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beautiful Yvonne Craig, one of tv's first female Super Heroes, RIP:
she sure was a true beauty
she sure was a true beauty
Horizon
Episode 14 of Series 51
First Britons
Horizon reveals how new archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries it's been thought that these hunter-gatherers lived a brutal, hand-to-mouth existence. But extraordinary new evidence has forced scientists to rethink who these people were, where they came from and what impact they had on our early history.
Now, our impression is of a hardy, sophisticated people who withstood centuries of extreme climate change and a devastating tsunami that was to give birth to the island nation of Britain. Their way of life may even have survived beyond its greatest ever threat - the farming revolution.
Watch it here: BBC Two - Horizon, 2014-2015, First Britons
Episode 14 of Series 51
First Britons
Horizon reveals how new archaeological discoveries are painting a different picture of the very first native Britons. For centuries it's been thought that these hunter-gatherers lived a brutal, hand-to-mouth existence. But extraordinary new evidence has forced scientists to rethink who these people were, where they came from and what impact they had on our early history.
Now, our impression is of a hardy, sophisticated people who withstood centuries of extreme climate change and a devastating tsunami that was to give birth to the island nation of Britain. Their way of life may even have survived beyond its greatest ever threat - the farming revolution.
Watch it here: BBC Two - Horizon, 2014-2015, First Britons
Horizon
Episode 6 of Series 46 (2009)
"How Long Is a Piece of String?"
QI star Alan Davies attempts to answer the proverbial question: how long is a piece of string? But what appears to be a simple task soon turns into a mind-bending voyage of discovery where nothing is as it seems.
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The Scandalous Lady W
New, very British, BBC historical drama based on real events.
In 1781, wealthy heiress Seymour, Lady Worsley, caused outrage when she cuckolded her husband, respectable MP Sir Richard Worsley, and ran away with her lover Captain George Bisset. Furious, Sir Richard responded by suing Bisset for criminal conversation and demanding a record £20,000 for the damage done to his property - Lady Worsley. While Seymour and Bisset hid out in a London hotel, Sir Richard and his lawyers set about proving his wife's infidelity through a series of devious schemes. When the case came to court, Sir Richard lied about his relationship with Seymour, painting a perfect picture of their marriage and persuading others to do the same. Bisset looked sure to be facing penury and prison until Seymour devised a bold plan. To save her lover from ruin, she disclosed a shocking secret - one that astounded the court, put her reputation in jeopardy and turned the trial into the greatest sex scandal of the eighteenth century.
Scenes for The Scandalous Lady W were filmed at Clandon Park in Surrey before the devastating fire in April.
The Marble Hall, Green Drawing Room, Hunting Room and Saloon were used to represent Appuldurcombe House, Sir Richard Worsley's estate, and the Palladio Room was dressed as a hotel room.
Located near to Wroxall on the Isle of Wight, the real Appuldurcombe House is today the shell of a large 18th-century baroque country house cared for by English Heritage.
The real Lady Worsley (left) and (right) Natalie Dormer as Lady Worsley in The Scandalous Lady W
Watch it here: BBC Two - The Scandalous Lady W
Episode 6 of Series 46 (2009)
"How Long Is a Piece of String?"
QI star Alan Davies attempts to answer the proverbial question: how long is a piece of string? But what appears to be a simple task soon turns into a mind-bending voyage of discovery where nothing is as it seems.
Watch it here:
The Scandalous Lady W
New, very British, BBC historical drama based on real events.
In 1781, wealthy heiress Seymour, Lady Worsley, caused outrage when she cuckolded her husband, respectable MP Sir Richard Worsley, and ran away with her lover Captain George Bisset. Furious, Sir Richard responded by suing Bisset for criminal conversation and demanding a record £20,000 for the damage done to his property - Lady Worsley. While Seymour and Bisset hid out in a London hotel, Sir Richard and his lawyers set about proving his wife's infidelity through a series of devious schemes. When the case came to court, Sir Richard lied about his relationship with Seymour, painting a perfect picture of their marriage and persuading others to do the same. Bisset looked sure to be facing penury and prison until Seymour devised a bold plan. To save her lover from ruin, she disclosed a shocking secret - one that astounded the court, put her reputation in jeopardy and turned the trial into the greatest sex scandal of the eighteenth century.
