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Living Wild: How to Change Your Life
From Tuesday 3 May at 20:00
Series 1 (2 episodes)
Presenter Sophie Morgan embarks on a road trip across the UK to meet people building new lives around the things they love. From a Nottinghamshire shepherd who lives outdoors with a flock of rare breed sheep, to a couple who quit their corporate jobs to devote their lives to paragliding, these
individuals are devoting their time to their passions in life. Sophie also encounters a floating salon on a barge and a couple running a charcoal burning business which allows them to live on agricultural land in Devon.
Stephen Fry in Central America
From Friday 6 May at 20:00
Series 1 (4 episodes)
Stephen travelled through all fifty states of the USA in a black cab, he now goes South, exploring pre-Columbian and Latin America by travelling from the Mexican border through the entire Central American isthmus to the border with South America. It’s a journey through some of the oldest civilisations on the planet – and
some of the most dangerous. To most of us, these breathtakingly beautiful countries mean little more than a gap year postcard from a beach or volcano, or hazy ideas of drug cartels, banana republics and forgotten civil wars.
Operation Arctic
From Sunday 8 May at 20:00
Series 1 (4 episodes)
A team of intrepid presenters travel to the edge of the Arctic – and beyond – to find out what life is like on top of the world. They observe the polar bears of Hudson Bay, in Canada, as they wait for the sea-ice to form so they can begin their winter hunt. They also meet the
citizens of the tiny town of Churchill – the ‘polar bear capital of the world’. Throughout it all, the bears battle to survive. What happens if the ice continues to melt? And what wider implications does this have for us all?
Treasures with Bettany Hughes
From Saturday 14 May at 20:00
Series 1 (6 episodes)
Historian Bettany Hughes takes viewers on armchair travels around the world to explore ancient artefacts and new finds across the globe. Bettany begins her journey in Greece, visiting an archaeological dig at the birthplace of Alexander the Great in Aegae. Elsewhere on this fascinating adventure, Bettany explores
Gibraltar and looks at the first report of Admiral Nelson’s death in the Gibraltar Chronicle. We also see Bettany follow in the footsteps of one of her heroes, Byzantine empress Theodora, in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
Attenborough and The Mammoth Graveyard
Sunday 15 May at 16:10
Sir David Attenborough joins an archaeological dig uncovering Britain’s biggest mammoth discovery in almost 20 years. In 2017, in a gravel quarry near Swindon, two amateur fossil hunters found an extraordinary cache of Ice Age mammoth remains and a stone hand-axe made by a Neanderthal.
Professor Ben Garrod joins the team at DigVentures during the excavation as they try to discover why the mammoths were here and how they died. Could the Neanderthals have killed these Ice Age giants?
Martin Clunes: Islands of the Pacific
From Friday 20 May at 19:00
Series 1 (3 episodes)
Martin Clunes embarks on an epic ocean-wide adventure in search of the real Pacific in this documentary series – his voyage is inspired by reading a book given to him when he was a child by his father about the Kon-Tiki expedition across the Pacific, and Martin has always yearned to follow in those explorers’
footsteps. The Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean on the planet and covering 63 million square miles, is strewn with tens of thousands of islands with coral atolls, jungle-clad mountains, and lava-spewing volcanoes. It is rich in animal life and has an astonishing kaleidoscope of humanity.
