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Hive Minds


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Pascallywags v Lutrophiles

BBC newsreader and Antiques Roadshow host Fiona Bruce presents the new BBC quiz tournament where players not only have to know the answers, but have to find them hidden in a hive of letters. It tests players' general knowledge and mental agility, as they battle against one another and race against the clock to find the answers.

In this opening match, the Lutrophiles take on the Pascallywags for a place in the second round.



Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - Hive Minds - 1. Pascallywags v Lutrophiles

Two Tribes



Genial Pointless genius Richard Osman presents a brand new series of his fun, fast-paced quiz show where what contestants have in common is just as important as their general knowledge..

In this episode, will the Harry Potter fans beat the non-Harry Potters fans, and will darts fans prevail against the non-darts fans?

Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - Two Tribes - Series 2: Episode 29


Wonders of the Solar System

Aliens



In his acclaimed 2010 BBC science series Wonders of the Solar System, University of Manchester physicist Prof Brian Cox explores our cosmic neighbourhood.

In this episode, Brian covers life surviving in extreme environments, and how the search for life on other worlds follows the search for water, focusing on Mars, and on Jupiter's moon Europa.

Cox begins by travelling to the deep ocean to draw comparisons between space travel. He also compares the noxious "snottites" of a Mexican cave with possible life on Mars.

BBC - Wonders Of The Solar System - 5 Of 5 - Aliens - Dailymotion video
 
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Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners

Episode 1 (of 2): Profit and Loss



In 1834 Britain, under Prime Minister William Lamb, abolished slavery, a defining and celebrated moment in our national history. What has been largely forgotten is that abolition came at a price. The government of the day took the extraordinary step of compensating the slave owners for loss of their 'property', as Britain's slave owners were paid £17bn in today's money, whilst the slaves received nothing.

For nearly 200 years, the meticulous records that detail this story have lain in the archives virtually unexamined - until now. In an exclusive partnership with University College London, historian David Olusoga uncovers Britain's forgotten slave owners. Forensically examining the compensation records, he discovers the range of people who owned slaves and the scale of the slavery business.

What the records reveal is that the slave owners were not just the super-rich. They were widows, clergymen and shopkeepers - ordinary members of the middle-classes who exploited slave labour in distant lands. Yet many of them never looked a slave in the eye or experienced the brutal realities of plantation life.



In Barbados, David traces how Britain's slave economy emerged in the 17th century from just a few pioneering plantation owners. As David explores the systemic violence of slavery, in Jamaica he is introduced to some of the brutal tools used to terrorise the slaves and reads from the sadistic diaries of a notorious British slave owner. Elsewhere, on a visit to the spectacularly opulent Harewood House in Yorkshire, he glimpses how the slave owners' wealth seeped into every corner of Britain.

Finally, amongst the vast slave registers that record all 800,000 men, women and children in British hands at the point of abolition, David counts the tragic human cost of this chapter in our nation's history.



Watch it here: BBC iPlayer - Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners - 1. Profit and Loss
 
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Silky-voiced English actress Joanna Lumley travels from Hong Kong to Moscow in her brand new foreign adventure...

Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure



The actress and former model embarks on her third travelogue, having previously traced the Nile from its source and sampled the varied rural, historical and urban cultures of Greece. This time, she sets out to travel 6,400 miles making use of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the longest railway line in the world. Joanna's journey begins in the former British colony of Hong Kong, where she spent some of her childhood. She takes a bullet train to Beijing, where she meets a woman who claims to have known the last Chinese emperor's favourite concubine, and officially joins the Trans-Siberian track. From there, she travels to the Great Wall, and takes an overnight train into Mongolia via the Gobi desert.



