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Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets episode 2

Cooking Show / 6 minutes of reading / November 29, 2022 / By HDclump

Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets episode 2: Mary visits Scone Palace, the crowning place of Scottish kings and the epicentre of Scottish history, where she is invited to help Lady Mansfield prepare for a special dinner with traditional Scottish reeling in the palace where Prince Albert and Queen Victoria were once amused. Mary enjoys salmon fishing on the family’s private stretch of the Tay, and the regal pastime of Highland deer stalking with William, the future Earl of Mansfield, as well as the family’s long-serving gamekeeper. Inspired by such royal history, Mary rustles up Scottish classics in the estate kitchen, […]

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A History of Scotland episode 6 – God’s Chosen People

History / 3 minutes of reading / November 28, 2022 / By HDclump

A History of Scotland episode 6 – God’s Chosen People: Neil Oliver continues his journey through Scotland’s past with the story of the Covenanters, whose profound religious beliefs were declared in the National Covenant of 1638. This document licensed revolution, started the Civil War that cost King Charles I his head, cost tens of thousands of Scots their lives and led to Britain’s first war on terror. Documentary charting the birth and growth of the Scottish nation. Scotland’s history has been badly served over the years. Defined by its relationship to England, Scotland’s popular history is full

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Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets episode 1

Cooking Show / 6 minutes of reading / November 28, 2022 / By HDclump

Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets episode 1: Mary visits Highclere Castle, the real-life Downton Abbey, home to the eighth Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and renowned as the setting for some of the most lavish and influential weekend house parties in history. Mary discovers what it takes to keep a home like this going in today’s world, meeting everyone from the family to the house staff and the estate’s loyal posse of gamekeepers. Inspired by what she discovers, Mary takes to the estate kitchen where she creates a delicious spread, from raspberry tartlets to gamekeeper’s stew and an elaborate menu

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Landward episode 23 2022

Farming and Country Life / 4 minutes of reading / November 28, 2022 / By HDclump

Landward episode 23 2022: Dougie and the team make the 100-mile journey from the mainland out into the Atlantic to discover St Kilda, Britain’s remotest and wildest islands. Dougie takes a walk up the highest sea cliffs in Britain and gets a bird’s-eye view of the geology and ecology. He hears worrying evidence that the world-renowned seabirds’ colonies are now facing an uncertain future due to climate change. Elsewhere, Anne follows the last islanders, discovering why these Hebridean people eventually had to leave. She also discovers what the hundreds of unique structures that are scattered throughout the

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Simon Schama’s History of Now episode 1

History / 3 minutes of reading / November 28, 2022 / By HDclump

Simon Schama’s History of Now episode 1: In his most personal project to date, Simon Schama looks back at the dramatic history that has played out in his lifetime. Best known for writing history, he has lived a fair bit of it too. Born in 1945, on the night of the bombing of Dresden, Simon grew up as part of a generation determined to rebuild the world from the ashes of war. In this film, he reveals the stories of artists and writers who have been at the forefront of the fight for truth and democracy, often at great personal

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Countryfile – Inclusive Farming

Farming and Country Life / 3 minutes of reading / November 27, 2022 / By HDclump

Countryfile – Inclusive Farming: Matt Baker rolls up his sleeves to help out on a remarkable smallholding in Bedfordshire. Farmer Mike Duxbury lost his sight at the age of six due to glaucoma, but that didn’t stop him from achieving his dream to farm. Touch and sound enable him to navigate the farm and take on anything that needs doing, from checking livestock to wielding power tools to build animal enclosures. And Mike is determined to inspire young people with disabilities to get into agriculture by running practical courses. Meanwhile, Joe Crowley investigates if enough is being

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Searching for Italy 2022 episode 8 – Liguria

Travel / 3 minutes of reading / November 27, 2022 / By HDclump

Searching for Italy 2022 episode 8 – Liguria: Stanley Tucci visits one of the most famous and frequented regions of Italy, the Italian Riviera, for the glitz and glamour of Portofino and the stunning picture-perfect fishing villages of the Cinque Terre. Liguria is a thin strip of mountainous land, sandwiched between the Alps and the Apennines and lined with rugged scenery and stunning coastal views. Its capital, Genoa, was once a wealthy merchant empire, and now offers such rich cuisine as personalised stamped pasta and its most internationally acclaimed export, Genoese pesto. Tucci discovers how Ligurians

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Gardening Australia episode 34 2022

Gardening Australia 2022 / 5 minutes of reading / November 26, 2022 / By HDclump

Gardening Australia episode 34 2022: Costa explores a daffodil festival; Millie makes the most of spring; Josh meets gardeners of all ages; Jerry sees plants soften brutalism; Tammy explains types of variegation; we meet a midwife with a front yard food forest. Costa visits a regional town celebrating the 50th year of their iconic daffodil festival, to learn about how this beautiful spring flower brings the community together. Millie is pumped for spring in the productive patch, and she shares her strategies to make the most of every moment in this beautiful season! Josh learns about the

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The Secret Genius of Modern Life episode 3

Science / 2 minutes of reading / November 26, 2022 / By HDclump

The Secret Genius of Modern Life episode 3: Hannah Fry delves into the inner workings of virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri, which are now found in almost half of all UK homes. Hannah goes behind the scenes with Alexa’s chief scientist, reveals how secret technology invented to hunt U-boats led to their targeted hearing and discovers modern wireless networks’ debt to a 1940s Hollywood star. Hannah Fry is a British mathematician, author, and radio and television presenter. She is Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis.

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Smart Secrets of Great Paintings episode 1 – Gustave Courbet

Art / 3 minutes of reading / November 26, 2022 / By HDclump

Smart Secrets of Great Paintings episode 1 – Gustave Courbet: Paris shone brightly in the second half of the 19th century, with its fashionable restaurants, and its cabarets and theatres, which provided the spectacle of a carefree society. The industrial revolution produced wealth, and fortunes were amassed and lost. Gustave Courbet’s work is politically involved and provocative. It reveals his support for revolutionary movements, and condemns Napoleon III’s authoritarian regime. In addition to its critical dimension, the canvas has an air of mystery, and depicts contradictions. This series explores history of art in a totally new way.

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MasterChef The Professionals 2022 episode 12

MasterChef – The Professionals 2022 / 2 minutes of reading / November 26, 2022 / By HDclump

MasterChef The Professionals 2022 episode 12: In the last quarter-final, the four best chefs from this week’s heats come together to compete in two challenges set by judges Anna Haugh and Marcus Wareing. To earn the last two places in the semi-finals, the chefs must show off their creativity in an Invention Test, then prepare food for some of the UK’s most hard to please food critics. Only the most exciting culinary talents will continue in the competition. In the first challenge, the judges set a pastry Invention Test with a twist: the dessert must be based

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The Secret Genius of Modern Life episode 2

Science / 2 minutes of reading / November 25, 2022 / By HDclump

The Secret Genius of Modern Life episode 2: Hannah Fry tucks into the tech behind food delivery apps like Deliveroo and Just Eat, which are now used by 24 million people in the UK. Hannah meets the R&D team behind food delivery titan Deliveroo, finds out how pensioners ordering Greggs revolutionised food delivery, and discovers how pizza made us fall in love with the internet in the 1990s. Hannah Fry is a British mathematician, author, and radio and television presenter. She is Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. She

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