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CT scans reveal how this incestuous relationship could have been responsible for Tutankhamun's poor health. Raksha heads underground to a rare tomb excavation in the Valley of the Kings which has never been seen before on television.", "start_date": "2026-08-08T01:22:00+00:00", "title": "Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy"}, {"desc": "Picking up the story in 1323BC, the pharaoh sustains the injury that would eventually kill him. On a scan of Tutankhamun's skeleton, Dan sees a break to his thigh bone which could have been a battle injury. John visits Howard Carter's house and probes the 1920s craze of `Tutmania', when the Western world went crazy for all things Egyptian.", "start_date": "2026-08-08T02:19:00+00:00", "title": "Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy"}, {"desc": "Dan discovers a series of curious anomalies in Tutankhamun's burial, and spots that the faces on his coffins and canopic jars do not match that of the famous golden mask. Raksha looks at Seti's tomb, which shows how low quality and hurried Tutankhamun's was in comparison. John learns how to dance like an Egyptian at a funeral, and investigates the truth of the `Curse of Tutankhamun'.", "start_date": "2026-08-08T03:16:00+00:00", "title": "Tutankhamun: Life, Death and Legacy"}, {"desc": "Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art and how it reflected the civilisation's religion, through thirty extraordinary masterpieces.", "start_date": "2026-08-08T04:15:00+00:00", "title": "Treasures of Ancient Egypt"}, {"desc": "Alastair Sooke explores the sumptuous treasures of the Golden Age of Egyptian art, starting with troubling psychological portraits of tyrant king Senwosret III, and ending with the golden mask of boy-king Tutankhamun.", "start_date": "2026-08-08T05:17:00+00:00", "title": "Treasures of Ancient Egypt"}, {"desc": "Alastair Sooke looks at how, despite political decline, the final era of the Egyptian Empire saw its art enjoy revival and rebirth. 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These early members of the human family faced many dangers, including the sabre-toothed cat, malaria, and the 14-tonne delnotherium.", "start_date": "2026-08-08T13:00:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Beasts"}, {"desc": "Revealing the exotic, oversized creatures that inhabited South America one million years ago, such as the deadly smilodon, the largest of all sabre tooth cats.", "start_date": "2026-08-08T13:35:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Beasts"}, {"desc": "Looking at the depths of the Ice Age, following a group of mammoths who have been forced to travel south with the advent of winter. On a dangerous journey across the Alps, many become trapped in bogs or fall victim to predators. 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However, their most formidable enemies are waiting for them on their return journey - Neanderthals.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T02:12:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Beasts"}, {"desc": "Featured species are the coelophysis and the diplodocus.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T02:48:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites"}, {"desc": "Featured species are the ophthalmosaurus and the ornithocheirus.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T03:13:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites"}, {"desc": "Featured species are the Leaellynasaura and the Tyrannosaurus.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T03:38:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs: Shortbites"}, {"desc": "In a time when monstrous creatures ruled the earth, South America was the land of the giants. Nigel Marven walks among these gigantic creatures, on a quest to witness the largest predator bringing down the largest prey.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T04:04:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Scientists study the perfectly preserved remains of an adolescent allosaurus they call Big Al.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T04:41:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "This scientific detective story traces the evidence for Big Al the allosaur's existence, using clues from climate change studies, forensics, and fossil records to bring him back to life.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T05:17:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Nigel Marven journeys back to the sand dunes of Mesozoic Mongolia to track the owner of the largest claws of all time, the Therizinosaurus. His adventure yields a series of surprising clues, a nest, footprints, dung, and more.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T05:51:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even - in some cases - the correct skin colour.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T06:26:00+00:00", "title": "How to Build a Dinosaur"}, {"desc": "Professor Challenger leads a party of explorers from the smog of Edwardian London to South America in search of a mythical plateau rumoured to be inhabited by dinosaurs.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T07:27:00+00:00", "title": "The Lost World"}, {"desc": "Exploring the idea of human coexistence with dinosaurs. Had the species not disappeared from the face of earth ages ago, keeping them as pets could have been a possibility.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T08:51:00+00:00", "title": "Horizon"}, {"desc": "David Attenborough tells the story of the discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the world's largest known dinosaur, a brand-new species of titanosaur. Measuring 37m long - close to four London buses put end to end - and weighing 70 metric tons, it now holds the record as the biggest animal ever to walk the earth.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T09:50:00+00:00", "title": "Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur"}, {"desc": "Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even - in some cases - the correct skin colour.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T10:53:00+00:00", "title": "How to Build a Dinosaur"}, {"desc": "Exploring Mongolia's Gobi Desert to determine whether dinosaurs exist in the present as birds. It is one of the harshest places on Earth with the biggest dinosaur graveyard.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T11:54:00+00:00", "title": "Horizon"}, {"desc": "The discovery of a 5,000-year-old male mummy in the Austrian Alps has enabled scientists to re-create a vanished world.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T12:54:00+00:00", "title": "Iceman: Mummy From the Stone Age"}, {"desc": "The earth split in India 66 million years ago in a disaster that may have caused the end of the dinosaurs.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T13:53:00+00:00", "title": "Horizon"}, {"desc": "Bird expert Bill Oddie helps construct amazing, life-sized, biomechanical replicas as he presents an imaginary battle between a tyrannosaurus rex and a triceratops.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T14:53:00+00:00", "title": "The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "According to new evidence, the Woolly Mammoth went on roaming until about the time the Pyramids were built.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T16:02:00+00:00", "title": "Horizon"}, {"desc": "Dr Iain Stewart looks at how earthquakes and faults have shaped human history by bringing both life and death.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T17:01:00+00:00", "title": "Journeys From the Centre of the Earth"}, {"desc": "Dr Iain Stewart looks at how rocks have influenced the architecture of the Mediterranean, from the pyramids of Egypt to the squares of Ancient Greece.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T18:02:00+00:00", "title": "Journeys From the Centre of the Earth"}, {"desc": "Tracing the history of cave paintings.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T19:01:00+00:00", "title": "Journeys From the Centre of the Earth"}, {"desc": "Dr Iain Stewart examines how the rocks beneath our feet played a crucial role in determining the beliefs of ancient civilisations.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T20:02:00+00:00", "title": "Journeys From the Centre of the Earth"}, {"desc": "Dr Iain Stewart looks at how ancient civilisations learned to exploit the water around them, from the flooding of our Stone Age ancestors' hunting grounds to the fall of the Roman Empire.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T21:02:00+00:00", "title": "Journeys From the Centre of the Earth"}, {"desc": "Dr Iain Stewart looks at how salt has played a crucial role in the history of the Mediterranean, from the ice ages to the preservation of food and dead bodies in ancient Egypt.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T22:02:00+00:00", "title": "Journeys From the Centre of the Earth"}, {"desc": "Part 1/3. As life starts evolving in the oceans, our bizarre earliest ancestors battle against 3m long sea scorpions and giant carnivorous fish. Their ability to survive will determine the shape of life on Earth and whether humans will exist at all. As our amphibian ancestors struggle onto land the monsters they face are even more deadly.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T23:02:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs"}, {"desc": "Part 2/3. Millions of years before the dinosaurs, a world full of giant sabretooth reptiles and huge armoured herbivores was obliterated when global temperatures soared and vast deserts blanketed the land. As the environment recovered, populations of one species of tough reptile exploded until it alone dominated the planet, but its reign was short-lived.", "start_date": "2026-08-09T23:36:00+00:00", "title": "Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs"}], "offset": "+00:00", "timezone": "UTC", "error_code": -1, "start_date": "2026-08-08", "icon": ""}