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- Cameras follow the men and women that make up the crews and lifeguards of Britain's RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), an army of unpaid volunteers who risk their lives to save the lives of others.
- From BBC Earth Films, the studio that brought you Earth, comes the sequel - Earth: One Amazing Day, an astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles. Breakthroughs in filmmaking technology bring you up close with a cast of unforgettable characters. Told with humour, intimacy and a jaw-dropping sense of cinematic splendour, Earth: One Amazing Day highlights how every day is filled with more wonders than you can possibly imagine- until now.
- Comedian Marc Wootton adopts the persona of one Shirley Ghostman, a psychic able to contact dead celebrities.
- In Gym Stars we go behind the scenes with some promising young gymnasts who are proving they have the agility, grit, talent and mental strength to climb to the top of their sport.
- Jake Truman leads an unhappy life until he his given a map which could lead him to everything he desires.
- Tigers are solitary hunters. But in the forests of Central India, a gang of four tigresses is rewriting the rules of tiger behavior.
- Series in which Steve Backshall looks at some of the world's most iconic ecosystems
- Documentary looking behind the pomp and ritual of a wedding to examine British attitudes to marriage through the two very different families of the bride and bridegroom, Serena and Jordan.
- It is possible that only one per cent of the wonders of ancient Egypt have been discovered, but now, thanks to a pioneering approach to archaeology, that is about to change.
- A notorious serial killer dubbed 'The Twin Torturer' has sporadically kidnapped, tortured and murdered at least eight victims in the past decade - all of them within a few hundred yards of each other.
- Sue Perkins travels 2,000 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico to meet people on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
- This programme looks at the origins, development and running of the London Underground "Tube" system. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of The Tube, London Underground are organising for an old Metropolitan steam loco to haul trains along the first section of line to open, the Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to Farringdon, and at Farringdon they are preparing for a royal visit by Prince Charles and Camilla.
- Dave Gorman, never one to turn down a daft quest, decides to live his life strictly by the advice of horoscopes for 40 days and nights. He picks 20 astrologers and picks one piece of clear advice each day to follow. To ensure that he can compare his happiness with how he would have been without the advice, he uses his twin brother as a control. A panel of experts on love, health and wealth sit in judgement on how he has done in order to ascertain his HQ (happiness quotient).
- The Team travel back to the Bronze Age to Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire. The fenland bog is home to one of the most important archaeological 'wet-sites' in the country, where the soggy conditions help preserve 3000-year-old buried timbers.
- Dave Gorman begins his astrological journey, he makes a new friend-for-life and discovers if astrology really can predict his lucky day or not.
- Dave follows the advice of the newspaper astrologers once again and ends up doing some rather bizarre activities that his twin brother definitely did not get up to.
- Dave buys a very dodgy blue book, takes his girlfriend, who he has barely seen for fourteen days, antique hunting all before hitting the gym once again.
- Dave takes a trip, an Atlantic trip before jetlaggedly bringing a fantasy creature to life. He also gets irrigated...He then meets up with his good friend whose initials are D.G.
- Dave makes a cameo in a soap opera, stays in bed all day, and does not feel the love tonight.
- In the finale Dave flies to Dubai and places one final bet. Astrologists claim it's his lucky day, but will it pay off?
- Around 1700 years ago, Corinium - modern day Cirencester - was the second most important city in Roman Britain after Londinium. Time Team arrive to excavate in the gardens of properties in Chester Street near to the centre of old Corinium.
- The Time Team travel to Hadrian's Wall the world's longest Roman monument for the once in a lifetime investigation of A Roman burial site attached to the fort know as Birdoswald. While the excavation of the cemetery goes as expected they stumble on evidence of something far more exciting.
- In the late 18th century, a young man opened his first factory in the village of Burslem, later part of Stoke-on-Trent. The man was Josiah Wedgwood. Time Team try and find if anything remained of these early ceramic manufacturing premises.
- In February 1944, two American 'Flying Fortresses' crashed into each other only a few miles from their home base, on their way back from a bombing raid over Germany. One of the aircraft tumbled into a marsh.
