{"end_date": "2026-08-11", "name": "Curiosity Channel", "info_url": "https://epg.pw/channels/422350/20260809.html", "country": "South Africa", "description": null, "error_message": "", "provider": "", "source_url": "https://epg.pw/api/epg.json?channel_id=422350&date=20260809&timezone=None", "epg_list": [{"desc": "'S1/E12 - How Saran Wrap Saved D-Day'. The unexpected stories behind the inventions of the first artificial dye, Saran Wrap, sanitary towels, and the cancer killing drug Cisplatin.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Oops, I Changed the World"}, {"desc": "'S5/E4 - Nuclear Fusion When Humans Create Suns'. Fusion powers the stars and may soon power Earth. Scientists race to replicate the sun's energy and unlock a future of limitless clean power.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T01:00:00+00:00", "title": "Butterfly Effect"}, {"desc": "'S5/E5 - Materials From Flint to Silicon'. From bronze to silicon, materials have shaped civilization. Explore how advances in metals, plastics and ceramics propel human progress.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T01:30:00+00:00", "title": "Butterfly Effect"}, {"desc": "'S5/E2 - Nanotechnologies The Superpowers of the Invisible'. At the nanoscale, scientists reshape medicine, materials and industry to reveal a new frontier where controlling matter redefines what's possible.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T02:00:00+00:00", "title": "Butterfly Effect"}, {"desc": "'S5/E3 - The Scientific Method Towards Infinity and Beyond'. Curiosity drives discovery, but the scientific method turns questions into knowledge. Explore how observation, testing and proof shape humanity's search for truth.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T02:30:00+00:00", "title": "Butterfly Effect"}, {"desc": "'S2/E3 - Nifty Fifties'. From cars that make a Mini look big to a land yacht of American steel. We'll see what the fifties are worth at Gooding and Company in Scottsdale, Arizona.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T03:00:00+00:00", "title": "What's My Car Worth?"}, {"desc": "'S2/E4 - Travelin' In Style'. The cruisers of your dreams, the cars that still turn heads. We highlight a '37 MG SA Tourer, a '36 Ford Station Wagon, and a '41 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible Sedan.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T03:30:00+00:00", "title": "What's My Car Worth?"}, {"desc": "'S3/E4 - Muscle Car Mania'. Keith Martin and Peter Klutt examine the glory days of the muscle car craze and tell us what makes a Mustang GT, a Superbird and a Judge the stuff of fantasies.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T04:00:00+00:00", "title": "What's My Car Worth?"}, {"desc": "'S3/E5 - Stylin''. Keith Martin and Peter Klutt show off some classics, including a 1957 Thunderbird and a classic 1948 Cadillac. Topping things off they'll take a look at a 1929 Packard.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T04:30:00+00:00", "title": "What's My Car Worth?"}, {"desc": "'S3/E6 - Big Rigs'. Keith Martin and Peter Klutt weren't expecting to see an antique tanker truck, but they're happy to have some fun with it.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T05:00:00+00:00", "title": "What's My Car Worth?"}, {"desc": "'S3/E7 - Racing Around Town'. Today it's all about going fast and looking good at the same time, with a 1963 Porsche 356B, a modern Ford GT and a sporty Studebaker.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T05:30:00+00:00", "title": "What's My Car Worth?"}, {"desc": "'S1/E2 - The Vikings: Early Viking Society and Religion'. In this episode of our series, we learn how early Viking society developed, what the sacred rituals really were, and what role women played in Viking religion.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T06:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Vikings"}, {"desc": "Pirates! Hollywood has fueled our imagination, but the documentary reveals who these fearless adventurers and these masters of the sea once were.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T07:00:00+00:00", "title": "The True Story of Pirates"}, {"desc": "An artistic, spiritual adventure to the Vatican heritage site, where religion, politics, arts and science meet...and new, untold secrets are revealed.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T08:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Untold Story of the Vatican"}, {"desc": "'S3/E7 - Lawrence of Arabia: For a Fistful of Sand'. With a handful of intrepid men, Thomas Edward Lawrence leads the revolt of the Arabs alongside Sharif Hussein, against the Ottoman Empire.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T09:00:00+00:00", "title": "Butterfly Effect"}, {"desc": "'S3/E8 - Apartheid: The Spiral of Fear'. After months on the run, the Black leader Nelson Mandela is arrested by the South African police and incarcerated on Robben Island, a fortress-like jail off Cape Town.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T09:30:00+00:00", "title": "Butterfly Effect"}, {"desc": "'S1/E1 - The Ramstein Tragedy'. The story of one of the worst air show disasters of all time, when a mid-air collision by the Italian air force's display team sent burning planes into a massive crowd.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T10:00:00+00:00", "title": "What Went Wrong II"}, {"desc": "'S1/E2 - Viareggio Derailment Disaster'. The story of the worst rail disaster in Italian history, when on June 29th, 2009 a tanker train derails and then explodes in the seaside Tuscan town of Viareggio.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T11:00:00+00:00", "title": "What Went Wrong II"}, {"desc": "'S1/E3 - Flight MH17'. What happened to flight MH17, from Amsterdam to Kualalumpur?", "start_date": "2026-08-09T12:00:00+00:00", "title": "What Went Wrong II"}, {"desc": "'S1/E4 - The Blaze in the Mont Blanc Tunnel'. A devastating fire in 1999 killed 39 people inside the tunnel that runs under Mont Blanc, between Italy's Valle d'Aosta and France's Chamonix.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T13:00:00+00:00", "title": "What Went Wrong II"}, {"desc": "'S1/E5 - Duisburg Love Parade Disaster'. The July 24th, 2010 disaster at the Duisburg Love Parade festival that left 21 young people crushed to death changed the way crowds are handled forever.