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THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER |
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Evening |
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6.00pm |
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Monster Moves: 100 Ton Train |
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A team of British engineers face the longest haul ever featured in Monster Moves: an epic 7,000 mile journey by road, rail and sea to transport a vintage, 100 ton steam locomotive from Bloemfontein in the heart of South Africa to Glasgow, Scotland. We follow Britain's leading heavy hauler Andrew Goodman and restoration engineer Jim Mitchell surmount a series of daunting challenges. Their plan to drive the locomotive 600 miles across the African Plains from Bloemfontein to Durban port on a truck backfires when transport police rule the vehicle incapable of handling the load. Can they find an alternative way of transporting the fragile 15F locomotive to the docks in time to catch their cargo ship to Glasgow, Scotland? |
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7.00pm |
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Is It Real?: Sleepwalking Murders |
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In Toronto, Canada a man drives 22 kilometres and kills his mother-in-law. In London, England, a son brutally beats and kills his father. And in Phoenix, U.S., a happily married father of two, stabs his wife 44 times and drowns her in their family pool. What do these men have in common? They all claim that they were asleep when they committed these heinous crimes. But is it possible that people can commit complex crimes while they are sleepwalking? With only a dead victim and a dazed sleepwalker at the scene of the crime, it is hard to know for sure. Will extensive sleep tests performed on accused murderers reveal the shocking truth that it is possible to unknowingly kill someone in your sleep? If science says yes, what does the law say? Could sleepwalking be a legitimate defence for murder? Meet one of the accused murderers and behold an intriguing investigation at the crossroads of science and the law, with results that just might keep you awake at night. |
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8.00pm |
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Inside: World's Biggest Cruise Sh... |
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The Freedom of the Seas is an awesome Megastructure using the most sophisticated technology in the world to create a ship like no other. It’s all about action and adventure! This is the first ocean liner with its own on-board wave machine, water sport zone, climbing wall, boxing ring and full sized ice-rink. Join the Freedom of the Seas as she makes her maiden voyage in June 2006 a once-in-a-lifetime Mega experience. What are the designers' biggest fears? What would they do if something went radically wrong? Could this be another Titanic? |
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9.00pm |
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Big, Bigger, Biggest: Airport |
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With the addition of Terminal 5 (T5), more than 100 million people will travel through London’s Heathrow Airport. T5 is taller than Heathrow’s other terminals and, because of its height, it is impossible to use cranes to lift the massive rooftop into position without interfering with the airport’s radar system. Assembling the roof in sections – each weighing the equivalent of six jumbo jets – the roof is raised centimetre-by-centimetre off the ground using jacks and steel wire. T5 contains an 18-kilometre conveyor belt maze able to handle 4,000 bags an hour. Robots automatically store and retrieve bags for passengers waiting on long layovers. Aside from the high number of passengers and baggage, T5 must also accommodate the world’s largest passenger jet: the Airbus A380. The jet is so heavy, normal concrete will crack under its weight. Engineers at Heathrow have developed a concrete that contains a soap-like liquid that displaces water and strengthens the concrete bonds. Other advancements include detectors that sense minute traces of explosives, a new 1,000-ton air traffic control tower and personal rapid transport vehicles that rush passengers to the terminal every three seconds. |
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10.00pm |
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World's Toughest Fixes: Deep Sea... |
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The Balder is the largest ship in the Gulf of Mexico, completely dwarfing some of the oil tankers that fill these waters. Sean Riley has been invited onboard the massive deepwater construction vessel to witness an offshore swap-out of one of the ship’s 38-ton mega-propellers, known as thrusters. The Balder is too big for most of the world’s ports, so the fix must be performed in the middle of the ocean. The only way to remove a thruster is to drop it down from the bottom of the Balder’s immense hull. This is a complicated and dangerous manoeuvre involving divers and a dive boat, winch and crane operators, and a barge that acts as a landing stage during the switch. In the open ocean, with swells, wind and rain, things can get complicated, while below the waves the slightest mistake can result in injury or even death. At one point, the remote-operated vehicle, which serves as the crew’s underwater eyes during the operation, topples from its lofty perch in between dives and floats away as the crew tries to recover it. Visibility is low, and diving under a massive floating construction site is about as dangerous as it gets. Can Riley and the team fight Mother Nature and make the fix? |
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11.00pm |
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Big, Bigger, Biggest: Bridges |
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From John Roebling's Gothic-towered Brooklyn Bridge to Joseph Strauss's graceful Golden Gate and beyond, series host David Macaulay scrambles up and over spectacular spans when Building Big tours the world's great bridges. Macaulay investigates how they work – and why they sometimes don't – in Bridges, the first program in the five-part miniseries on megastructures, Building Big. |
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= Set Email Reminder |
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[S] = Subtitles |
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[AD] = Audio Description |
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