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Conspiracy: The Alien Files

This strange craft and a Harrier jet were photographed in 1990 in the Scottish Highlands by a hiker and the picture sent to the Daily Record. Later, the newspaper strangely decided not to publish the picture and records suggest no Harriers were flying in the area at the time

Part-dramatised documentary series examining events through the perspective of conspiracy theories. Did you know that alleged UFO sightings are as numerous in the UK as in the USA? This programme looks at three such cases from 1979 to the present day, including the world's most famous UFO sighting at Rendlesham Forest and the only alien abduction actually investigated by the police. Also, did the Europeans send a probe to comet 67P because they discovered it's an alien spacecraft?


Just what was it that attacked forestry worker Robert Taylor in Dechmont woods in Livingstone, West Lothian, in November 1979?


Watch it here: Episode 6: Alien Cover Up | Conspiracy | Channel 5
 
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Silky-voiced English actress Joanna Lumley travels from Hong Kong to Moscow in her brand new foreign adventure...

Joanna Lumley's Trans-Siberian Adventure
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I actually watch her show along with Kate Humbles, Cruickshank's, Wonders of the Solar System, Coast, Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve, Ancient Worlds, Fry's Planet World, The Queens Palaces, The Aristocrats, Time Team and my favourite, The Story of Maths




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I just watched the USA defeat an over matched Cuba in CONCACAF soccer - five players defected from the visitor's team.

Those who oppose unrestricted immigration should be enraged but that is not likely to happen.
 
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I just watched the USA defeat an over matched Cuba in CONCACAF soccer - five players defected from the visitor's team.

Those who oppose unrestricted immigration should be enraged but that is not likely to happen.
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The U.S. offers a special, fast track immigration deal to Cuban defectors (unless they land in boats, etc.) of naturalization after one year. This is a Cold War leftover and it will likely be recinded in the very near future. Expect a wave of Cuban defectors. There have already been some at the Pan Am Games who drove straight to the U.S. from nearby St.Catherines, lest they get caught up on Canada's much slower and less certain "normal" immigration stream.
 
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tay said:
I actually watch her show along with Kate Humbles, Cruickshank's, Wonders of the Solar System, Coast, Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve, Ancient Worlds, Fry's Planet World, The Queens Palaces, The Aristocrats, Time Team and my favourite, The Story of Maths

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I'm a fan of most of those shows, funnily enough. History, science, maths. That's the type of stuff I watch, not tripe like TOWIE or The X Factor. Cerebral stuff.

I also like the celebrity travel shows like this Joanna Lumley one or, of course, the many Michael Palin series (like the one where he travelled Britain by train; or the one where he travelled around the Pacific rim; or the one where he went through Eastern Europe; or the one where he travelled from Pole to Pole; or the one where he travelled through Brazil; or the one where he travelled through the Sahara) or the hilarious Karl Pilkington ones (the funniest documentaries ever made) or the one in which ex-Royal Marine Commando Bruce Parry lives with different tribes around the world and the one in which he travels the length of the Amazon.



 
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Deep-Sea Super Predator



In the depths of Australia's Southern Ocean, a Great White Shark is savagely attacked by a far larger mystery predator. An electronic tracking device attached to its fin records a high-speed underwater chase before the shark and its tag are devoured. Two weeks later, after being carried in the belly of the unknown killer, the still functioning tag is excreted and washed ashore, withholding clues that could reveal the identity of the shark's super predator. This is the story of a super predator's underwater attack that leads investigators to something even stranger.

Watch it here: Deep-Sea Super Predator | Deep-Sea Super Predator | Channel 5


Wonders of the Solar System

Dead or Alive


Professor Brian Cox, the former D:Ream keyboardist and now the genial and photogenic University of Manchester physicist, compares the geography of Earth and Mars to understand why life is abundant on this planet, while its neighbour is a geologically dead desert world of ice and dust.

Investigating the importance of size, he contrasts the Grand Canyon and Hawaii's Mauna Kea mountain with the gargantuan Olympus Mons peak on the Martian surface and studies why Venus - often called Earth's twin planet - was made barren by huge volcanic eruptions.

Watch it here: BBC - Wonders Of The Solar System - 4 Of 5 - Dead Or Alive - Dailymotion video
 
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