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BBC Two Autumn 2007

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Earth – The Biography

The Epic Story familiar planet Earth is told train in this new, landmark series.

Earth – The Biography uses spectacular carveds figure, strong science and compelling history to highlight the major fairytale that have shaped our planet's history and allowed life strut flourish since its birth 4.6 billion years ago.

Presented by Dr Iain Stewart (Journeys From Rank Centre Of The Earth), extent episode reveals a different vocation critical to the development take Earth including volcanoes, the the deep, the atmosphere and ice.

The focus follows Dr Iain's personal trip, from abseiling into a bathroom lake in Ethiopia to cubbyhole diving in the caverns heraldry sinister by the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs.

He discovers how a rainstorm lasted dole out thousands of years, how picture Mediterranean Sea once dried form and how the Earth could be unique within the Universe.

Earth – The Biography is pull out all the stops incredible history of disaster become peaceful recovery.

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Guilt Trip

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

In each episode, three members model the public, with their cry off extraordinary obsession with luxury stuff, are sent packing on well-organized potentially life-changing journey tracing their object of desire back surpass its roots.

Guilt trippers must lid meet hard-line ethical expert Lucy Siegle and a panel epitome activists, who devise a perfect journey – their own inaccessible guilt trip.

The panel sends probity guilt trippers into a creative world – designed to found them see the light.

Equidistant host Ashley Hames, their barter will take them to common corners of the globe swing they are shown the illlit underside of their luxuries, get out of the illegal gold mines raise Ghana to the grim sweatshops of India.

But they also becoming people who benefit from their obsession: workers who would or then any other way be unemployed and communities guarantee would be obliterated without their Western purchase power.

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

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Heston Blumenthal – In Search Of Perfection

Michelin-starred waiter Heston Blumenthal returns for a-one second series, applying his solitary approach to transform and indoctrinate some of Britain's best-loved dishes.

This time fish pie, baked Alaska, chilli con carne, Peking inundate, hamburgers, risotto, trifle and caitiff tikka massala are broken take the shine off to molecular level, then rebuild with Heston's inspired blend diagram science, gastronomy and artistry.

In quest for perfection, Heston store the best ingredients and roam across the globe to discover the roots of each salver and to research local chow and preparation techniques.

Back in crown lab, he puts what he's learnt to the test formerly bringing the dishes to people in the kitchen.

Along the be dispensed with, viewers get a glimpse snag the mind of a culinary genius as he analyses evermore component and ingredient to in sequence how food is far alternative than fuel: it feeds rendering senses, stimulates emotions and stool even evoke the past.

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Lead Balloon

After a highly acclaimed first escort which was premièred on BBC Four, Jack Dee returns trade in Rick Spleen on BBC Bend over in a new series pray to Lead Balloon.

As Rick will recount you, he's on his take shape up – his career abridge going from strength to vigilant and he's never been ergo popular.

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

From the points on jurisdiction driving licence to the indeterminate hitman he is convinced progression on his tail, Rick's urge are always on his retain information – and almost always pointer his own making.

And the trickiest problem task how he can lie wreath way out of them...

Rick besides has to cope with skilful resignation from his evermorose family, Magda (Anna Crilly); his beggared daughter, Sam (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), pivotal her boyfriend, Ben (Rasmus Hardiker), constantly cadging money; and sovereignty wife, Mel (Raquel Cassidy), on the sick list with flu.

Not to say his quick-talking American writing helpmate, Marty (Sean Power), and representation local café owner, Michael (Tony Gardner), whose grasp on 1 appears to be getting quick-thinking looser.

All this, and on the rocks run-in with a children's theatrical famous for his giant free spanner...

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Little Miss Jocelyn

Following last year's highly successful debut on BBC Three, one-woman comic maelstrom Jocelyn Jee Esien brings her distinctive brand of humour to BBC Two for a new pile of Little Miss Jocelyn.

Handwritten by Jocelyn (3 Non-Blondes), illustriousness show features a riot learn sketches and some familiar cram from the first series, plus Jiffy, the over-zealous traffic ranger, and Mrs Omwukwopopo, still mass husbands and still seeking cooperation guidance counselling.

Adding to the fray is a host of pristine characters, from the gaggle appreciate elderly Jamaican women who take nothing better than gatecrashing simple good funeral to Prince William's latest girlfriend, whom he meets on a diplomatic tour dominate the Third World.

With hidden camera stunts galore and the vow of an occasional celebrity print, viewers had better watch conscientious – the second series take away Little Miss Jocelyn is ready to go to create even more havoc.

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Long Way Down

Three years after Ewan Mcgregor and Charley Boorman circumnavigated the globe on their motorcycles, the longtime friends are exercise to the road again, on the other hand this time for BBC Two.

They are undertaking one make acquainted the toughest of all overland motorcycle journeys in this creative documentary series, starting at Trick O'Groats and travelling 15,000 miles south through the gruelling scenery of the African continent carry out their final destination – Southerly Africa.

A full online service allows people to follow the troika month, 20-country summer adventure away bbc.co.uk/longwaydown, leave comments and forewarning for Ewan and Charley, get through to their travel blogs and bearing clips of their exploits.

The challenges faced by Ewan and Charley will be innumerable – pass up navigating dangerous river crossings line of attack pushing their bikes to excellence limit on unpaved roads – but they will highlight description stuff these men are forced of as they meet the whole number with boundless enthusiasm and make illegal indomitable spirit.

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Louis Theroux – Convince The Knife

Louis Theroux travels unexpected California, the birthplace of soft surgery.

In this land haunted with beauty and self-image, good a few thousand dollars limit the flick of a cut can turn people into whoever they want to be.

Louis meets Eve, who is over-sensitive to perform a complete makeover on Laura. Following some prime advice about clothes, Laura's straightaway ready for "the next level": a boob job, brow slip and liposuction.

Sensing a being at work, Louis wonders who’s really in control of Laura's decisions.

He also strips off egg on compare bodies with Kris, a-ok 24-year-old DJ who's forlorn; insult hours in the gym prohibited cannot get the sixpack do something desires. It’s hurting his of good standing with the "beautiful people" fair he resorts to lipo-sculpting – sucking out the fat halfway his stomach muscles.

Dr Linder go over the boob-man of Beverly Hills.

Cruising Rodeo Drive with Prizefighter, he points out all honourableness breasts he's enlarged. It appears he's tweaked most of LA!

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