Scenes for The Scandalous Lady W were filmed at Clandon Park in Surrey before the devastating fire in April.
The Marble Hall, Green Drawing Room, Hunting Room and Saloon were used to represent Appuldurcombe House, Sir Richard Worsley's estate, and the Palladio Room was dressed as a hotel room.
Located near to Wroxall on the Isle of Wight, the real Appuldurcombe House is today the shell of a large 18th-century baroque country house cared for by English Heritage.
The real Lady Worsley (left) and (right) Natalie Dormer as Lady Worsley in The Scandalous Lady W
Watch it here: BBC Two - The Scandalous Lady W
The Secrets of Quantum Physics
Episode 1: Einstein's Nightmare
Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Surrey, traces the story of arguably the most important, accurate and yet perplexing scientific theory ever - quantum physics.
The story starts at the beginning of the 20th century with scientists trying to better understand how light bulbs work. This simple question led them deep into the hidden workings of matter, into the sub-atomic building blocks of the world around us. Here they discovered phenomena unlike any encountered before - a realm where things can be in many places at once, where chance and probability call the shots and where reality appears to only truly exist when we observe it.
Albert Einstein hated the idea that nature, at its most fundamental level, is governed by chance. Jim reveals how, in the 1930s, Einstein thought he'd found a fatal flaw in quantum physics because it implies that sub-atomic particles can communicate faster than light in defiance of the theory of relativity.
For thirty years his ideas were ignored. Then, in the 1960s, a brilliant scientist from Northern Ireland called John Bell showed there was a way to test if Einstein was right and quantum mechanics was actually mistaken. In a laboratory in Oxford, Jim repeats this critical experiment - does reality really exist or do we conjure it into existence by the act of observation?
The results are shocking!
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Secrets of Quantum Physics - 1. Einstein's Nightmare
Episode 1: Einstein's Nightmare
Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Surrey, traces the story of arguably the most important, accurate and yet perplexing scientific theory ever - quantum physics.
The story starts at the beginning of the 20th century with scientists trying to better understand how light bulbs work. This simple question led them deep into the hidden workings of matter, into the sub-atomic building blocks of the world around us. Here they discovered phenomena unlike any encountered before - a realm where things can be in many places at once, where chance and probability call the shots and where reality appears to only truly exist when we observe it.
Albert Einstein hated the idea that nature, at its most fundamental level, is governed by chance. Jim reveals how, in the 1930s, Einstein thought he'd found a fatal flaw in quantum physics because it implies that sub-atomic particles can communicate faster than light in defiance of the theory of relativity.
For thirty years his ideas were ignored. Then, in the 1960s, a brilliant scientist from Northern Ireland called John Bell showed there was a way to test if Einstein was right and quantum mechanics was actually mistaken. In a laboratory in Oxford, Jim repeats this critical experiment - does reality really exist or do we conjure it into existence by the act of observation?
The results are shocking!
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Secrets of Quantum Physics - 1. Einstein's Nightmare
Summer Slam wrestling show from Barclay Center in Brooklyn, NY. In my early childhood I lived just a handful of blocks from where the arena is now.
Decent grapplin show, too with great crowd reaction.
Decent grapplin show, too with great crowd reaction.
It's some kind of show on the discovery channel I think. Looks like some people who live in Alaska. Dogs pulling a sled and such. I'm so damn tired from workin in the heat all day it's hard to get into anything on tv. Just wore completely out and pretending to be watching tv when actually i'm vegged out and staring blindly into a screen and typing this shyte on a computer.
oh okay it's called the Animal Planet
oh okay it's called the Animal Planet
Ever watch "Alaska Bush People"? Real story, Wed. night at 10. One of the few decent shows on the idiot box!
