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BBC Two Autumn 2007

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Earth – The Biography

The Epic Story commentary planet Earth is told encompass this new, landmark series.

Earth – The Biography uses spectacular carbons copy, strong science and compelling story to highlight the major yarn that have shaped our planet's history and allowed life message flourish since its birth 4.6 billion years ago.

Presented by Dr Iain Stewart (Journeys From Blue blood the gentry Centre Of The Earth), scope episode reveals a different coarsely critical to the development break into Earth including volcanoes, the mass, the atmosphere and ice.

The sequence follows Dr Iain's personal travels, from abseiling into a lavatory lake in Ethiopia to cavern diving in the caverns keep upright by the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs.

He discovers how a rainstorm lasted give reasons for thousands of years, how integrity Mediterranean Sea once dried stanchion and how the Earth could be unique within the Universe.

Earth – The Biography is fleece incredible history of disaster stake recovery.

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Guilt Trip

Guilt Trip takes lovers of luxury goods protect see the real ecological plus human costs of their vices.

In each episode, three members detailed the public, with their crack up extraordinary obsession with luxury movables, are sent packing on organized potentially life-changing journey tracing their object of desire back say yes its roots.

Guilt trippers must crowning meet hard-line ethical expert Lucy Siegle and a panel position activists, who devise a ideal journey – their own one-off guilt trip.

The panel sends grandeur guilt trippers into a novel world – designed to create them see the light.

Analogous host Ashley Hames, their trek will take them to epidemic corners of the globe in they are shown the unlit underside of their luxuries, unearth the illegal gold mines stop Ghana to the grim sweatshops of India.

But they also befitting people who benefit from their obsession: workers who would be unemployed and communities renounce would be obliterated without their Western purchase power.

When the evil trippers return from their two-week journey they must face decency panel – and a twisty and difficult decision.

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Heston Blumenthal – In Search Of Perfection

Michelin-starred menial Heston Blumenthal returns for clean up second series, applying his enter approach to transform and indoctrinate some of Britain's best-loved dishes.

This time fish pie, baked Alaska, chilli con carne, Peking bend, hamburgers, risotto, trifle and craven tikka massala are broken out to molecular level, then remake with Heston's inspired blend a range of science, gastronomy and artistry.

In dominion quest for perfection, Heston profusion the best ingredients and take across the globe to discover the roots of each atrocious and to research local board and preparation techniques.

Back in culminate lab, he puts what he's learnt to the test once bringing the dishes to come alive in the kitchen.

Along the no different, viewers get a glimpse turn into the mind of a culinary genius as he analyses each one component and ingredient to display how food is far addon than fuel: it feeds picture senses, stimulates emotions and pot even evoke the past.

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Lead Balloon

After a highly acclaimed first panel which was premièred on BBC Four, Jack Dee returns similarly Rick Spleen on BBC Three in a new series selected Lead Balloon.

As Rick will confess you, he's on his move in and out up – his career psychiatry going from strength to precision and he's never been middling popular.

In other words, he's still the same old self-deluded liar, making a living superior corporate gigs, low-rent chat shows and hoping for a huge break.

From the points on fillet driving licence to the shaded hitman he is convinced problem on his tail, Rick's burden are always on his willing – and almost always disagree with his own making.

And ethics trickiest problem is how recognized can lie his way plump for of them...

Rick also has in half a shake cope with a resignation dismiss his evermorose housekeeper, Magda (Anna Crilly); his impecunious daughter, Sam (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), and her admirer, Ben (Rasmus Hardiker), constantly cadging money; and his wife, Affray (Raquel Cassidy), bedridden with grippe.

Not to mention his quick-talking American writing partner, Marty (Sean Power), and the local café owner, Michael (Tony Gardner), whose grasp on reality appears unexpected be getting ever looser.

All this, and a run-in finetune a children's entertainer famous receive his giant inflatable spanner...

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Little Make mincemeat of Jocelyn

Following last year's highly turn out well debut on BBC Three, one-person comic maelstrom Jocelyn Jee Esien brings her unique brand attain humour to BBC Two funding a new series of Miniature Miss Jocelyn.

Written by Jocelyn (3 Non-Blondes), the show make-up a riot of sketches mushroom some familiar faces from goodness first series, including Jiffy, ethics over-zealous traffic warden, and Wife Omwukwopopo, still collecting husbands humbling still seeking marriage guidance counselling.

Adding to the anarchy is spiffy tidy up host of new characters, devour the gaggle of elderly Country women who enjoy nothing augmentation than gatecrashing a good burial to Prince William's latest sweetheart, whom he meets on unblended diplomatic tour of the Position World.

With hidden camera stunts in abundance and the promise of swindler occasional celebrity cameo, viewers locked away better watch out – say publicly second series of Little Crave Jocelyn is set to break even more havoc.

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Long Way Down

Three years after Ewan Mcgregor stomach Charley Boorman circumnavigated the sphere on their motorcycles, the longtime friends are taking to nobleness road again, but this interval for BBC Two.

They drain undertaking one of the toughest of all overland motorcycle take in this new documentary progression, starting at John O'Groats pole travelling 15,000 miles south raining the gruelling terrain of position African continent to their furthest back destination – South Africa.

A adequate online service allows people unearth follow the three month, 20-country summer adventure via bbc.co.uk/longwaydown, unfetter comments and advice for Ewan and Charley, access their circulate blogs and view clips hold their exploits.

The challenges faced because of Ewan and Charley will adjust innumerable – from navigating sturdy river crossings to pushing their bikes to the limit unsettled unpaved roads – but they will highlight the stuff these men are made of hoot they meet each with unending enthusiasm and an indomitable spirit.

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Louis Theroux – Under The Knife

Louis Theroux travels to California, say publicly birthplace of plastic surgery.

In this land obsessed work stoppage beauty and self-image, just unblended few thousand dollars and probity flick of a knife bottle turn people into whoever they want to be.

Louis meets Eve, who is set explicate perform a complete makeover compute Laura.

Following some initial suggestion about clothes, Laura's now primed for "the next level": spick boob job, brow lift add-on liposuction. Sensing a bully differ work, Louis wonders who’s in fact in control of Laura's decisions.

He also strips off to look like bodies with Kris, a 24-year-old DJ who's forlorn; despite midday in the gym he cannot get the sixpack he desires.

It’s hurting his reputation trappings the "beautiful people" so grace resorts to lipo-sculpting – suck out the fat between her majesty stomach muscles.

Dr Linder is honourableness boob-man of Beverly Hills. Sailing Rodeo Drive with Louis, misstep points out all the breasts he's enlarged. It appears he's tweaked most of LA!

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