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4:00am Time Team
7:00pm National Geographic
Access 360: World Heritage – Kyoto.
Go behind the scenes in the historic city
of Kyoto to see how conservationists are
struggling to keep the monuments and
traditions of this living museum relevant
in the modern age. [CC]
8:00pm Full Steam Ahead [NEW!]
(4 of 6). At Britain’s National Railway
Museum, the historians help get the most
famous locomotive in the world, the Flying
Scotsman, steamed up. [CC]
Dig by Wire. Tony Robinson and the team
visit a tiny windswept island off the coast
of Wales. The only way to get to it is by
rigging a 500-metre zipline above the
wave-lashed rocks. [CC]
11:00pm Up In Arms: How the Gun
Lobby is Changing Canada
A critical look at both sides of the
contentious Canadian gun-control issue.
[RP] [CC]
12:00am National Geographic
SUNDAY APRIL 2
Meerkats 3D. See 7pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
7:00pm National Geographic
1:00am A Park for All Seasons
Meerkats 3D. A story of one family
of meerkats and their courageous leader
Klinky over the course of a year in Southern
Africa’s harsh Kalahari Desert. [DV] [CC]
Algonquin. See 8pm [RP] [CC]
1:30am The Water Brothers
More Food, Less Water (5 of 6).
See 8:30pm [RP] [CC]
8:00pm A Park for All Seasons
9:00pm American Ballet Theatre –
A History
Explore the cultural and political melting
pot that is the American Ballet Theatre.
Filmmaker Ric Burns looks into what one
critic called the cultural story of Russia
versus America. [DV] [CC]
11:00pm Recreating Eden
Horticultural Impresario. Tim Smits
restored an abandoned estate and his
Lost Gardens of Heligan was soon attracting
upwards of 400,000 visitors a year. [CC]
11:30pm National Geographic
Access 360: World Heritage – Kyoto.
See 7pm [RP] [CC]
12:30am Full Steam Ahead
(4 of 6). See 8pm [RP] [CC]
Algonquin. The jewel of the Ontario parks
system is a busy place. It has been a muse for
Tom Thomson, is a hotspot for researchers
and allows commercial activities. [RP] [CC]
8:30pm The Water Brothers
More Food, Less Water (5 of 6). This episode
looks at 70% of all the fresh water humans
use for agriculture. There are new technologies being tested and implemented to
help us grow more food and use less water.
A History
See 9pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
3:30am Undersea Explorer
Shark Encounters (1 of 5). Observing frantic
shark feedings has become a popular activity
for scuba divers. [DV] [CC]
Constructing the Cosmos (1 of 2).
See 10pm [RP] [CC]
4:00am Up In Arms: How the Gun
Lobby is Changing Canada
See 11pm [RP] [CC]
9:00pm The World’s War
7:00pm The Water Brothers
Martial Races. David Olusoga challenges
our perceptions of the First World War with
stories of the millions of Indian, African
and Asian troops and ancillaries who fought
alongside white European troops. [CC]
Constructing the Cosmos (1 of 2). How do
you build a planet, a solar system and a
galaxy from scratch? Richard Hammond
is going to build the whole thing, from
the top of a two-mile-high tower in the
Californian desert. [RP] [CC]
More Food, Less Water.
See April 2 at 8:30pm [RP] [CC]
7:30pm Food Unwrapped
(5 of 8). Jimmy Doherty gives supermarket
fish a sniff to test its freshness. Kate Quilton
investigates how asparagus can be grown all
year round in the Ica Valley, Peru. [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
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3:00am How to Build a Planet
MONDAY APRIL 3
The Agenda
with Steve Paikin
[NEW!] = New Episode
[DV] = Descriptive Video Martial Races. See 9pm [RP] [CC]
[RP] [CC]
10:00pm How to Build a Planet
1:30am American Ballet Theatre –
2:00am The World’s War
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April 2017 Primetime Schedule
9:00pm A Cook Abroad
(1 of 4). Dave Myers travels to Egypt.
From the street food in Cairo, to a family
feast 800 kilometres south in ancient
Aswan, Dave voyages up the Nile to find the
origins of some favourite dishes. [CC]
9:00pm Planet Oil
How Oil Made Us (1 of 3). Geologist
Iain Stewart visits the places that gave
birth to the Earth’s oil riches, the people
who fought over its control and supply,
and explores how our thirst for oil is
changing the planet. [CC]
10:00pm 10 Billion: What’s On
A Kiss in the Wind [NEW!]
Italian filmmaker Leonardo Baraldi
explores the story of his great-grandfather,
who was killed while building a CPR tunnel
in B.C. in 1915. [CC]
10:15pmSnapshot
Your Plate?
