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05:16 - 06:15
Walking With Cavemen
First Ancestors
Series, Documentary, History, Science, Miniseries
The lives of cavemen were nasty, brutish and short, but somehow they evolved over 3.5 million years into Homo sapiens.
06:15 - 07:15
Walking With Cavemen
Blood Brothers
Series, Documentary, History, Science, Miniseries
Two very different species compete for survival in Africa 2,000,000 years ago.
07:15 - 08:23
Ice Age Giants
Land of the Sabre-Tooth
Series, Documentary, Nature, Animals
Journey back 40,000 years and discover the great beasts of the Ice Age with Professor Alice Roberts. Alice's Ice Age odyssey begins in the land of the Sabre-tooth, North America, a continent that was half-covered by ice, up to two miles thick. Yet, it also boasts the most...
LIVE 08:23 - 09:32
Ice Age Giants
Land of the Cave-Bear
Series, Documentary, Nature, Animals
Alice ventures to the parts of the Northern Hemisphere, hit the hardest by the cold - Europe and Siberia. High in the mountains of Transylvania, a cave sealed for thousands of years reveals grisly evidence for a fight to the death between two starving giants, a cave bear and a...
09:32 - 10:41
Ice Age Giants
Last of the Giants
Series, Documentary, Nature, Animals
Even after thousands of years of ice crushing the Northern Hemisphere and temperatures of 20 degrees lower than those of today, many of the great giants of the Ice Age still walked the earth. It was only when the world had warmed up again that mammoths, woolly rhinos,...
10:41 - 11:16
The X-Creatures
Yeti, Myths and Men
Series, Documentary
Chris Packham is out to determine whether the Himalayan Yeti and the Sumatran Orang Pendek exist.
11:16 - 11:52
The X-Creatures
Alien in the Abyss
Series, Documentary
Chris Packham embarks on a mission to investigate the existence of the mythical giant squid.
11:52 - 12:28
The X-Creatures
Loch Ness: Fathoming the Monster
Series, Documentary
Chris Packham searches for clues related to the existence of the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland. He also visits Australia to learn about a giant lizard called Megalania.
12:28 - 13:02
The X-Creatures
Shooting the Bigfoot
Series, Documentary
Chris Packham sets out in search of stories about Bigfoot, a mythical ape-like creature that has been the focus of many fiction novels, movies and documentaries over the years.
13:02 - 13:36
The X-Creatures
Big Cats in a Little Country
Series, Documentary
Chris Packham explores the English countryside to learn about mythical big cats such as the Beast of Bodmin and Beast of Exmoor.
13:36 - 14:12
The X-Creatures
Beyond the Jaws of Extinction
Series, Documentary
Chris Packham investigates whether the thylacine, aka Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, has truly gone extinct. The species lived in Australia and Tasmania.
14:12 - 15:14
Lost Cities of The Ancients
The Vanished Capital of the Pharaoh
Series, Educational, Science, History, Documentary
A journey to discover the legendary lost city of Piramesse, a magnificent ancient capital built 3,000 years ago by the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great. When it was finally rediscovered by early archaeologists, it opened up a bizarre puzzle because it was in the wrong place.
15:14 - 16:16
Lost Cities of The Ancients
The Cursed Valley of the Pyramids
Series, Educational, Science, History, Documentary, Performing arts
In the Lambayeque valley in northern Peru lies a strange lost world, the forgotten ruins of 250 mysterious pyramids, including some of the biggest on the planet, colossal structures made out of mud bricks.
16:16 - 17:18
Lost Cities of The Ancients
The Dark Lords of Hattusha
Series, Educational, Science, History, Documentary
This is the story of the formidable Hittites and their long-lost capital, Hattusha, which has recently been rediscovered. Buried in this lost city is one of the greatest libraries of the ancient world, and all the secrets of this mysterious civilisation were written in two codes...
17:18 - 17:55
Wildlife on One
Iguanas: Living Like Dinosaurs
Series, Documentary, Nature, Animals
A look at extraordinary animals around the world, emphasising their unpredictable behaviour.
17:55 - 18:28
Wildlife on One
Pterodactyls: Alive?
Series, Documentary, Nature, Animals
Fossil remains serve as clues in discovering how prehistoric flying creatures lived.
18:28 - 19:37
Prehistoric Autopsy
Neanderthal
Series, Documentary
Anatomist Professor Alice Roberts and biologist Dr George McGavin go on an extraordinary evolutionary journey to meet our ancient ancestors. They start with our closest prehistoric relative - a Neanderthal. To make the reconstructions as accurate as possible Alice and George...
19:37 - 20:46
Prehistoric Autopsy
Homo Erectus
Series, Documentary
The team go back 1.5 million years to meet one of the earliest humans, Homo erectus. They walked the earth far longer than any other human species and were the first ancestors to look a lot like we do today. The team reveal the latest research that suggests Homo erectus were...
20:46 - 21:55
Prehistoric Autopsy
Lucy
Series, Documentary
The team looks at probably the most famous of all our early ancestors. She is called Lucy from the species Australopithecus afarensis, and she lived 3.2 million years ago. Lucy's species had traded life in the trees for life on the ground, but this ability to routinely walk...
21:55 - 22:54
Monsters We Met
Eternal Frontier
Series, History
America was once home to such fierce predators as the giant short-faced bear and the sabre-toothed tiger.
22:54 - 23:53
Monsters We Met
The Burning
Series, History
In Australia 65,000 years ago, the first human explorers face a land populated with giant lizards, killer rhino-like creatures and deadly birds.
23:53 - 00:53
Monsters We Met
The End of Eden
Series, History
When the Maori first discovered New Zealand 850 years ago, they discovered a strange landscape, inhabited by the largest bird to ever walk the Earth and the deadliest aerial predator since the time of the dinosaurs. This film tells the story of their endeavours to survive in an...
