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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 |
Extreme Engineering
Tiff Needell narrates the story behind the construction of Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok Airport, an ambitious project that took seven years to complete. As the city grew, the original terminal became both inadequately small and potentially dangerous, requiring planes to navigate between skyscrapers to land, leaving engineers with no choice but to create an entirely new island and build the world's largest suspension bridge to link the structure to the city.
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| 07.00 |
How Do They Do It?
The processes involved in drilling through a mile of solid rock, producing fresh orange juice all year round, and bending glass.
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| 07.30 |
How Do They Do It?
How the world's largest plane - the A380 - is serviced and a look at the process of building and tuning a piano to concert standard.
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| 08.00 |
How It's Made
Where laminate flooring, frozen treats and detergents come from, and how their manufacturing processes have developed over the years.
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| 08.30 |
How It's Made
The processes involved in creating decorative mouldings, commercial pulleys and hoses, and an insight into how they have evolved over the years.
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| 09.00 |
Mythbusters
Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman and the team investigate the accuracy of several popular sayings.
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| 10.00 |
Mythbusters
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman tackle four experiments suggested by viewers.
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| 11.00 |
Mythbusters
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman investigate whether car bumpers can become explosive, and see if an arrow has more power when fired from a galloping horse.
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| 12.00 |
Extreme Engineering
Danny Forster examines the LPD17, a US Navy assault ship that can launch more than 700 marines and their equipment by way of helicopters and hovercrafts.
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13.00 |
Extreme Engineering
Danny Forster climbs the Stonecutters Bridge on China's south coast, which has a 1,018-metre span and is considered an engineering marvel.
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| 14.00 |
Extreme Engineering
Danny Forster examines the work being done on the Panama Canal as part of a $5.2billion expansion project.
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| 15.00 |
Extreme Engineering
Danny Forster travels to Olmos, Peru, to investigate how the construction of one of the deepest tunnels ever attempted will affect the local drought-ridden farms.
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| 16.00 |
Extreme Engineering
Danny Forster explores the multibillion-dollar Al Raha Beach development, where innovative buildings are erected on land reclaimed from the sea.
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| 17.00 |
Extreme Engineering
Danny Forster explores the transition from the Space Shuttle to the Constellation programme when he visits Nasa.
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| 18.00 |
How the Universe Works
The evolution of galaxies, from clouds of cold gas floating in space 13 billion years ago, to the vast gravitationally bound systems of today.
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| 19.00 |
Time Warp
Heavy metal band Metallica perform in super-slow motion, while Matt Kearney and Jeff Lieberman meet a chainsaw artist, and ride dirt bikes.
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| 20.00 |
How It's Made
The manufacture of baseball gloves, stetson hats and medical electrodes, and how their processes have changed with technological improvements.
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| 20.30 |
How It's Made
The technology used in the production of pneumatic impact wrenches, cultured marble sinks and plantain chips.
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| 21.00 |
Moonwalk One
Theo Kamecke's feature-length documentary recording the progress of the Apollo 11 mission, which landed the first men on the moon on 20 July 1969.
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| 23.30 |
The Making of Moonwalk One
A behind-the-scenes look at the production of Theo Kamecke's documentary about Nasa's Apollo 11 mission to the moon in July 1969.
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