The Planets
Episode 1 - Different Worlds
The first episode of the 1999 BBC series looks at the enigmas of the Solar System, asking how it was created, why the planets are so different from each other and what lies beyond. The first programme investigates early probes such as Mechta, the first man-made satellite to go into orbit around the Sun.
Watch it here: The Planets: Different Worlds [1/8] - Video Dailymotion
Episode 1 - Different Worlds
The first episode of the 1999 BBC series looks at the enigmas of the Solar System, asking how it was created, why the planets are so different from each other and what lies beyond. The first programme investigates early probes such as Mechta, the first man-made satellite to go into orbit around the Sun.
Watch it here: The Planets: Different Worlds [1/8] - Video Dailymotion
Building the Ancient City: Athens and Rome
Episode 2: Rome
Rome was the world's first megacity. At a time when few towns could number more than 10,000 inhabitants, more than a million lived in Rome. But in a world without modern technology, how on earth did the Romans do it? How did they feed their burgeoning population; how did they house them; and how did they get them into town without buses or trains? How on earth did the Romans make their great city work?
In the final episode of the series, Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill takes us up ancient tower blocks, down ancient sewers, and above 2,000-year-old harbour basins still filled with water, to find out. He reveals how this city surpassed all those from the ancient world that had gone before.
From the pedestrianisation of the forum to a global transport hub built right next to modern Italy's transport epicentre, Fiumicino (Little River) Airport, we see how this visionary approach to public projects was not matched for nearly 2,000 years. We discover how Nero - the emperor blamed for fiddling whilst Rome burned - was in fact responsible for the transformation of the finest fire brigade in the ancient world and the creation of the first fire regulations. We uncover made-over Roman apartment blocks complete with piped water, and modern libraries that are in fact ancient Roman buildings constructed two millennia ago.
Last but not least, Professor Wallace-Hadrill uncovers the secret of Rome's success - the planning still captured on pieces of a 1,800-year-old marble map of the city, a map which shows that, astonishingly, in many places, the street plan of Ancient Rome mirrors that of the city today in exact detail.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - Building the Ancient City: Athens and Rome - 2. Rome
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The Secrets of Quantum Physics
Episode 2: Let There Be Life
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili routinely deals with the strangest subject in all of science - quantum physics, the astonishing and perplexing theory of sub-atomic particles. But now he's turning his attention to the world of nature. Can quantum mechanics explain the greatest mysteries in biology?
His first encounter is with the robin. This familiar little bird turns out to navigate using one of the most bizarre effects in physics - quantum entanglement, a process which seems to defy common sense. Even Albert Einstein himself could not believe it.
Jim finds that even the most personal of human experiences - our sense of smell - is touched by ethereal quantum vibrations. According to the latest experiments, it seems that our quantum noses are listening to smells.
Jim then discovers that the most famous law of quantum physics - the uncertainty principle - is obeyed by plants and trees as they capture sunlight during the vital process of photosynthesis.
Finally, Jim asks if quantum physics might play a role in evolution. Could the strange laws of the sub-atomic world, which allow objects to tunnel through impassable barriers in defiance of common sense, affect the mechanism by which living species evolve?
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Secrets of Quantum Physics - 2. Let There Be Life
Episode 2: Rome
Rome was the world's first megacity. At a time when few towns could number more than 10,000 inhabitants, more than a million lived in Rome. But in a world without modern technology, how on earth did the Romans do it? How did they feed their burgeoning population; how did they house them; and how did they get them into town without buses or trains? How on earth did the Romans make their great city work?
In the final episode of the series, Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill takes us up ancient tower blocks, down ancient sewers, and above 2,000-year-old harbour basins still filled with water, to find out. He reveals how this city surpassed all those from the ancient world that had gone before.