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T14:00:00+00:00", "title": "What Went Wrong II"}, {"desc": "'S1/E6 - The Explosion Disaster in Beirut'. On August 4, 2020, a warehouse of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of Beirut, Lebanon leaving 200 people dead, 600 wounded and 300,000 without homes.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T15:00:00+00:00", "title": "What Went Wrong II"}, {"desc": "'S1/E6 - Limitless Energy'. The potato, a mad scientist, and German beer have brought humanity to the brink of a future with clean, limitless energy. How did we get here? And what happens next?", "start_date": "2026-08-09T16:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E3 - In the Net'. James opens a cabinet of curiosities to discover how the French Revolution, wallpaper, and NORAD gave us Big Data, and a world where humans merge with the internet.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T17:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E5 - Designer Genes'. A cup of coffee in the 18th century takes James to the pioneering woman who discovered the structure of DNA, and a future with genetically engineered people.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T18:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E4 - None of This is Real'. Rocket fuel, the Polaroid camera, and dog pee lead us to the point where AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence. What will it mean for humanity?", "start_date": "2026-08-09T19:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E1 - Seeing the Future'. James connects the dots between Napoleon's toothpick and the Nielsen ratings to arrive at the new quantum computer - a machine so powerful that it can predict the future.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T20:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E2 - The End of Scarcity'. French wigs and a man who took LSD with dolphins lead to a machine that can build anything you wish for, molecule by molecule, for free.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T21:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E6 - Limitless Energy'. The potato, a mad scientist, and German beer have brought humanity to the brink of a future with clean, limitless energy. How did we get here? And what happens next?", "start_date": "2026-08-09T22:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E3 - In the Net'. James opens a cabinet of curiosities to discover how the French Revolution, wallpaper, and NORAD gave us Big Data, and a world where humans merge with the internet.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T23:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E5 - Designer Genes'. A cup of coffee in the 18th century takes James to the pioneering woman who discovered the structure of DNA, and a future with genetically engineered people.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T00:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E4 - None of This is Real'. Rocket fuel, the Polaroid camera, and dog pee lead us to the point where AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence. What will it mean for humanity?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T01:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E1 - Seeing the Future'. James connects the dots between Napoleon's toothpick and the Nielsen ratings to arrive at the new quantum computer - a machine so powerful that it can predict the future.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T02:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E2 - The End of Scarcity'. French wigs and a man who took LSD with dolphins lead to a machine that can build anything you wish for, molecule by molecule, for free.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T03:00:00+00:00", "title": "Connections with James Burke"}, {"desc": "'S1/E5 - Should We Dream More?'. Six years of our lives are spent dreaming. What if we could take the brilliant ideas from our dreams and turn them into reality? How can we give our dreams more meaning?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T04:00:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E6 - Will We Live Forever?'. Labs around the world have been successful with rejuvenation in mice and fruit flies. If animals are living longer and healthier lives, can this research benefit humans?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T04:30:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E6 - Solar'. The sun is the biggest source of energy in the solar system. Innovators are searching for new ways to capture more of the sun's power.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T05:00:00+00:00", "title": "Engineering The Future"}, {"desc": "Yellowstone is a land of Triceratops and T-Rexes. Of mammoths and human hunters. And of constant volcanic and climatic changes that shape America's greatest wilderness.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T06:00:00+00:00", "title": "Ancient Yellowstone: Force Of Nature"}, {"desc": "'S3/E9 - Gravity'. The European Space Agency's LISA pathfinder space craft has led the way for a space-based gravity wave detector. What are gravity waves? Why are they so hard to detect?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T07:00:00+00:00", "title": "The New Frontier"}, {"desc": "'S3/E10 - Interface'. Ionosphere: the part of our upper atmosphere where Earth interfaces with space. Little is understood, but we know it affects communications, GPS signals and satellites.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T07:30:00+00:00", "title": "The New Frontier"}, {"desc": "'S3/E7 - Living Planet'. As scientists observe Earth from orbit, they have built a data set that reveals much about how the Earth 'breathes' and how life sustains itself on this living planet.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T08:00:00+00:00", "title": "The New Frontier"}, {"desc": "'S3/E8 - Cosmic Collisions'. Cosmic and X rays are mysterious and highly powerful particles from deep space. Through scientific investigation, we hope to finally discover where they come from.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T08:30:00+00:00", "title": "The New Frontier"}, {"desc": "'S1/E3 - Will We Stop Flying?'. Air travel is a climate killer. But without flight, supply chains will be interrupted. If we want to keep flying, it's time for a revolutionary energy transformation.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T09:00:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E4 - Will We Love Robots?'