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Fiona and the team visit the Ulster Folk Museum near Belfast, where treasures include an unusual black opal, some creepy dolls, and medals awarded for the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916.

A twist on the classic quiz show formula, contestants search through the depths of their knowledge in an attempt to score as few points as possible.

Stephen Fry looks at some landmarks with Jo Brand, Colin Lane, David Mitchell and Alan Davies.

When bears, wolves and foxes are your only neighbours, life can be pretty lonely. Add minus-60-degree days and a constant battle for the most basic necessities, and you have the daily challenges of people who live in remote corners of Alaska. This series takes viewers deep into an Alaskan winter to meet tough, resilient residents as they try to stay one step ahead of storms and man-eating beasts to survive the season. When the closest neighbour is more than 300 miles away, these Alaskans subsist solely on what is hunted and foraged. They catch fish for currency in bartering for supplies, or use their packs of sled dogs for transportation. Also highlighted is a time of year not always part of what viewers see in Alaska: spring! Ice is breaking, animals are waking, and residents face new tests before deep cold returns.

A look at how the giant supercontinent Rodinia broke up 800 million years ago. Earth's tectonic forces ripped the land apart, kicking off a series of events that sent temperatures plummeting.

Chris Packham tells the miraculous story of how plant life turned Earth from a barren rock into a vibrant green world, a 4.5-billion year-saga of extraordinary highs and lows that almost wiped out all life on the planet.

A twist on the classic quiz show formula, contestants search through the depths of their knowledge in an attempt to score as few points as possible.

Stephen Fry looks at some landmarks with Jo Brand, Colin Lane, David Mitchell and Alan Davies.

The finalists head to the tent to tackle their last three challenges. Each one is a worthy winner, but who will be crowned winner of `The Great British Bake Off' 2014?

The team return to Wells in Somerset to see some Fabergé jewellery, a plate by Pugin and a guitar left behind in England by a soldier who never returned from the D-Day landings.

When bears, wolves and foxes are your only neighbours, life can be pretty lonely. Add minus-60-degree days and a constant battle for the most basic necessities, and you have the daily challenges of people who live in remote corners of Alaska. This series takes viewers deep into an Alaskan winter to meet tough, resilient residents as they try to stay one step ahead of storms and man-eating beasts to survive the season. When the closest neighbour is more than 300 miles away, these Alaskans subsist solely on what is hunted and foraged. They catch fish for currency in bartering for supplies, or use their packs of sled dogs for transportation. Also highlighted is a time of year not always part of what viewers see in Alaska: spring! Ice is breaking, animals are waking, and residents face new tests before deep cold returns.

Stephen and Alan are joined by Jo Brand, Liza Tarbuck, and Sue Perkins as they explore why jelly appears to be alive, what diseases afflict fishermen, and the many uses of pigs.

Stephen and Alan take a look at journeys with Cal Wilson, Rob Brydon, and Phill Jupitus. Together, they discover the travel arrangements of a Japanese snail, the procedure for evacuating a ship, and who the naturalist was on the HMS Beagle.

When he was a child, Gregg loved playing with toy trainsets. Now he's got special access to learn how the ultimate model is made: a huge 187 tonne, five carriage electric train. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey travels to Scotland to visit the UK's last remaining factory that produces aluminium via smelting. Historian Ruth Goodman is energised by the history of electric trains as she learns that the UK's first was a tourist train that is still in use along the Brighton seafront.

Ten nervous home sewers are asked to work with a core fabric in every dressmaker's cupboard: cotton. With shaking fingers and sweaty palms the sewers attempt to create their best work under the watchful gaze of the judges.

The team are at Woodhorn Museum in Northumberland, a former colliery, where treasures include a gold Rolex from the 1980s and FA Cup medals won by a Newcastle United legend.

In a `Bake Off' first, the entire episode is devoted to the period of history that gave birth to modern baking, the Victorians. The signature challenge is a stalwart of the Victorian dinner table, Game Pie.

When a bird-watcher is discovered murdered in the Saint-Marie jungle, the team have a particularly puzzling conundrum to solve. Is the traditionally quiet and calm world of bird-watching more cut-throat than it appears?

A twist on the classic quiz show formula, contestants search through the depths of their knowledge in an attempt to score as few points as possible.

A twist on the classic quiz show formula, contestants search through the depths of their knowledge in an attempt to score as few points as possible.

Sandi Toksvig looks at nature and nurture with Ross Noble, Cariad Lloyd, David Baddiel and Alan Davies.

Host Sandi Toksvig welcomes Holly Walsh, Nish Kumar, Phill Jupitus and panel regular Alan Davies to discuss nonsense.

Rick Stein heads east from Oaxaca to the Yucatan Peninsula, a place once frequented by real pirates of the Caribbean, including Sir Francis Drake. Here, where the Europeans first landed over five hundred years ago, the local folk have lighter skins and blue or green eyes. They feast on the hottest chilli of them all, the habanero, and give slow food a new meaning as they bury and cook their Pibil dishes below ground on hot rocks.

Ben journeys to South America to visit Rhona, an actress who left Hollywood to live alone in a remote valley in Uruguay after having become seriously disillusioned with her previous life.

Under winter's shadow, Alaskans toil to secure scarce food and opportunity in the final fertile days of summer. Andy Bassich and Denise Becker reckon with the sudden loss of a vital resource.

Stephen and Alan are joined by Jo Brand, Liza Tarbuck, and Sue Perkins as they explore why jelly appears to be alive, what diseases afflict fishermen, and the many uses of pigs.

Stephen and Alan take a look at journeys with Cal Wilson, Rob Brydon, and Phill Jupitus. Together, they discover the travel arrangements of a Japanese snail, the procedure for evacuating a ship, and who the naturalist was on the HMS Beagle.

A twist on the classic quiz show formula, contestants search through the depths of their knowledge in an attempt to score as few points as possible.

Sandi Toksvig looks at nature and nurture with Ross Noble, Cariad Lloyd, David Baddiel and Alan Davies.

Host Sandi Toksvig welcomes Holly Walsh, Nish Kumar, Phill Jupitus and panel regular Alan Davies to discuss nonsense.

Rick Stein heads east from Oaxaca to the Yucatan Peninsula, a place once frequented by real pirates of the Caribbean, including Sir Francis Drake. Here, where the Europeans first landed over five hundred years ago, the local folk have lighter skins and blue or green eyes. They feast on the hottest chilli of them all, the habanero, and give slow food a new meaning as they bury and cook their Pibil dishes below ground on hot rocks.

Ben journeys to South America to visit Rhona, an actress who left Hollywood to live alone in a remote valley in Uruguay after having become seriously disillusioned with her previous life.