- The Time Team go to Coventry to try and locate the layout of the city's first cathedral. The team does a great job locating finds in a chaotic dig criss crossed with power cables and various plumbing lines.
- In search of the real-life Flintstones at one of Britain's early Stone Age sites. A holiday camp in Suffolk. The site dates back 400k years when our ancestors shared the country with lions, rhinos & elephants - but definitely no dinosaurs.
- The Time Team excavate Roman ruins in Greenwich park. The ruins were last investigated over a 100 years ago, but the purpose of the buildings was never confirmed. The team also take the time to check an alternative theory about the route of Wattling Street.
- Time Team descend on the tiny village of Wadden in Dorset. Neighbours discovered a huge amount of pottery in their gardens. The pottery dated from Medieval, Roman and the Iron Age. What lies beneath five houses of the village?
- Papcastle, a small village outside Cockermouth in Cumbria, boasts a Roman fort. But when a local resident got in touch with Time Team about some substantial stonework he had dug out of his garden the moment had come to look beyond the fort.
- On the second part of their West Indian trip focuses on finding the original settlement of Jamestown. Local legend suggests the town was destroyed in a tsunami, but the Time Team are not so convinced.
- First session of the match Neil Robertson vs Liang Wenbo.
- The volunteers of the RNLI race to the scene of a plane crash on a busy beach, search for a man missing at sea in the Channel Islands and battle to save a horse from drowning.
- RNLI volunteers race to save a fisherman from a burning boat, a man trapped in freezing mud and a woman who tried to save her dog from drowning in the Thames.
- On the east coast of Scotland, three children have been cut off in a sea cave by a rising tide. On the opposite coast of Scotland a yacht is caught in a storm. The Blyth crew search for a missing man.
- RNLI volunteers race to the rescue of a rock climber who has fallen over 40 feet, a para-glider who has crashed into the sea and a man drifting offshore in a toy dinghy.
- The volunteers of the RNLI race to the rescue of diver found unconscious 30 feet underwater, a yacht sinking in the middle of the English Channel and of a windsurfer caught out in a storm.
- RNLI crews race to the rescue of two 5-year-old girls blown out to sea on an inflatable and a mother and daughter trapped by the tide. In Scotland, a volunteer has to rescue his fisherman father.
- The crew of one of the few inland lake lifeboat stations in Ireland receive reports that the last inhabitant of a remote island has suffered a stroke. Elsewhere, crews rescue a kayaker and a dog trapped beside the River Thames.
- Crews race to the rescue when a huge cargo ship runs aground on a sandbank, at Kelso the crew investigate when a kayaker sets off their personal locator beacon and a horse is in danger of drowning in a river in Ireland.
- RNLI volunteers race to the rescue of a shark attack victim, two boys being swept out to sea in a rip current and two fisherman caught by the tide and now stranded in a rising sea.
- RNLI teams come to the aid of two teenagers stuck fast in the mud on the Humber estuary as the tide comes in and a boat that has lost its mast on the freezing waters of Loch Ness.
- RNLI volunteers race to save two paddleboarders being swept into a shipping lane, search for a missing fisherman and abandon a crewmate's wedding when the pager calls.
- Off the coast of North Wales, a teenage paddle-boarder has lost his board and is being swept out to sea. The crew at Lizard in Cornwall are called to a cargo ship taking on water. They also attend a small yacht caught in an Atlantic storm.
- RNLI volunteers race to rescue a porpoise stranded by the outgoing tide on The Wirral coast, a teenage wedding guest trapped by the tide on a rocky outcrop and the crew of a fishing boat on fire off the Cornish coast.
- RNLI volunteers race to rescue a paddle-boarder being blown out to sea by strong winds, a man who has fallen overboard from a yacht and two 13-year-old girls trapped on a sandbank and at risk of drowning.
- The volunteers of the RNLI race to save a sinking schooner and a walker with a broken leg, while cries for help in the early hours of the morning lead to an eerie night-time search.
- RNLI volunteers race to save a stricken fishing boat in a force-eight gale, a yacht trapped on a weir in Loch Ness and a puppy that has swallowed a fishing hook.