TV Schedule

  • 00:05

    16 May

    War Factories - Season 2

    The story of the discovery and exploitation of the Baku oilfields in the Russian Caucasus, which forced Stalin and Hitler to face off in the Battle of Stalingrad.

  • 01:00

    16 May

    Secret Weapons: WWII - Season 1

    World War II fostered the emergence of both iconic and unusual tanks that were each engineered with distinct aims; we explore diverse tank innovations and the overall trajectory of armoured warfare.

  • 02:00

    16 May

    Treasures with Bettany Hughes - Season 4

    Returning to Oman, Bettany follows clues to the world of the Desert Lord - the stunning desert - and meets modern Bedu who are descendants of his traditions.

  • 02:45

    16 May

    Pompeii: The New Dig - Season 1

    A new excavation at Pompeii continues to unearth rich discoveries while a pioneering new investigation finds evidence that some Pompeiians survived the eruption of A.D. / C.E. 79.

  • 03:45

    16 May

    Cursed Treasures - Season 1

    A discovery by peat-cutters in Cheshire in England reveals whispers of a curse, and a car in Austria is believed to bring doom and death to those who owned or rode in it.

  • 04:35

    16 May

    Forbidden History - Season 7

    The Devil's Bible has long intrigued experts; who wrote it? In search of the truth, we visit a castle said to house a gate to Hell, huge rock-carved demons, and the palaces of heretical monarchs.

  • 05:20

    16 May

    Cursed Bloodlines - Season 1

    The tragic histories of the political dynasties of the Bhutto family in Pakistan and the Nehru-Gandhi family in India are often compared to that of America's Kennedy family.

  • 06:10

    16 May

    Cursed Bloodlines - Season 1

    The Grimaldi family has held their posts as sovereigns of Monaco with the utmost grace, but one thing they have missed time and again is good luck in the love department.

  • 06:50

    16 May

    Mummies Unwrapped - Season 1

    The disfigured mummy of the Younger Lady has mystified experts since she was first discovered over 100 years ago; investigators find out who she was using modern forensic science.

  • 07:45

    16 May

    Why Planes Vanish: The Mystery of Flight MH370

  • 09:00

    16 May

    Strangest Things - Season 1

    Is the 11,000-year-old heavily worked skull of a deer evidence of the earliest known religion, and is a Bronze Age disk covered in gold decoration the earliest representation of the cosmos?

  • 09:55

    16 May

    Cursed Treasures - Season 1

    A discovery by peat-cutters in Cheshire in England reveals whispers of a curse, and a car in Austria is believed to bring doom and death to those who owned or rode in it.

  • 10:55

    16 May

    Secret Nazi Bases - Season 3

    Researchers discovered a concrete city buried outside The Hague decades after WWII; more than 400 bunkers and defensive structures formed a vast underground network built to defend the coastline.

  • 11:55

    16 May

    Secret Weapons: WWII - Season 1

    World War II fostered the emergence of both iconic and unusual tanks that were each engineered with distinct aims; we explore diverse tank innovations and the overall trajectory of armoured warfare.

  • 12:55

    16 May

    War Factories - Season 2

    The story of the discovery and exploitation of the Baku oilfields in the Russian Caucasus, which forced Stalin and Hitler to face off in the Battle of Stalingrad.

  • 13:55

    16 May

    Why Planes Vanish: The Mystery of Flight MH370

  • 15:05

    16 May

    Mummies Unwrapped - Season 1

    The disfigured mummy of the Younger Lady has mystified experts since she was first discovered over 100 years ago; investigators find out who she was using modern forensic science.

  • 16:05

    16 May

    Cursed Treasures - Season 1

    A discovery by peat-cutters in Cheshire in England reveals whispers of a curse, and a car in Austria is believed to bring doom and death to those who owned or rode in it.

  • 17:05

    16 May

    Strangest Things - Season 1

    Is the 11,000-year-old heavily worked skull of a deer evidence of the earliest known religion, and is a Bronze Age disk covered in gold decoration the earliest representation of the cosmos?

  • 18:00

    16 May

    Secret Nazi Bases - Season 3

    Researchers discovered a concrete city buried outside The Hague decades after WWII; more than 400 bunkers and defensive structures formed a vast underground network built to defend the coastline.

  • 19:00

    16 May

    War Factories - Season 2

    The story of the discovery and exploitation of the Baku oilfields in the Russian Caucasus, which forced Stalin and Hitler to face off in the Battle of Stalingrad.

  • 19:55

    16 May

    Secret Weapons: WWII - Season 1

    World War II fostered the emergence of both iconic and unusual tanks that were each engineered with distinct aims; we explore diverse tank innovations and the overall trajectory of armoured warfare.

  • 21:00

    16 May

    Treasures with Bettany Hughes - Season 4 New

    Returning to Oman, Bettany follows clues to the world of the Desert Lord - the stunning desert - and meets modern Bedu who are descendants of his traditions.

  • 21:55

    16 May

    Pompeii: The New Dig - Season 1

    A new excavation at Pompeii continues to unearth rich discoveries while a pioneering new investigation finds evidence that some Pompeiians survived the eruption of A.D. / C.E. 79.

  • 23:10

    16 May

    Secret Nazi Bases - Season 3

    Researchers discovered a concrete city buried outside The Hague decades after WWII; more than 400 bunkers and defensive structures formed a vast underground network built to defend the coastline.

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