From the pedestrianisation of the forum to a global transport hub built right next to modern Italy's transport epicentre, Fiumicino (Little River) Airport, we see how this visionary approach to public projects was not matched for nearly 2,000 years. We discover how Nero - the emperor blamed for fiddling whilst Rome burned - was in fact responsible for the transformation of the finest fire brigade in the ancient world and the creation of the first fire regulations. We uncover made-over Roman apartment blocks complete with piped water, and modern libraries that are in fact ancient Roman buildings constructed two millennia ago.
Last but not least, Professor Wallace-Hadrill uncovers the secret of Rome's success - the planning still captured on pieces of a 1,800-year-old marble map of the city, a map which shows that, astonishingly, in many places, the street plan of Ancient Rome mirrors that of the city today in exact detail.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - Building the Ancient City: Athens and Rome - 2. Rome
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The Secrets of Quantum Physics
Episode 2: Let There Be Life
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili routinely deals with the strangest subject in all of science - quantum physics, the astonishing and perplexing theory of sub-atomic particles. But now he's turning his attention to the world of nature. Can quantum mechanics explain the greatest mysteries in biology?
His first encounter is with the robin. This familiar little bird turns out to navigate using one of the most bizarre effects in physics - quantum entanglement, a process which seems to defy common sense. Even Albert Einstein himself could not believe it.
Jim finds that even the most personal of human experiences - our sense of smell - is touched by ethereal quantum vibrations. According to the latest experiments, it seems that our quantum noses are listening to smells.
Jim then discovers that the most famous law of quantum physics - the uncertainty principle - is obeyed by plants and trees as they capture sunlight during the vital process of photosynthesis.
Finally, Jim asks if quantum physics might play a role in evolution. Could the strange laws of the sub-atomic world, which allow objects to tunnel through impassable barriers in defiance of common sense, affect the mechanism by which living species evolve?
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Secrets of Quantum Physics - 2. Let There Be Life
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Pointless Celebrities
Series 8
Episode 1 of 19
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman are back with a new series of the Saturday night special celebrity edition of the very popular BBC quiz show in which you have to try and get as LOW a score as possible.
In this Test Match edition, former England cricketer Graeme Swann and BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra Test Match Special (TMS) cricket commentator Alison Mitchell; former England cricket stars Michael Vaughan and Phil Tufnell; Australian ESPN Cricinfo cricket journalist Melinda Farrell and TMS commentator Jonathan Agnew; and England women's cricketer Ebony Rainford-Brent and TMS commentating legend Henry Blofeld try to come up with the answers that no-one else could think of.
So, put on your cricketing whites (Armstrong and Osman have), tuck in to tea and cake and test how knowledgeable you are on film titles with forms of transport in their names; wine-producing countries; famous Willies (no laughing, please); chocolate; and, of course, cricket.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - Pointless Celebrities - Series 8: Episode 1
Series 8
Episode 1 of 19
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman are back with a new series of the Saturday night special celebrity edition of the very popular BBC quiz show in which you have to try and get as LOW a score as possible.
In this Test Match edition, former England cricketer Graeme Swann and BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra Test Match Special (TMS) cricket commentator Alison Mitchell; former England cricket stars Michael Vaughan and Phil Tufnell; Australian ESPN Cricinfo cricket journalist Melinda Farrell and TMS commentator Jonathan Agnew; and England women's cricketer Ebony Rainford-Brent and TMS commentating legend Henry Blofeld try to come up with the answers that no-one else could think of.
So, put on your cricketing whites (Armstrong and Osman have), tuck in to tea and cake and test how knowledgeable you are on film titles with forms of transport in their names; wine-producing countries; famous Willies (no laughing, please); chocolate; and, of course, cricket.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - Pointless Celebrities - Series 8: Episode 1
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Time Crashers
Episode 1: 1588
Sir Tony "Baldrick" Robinson presents this new immersive history entertainment series that sees 10 famous faces leave their 21st century lives behind to crash into six very different eras of British history and have no idea where or when they’re going. The ten intrepid time travellers, all of whom have an interest in British history, consist of Kirstie Alley, Fern Britton, Louise Minchin, Zoe Smith, Meg Mathews, Keith Allen, Greg Rutherford, Charlie Condou, Jermaine Jenas and Chris Ramsey.
