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06:00
Battlefield
The Fight for the Mediterranean
Documentary Historical documentary detailing the battle between the Italian Navy and Britain's vastly outnumbered Royal Navy during the early years of World War Two. The arrival of the German Luftwaffe resulted in heavy losses to Allied shipping.
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| 07:00 |
07:00
Weaponology
Booby Traps
Documentary An exploration of developments in weaponry through the ages, tracing the ancestry of traps, the adaptable hidden killers of the battlefield.
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| 08:00 |
08:00
O'Shea's Big Adventure
Crocodile Canyon
Film Mark O'Shea journeys through the scorching temperatures of west Africa to the mountainous sand-dunes of the Sahara in search of the desert crocodile.
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| 09:00 |
09:00
Time Team
On the Edge of the Empire
Interests A close-up look at archaeology. This programme visits Ribchester in Lancashire, a site which, for the first one hundred years of Roman rule in Britain, was part of the northern frontier, an inhospitable location where all that separated the invaders from the hostile tribesmen were ditches and forts.
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| 10:00 |
10:00
Battlefield
The Fight for the Mediterranean
Documentary Historical documentary detailing the battle between the Italian Navy and Britain's vastly outnumbered Royal Navy during the early years of World War Two. The arrival of the German Luftwaffe resulted in heavy losses to Allied shipping.
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| 11:00 |
11:00
Minutes from Disaster
Crash at Eschede
Documentary Following a team of forensic engineers as they piece together the sequence of events leading up to the Eschede railway disaster - the world's worst high-speed train accident - which killed 101 people on 3rd June 1998.
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| 12:00 |
12:00
O'Shea's Big Adventure
Crocodile Canyon
Film Mark O'Shea journeys through the scorching temperatures of west Africa to the mountainous sand-dunes of the Sahara in search of the desert crocodile.
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| 13:00 |
13:00
Extreme Engineering
Oil Rigs
Documentary Feats of engineering.
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| 14:00 |
14:00
What the Ancients Knew: India
Documentary Documentary investigating the problems encountered by ancient civilisations and the ingenious solutions to them made by engineers of the time. This edition looks at how the study of astronomy began in India thousands of years ago.
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| 15:00 |
15:00
Time Team
On the Edge of the Empire
Interests A close-up look at archaeology. This programme visits Ribchester in Lancashire, a site which, for the first one hundred years of Roman rule in Britain, was part of the northern frontier, an inhospitable location where all that separated the invaders from the hostile tribesmen were ditches and forts.
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| 16:00 |
16:00
Battlefield
The Fight for the Mediterranean
Documentary Historical documentary detailing the battle between the Italian Navy and Britain's vastly outnumbered Royal Navy during the early years of World War Two. The arrival of the German Luftwaffe resulted in heavy losses to Allied shipping.
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| 17:00 |
17:00
Weaponology
Booby Traps
Documentary An exploration of developments in weaponry through the ages, tracing the ancestry of traps, the adaptable hidden killers of the battlefield.
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| 18:00 |
18:00
O'Shea's Big Adventure
Crocodile Canyon
Film Mark O'Shea journeys through the scorching temperatures of west Africa to the mountainous sand-dunes of the Sahara in search of the desert crocodile.
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| 19:00 |
19:00
Time Team
On the Edge of the Empire
Interests A close-up look at archaeology. This programme visits Ribchester in Lancashire, a site which, for the first one hundred years of Roman rule in Britain, was part of the northern frontier, an inhospitable location where all that separated the invaders from the hostile tribesmen were ditches and forts.
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| 20:00 |
20:00
What the Ancients Knew: India
Documentary Documentary investigating the problems encountered by ancient civilisations and the ingenious solutions to them made by engineers of the time. This edition looks at how the study of astronomy began in India thousands of years ago.
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| 21:00 |
21:00
Minutes from Disaster
Documentary Following a team of forensic engineers as they piece together the sequence of events leading up to a series of explosions in 1988 in an ammonium perchlorate plant in Nevada.
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| 22:00 |
22:00
Gulf War - a Soldier's Tale
Suicide Mission
Documentary Series tracing the events of the Gulf War. US Marines describe the `suicide mission' in which US forces had to advance over the lines and clear the route for the main attack. Further west, the Iraqis retreated under heavy attack from British heavy artillery.
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| 23:00 |
23:00
Sweetheart Swindlers
Documentary An intimate look at the scams that hustlers use to cheat the vulnerable and defenceless.
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