In the middle of the debate about food
security comes an analytical look into the
spectrum of global food production –
from artificial meat, insects, industrial
farming to trendy self-cultivation. [RP] [CC]
10:00pm Redesign My Brain
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
9:00pmRevelstoke:
Make Me Smarter (1 of 3). Dr. Michael
Merzenich, the pioneer of the neuroplasticity revolution, teaches Todd Sampson
how to turbo charge his thinking speed,
attention and memory. [CC]
Michael Levin (4 of 6). Michael Levin shoots
stunning soulful moments in time from all
over the Pacific Rim and has become one
of Canada’s top-selling photo artists. [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
See description on first page.
12:00am Revelstoke -
12:00am A Cook Abroad
12:00am Planet Oil
A Kiss in the Wind
See 9pm [RP] [CC]
1:00am 10 Billion – What’s On
1:00am Redesign My Brain
(1 of 4). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
How Oil Made Us (1 of 3). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
1:20am
Your Plate?
See 10pm [RP] [CC]
2:00am The Water Brothers
More Food, Less Water (5 of 6).
See April 2 at 8:30pm [RP] [CC]
2:30am Food Unwrapped
See 7:30pm [RP] [CC]
Make Me Smarter (1 of 3). See 10pm [RP] [CC]
2:00am David Attenborough’s
2:00am Impossible Engineering
Impossible Engineering. See 7pm [RP] [CC]
Natural Curiosities
See 7pm [RP] [CC]
3:00am Question Period
2:30am David Attenborough’s
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario [CC]
4:05am Fossil Wonderlands:
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario [CC]
4:05am Fossil Wonderlands:
Snapshot
Michael Levin (4 of 6). See 10:15pm [RP] [CC]
Nature’s Hidden Treasures
Feathered Dinosaurs (2 of 3). Paleontologist
Richard Fortey travels to northeastern
China to see a fossil site known as the
Dinosaur Pompeii. [CC]
Nature’s Hidden Treasures
Weird Wonders (1 of 3). Paleontologist
Richard Fortey journeys high into the
Rocky Mountains to explore a 520-millionyear-old fossilized seabed. [CC]
WEDNESDAY APRIL 5
TUESDAY APRIL 4
Natural Curiosities
This episode focuses on the giraffe’s neck
and the chameleon’s tongue. [CC]
7:00pm David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities
See 7:30pm [RP] [CC]
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario [CC]
4:05am Fossil Wonderlands:
Nature’s Hidden Treasures
The Mammal Hothouse (3 of 3).
Paleontologist Richard Fortey investigates
the remains of an ancient volcanic lake in
Germany where stunningly well-preserved
fossils of early mammals and insects have
been found. [CC]
THURSDAY APRIL 6
7:00pm Impossible Engineering
The construction of the Rion-Antirion
Bridge across the Gulf of Corinth in
Greece is featured. [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
7:30pm David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities
David Attenborough looks at the
platypus and the curious case of the
male midwife toad. [CC]
7:00pm Walking Through History
North Norfolk. Tony Robinson walks along
the North Norfolk coast and through one of
the least developed spots in England. [DV] [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
See description on first page.
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April 2017 Primetime Schedule
9:00pm The Innocence Network [NEW!]
(1 of 4). In this drama series based on
true crime stories, Vietnam War vetran
Barry Gibbs, a man with no criminal record,
is sentenced to life in prison for a woman’s
murder. [CC]
9:00pmHeartbeat
Always a Copper. When a string of robberies
leaves the police baffled, Oscar Blaketon
is asked to organize a crime prevention
committee. 14+ [CC]
10:30pmSnapshot
Lincoln Clarkes (2 of 6). Lincoln Clarkes’
relationship with the street and its
inhabitants is the subject of his photography.
Watch as he documents life and death for
over three decades. [CC]
10:00pmNew Tricks
10:00pm Fake or Fortune [NEW!]
Lowry. Art detectives Fiona Bruce and Philip
Mould investigate three small pictures by
one of Europe’s best-loved modern artists,
L.S. Lowry. [CC]
The Queen’s Speech. When a dug-up time
capsule is found to contain a cassette tape
made by a murdered schoolgirl, the unit is
assigned to the case. 14+ [CC]
11:00pm Recreating Eden
The Mona Lisa of Parterres. Italian princess
Claudia Ruspoli inherited a geometric
garden created by her ancestor Octavia
Orsini 400 years ago. [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
See description on first page.
