrets of the evolutionary niche – examining how, given millions of years, animals and plants can adapt to fill almost any opportunity they find. Three-part series in which Professor Richard Fortey investigates […]

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Joanna Lumley’s India episode 3

Travel / 6 minutes of reading / February 13, 2023 / By HDclump

Joanna Lumley’s India episode 3: Joanna ends her 5,000 mile journey in the place where she was born, Srinagar in Kashmir. She starts off in the Ranthambhore National Park, where she hopes to spot a tiger in the wild. Meeting tiger conservationist Belinda Wright, Joanna witnesses the work of local NGO Tiger Watch, who are attempting to break a cycle of poaching and poverty through education. Home to over 18 million people, Delhi is a city of stark contrasts. The extreme differences are obvious when Joanna visits a homeless community – where 10,000 men live under a flyover – and

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The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023 episode 6

The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023 / 6 minutes of reading / February 12, 2023 / By HDclump

The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023 episode 6: It’s an illuminating week in the pottery, as the contenders make a table light with a continuous, embossed scene. In the second challenge, surprise guest judge – fashion and lifestyle designer Henry Holland – really tests their decadent design skills. Siobhán McSweeney hosts, with regular judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller setting the challenges. It’s hard not to love this show and the weekly life lessons to be found. One of the remaining magnificent seven competitors has an early accident, but ploughs on, earning herself an emotional “It’s brilliant!” from judge

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Countryfile – Small Fishing Village

Farming and Country Life / 3 minutes of reading / February 12, 2023 / By HDclump

Countryfile – Small Fishing Village: Joe Crowley and Steve Brown are on the North Yorkshire coast in the beautiful village of Staithes to find out how the traditional fishing community is adapting for the future. Where once there was a fishing fleet of 80, now there is just one fisherman left. Joe goes out to sea to discover how one skipper has swapped nets for wildlife tourism, while Steve takes a look at Staithes’s art heritage and tastes some locally smoked goodies. Adam Henson finds out about the challenges facing a sheep dairy, and Charlotte Smith investigates the latest developments

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The US and the Holocaust (Beginnings-1938) episode 1

History / 3 minutes of reading / February 12, 2023 / By HDclump

The US and the Holocaust (Beginnings-1938) episode 1: How the land of immigrants faced the reality of Holocaust refugees. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? Powerful documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein. After decades of open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts the United States to pass laws restricting immigration. In Germany, Hitler finds support for his anti-Semitic rhetoric, and the Nazis begin their persecution of Jewish people, causing many to flee to neighbouring countries or America. Franklin D Roosevelt and other world leaders are concerned by the growing refugee crisis, but they fail

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Ancient Aliens – S19 E05 | The MUFON Files

Conspiracy / 3 minutes of reading / February 12, 2023 / By HDclump

Ancient Aliens – S19 E05 | The MUFON Files: The Mutual UFO Network–better known as MUFON–is the world’s leading organization devoted to the scientific investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena and other unexplained encounters. With more than five decades of investigations, could MUFON’s extensive database contain definitive proof of extraterrestrial visitation? 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 proposes that historical texts, archaeology, and legends contain evidence of past human-extraterrestrial contact. The show has been

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Your Inner Fish: An Evolution Story episode 3

Science / 6 minutes of reading / February 11, 2023 / By HDclump

Your Inner Fish: An Evolution Story episode 3: In the final episode, Neil tracks our hands, feet, colour vision, spine and upright gait to our primate and hominid progenitors, who also passed on perhaps the most important legacy of all – a path to the human brain. It took more than 350 million years for the human body to take shape. Anatomist Neil Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates, the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree. Our bodies carry the anatomical legacy of animals that

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Joanna Lumley’s India episode 2

Travel / 6 minutes of reading / February 11, 2023 / By HDclump

Joanna Lumley’s India episode 2: Joanna meets the Maharaja of Dungarpur, who shows her around his lakeside palace. In stark contrast, Joanna visits a Dalit community – considered to be India’s lowest caste – in Gujarat, and hears of the everyday discrimination these people experience under India’s still deeply entrenched 3,000-year-old caste system. She later joins in a Hindu house warming ceremony, where a cow and calf are brought into the new house for luck. Braving the roads of Mumbai, Joanna takes a ride in the city’s only all-female taxi company and visits the Times of India, where her uncle

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Cornwall with Simon Reeve episode 2

Travel / 3 minutes of reading / February 10, 2023 / By HDclump

Cornwall with Simon Reeve episode 2: In the second of two programmes, Simon investigates the environmental challenges facing Cornwall and the rest of the country, and on the way encounters some of its iconic wildlife, including Britain’s largest predator, the huge grey seal. More than a third of the global population is found in UK waters, where they are threatened by ocean pollution. Diving into coastal waters, Simon accompanies the volunteers who clean up the discarded fishing nets that can entangle and drown the seals. Travelling inland from the beautiful coast, Simon crosses a county of stunning

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Gardening Australia episode 1 2023

Gardening Australia 2023 / 6 minutes of reading / February 10, 2023 / By HDclump

Gardening Australia episode 1 2023: Costa learns about plant adaptions’ to climate; Sophie visits a designer’s home; Millie gets stuck into summer jobs; Clarence & Hannah get a garden history lesson; Tammy grows potted dragon fruit; we meet an orchid hybridiser. Gardening Australia is a popular Australian television program that focuses on gardening and gardening advice. It is broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and has been airing since 1990. The show is presented by a team of expert gardeners and horticulturalists, who provide tips and advice on a wide range of gardening topics, from choosing

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Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.5 – Get Moving

Cooking Show / 7 minutes of reading / February 10, 2023 / By HDclump

Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes ep.5 – Get Moving: For step five of his plan, Tom motivates his gang to up their exercise and eat the right food to fuel their bodies. He starts with his homemade energy bars – fruit and nut-filled flapjacks, the perfect snack for a workout. He takes a tin of them to his local tennis club where he meets up with the Roy Choudhury family. They have a history of heart problems in their family and want to make lifestyle changes to stay healthy but they don’t know what sort of exercise they can all

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Islands of Evolution episode 1 – Hawaii

Science, Nature / 4 minutes of reading / February 10, 2023 / By HDclump

Islands of Evolution episode 1 – Hawaii: Richard Fortey investigates why islands are laboratories of evolution. On Hawaii he finds honeycreeper birds, carnivorous caterpillars and silversword plants. In the first episode, Fortey is on Hawaii to investigate how life colonises a newly born island. According to some estimates, Hawaii has been successfully colonised by only one new species every 35,000 years due to its remote location – yet the Hawaiian Islands teem with a great diversity of life. In search of the evolutionary secrets of how one species becomes many, Fortey encounters beautiful honeycreeper birds whose evolution rivals that of

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