Wednesday, September 08 2010

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National Geographic / Today

MORNING

07:30

Overseas Property Shop Infomercial

(Holiday)

08:00

Supervolcanoes Investigated W

Scientists assess the possibility of a supervolcano eruption at Yellowstone National Park, asking whether there would be a warning before the blast to allow enough time to escape (Documentary)

09:00

Sea Patrol UK W

The search and rescue team races to save a teenage boy, and a woman falls off a cliff in the pitch dark (Documentary)

10:00

Hitler's Sunken Secret

An exploration of wreckage found beneath the surface of a Norwegian lake, which could provide evidence of Nazi plans to build an atomic bomb (Documentary)

11:00

Megastructures W

A look at the world's first circular high-rise building, with constructors in Abu Dhabi using millions of tons of sand to prepare the land it stands on (Documentary)

AFTERNOON

12:00

Border Security USA

Immigration officers stop two Iraqi men at the Canadian border, and a drug dog investigates a family SUV in El Paso (Documentary)

13:00

How It Works

How a square metre of fabric can be used to make 112 bikinis, and the process of fitting 205ft rotor blades on one of the world's biggest wind turbines (Documentary)

13:30

How It Works

The manufacture of footballs, the production of tinned sweetcorn and the process of printing books (Documentary)

14:00

Megafactories W

The manufacturing of a Rolls-Royce Phantom, a car that takes an average of 450 hours to hand-build (Documentary)

15:00

Monster Fish W

Zeb Hogan searches for the alligator gar, a 10ft-long creature with a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth (Documentary Wildlife)

16:00

Air Crash Investigation

How a hi-tech American gunship destroyed a civilian passenger aircraft in 1988. The USS Vincennes was defending oil tankers in the Persian Gulf when the plane appeared on their radar. Convinced it was an Iranian fighter preparing to fire a missile, the captain had it shot down - only to learn his target was an airliner carrying 290 people (Documentary)

17:00

Birth of the Earth W

The series of events that brought about the creation of Earth, and how the planet supports a huge diversity of living creatures (Documentary)

EVENING

18:00

Ghost Lights Mystery

Scientists investigate strange lights that have been appearing on land and in the air to discover whether they could be a new source of energy or something more sinister (Documentary)

19:00

Seconds from Disaster W

The story of the American Airlines Airbus that crashed in the neighbourhood of Rockaway in Queens, New York, in November 2001. The plane, carrying 260 passengers and crew members, was thought to have suffered engine failure, but three years later an al-Qaeda activist claimed responsibility (Documentary)

20:00

Sea Patrol UK

A five-year-old and his father become stranded, and a seriously injured worker needs urgent attention out at sea (Documentary)

21:00

Bugatti Super Car

An insight into the making of the Bugatti Veyron, one of the fastest and most expensive cars ever built, which is produced by a factory in France employing just 17 expert engineers. Described as `more aeroplane than car', it can hit almost one-third the speed of sound and reach 0-60 in 2.46 seconds (Documentary Sport)

22:00

Birth of Britain with Tony Robinson

The presenter travels to the Lake District, one of Britain's most scenic regions, to explore how the landscape was formed by ice (Documentary)

23:00

Banged Up Abroad W

Chronicling the story of church volunteer Greg Williams, who was kidnapped and tortured by an Islamic terrorist group in 1996, but managed to escape his captors (Documentary)

LATE NIGHT

00:00

Aftermath W

The probable consequences of the sun ageing dramatically, and whether, as its size increased, it would eventually swallow Earth (Factual)

01:00

Birth of Britain with Tony Robinson

The presenter travels to the Lake District, one of Britain's most scenic regions, to explore how the landscape was formed by ice (Documentary)

02:00

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