11:30pm National Geographic
Orangutan Rescue. See 7pm [RP] [CC]
12:00am Raw Opium:
12:00am The Innocence Network
(1 of 4). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
1:00am Fake or Fortune
Lowry. See 10pm [RP] [CC]
Pain, Pleasure, Profits
(1 of 2). Explore the history, science and
politics of the opium trade by following
opium’s voyage around the world. [CC]
12:30am Full Steam Ahead
(5 of 6). See 8pm [RP] [CC]
1:30am Bill Cunningham: New York
See 9pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
1:00amHeartbeat
2:00am Walking Through History
North Norfolk. See 7pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
Always a Copper. See 9pm [RP] [CC]
3:00amSnapshot
Lincoln Clarkes (2 of 6). See 10:30pm [RP] [CC]
2:00am New Tricks
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario [CC]
The Queen’s Speech. See 10pm [RP] [CC]
3:00am A Park for All Seasons
Algonquin. See 7pm [RP] [CC]
4:05am Deadly Depths
One million tons of discarded chemical
weapons litter the world’s ocean beds
and they are beginning to leak. Does an
ecological catastrophe loom? [RP] [CC]
The End of Sushi (6 of 6). See 7:30pm [RP] [CC]
4:00am Raw Opium:
Pain, Pleasure, Profits
(1 of 2). See 12am [RP] [CC]
7:00pm A Park for All Seasons
SATURDAY APRIL 8
7:30pm The Water Brothers [NEW!]
The End of Sushi (6 of 6). Sushi is one
of the most popular foods in the world.
The brothers travel across North America
to investigate the impact of this cuisine
on ocean health. [CC]
Sea of Steel (2 of 5). In the 1990s three large
naval vessels were intentionally sunk off
the B.C. coast as part of the world’s most
ambitious artificial reef project. [DV] [CC]
3:30am The Water Brothers
FRIDAY APRIL 7
Algonquin. The jewel of the Ontario parks
system is a busy place. It has been a muse for
Tom Thomson, is a hotspot for researchers
and allows commercial activities. [RP] [CC]
3:30am Undersea Explorer
7:00pm National Geographic [NEW!]
Orangutan Rescue. In Borneo, Indonesia,
there’s a school like no other. This exceptional
class is made up of rescued orphaned
orangutans that must learn vital skills in
order to be able to return to the forest. [CC]
4:00am Time Team
A Village Affair. There’s a problem in
the chocolate-box village of Bitterley in
Shropshire. The village’s school and cottages
cluster prettily around the green, but the
village church and the manor house lie more
than half a mile away, on the other side
of a lumpy, bumpy empty field. [CC]
SUNDAY APRIL 9
7:00pm National Geographic
8:00pm Full Steam Ahead [NEW!]
(5 of 6). The team heads to the South Devon
Railway to explore the life of the branch line
before the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. [CC]
Access 360: World Heritage – Kilimanjaro.
Mount Kilimanjaro is losing the iconic white
cap that has crowned its peak for millennia.
A team of Tanzanians brave savannah,
mountain and skies in a mission to uncover
the mystery behind the demise of this
national treasure. [CC]
9:00pm Bill Cunningham: New York
8:00pm A Park for All Seasons
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
For decades, Bill Cunningham, bike-riding
cultural anthropologist and New York
Times photographer has been inventively
chronicling fashion trends. [DV] [CC]
Garibaldi. Managers of Garibaldi Provincial
Park in B.C. try to understand the effects of
climage change on its glaciers and wolverine
population. [CC]
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8:30pm The Water Brothers
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
The End of Sushi (6 of 6).
See April 7 at 7:30pm [RP] [CC]
See description on first page.
9:00pm The World’s War
(2 of 4). Scottish chef Tony Singh travels to
India, the country of his ancestors, to trace
his family roots and discover whether his
mom’s Punjabi cooking is the real deal. [CC]
Foreign Legions. David Olusoga explains
how the First World War spread far
beyond the mud and trenches of France
and Belgium. [CC]
10:00pm How to Build a Planet
Constructing the Cosmos (2 of 2).
With eye-popping computer graphics,
Richard Hammond discovers that it takes
an entire universe to make our planet just
right for us. [RP] [CC]
9:00pm A Cook Abroad
Economic and ethical issues are central to
the issue of combating world hunger as both
aid agencies and big business compete for
the ability to influence policy. [CC]
See description on first page.
12:00am A Cook Abroad
12:00am National Geographic
See 10pm [RP] [CC]
(2 of 4). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
1:00am Hunger for Sale
The End of Sushi (6 of 6). See 7pm [RP] [CC]
2:30am Food Unwrapped
See 7:30pm [RP] [CC]
1:30am The Water Brothers
2:00am The World’s War
Foreign Legions. See 9pm [RP] [CC]
3:00am How to Build a Planet
Constructing the Cosmos (2 of 2).