The travellers spend a day immersed in each era, living, working, dressing and eating as the lower classes did, whilst attempting to follow orders and fulfil a task set by their superiors. Will they be able to survive history and will they be able to leave their smartphones behind? Time Crashers is hosted by history aficionado Sir Tony Robinson with expert opinion from social historian and archaeologist Dr Cassie Newland.
The first show sees the time travellers stripped of their celebrity status and plunged into 1588 where they become servants in a great manor house. They receive a crash course in Elizabethan etiquette, deference and servitude as they must cook and serve an elaborate Elizabethan feast of over 100 dishes. Dr Cassie Newland is on hand to illuminate the historical worlds, while a master cook and head steward will watch their every move. Will they succeed as servants and be authentically rewarded or punished, or will their brief stay in Elizabethan England end in disaster?
Episode 1: 1588
Sir Tony "Baldrick" Robinson presents this new immersive history entertainment series that sees 10 famous faces leave their 21st century lives behind to crash into six very different eras of British history and have no idea where or when they’re going. The ten intrepid time travellers, all of whom have an interest in British history, consist of Kirstie Alley, Fern Britton, Louise Minchin, Zoe Smith, Meg Mathews, Keith Allen, Greg Rutherford, Charlie Condou, Jermaine Jenas and Chris Ramsey.
The travellers spend a day immersed in each era, living, working, dressing and eating as the lower classes did, whilst attempting to follow orders and fulfil a task set by their superiors. Will they be able to survive history and will they be able to leave their smartphones behind? Time Crashers is hosted by history aficionado Sir Tony Robinson with expert opinion from social historian and archaeologist Dr Cassie Newland.
The first show sees the time travellers stripped of their celebrity status and plunged into 1588 where they become servants in a great manor house. They receive a crash course in Elizabethan etiquette, deference and servitude as they must cook and serve an elaborate Elizabethan feast of over 100 dishes. Dr Cassie Newland is on hand to illuminate the historical worlds, while a master cook and head steward will watch their every move. Will they succeed as servants and be authentically rewarded or punished, or will their brief stay in Elizabethan England end in disaster?
earlier today I attended a high school soccer match - for those of you who watch the game, you know that faking an injury or foul is accepted in the sport and we saw a lot of that in the game: the opposing team had players take dives on four occasions and the referee called foul on my team -- later on, one of our players decided that two can play the same game and he took a dive in the opposing team's penalty box --- can you believe the referee call a penalty and awarded our side a penalty shot which gave us an extra goal
it was all down hill for our opponents after that
God punishes!
it was all down hill for our opponents after that
God punishes!
It is if you're Chelsea but not if you're Stoke City.
The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure
Episode 1: Poland
The Hairy Bikers - best pals Si King and Dave Myers - are back with a brand new cookery/travelogue series doing the two things they love the most - biking and cooking! With their irresistible enthusiasm and family-friendly banter, the pair have become British national treasures and in this new series they head north on a big Baltic adventure in search of new cuisines.
For two sausage-loving bikers, Poland is the ultimate destination, and the boys are like kids in a sweet shop. Si and Dave make sausages in the Polish countryside with a family who have been making them for generations. They visit Toruń, the home of gingerbread and Copernicus, the astronomer who changed the way we all look at the universe. The boys examine Copernicus's theory and break it down in true bikers' style - using gingerbread!
Both boys are keen to get to know our Polish neighbours better and the fun is mixed with more poignant moments like a visit to the Treblinka Extermination Camp, which has a profound effect on them. Hailing from ship-building communities, Si and Dave can't resist a chance to visit the great shipyards of Gdansk to honour the men and women who stood up to the Soviet regime and helped change the world. They end their journey in the primeval Bialowieza Forest - home of the European bison - in the east of the country. There they search for the bison grass that flavours the world-famous vodka and cook Poland's national dish, bigos.
Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure - 1. Poland
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