. With A.I., robots can recognize us, drive cars, perform surgeries and play chess. But do robots have feelings? Will we ever love them, and can they love us back?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T09:30:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E7 - Will We Actually Travel to Mars?'. Extreme cold. Cosmic rays. A thin CO2 atmosphere. If that is what awaits us on Mars, why are we so fascinated with journeying to-and living on-The Red Planet?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T10:00:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E8 - Where is the Perfect Energy Source?'. The earth is experiencing an 'energy crisis.' The 'perfect' energy source would need to be inexhaustible yet protect the earth and climate. But where do we find it?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T10:30:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "Yellowstone is a land of Triceratops and T-Rexes. Of mammoths and human hunters. And of constant volcanic and climatic changes that shape America's greatest wilderness.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T11:00:00+00:00", "title": "Ancient Yellowstone: Force Of Nature"}, {"desc": "'The Lucy Mission Origins of the Solar System'. From its inception to its launch, we follow NASA's Lucy Mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, a mission that will unveil the origins of the Solar System.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T12:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Lucy Mission Origins of the..."}, {"desc": "'S1/E1 - Speed'. Engineer and adventurer Rob Bell climbs aboard some of the world's fastest theme park rides and learns what it takes to build them.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T13:00:00+00:00", "title": "Science of Thrills"}, {"desc": "'S3/E9 - Gravity'. The European Space Agency's LISA pathfinder space craft has led the way for a space-based gravity wave detector. What are gravity waves? Why are they so hard to detect?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T14:00:00+00:00", "title": "The New Frontier"}, {"desc": "'S3/E10 - Interface'. Ionosphere: the part of our upper atmosphere where Earth interfaces with space. Little is understood, but we know it affects communications, GPS signals and satellites.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T14:30:00+00:00", "title": "The New Frontier"}, {"desc": "'S1/E5 - Should We Dream More?'. Six years of our lives are spent dreaming. What if we could take the brilliant ideas from our dreams and turn them into reality? How can we give our dreams more meaning?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T15:00:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E6 - Will We Live Forever?'. Labs around the world have been successful with rejuvenation in mice and fruit flies. If animals are living longer and healthier lives, can this research benefit humans?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T15:30:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E9 - Can We Turn Poop Into Gold?'. Today we can generate energy out of almost nothing. Could we be flushing tons of potential down the toilet? Maybe our 'poop' is more than just useless waste?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T16:00:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E10 - Why Do We Hate?'. Hate is a useless emotion, yet the power of hatred can be very destructive. What causes humans to hate? Is hate something we all have the capacity to feel?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T16:30:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'The Lucy Mission Origins of the Solar System'. From its inception to its launch, we follow NASA's Lucy Mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, a mission that will unveil the origins of the Solar System.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T17:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Lucy Mission Origins of the..."}, {"desc": "'S1/E1 - We Eat What We Are'. From microbes to elephants, every living thing must balance the composition of elements in their bodies with the elements in the environment. We must eat what we are.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T18:00:00+00:00", "title": "Taste: The Flavor of Life"}, {"desc": "'S1/E2 - Falling'. Engineer and adventurer Rob Bell discovers how our fear of falling is exploited by some of the world's top theme park rides.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T19:00:00+00:00", "title": "Science of Thrills"}, {"desc": "'S1/E1 - Speed'. Engineer and adventurer Rob Bell climbs aboard some of the world's fastest theme park rides and learns what it takes to build them.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T20:00:00+00:00", "title": "Science of Thrills"}, {"desc": "'S1/E7 - Will We Actually Travel to Mars?'. Extreme cold. Cosmic rays. A thin CO2 atmosphere. If that is what awaits us on Mars, why are we so fascinated with journeying to-and living on-The Red Planet?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T21:00:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E8 - Where is the Perfect Energy Source?'. The earth is experiencing an 'energy crisis.' The 'perfect' energy source would need to be inexhaustible yet protect the earth and climate. But where do we find it?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T21:30:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E9 - Can We Turn Poop Into Gold?'. Today we can generate energy out of almost nothing. Could we be flushing tons of potential down the toilet? Maybe our 'poop' is more than just useless waste?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T22:00:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'S1/E10 - Why Do We Hate?'. Hate is a useless emotion, yet the power of hatred can be very destructive. What causes humans to hate? Is hate something we all have the capacity to feel?", "start_date": "2026-08-10T22:30:00+00:00", "title": "42 - The Answer To Almost Everything"}, {"desc": "'The Lucy Mission Origins of the Solar System'. From its inception to its launch, we follow NASA's Lucy Mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, a mission that will unveil the origins of the Solar System.", "start_date": "2026-08-10T23:00:00+00:00", "title": "The Lucy Mission Origins of the..."}, {"desc": "'S1/E1 - We Eat What We Are'. From microbes to elephants, every living thing must balance the composition of elements in their bodies with the elements in the environment. 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