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A Place in the Sun
Bella Crane helps a couple find a new home on the island of Tenerife. Mark Estrange and Elaine Minker want to escape the miserable British weather and run their internet business from a more pleasant climate, so they view a modern farmhouse, a 150-year-old property with amazing views and a traditional villa.
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Time Team
Tony Robinson and the archaeologists visit Cheshunt in Hertfordshire to unearth an ancient highway. However, the road's exact location proves puzzling and the archaeologists find themselves on the site of a demolished Victorian mansion, providing them with a mystery to solve.
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Time Team
Tony Robinson meets a farmer living near the Helston River in Cornwall with a houseful of Iron Age finds, and visits a 2,000-year-old fortified enclosure in a nearby field. The site is so large that its purpose remains a mystery, presenting team members with a real challenge as they race to uncover the story of its construction.
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Time Team
Tony Robinson and the team excavate large defensive earthworks dating back to one of the bloodiest sieges of the English Civil War. The remains surround a crumbling manor house in High Ercall, Shropshire, and the team is given three days to solve the mystery of the disappearing building and discover the events that led to its current state.
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Time Team
Mysterious circles, trackways and enclosures are unearthed near the site of a disused Second World War airfield designated for cattle burial during the 2001 foot-and-mouth epidemic. The discoveries mean the site near Throckmorton, Worcestershire, may well be prehistoric, and the team has three days to ascertain whether the place was a Bronze Age burial ground or an Iron Age village.
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| 13.35 |
Time Team
The secrets of West Yorkshire mining town Castleford, which locals believe should appear on the list of great historical cities. The team digs at a supermarket car park, the British Legion backyard and a football pitch in a quest to put the community on the map of Roman Britain.
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| 14.40 |
Springfield Rifle
In the same year that Gary Cooper won an Oscar for High Noon he also starred in this perfunctory Warner Bros western. Directed with some style by House of Wax's Andre De Toth, this feature still resembles a Randolph Scott programme filler, wherein Cooper instead of Scott rides with a batch of second-string actors to infiltrate a gang. Cooper is a little too old for this kind of lark and the support cast really isn't worthy of him, but there's a certain pleasure to be gained from watching a great star at work.
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| 16.30 |
3 Minute Wonder: Super Super
Style magazine contributor Slinky Sunbeam talks about the message of optimism being spread by the publication.
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Grand Designs
Kevin McCloud revisits John and Eleni Flood, who completely gutted their Victorian terraced house to create an open, light and modern space. He discovers whether their struggle to modernise their home while dealing with an Anglo-German conflict between the builders was worth it.
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Grand Designs
An update on Louise and Milko Ostendorf, who embarked on a project three years previously to transform an old violin factory in London into a luxury home. The work was threatened by a battle with their neighbours over a jointly owned wall, and Kevin McCloud returns to find out whether the dispute has been settled.
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Grand Designs
Kevin McCloud returns to Sussex to see how Ben Law's woodsman's cottage has developed. The house was built on a low budget, using methods dating back to the early medieval period with raw materials from the surrounding countryside. During the past 18 months the upstairs has been completed and the outside has been landscaped. Kevin also discovers how the property has changed Ben's life since the original programme was broadcast.
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Grand Designs
A couple who live in a costly Regency property in Cheltenham plan to build a modern, low-maintenance house in their back garden. However, height restrictions mean 60 per cent of their new home has to be underground and there are 90 objections from neighbours to their planning application. Undeterred, the pair press ahead, only to encounter further problems - including the departure of the builders.
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Grand Designs
An architect designs an unusual home for his family, in which everything is white and open-plan. He calls on his experience of working on commercial properties to build the house and employs materials and systems more commonly used in office projects. The biggest risk is that the end result may look more like a car showroom than a comfortable retreat.
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| 22.00 |
Tsunami: Caught on Camera
Children happily play in the surf as their dad, laughing behind the camera, records the moment. "Another day in paradise," he sighs on the soundtrack, oblivious that his family's holiday would become unforgettable for the most awful of reasons. This was Boxing Day, 2005, by the Indian Ocean. Using camcorder footage taken by amateurs - holidaymakers and inhabitants - this film (first shown at Christmas) pieces together the cataclysmic events of that dreadful day, when a deadly tidal wave claimed more than 250,000 lives and destroyed countless homes throughout Thailand and Sri Lanka. Of course, no one had any idea of what was to come as they recorded good times on the beach. Footage records a huge muddy black wave of debris, cars and bodies sweeping through small towns and leaving nothing behind. Says one villager: "It felt like the end of the world." Radio Times reviewer - Alison Graham
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| 23.45 |
Haiti's Killer Quake: Why It Happened
The devastation of the earthquake on Haiti and the dire humanitarian crisis left in its wake have gripped the world's attention. This documentary uses location footage and 3-D graphics to examine the mechanics of the earthquake itself and the immense tectonic forces that led to it. There's also an examination of how Haitians could have constructed buildings that would have survived the quake, although, given that this is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, this might be more effectively addressed in the international moves to assist Haiti's reconstruction. Geologists, meanwhile, believe that this was but one of a series of huge tremors that will hit the Caribbean within the next 40 years.
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