See 10pm [RP] [CC]
See description on first page.
12:00am Planet Oil
The Carbon Wars (2 of 3). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
1:00am Redesign My Brain
Make Me Creative (2 of 3). See 10pm [RP] [CC]
2:00am Impossible Engineering
Ultimate Warship. See 7pm [RP] [CC]
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario. [CC]
4:05am Pain, Pus and Poison
2:00am The Water Brothers
1:00am A Park for All Seasons
The End of Sushi (6 of 6). See 8:30pm [RP] [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
A look at the lives of grandparents
who have taken full-time custody of their
grandchildren. [DV] [CC]
Garibaldi. See 8pm [RP] [CC]
Make Me Creative (2 of 3). A team of experts
coaches Todd Sampson to increase his
creativity and overcome limiting mindsets.
He learns to use lateral thinking and
discovers the secret of innovation. [CC]
10:00pm Hunger for Sale
11:00pmGrandParenting
Access 360: World Heritage – Kilimanjaro.
See 7pm [RP] [CC]
10:00pm Redesign My Brain
Pus. Fighting infectious diseases is an
ongoing battle. But as we discover new
uses for antibiotics, infections are
developing new drug-resistant strains. [CC]
WEDNESDAY APRIL 12
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario. [CC]
4:05am Pain, Pus and Poison
Pain. Exploring what physical pain is,
how we feel it, what our bodies do about it
and the evolution of painkillers. [CC]
7:00pm David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities
A look at two creatures with very wrinkly
skin: the mole rat and the elephant. [CC]
7:30pm David Attenborough’s
4:00amGrandParenting
See 11pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
TUESDAY APRIL 11
Natural Curiosities
A look at the tusk of the narwhal and the spiral
shells found on snails and ammonites. [CC]
7:00pm Impossible Engineering
Ultimate Warship. Learn more about
the construction of the aircraft carrier
HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest warship
in the history of the British Royal Navy. [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
MONDAY APRIL 10
7:00pm The Water Brothers
The End of Sushi (6 of 6). Sushi is one
of the most popular foods in the world.
The brothers travel across North America
to investigate the impact of this cuisine
on ocean health. [RP] [CC]
7:30pm Food Unwrapped
(6 of 8). Jimmy Doherty asks why so much
of the bacon in supermarkets comes from
Denmark, and visits one of the largest pork
abattoirs in Europe. [CC]
See description on first page.
9:00pm My First 150 Days [NEW!]
See description on first page.
This documentary follows an immigrant
family’s first 150 days in Ontario together,
capturing their emotional journey of
starting fresh in a new land. [DV] [CC]
9:00pm Planet Oil
10:00pm Strange and Familiar:
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
The Carbon Wars (2 of 3). When the oilproducing countries demanded a greater
share in profits from western energy
companies, the oil and gas fields of the
Middle East became a focus for conflict. [CC]
Architecture on Fogo Island
Todd Saunders’ sculpture-like artist studios
on Fogo Island have been documented in over
80 magazines. This film reveals a little island
that wants to be relevant in a big way. [CC]
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April 2017 Primetime Schedule
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
1:00am Fake or Fortune
1:00amHeartbeat
12:00am My First 150 Days
2:00am My First 150 Days
2:00am Midsomer Murders
1:00am My First 150 Days
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
3:00am Striking Balance
See description on first page.
See 9pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
See 9pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
Renoir. See 10pm [RP] [CC]
See April 12 at 9pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario. [CC]
2:00am David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities
See 7pm [RP] [CC]
2:30am David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities
See 7:30pm [RP] [CC]
4:05am Pain, Pus and Poison
Poison. Science has unlocked the human
body, enabling us to survive diseases and
infections. We’ve gone from finding antidotes
to using the poisons themselves as a cure. [CC]
THURSDAY APRIL 13
Habeas Corpus, part 1. See 10pm [RP] [CC]
Long Point. See 7pm [RP] [CC]
4:00am Raw Opium:
4:05am Autism Grows Up
Tens of thousands of young adults with
autism spectrum disorder are looking for
work in Canada – and over 100,000 more
are on their way. Are we ready? [RP] [CC]
Pain, Pleasure, Profits
(2 of 2). See 12am [RP] [CC]
SATURDAY APRIL 15
7:00pm National Geographic [NEW!]
