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- Set sail on the world's mightiest ships as they embark on some of the most challenging, dangerous jobs a working boat will ever face. These marvels of marine technology are built for anything the heavens and oceans can dole out, and the dedicated men and women who work aboard these ships are equally battle-tested. From a state-of-the-art fishing vessel to an extreme Arctic and Antarctic cruise liner to the largest floating hospital on the planet, we give you a first-class, firsthand look at life aboard these remarkable ships.
- This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh
- Through this 8 part series Phil chooses 100 homes that typically represent the period that they were built in. These homes vary in size, materials used, style and location across Britain. There is an 8 th part not listed in the episode list, which is the "Contemporary" edition, which takes us up to date from the 1970s.
- In 3 episodes it is explained how silver was at one times worth more than gold. China used silver as their currency and the west had to pay in silver for Chinese goods. This angered the British and sought a commodity that the Chinese would buy. China did not covet any goods that the west had, except one. This led to a calamity in China and led to wars.
- Dan Cruikshank tours Kinross House in Scotland built by Sir William Bruce. This house changed everything. In the late 17 th century a completely different type of grand house began to appear. This was the first fully classical house in Scotland.
- Holly Holden invites us to view with her some stately homes in the UK. One episode is about Blenheim Palace, the only privately owned palace in England, and is the birthplace of Winston Churchill and the home of the twelfth Duke of Marlborough.
- We see 3 stories about the bond between horses and humans in Norway. A woman who competed in the world's longest horse race, a mountain horse family living off the land and a war veteran with post- traumatic stress disorder who engages in horse therapy.
- From the Vancouver Public Library Eric McCormack introduces the 5 finalists and their books. A front line medical worker reads a paragraph from each book, and the finalist is announced and awarded. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event is not in the usual format of taking place in an hotel, but the finalists are in their homes, we see them on video.
- The New Silk Road is the name for China's trillion-dollar plan to create new trading routes and expand its ambitions of global leadership. In this four-episode series, Anthony Morse journeys to Pakistan, Egypt and Iran as it tracks the huge infrastructure projects and soft-power cultural moves that are spearheading China's bold new economic diplomacy in the region.
- The De Young exhibit has 11 galleries of new and achieved works of glass artistic team of Dale Chihuly. The workshop is in Ballard, Seattle, Washington state. Chihuly has his work displayed all around the world. We see here the process of making many large pieces.
- Since 1913 Verona has hosted a summer Opera Festival. The Arena di Verona's General Manager and Artistic Director invites Zeinab Badawi to see for herself how Cecilia Gasdia and her team are pulling together to make this year's festival work during a pandemic.
- A reporter from the UK visits Mongolia, to a family living on the Steppes as herders and how climate change is ruining their business by killing off their animals, to the capital and we see how the pollution caused by people burning raw coal is 10-40 times the safe limit. Many thousands of people there are not on the electricity grid and so cannot heat their homes any other way. Mongolia is rich in coal deposits. We see how the hospitals have the same children coming in time after time with breathing difficulties. The reporter talks to the mayor of the city, but they do not seem to be doing anything about it. Mongolia has huge extremes in temperatures -54C to +44C and so is more affected by climate change than most places.
- Nina, the Danish woman, uncovers a credit card scam at a strip club that she visits with Terry the journalist, while they were looking for her sister. Nina takes her info to the police, but they don' t have much to go on. Nina decides to investigate herself. Terry gathers information on an accountant.
- Some Dublin racists throw a firebomb in to a fast food place run by a refugee family. Maureen who is also a reporter finds the dirt on the Chemacran merger. Terry and Cora, who is the dead scientist's wife, discover a dead body.
- After her boat is found floating on the lake, an extensive search gets underway for Maud van Keulen. Is there a connection between her disappearance and the possible return of Olaf Witte? The Criminal Investigation Department is called in to help. Then something is found on the water.
- Various residents of Schouwendam recall what they remember from the time when Olaf and Alice disappeared. But it soon turns out that some of these stories contradict each other considerably. Karlijn van Andel tries to distinguish the lies from the truth and to discover what really occurred in 1995.
- David takes a helicopter tour over Washington state and Mount St. Helens volcano which had a huge eruption in 1980. It killed over 50 people and David is shown the route of the lava from the air. He continues south to Portland and takes part in some Drag racing, which is a totally new experience for him. Then while in Portland he visits a factory that makes tractor trailers. He takes a trip in one on part of the Oregon Trail which brought almost half a million immigrants into this area in the 1800s. There is a lovely view of Mr. Hood.
- Sarah looks and finds a Victorian house in Creemore Ontario to renovate and then rent out. The contractors start work on the house and we see progress in 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. Every room needs total renovation. There is also an old addition to the house, but Sarah decides, along with Tommy's help, to demolish that and build a new 2 storey addition.
- As Fall begins, young northern gannets leap off cliffs, chipmunks gather supplies, prairie rattlesnakes give birth, the moose start the rutting season and the Sand Pipers arrive in the thousands from up north to feed in Fundy Bay and fatten up before flying on their way to South America.
- Sarah searches for ways to add some curb appeal on a tight budget to her house renovation that she hopes to rent out for vacationers. She decides what to do with the hundred year old 2 storey barn on the property, and Tommy comes up with a great idea about diverting people from the old front door to the new side door.
- This island lies to the south of the Great Barrier Reef. We see how birds, sea turtles and fish survive and breed in this tropical island with many very surprising behaviours of some species. This little island has a giant role to play in the lives of many.
- This island was cut off from south Australia 10,000 years ago. We see the Kelly Hall Caves that house many animal bones of trapped bodies. The island has remained virtually free of predators. The Kangaroo Island Kangaroos are a sub species of Western Grey Kangaroos that evolved in isolation after the island was separated. They are shorter, chubbier, furrier and slower than the mainland variety. The 30 cm size Fairy Penguins live here, but the numbers are declining. As dawn approaches they set out to sea to feed. The largest species of Cuttlefish live here and the beautiful Sea Dragons. A large colony of Sealions live in Seal Bay and there is a species of Monitor Lizard here that grow to 1.5 metres long.
- Christmas Island lies far off the shores of Australia in the NW, and is the tip of an extinct volcano. They have the largest number of land crabs in the world and the Red Crab has the largest number in a migration in the world. There are about ten million who live in the rain forest in the centre of the island and once a year make the perilous 5 km journey to the ocean where they mate, The females wait 3 days for incubation in the burrows that the males made in advance of the females arriving. They wait for the Neap tide, when the difference between high and low tide is the smallest, then females, with their sacs of eggs under their belly, make their way down the cliffs, and after a bit of a jig, they release the eggs in the ocean. The eggs hatch immediately into larvae in the sea, The female parents make the long journey home inland. After a month in the sea the larvae morph into baby crabs and make their way back to the beach. Then after 3-5 days at the beach, their lungs change into the air breathing crab stage. Now they are ready to make the journey inland. It will be 4-5 years before their first annual migration to the ocean to reproduce.
- Fraser Island lies to the south end of the Great Barrier Reef and is the largest sand island the world at 120 kms long. It is home to a variety of creatures, including the Fraser Island Dingo, which is regarded as the purest Dingo in Australia as it has not bred with other dogs like some have on the mainland.
- Sarah and Tommy are decorating the upstairs bedrooms and bathrooms, but Sarah has had a trip of a lifetime planned with the family for 2 years so they jet off to Kenya for their Safari. Meanwhile the builders make great strides with siding and ceilings. A mistake with a window awaits Sarah's return from vacation.