| Discovery Channel: 2010-09-08 (Wednesday) |
| 05:30 | How Does That Work? | A look at the latest developments in non-lethal weapons, advances in body identification and autopsies, and how police are using computer games to train for car chases. |
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| 06:00 | Superships | Investigating the engineering and science behind the Ulysses ferry and the Cat. |
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| 07:00 | How Do They Do It? | Acrobatic stunts at super-sonic speeds, keeping ski slopes cool in the middle of the desert, and the preparation of sushi. |
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| 07:30 | How Do They Do It? | Transforming rubbish from a St Patrick's Day parade into power, turning a luxury limousine into a racing car, and crafting a steel sword. |
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| 08:00 | How It's Made (T) | The processes involved in the creation of motorcycles, clay pipes, drumsticks and whistles. |
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| 08:30 | How It's Made (T) | The technology involved in the production of handcuffs, propane tanks and caulking. |
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| 09:00 | More Industrial Revelations Europe | The invention of the paddle steamer by Frenchman JC Perrier, before which European boats were at the mercy of the winds. |
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| 09:30 | More Industrial Revelations Europe | How William Cockerill provided the Continent with the designs for a steam engine to power textile looms in the 19th century. |
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| 10:00 | World War Two: The Complete History (T) | How Hitler's suicide and the liberation of the concentration camps made the German surrender inevitable, as the war in Europe came to a close. |
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| 11:00 | Days That Shook the World | Fiction that has been mistaken for fact, including the 1938 broadcast of HG Wells's The War of the Worlds. The radio production led more than a million people to believe America was under attack by alien forces - turning its narrator and director Orson Welles into a star overnight. The Sunday Times' publication of Hitler's supposed diaries in 1983 is also examined. When the journals were found to be fakes, several careers were destroyed. |
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| 12:00 | Treasure Quest | The crew heads for a wreck believed to contain a cargo worth $100 million. However, the team is under pressure to complete its mission before a storm begins. |
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| 13:00 | Deadliest Catch | Edgar celebrates his birthday on the Northwestern, and most of the fleet has to battle against deadly ice. |
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| 14:00 | More Industrial Revelations Europe | The rise of the printing press as a means of distributing information, after it was revolutionised by Belgians Christoffel Plantin and Jan Moretus. |
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| 14:30 | More Industrial Revelations Europe | A look at the locomotive designed by Joseph Anton Maffei to run on the Semmering railway over the Alps - a combination of two engineering marvels. |
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| 15:00 | World War Two: The Complete History (T) | The legacy of the conflict, including the creation of Israel, the Cold War, the end of empires and the establishment of the United Nations. |
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| 16:00 | Deadliest Catch (T) | A major storm arrives days into the opilio crab fishing season, bringing high seas and causing the captain of the Time Bandit to order his men to abandon their posts - moments before a wave crashes across the deck. |
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| 17:00 | Bear Grylls: Born Survivor (T) | The former Special Forces adventurer braves the freezing conditions of Alaska, where every year approximately 500 people go missing and an average of 23 die. The survival guru demonstrates an emergency way of losing altitude, scales a 200ft waterfall and builds a shelter from alder saplings, and then has to avoid a grizzly bear and retreat into the bitterly cold water. |
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| 18:00 | Mythbusters (T) | Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman reinvestigate another batch of contentious theories from previous shows, to see whether their original findings were correct. |
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| 19:00 | Mythbusters | Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman repeat a previous experiment in which they tried to catch an arrow in flight, and discover if the `one-inch punch' really works. |
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| 20:00 | How Do They Do It? | Examining the technology used to dive for natural sponges, and how taxi drivers know their way to so many different destinations. |
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| 20:30 | How It's Made | The manufacture of aluminium boats, alpine horns and luxury watches, and how their production has changed with technological progress. |
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| 21:00 | Man on Earth | Tony Robinson investigates the ruins of three civilisations from the past 2,000 years to ask what made them more vulnerable to climate catastrophe than the ones that survived. In the jungles of Central America, he learns about the effect of a decades-long drought on the Mayans, while Dr Joy Singarayer visits Greenland to discover how a mini ice age in the 13th century wiped out the Vikings. In the deserts of America's southwest, Dr Jago Cooper explores the crisis that made the Puebloan inhabitants of cliff cities homeless. |
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| 22:00 | The Da Vinci Detective | Conclusion of the documentary in which Dr Maurizio Seracini tries to unravel the mysteries surrounding the Renaissance artist's work. |
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| 23:00 | Massive Nature | Footage of a shoal of sardines which are unwittingly on a collision course with thousands of hungry dolphins, sharks, seals and seabirds. Narrated by Sean Pertwee. |
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| 00:00 | Bear Grylls: Born Survivor (T) | The former Special Forces adventurer braves the freezing conditions of Alaska, where every year approximately 500 people go missing and an average of 23 die. The survival guru demonstrates an emergency way of losing altitude, scales a 200ft waterfall and builds a shelter from alder saplings, and then has to avoid a grizzly bear and retreat into the bitterly cold water. |
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| 01:00 | Deadliest Catch (T) | A major storm arrives days into the opilio crab fishing season, bringing high seas and causing the captain of the Time Bandit to order his men to abandon their posts - moments before a wave crashes across the deck. |
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| 02:00 | More Industrial Revelations Europe | The rise of the printing press as a means of distributing information, after it was revolutionised by Belgians Christoffel Plantin and Jan Moretus. |
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| 02:30 | More Industrial Revelations Europe | A look at the locomotive designed by Joseph Anton Maffei to run on the Semmering railway over the Alps - a combination of two engineering marvels. |
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| 03:00 | World War Two: The Complete History (T) | The legacy of the conflict, including the creation of Israel, the Cold War, the end of empires and the establishment of the United Nations. |
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| 03:50 | Treasure Quest | The crew heads for a wreck believed to contain a cargo worth $100 million. However, the team is under pressure to complete its mission before a storm begins. |
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| 04:40 | Days That Shook the World | Fiction that has been mistaken for fact, including the 1938 broadcast of HG Wells's The War of the Worlds. The radio production led more than a million people to believe America was under attack by alien forces - turning its narrator and director Orson Welles into a star overnight. The Sunday Times' publication of Hitler's supposed diaries in 1983 is also examined. When the journals were found to be fakes, several careers were destroyed. |
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