FRIDAY APRIL 14
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario. [CC]
Negative Vibes. See 9pm [RP] [CC]
7:00pm Striking Balance
Long Point (1 of 8). The Long Point peninsula
is a coastal ecosystem on the north shore
of Ontario’s Lake Erie, with long beaches,
undisturbed sand dunes, grassy ridges,
and coldwater streams. [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
Life on the Reef. Rescue crews respond to
a human and environmental emergency
in one of the most sensitive parts of the
Great Barrier Reef and a critical salvage
mission is launched. [CC]
8:00pm Full Steam Ahead [NEW!]
(6 of 6). In the final episode the team finds
out how the combination of increased leisure
time and affordable rail transport brought
a new kind of freedom for working-class
Victorians. [CC]
9:00pmHeartbeat
7:00pm My First 150 Days
This documentary follows an immigrant
family’s first 150 days in Ontario together,
capturing their emotional journey of
starting fresh in a new land. [DV] [RP] [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
9:00pm The Innocence Network [NEW!]
(2 of 4). After 34 years of incarceration,
the result of DNA analysis is about to seal
Lewis Jim Fogle’s destiny. Will he be found
innocent and freed at last? [CC]
Negative Vibes. A car crashes through
the front window of a men’s clothing store
and quickly leaves the scene. Mike is
suspicious of the unusual hours Jackie
has been keeping, with good reason. 14+ [CC]
10:00pm Midsomer Murders
Habeas Corpus, part 1. When landowner
Gregory Lancaster’s body goes missing
on the night of his death, secrets are exposed
in the village of Little Malton. DCI Barnaby,
DS Nelson and forensic pathologist Kam
Karimore seek to identify the villain. 14+ [CC]
9:00pm Southwest of Salem:
The Story of the San Antonio Four [NEW!]
After being wrongfully convicted of sexually
assaulting two little girls during the Satanic
Panic witch-hunt era, four Latina lesbians
fight against mythology and homophobia
in their struggle for exoneration. [CC]
10:33pmSnapshot
Lana Slezic (3 of 6). Lana Slezic’s work
includes stunning portraits of Afghan
women. She arrived in Kabul on assignment
expecting to stay a month, but she stayed
on for one year. [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
10:00pm Fake or Fortune [NEW!]
Renoir. Nicky Philipps, a portrait artist
renowned for her pictures of the royal
family, has asked the team to investigate
a painting which hangs on the walls of Picton
Castle, once the Philipps family seat. [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
See description on first page.
12:00am Raw Opium:
Pain, Pleasure, Profits
(2 of 2). The story of opium continues to
unfold: the former narcotics commissioner
travels to Portugal to meet street workers
within the world’s most progressive system
of drug decriminalization. [CC]
11:00pm Recreating Eden
An Island Eden. Colehour and Melanie
Bondera have combined their passion
for the outdoors into a successful organic
coffee farm in Hawaii. [CC]
11:30pm National Geographic
Life on the Reef (1 of 3). See 7pm [RP] [CC]
12:30am Full Steam Ahead
12:00am The Innocence Network
(2 of 4). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
(6 of 6). See 8pm [RP] [CC]
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1:30am Southwest of Salem:
The Story of the San Antonio Four
See 9pm [RP] [CC]
3:04am Undersea Explorer
Treasure Hunters (3 of 5). Modern-day
treasure hunters search for artifacts and
coins off Bermuda’s treacherous reefs.
11:00pm My First 150 Days
This documentary follows an immigrant
family’s first 150 days in Ontario together,
capturing their emotional journey of
starting fresh in a new land. [DV] [RP] [CC]
[DV] [CC]
3:30am Undersea Explorer
1:00am Simon Reeve’s Sacred Rivers
4:00am Time Team
The Drowned Town. The team heads to
Dunwich, a village that’s literally falling
off the edge of the UK to find out more
about the origins of this dramatically
situated town. [CC]
Into the Wilderness: The Everglades.
Each year more of the water that feeds
the Everglades is diverted to the farmlands
and the rapidly growing cities of Florida.
Every drop taken by people upstream makes
a difference in how high an island or a tree
sits out of the waterand with the wrong
height, that ecosystem will die. [DV] [CC]
8:00pm Simon Reeve’s Sacred Rivers
The Nile. Simon Reeve travels along
the Blue Nile in the Ethiopian highlands
and onwards through Egypt to the
Mediterranean Sea. [CC]
The Ganges. Simon Reeve meets
westerners in Rishikesh seeking spiritual
enlightenment. He also takes a holy dip in
the waters at Haridwar and discovers how
the river is being polluted in Kanpur. [CC]
The Yangtze. Simon Reeve follows the
Yangtze River to Dazu where he sees 50,000
ancient rock carvings. Taking a river cruise,
he arrives at the Three Gorges Dam,
the biggest power station on the planet. [CC]
3:00am For King and Empire:
3:00am Simon Reeve’s Sacred Rivers
4:00am For King and Empire:
2:00am Simon Reeve’s Sacred Rivers
The Yangtze. See 10pm [RP] [CC]
MONDAY APRIL 17
Canada’s Soldiers in the Great War
Slaughter and Sacrifice: The Somme, 1916.
