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Bear Grylls has served with the British Special forces, climbed Everest and explored the Arctic. In this exciting series he shows us how to survive the toughest and most visited environments on the planet by putting himself in the position of a stranded tourist.

He parachutes into rainforests, abseils into deserts and lakes, and onto the highest, most inhospitable peaks in America.

Using his specialist survival techniques to find his way out of these wildernesses he climbs sheer cliffs, navigates white water and icy crevasses, encounters snakes, spiders and predators and forages for food, from maggots and raw fish, to roots and berries.

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Cutting Edge tells the story of the audacious pensioners from Lancashire who conned the art world with a series of fakes sold to museums, galleries and collectors all over the world.

Masterminded by 84-year-old George Greenhalgh, and aided by his mother, Olive, 83, son Shaun, 47, faked paintings, sculptures and ancient artefacts in the garden shed of their shared council house in Bolton

The Artful Codgers uncovers the secret world of the most unlikely art forgers in history, interviewing the police who uncovered them, the experts they deceived and their friends and neighbours in suburban Bolton.

Adults

The story of a 73 stone father from Houston, his family and a nation with 15 million morbidly obese people fighting for life.

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Commissioned by Channel 4, and winner of the World Documentary Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, In the Shadow of the Moon brings together, for the first and possibly the last time, crew members from every Apollo mission which flew to the Moon, to tell their remarkable stories in their own words.

Their riveting first-hand testimony is interwoven with stunning digitally re-mastered footage from NASA film archives, much of it never seen before. The result is an intimate and epic film, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion of this extraordinary era in history. Eloquent, witty, emotional and very human, the astronauts reflect on the profound influence the experience had on their own lives, and on a quest that captured the imagination of a generation.

"David Sington's film presses home the excitement, wonder and fear of a trulyincredible journey." (The Times)
"Thrilling and moving... gripping." (The Guardian)
"A treasure trove of rarely seen footage." (Daily Telegraph)

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The Reverend George Exoo is a seemingly jolly Unitarian minister from Beckley, West Virginia, who helps people commit suicide. George claims that so far he has aided more than 100 people.

George extols the values of death. In addition, his new assistant Susan claims she'll help anyone kill themselves for the right price. "For George it's a calling" she says, "For me it's a business."

If you think your calling from God is to help people die, are you a saint or something more sinister?

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This extraordinary documentary follows one of the most momentous discoveries in palaeontology. In 2003 a 67 million year-old Hadrosaur was unearthed in the badlands of North Dakota, America.

This dinosaur was found within a giant fossil and therefore "mummified". It is thus the most intact dinausaur ever found and has revolutionised our understanding of these ancient beasts.

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This drama documentary tells the story of a brutal terror-campaign that took place in London, 130 years ago. There were bombings of civilian targets and gun battles with the British army on the streets of London. Joe Bullman's follow-up to the acclaimed Seven Sins of England uses British Muslims to play the roles of England's 19th-century Anarchists. The historical parallels with the Victorian era, when a community of economic migrants and asylum seekers arrived with a minority of insurgents prepared to use violence to further their goals, are striking.

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The Iron Age: A crucial yet mysterious period of 800 years, a time before the Romans conquered the dispirate tribes and turned us into one single nation. 

This was a period which left our land scattered with huge, impressive and enigmatic monuments.

Tony Robinson with Francis Pryor and Phil Harding presents this radical new picture of a key time in our history.