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Joanna Lumley's India episode 3

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Joanna Lumley's India episode 3: Joanna ends her 5,000 mile journey in the place where she was born, Srinagar in Kashmir. She starts off in the Ranthambhore National Park, where she hopes to spot a tiger in the wild. Meeting tiger conservationist Belinda Wright, Joanna witnesses the work of local NGO Tiger Watch, who are attempting to break a cycle of poaching and poverty through education. Home to over 18 million people, Delhi is a city of stark contrasts. The extreme differences are obvious when Joanna visits a homeless community - where 10,000 men live under a flyover - and visits the modern part of the city where she has a go at working in a hi-tech call centre. The final leg of her journey takes her north from Delhi to Dharamsala, where she is granted a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Joanna concludes her trip with a stay on a houseboat in Srinagar, as her parents did on honeymoon in 1941. Joanna Lumley travels back to the country of her birth. A year older ...

The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023 episode 6

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The Great Pottery Throw Down 2023 episode 6: It's an illuminating week in the pottery, as the contenders make a table light with a continuous, embossed scene. In the second challenge, surprise guest judge - fashion and lifestyle designer Henry Holland - really tests their decadent design skills. Siobhán McSweeney hosts, with regular judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller setting the challenges. It’s hard not to love this show and the weekly life lessons to be found. One of the remaining magnificent seven competitors has an early accident, but ploughs on, earning herself an emotional “It’s brilliant!” from judge Keith Brymer Jones at the end. Tonight’s main challenge is to make a table light featuring a continuous relief decoration of a favourite view. There are sprig-moulded buildings to depict Dungeness, and piping-bag basalt columns for the Giant’s Causeway. Also cracks, droppages, a sudden collapse – and lots of tears. But for all the drama, it’s a very playful edition (the t...

Countryfile - Small Fishing Village

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Countryfile - Small Fishing Village: Joe Crowley and Steve Brown are on the North Yorkshire coast in the beautiful village of Staithes to find out how the traditional fishing community is adapting for the future. Where once there was a fishing fleet of 80, now there is just one fisherman left. Joe goes out to sea to discover how one skipper has swapped nets for wildlife tourism, while Steve takes a look at Staithes’s art heritage and tastes some locally smoked goodies. Adam Henson finds out about the challenges facing a sheep dairy, and Charlotte Smith investigates the latest developments behind one of Britain’s biggest ecological marine disasters. https://hdclump.com/countryfile-small-fishing-village/

Ancient Aliens – S19 E05 | The MUFON Files

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Ancient Aliens – S19 E05 | The MUFON Files: The Mutual UFO Network–better known as MUFON–is the world's leading organization devoted to the scientific investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena and other unexplained encounters. With more than five decades of investigations, could MUFON's extensive database contain definitive proof of extraterrestrial visitation? https://hdclump.com/ancient-aliens-s19-e05-the-mufon-files/

The US and the Holocaust (Beginnings-1938) episode 1

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The US and the Holocaust (Beginnings-1938) episode 1: How the land of immigrants faced the reality of Holocaust refugees. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? Powerful documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein. After decades of open borders, a xenophobic backlash prompts the United States to pass laws restricting immigration. In Germany, Hitler finds support for his anti-Semitic rhetoric, and the Nazis begin their persecution of Jewish people , causing many to flee to neighbouring countries or America. Franklin D Roosevelt and other world leaders are concerned by the growing refugee crisis, but they fail to coordinate a response. https://hdclump.com/the-us-and-the-holocaust-beginnings-1938-episode-1/

Your Inner Fish: An Evolution Story episode 3

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Your Inner Fish: An Evolution Story episode 3: In the final episode, Neil tracks our hands, feet, colour vision, spine and upright gait to our primate and hominid progenitors, who also passed on perhaps the most important legacy of all - a path to the human brain. It took more than 350 million years for the human body to take shape. Anatomist Neil Shubin reveals how our bodies are the legacy of ancient fish, reptiles and primates, the ancestors you never knew were in your family tree. Our bodies carry the anatomical legacy of animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Journeying to the Arctic, South Africa and Ethiopia, Neil uncovers an astonishing story spanning hundreds of millions of years, a tale full of strange facts and remarkable insights. Using fossils, embryos and genes, each of the three episodes focuses on a key transitional moment in the evolution of the human body - moving from the sea to land, relocating from the shore to living in trees, and coming down from t...

Joanna Lumley's India episode 2

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Joanna Lumley's India episode 2: Joanna meets the Maharaja of Dungarpur, who shows her around his lakeside palace. In stark contrast, Joanna visits a Dalit community - considered to be India's lowest caste - in Gujarat, and hears of the everyday discrimination these people experience under India's still deeply entrenched 3,000-year-old caste system. She later joins in a Hindu house warming ceremony, where a cow and calf are brought into the new house for luck. Braving the roads of Mumbai, Joanna takes a ride in the city's only all-female taxi company and visits the Times of India, where her uncle was editor of the paper in the 1930s and 40s. She then overcomes her vertigo to explore the World One Tower, soon to be Mumbai's tallest luxury residential building. https://hdclump.com/joanna-lumleys-india-episode-2/