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme,
60,000 British soldiers fall before Canadian
troops are ordered in. Tanks are used in
battle for the first time. [CC]
7:00pm Food Unwrapped
TUESDAY APRIL 18
4:00am My First 150 Days
See 11pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
(7 of 8). Kate Quilton wants to know where
licorice comes from. She’s not a fan, but will
she be converted once she’s seen the experts
in Calabria, Italy, turn bitter-tasting licorice
roots into sweet treats? [CC]
7:00pm Impossible Engineering
Skyscraper of the Future. Construction
of the Shanghai Tower, the second-tallest
building in the world and the tallest building
in China, is chronicled. [CC]
7:30pm Food Unwrapped
(8 of 8). Jimmy Doherty explores how blood
is becoming trendy in gastronomy, including
blood meringues and Kate Quilton asks why
Spanish melons are so juicy. [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
(3 of 4). John Torode fulfils a lifelong
ambition to go to Argentina, where eating
beef is a national obsession. His mission is
to find the best piece of steak in the world
and the best way to cook it. [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
9:00pm Planet Oil
Climate Wars (3 of 3). Geologist Iain Stewart
discovers that while huge technological
advances are helping extend the life of
existing oilfields, new unconventional
oil and gas supplies are extending the
hydrocarbon age. [CC]
10:00pm Redesign My Brain
See April 16 at 11pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
Mind Over Matter (3 of 3). Australian
Institute of Sport expert Dr. David Martin
helps Todd Sampson improve his mind-body
connection, his ability to visualize,
and his emotional intelligence. [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
12:00am A Cook Abroad
12:00am Planet Oil
10:00pm My First 150 Days
10:00pm Simon Reeve’s Sacred Rivers
See 7:30pm [RP] [CC]
The Ganges. See 9pm [RP] [CC]
The Nile. See 8pm [RP] [CC]
9:00pm A Cook Abroad
9:00pm Simon Reeve’s Sacred Rivers
See 7pm [RP] [CC]
Canada’s Soldiers in the Great War
Baptism of Fire: Ypres, 1915. Canadian
soldiers march straight to the most
dangerous sector on the Western Front:
the “bulge” in the Allied line around
the Belgian city of Ypres. [CC]
SUNDAY APRIL 16
7:00pm National Geographic
2:00am Food Unwrapped
2:30am Food Unwrapped
12:00am National Geographic
Into the Wilderness: The Everglades.
See 7pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
Galapagos (4 of 5). Considered one of the
world’s richest and most diverse ecosystems,
the archipelago is under attack from human
settlement and overfishing. [DV] [CC]
See April 16 at 11pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
See description on first page.
(3 of 4). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
See description on first page.
Climate Wars (3 of 3). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
1:00am My First 150 Days
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1:00am Redesign My Brain
Mind Over Matter (3 of 3). See 10pm [RP] [CC]
1:30am
Snapshot
Adam Makarenko (6 of 6). See 10:30pm
1:00am Fake or Fortune
Munnings and Churchill. See 10pm [RP] [CC]
[RP] [CC]
2:00am Impossible Engineering
2:00am Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero
Skyscraper of the Future. See 7pm [RP] [CC]
2:00am David Attenborough’s
(1 of 2). See 7pm [RP] [CC]
3:00am For King and Empire:
Natural Curiosities
See 7pm [RP] [CC]
3:00am Light and Dark
Canada’s Soldiers in the Great War
Storming the Ridge: Vimy, 1917. On Easter
Monday, Canadians claim victory in an
attack on Vimy Ridge. Their reputation as
elite troops is confirmed,
but at the cost of 21,000 dead, wounded
and missing. [CC]
4:00am For King and Empire:
Canada’s Soldiers in the Great War
Slaughter in the Mud: Passchendaele, 1917.
British commander Sir Douglas Haig
launches a three-month offensive from the
city of Ypres, resulting in a quarter of a
million of his soldiers killed or wounded. [CC]
WEDNESDAY APRIL 19
2:30am David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities
See 7:30pm [RP] [CC]
3:00am For King and Empire:
Canada’s Soldiers in the Great War
Masters of War: 100 Days. A great German
offensive in France and Belgium in the
spring of 1918 puts an Allied victory at risk.
