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Primetime Listings – Oct 24 to 31
Monday Oct 24
Tuesday Oct 25 Wednesday Oct 26 Thursday Oct 27
6:00
PM
Great Canadian
Parks: Saguenay –
St. Lawrence National
Marine Park
6:30 Dogs with Jobs:
Bellow and Nipper
7:00 Be the Creature:
Manatees
8:00 New! Civilization: Is
The West History? –
Consumerism
Niall Ferguson
examines the impact
of consumerism on
modern society. He
looks back at the
Industrial Revolution,
explaining how it
sowed the seeds for
the Western model
of mass production
and consumption that
has spread across the
globe.
9:00 New! Masters:
Fantastic Mr Dahl
Alan Yentob explores
the mysterious world
of best-selling children’s
author Roald
Dahl.
10:10 Snapshot: The Art of
Photography – Eamon
MacMahon
Aerial photographer
Eamon uses the plane
he shares with his
best friend Steve to
help him travel to
landlocked communities
to photograph
the inhabitants.
10:30 Vertical City: The
Sears Tower, Chicago
11:00 For King and Country:
Hour of Darkness –
Canadians in Hong
Kong
12:00 New! Masters:
Fantastic Mr Dahl
(1 hour)
6:00
PM
Great Canadian Parks:
Kitlope Valley Heritage
Conservancy
6:30 Wild at Heart: River
Kayaking in Wells
Gray
7:00 New! Hope for Wildlife:
Call of Duty
An eagle falls out of
a nest and into the
middle of military
maneuvers, and Tiffany
takes on an attic
full of songbirds.
8:00 New! Stalin’s Back
Reporter John Sweeney
travels more than
5,000 miles through
the old Soviet Union,
from Stalin’s birthplace
in Georgia to a former
labour camp in Russia,
to find out if one of the
20th century’s most
notorious mass murderers
is really being
rehabilitated.
9:05 New! Storyville:
Family Portrait in
Black and White
In a small Ukrainian
town, Olga Nenya
raises 16 black
orphans amidst a
population of Slavic
blue-eyed blondes.
Their stories expose
the harsh realities of
growing up as a biracial
child in Eastern
Europe.
11:00 New! Hope for Wildlife:
Call of Duty
12:00 New! Storyville: A
Family Portrait in
Black and White
(1 hour and 30 minutes)
6:00
PM
Great Canadian
Parks: Grasslands
National Park
6:30 The Secret World of
Gardens I: The Sex
Life of Plants
7:00 Frontiers of Construction:
Skymakers
(Domes)
8:00 New! East is East –
Asia’s Monarchies:
Brunei
The Sultan of Brunei
has been ruler of the
oil-rich state for nearly
four decades. He
has made the move
towards some form of
partial democracy, but
that seems to have
been put on hold.
Why did he make a
move to do so, and
then let it drop?
9:00 New! Radio City –
Music Room: Dame
Evelyn Glennie
Evelyn Glennie joins
Howard Goodall to
discuss the importance
of making music
that is more than
banging out rhythms.
She plays music for a
variety of percussion
instruments, from the
marimba and snare
drum to woodblocks
and waterphones.
10:05 Radio City: The Fiddle
and the Drum
In her collaboration
with the Alberta
Ballet, Joni Mitchell’s
eternal songs combine
with stunning
choreography.
11:00 Frontiers of Construction:
Skymakers
(Domes)
12:00 New! East is East –
Asia’s Monarchies:
Brunei (1 hour)
6:00
PM
Great Canadian
Parks: Tweedsmuir
Provincial Park
6:30 Undersea Explorer I:
Giants of Socorro
7:00 Ancient Clues: Belizean
Blood Chambers
8:00 New! Joanna
Lumley’s Nile
On the final leg of her
journey, Joanna flies
to Juba in southern
Sudan where a fragile
peace process has enabled
a re-emergence
of the country’s beauty
pageants. At Uganda’s
Murchison Falls, she
encounters some
of Africa’s greatest
wildlife, including an
unusual bird called a
shoebill. Joanna then
meets with a modernday
adventurer who
takes her to a newly
discovered source in
the Rwandan mountains.
Pt. 4 of 4.
9:00 Route 66:
Young@Heart
Chronicles six challenging
weeks in the
lives of the Young at
Heart chorus, as they
rehearse for a new
show before an audience
of a thousand
people in their hometown
of Northampton,
Massachusetts.
11:00 Architects of Change:
To Innovate is to
Imitate
12:00 Why Democracy?:
Egypt: We Are
Watching You
(1 hour)
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