TV Listings for Discovery Channel, 02 September 2010
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Evening
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18:00 |
Mythbusters (T) |
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman investigate pirate parables and maritime myths, including the legend of the eyepatch. |
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20:00 |
How Do They Do It? |
The mining of the marble used in Washington's monuments, and the manufacture of Tabasco sauce and stormproof umbrellas. |
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20:30 |
How It's Made |
The manufacture of bowling balls, barber poles, felt and radar guns. |
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Night
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21:00 |
Venom Hunter with Donald Schultz |
The adventurer heads to the seas to help scientists in their battle to save sharks from extinction. |
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22:00 |
Ultimate Air Jaws |
Footage of great white sharks taking to the air, launching themselves some 15 feet above the water in the act of capturing their prey. |
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23:00 |
Greatest Tank Battles |
Examining the Second World War battles of El Alamein in North Africa, which saw Rommel's Desert Afrika Korps battle Montgomery's Eighth Army. |
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00:00 |
Bear Grylls: Born Survivor (T) |
The former Special Forces adventurer heads for Alabama, where he tackles freezing white water and a raging forest fire, before getting trapped in the depths of a limestone cave. |
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01:00 |
Deadliest Catch (T) |
As the midpoint of the season looms, the fishermen begin to suffer from fatigue due to working without sleep. Harsh weather conditions make the fleet's task more perilous than usual and professional efficiency soon gives way to a slow grind as morale is tested. |
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02:00 |
Rory McGrath's Best of British Engineering (T) |
British transport networks come under scrutiny as Rory McGrath assesses the iconic status of Heathrow Airport and the London Underground. |
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03:00 |
World War Two: The Complete History (T) |
The conflict reaches a turning point when the Germans suffer defeats at El Alamein and Stalingrad, and Japan's advance in the Pacific is halted at Guadalcanal. |
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03:50 |
Treasure Quest |
The team is invited to survey the wreck of the RMS Lusitania, the luxury ocean liner sunk by German torpedoes off the Irish coast, to see if the vessel is salvageable. |
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04:40 |
Days That Shook the World |
An account of the revolution in Romania that led to the country's independence from communist rule following the execution of dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu in 1989. Plus, the 1979 events in Tehran, which paved the way for Ayatollah Khomeini to end his exile in Paris and return to Iran. |
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05:30 |
How Does That Work? |
A look at the latest anti-ageing treatments, the future of video surveillance and how cemeteries are becoming hi-tech. |
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