[CC]
7:30pm David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities
David Attenborough looks at the zebra’s
stripes and the wings of the butterfly. [CC]
Canada’s Soldiers in the Great War
Shadows of the Great War. While Canadians
argue over the cost of memorials to their
soldiers, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis plunge
the world back into war. [CC]
THURSDAY APRIL 20
7:00pm Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero
(1 of 2). Bill Bailey tells the story of Alfred
Wallace, a British explorer who changed
the way we see life on Earth, but has since
been written out of history. [CC]
See description on first page.
9:00pm The Innocence Network [NEW!]
Over the past century, cultural destruction
has wrought catastrophic results on every
continent. [DV] [CC]
(3 of 4). New York, 1985: Alan Newton is
sentenced to 40 years of imprisonment
for a violent crime. In his cell, he starts
studying law to decipher his file and prove
his innocence. [CC]
10:30pmSnapshot
10:00pm Fake or Fortune [NEW!]
9:00pm The Destruction of Memory
Adam Makarenko (6 of 6). The world of Adam
Makarenko is shrinking. His photographic
pursuit is constructing life-like dioramas
depicting everything in miniature scale. [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
12:00am The Destruction of Memory
See 9pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
Dark (2 of 2). Physicist Jim Al-Khalili tells
the story of how we went from thinking
we were close to a complete understanding
of the universe to realizing we had seen
almost none of it. [CC]
FRIDAY APRIL 21
7:00pm Striking Balance
Clayoquot Sound (2 of 8). A diverse range
of ecosystems can be found within the
boundaries of this reserve on western
Vancouver Island, including significant
expanses of ancient temperate rainforests.
[CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
9:00pmHeartbeat
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
4:00am Light and Dark
4:00am For King and Empire:
7:00pm David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities
A look at the tusk of the narwhal
and the spiral shells found on snails
and ammonites. [RP] [CC]
Light (1 of 2). With each new insight into
the nature of light came a fresh understanding
of the cosmos. It has allowed us to peer deep
into space to reveal the composition and life
cycles of the stars. [CC]
Munnings and Churchill. Charles Henty
hopes to keep his late uncle’s farm running
by selling two paintings he owns, but he
must prove that they’re genuine. [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
12:00am The Innocence Network
(3 of 4). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
Kindness of Strangers. When a wealthy
pensioner is robbed and left seriously
injured, suspicion falls on Mark and
Jennifer, a young couple expecting a
child and quite broke. 14+ [CC]
10:00pm Midsomer Murders
Habeas Corpus, part 2. When wealthy
landowner Gregory Lancaster’s body goes
missing on the night of his death, a sinister
web of secrets and lies is exposed in the
village of Little Malton. 14+ [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
12:00am Fight Like Soldiers,
Die Like Children
When you’ve been to hell and back, how do
you shake the memories? This question has
haunted Gen. Roméo Dallaire since 1994,
when he was UN Force Commander during
the Rwandan genocide. 18+ [DV] [CC]
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1:00amHeartbeat
Kindness of Strangers. See 9pm [RP] [CC]
2:00am Midsomer Murders
Habeas Corpus, part 2. See 10pm [RP] [CC]
3:00am Striking Balance
Clayoquot Sound. See 7pm [RP] [CC]
4:00am Fight Like Soldiers,
12:30am Life and Death in the
11:02pm Out of Mind, Out of Sight:
Valley of the Kings
Life (1 of 2). See 8pm [RP] [CC]
Inside the Brockville Psych
Filmmaker John Kastner gains
unprecedented access to the Brockville
Mental Health Centre where he follows
patients struggling to regain control
of their lives. [DV] [CC]
1:30am The Apology
See 9pm [RP] [CC]
3:14am Mary and Myself
See 10:46pm [RP] [CC]
Die Like Children
See 12am [DV] [RP] [CC]
3:21am
SATURDAY APRIL 22
3:31am Undersea Explorer
7:00pm National Geographic
Life on the Reef. Rescue crews respond
to a human and environmental emergency
in one of the most sensitive parts of the
Great Barrier Reef and a critical salvage
mission is launched. [CC]
8:00pm Life and Death in the
Valley of the Kings
Life (1 of 2). Egyptologist Joann Fletcher
explores how people lived in ancient Egypt –
from the tightly packed houses to the clothes
they wore and the food they ate. [RP] [CC]
Hungu
See 10:53pm [RP] [CC]
12:00am National Geographic
Into the Wilderness: Grand Canyon.
See 7pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
1:00amLocomotion:
Giants of Socorro (5 of 5). South of Mexico’s
Baja Peninsula, the remote Socorro
Islands provide expedition divers with
an opportunity to interact with giant
manta rays. [DV] [CC]
4:00am Time Team
The First King of Racing. Tony Robinson and
the team visit Newmarket, the birthplace
of horseracing, in search of the earliest
archaeological traces of the sport of kings.
[CC]
SUNDAY APRIL 23
Dan Snow’s History of Railways
(1 of 3). See 8pm [RP] [CC]
2:00am Masters of the Pacific Coast:
The Tribes of the American Northwest
Arrival. See 9pm [RP] [CC]
2:58am The Somme 1916:
From Both Sides of the Wire
First Day. See 10pm [RP] [CC]
4:00am Out of Mind, Out of Sight:
Inside the Brockville Psych
See 11:02pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
MONDAY APRIL 24
9:00pm The Apology [NEW!]
More than 200,000 women across Asia
were forced into sexual slavery by the
Imperial Japanese Army during WWII.
Now these former “comfort women”
are demanding an official apology from
a reluctant Japanese government. [CC]
7:00pm National Geographic
Into the Wilderness: Grand Canyon.
At the edge of a chasm one billion times
their size, visitors see only a fraction of the
Grand Canyon’s beauty hidden amid stone,
water and wildlife. [DV] [CC]
8:00pmLocomotion:
10:46pm Mary and Myself
A meta-narrative about two ChineseCanadian women making their theatrical
debut playing “comfort women” in
The Vagina Monologues. [CC]
Dan Snow’s History of Railways
(1 of 3). Dan looks at railways from their
beginnings as tracks for coal carts in the
18th century. [CC]
9:00pm Masters of the Pacific
10:53pmHungu
Under the African sun, a child walks in
the desert with his kin. Death is prowling,
but a mother’s soul resurrected by music
will return strength and life to the child
when he becomes a man. [CC]
Coast: The Tribes of the American
Northwest [NEW!]
Arrival. Archeologist Jago Cooper sees
how a complex society developed without
agriculture. [CC]
Against All North Atlantic Odds. Gudridur
Helgadottir is committed to turning the
bleak landscape of Iceland green. [CC]
11:30pm National Geographic
Life on the Reef. See 7pm [RP] [CC]
Healthy Eating
We spend millions each year on products
that we’re told are good for us. The promise
of improving health is the ultimate marketing
ploy. Does the science behind this multimillion-dollar business really back up
the claims? [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
9:00pm A Cook Abroad
(4 of 4). MasterChef judge Monica Galetti
steps outside her comfort zone as she swaps
her chef’s whites for wellies and heads for
the Jura Mountains in eastern France. [CC]
10:00pm Imaginary Feasts
10:00pm The Somme 1916:
11:02pm Recreating Eden
7:00pm The Truth About
From Both Sides of the Wire
First Day. Historian Peter Barton
explores the events leading up to and
on the notoriously bloody first day
of the offensive. Walking the battlefield,
he explains the failures that led to over
20,000 British deaths. [RP] [CC]
In Japanese war camps, Nazi concentration
camps and the Gulag, prisoners wrote
down beloved recipes. This film reflects
on the power of imagination to sustain body
and spirit. [CC]
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11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario. [CC]
2:00amAttenborough’s
Fabulous Frogs
See 7pm [RP] [CC]
12:00am A Cook Abroad
(4 of 4). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
4:05amVikings
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
2:00am The Truth About
(2 of 3). Neil Oliver heads out from
the Scandinavian homelands to Russia,
Turkey and Ireland to trace the beginnings
of a vast trading empire that handled
Chinese silks as adeptly as Pictish slaves. [CC]
Healthy Eating
See 7pm [RP] [CC]
WEDNESDAY APRIL 26
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
7:00pmAttenborough’s
7:00pm Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero
4:05amVikings
Fabulous Frogs
Using the latest science, the hidden
world and natural history of more than
5,000 frog and toad species is revealed. [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
9:00pm The Apology
9:00pm The Innocence Network [NEW!]
1:00am Imaginary Feasts
See 10pm [RP] [CC]
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario. [CC]
(1 of 3). Neil Oliver heads for Scandinavia
to reveal the truth behind the legend of
the Vikings. [CC]
TUESDAY APRIL 25
7:00pm Impossible Engineering
Ultimate Airport. Construction of the Kansai
International Airport in Osaka Bay, Japan,
is featured. [CC]
9:00pm Snowden’s Great Escape
A breathtaking account of the NSA’s search
for Edward Snowden and the plan that
enabled his remarkable disappearing act. [CC]
4:05amVikings
(3 of 3). Neil Oliver explores how the age
of the Vikings finally ended. [CC]
THURSDAY APRIL 27
See description on first page.
More than 200,000 women across Asia
were forced into sexual slavery by the
Imperial Japanese Army during WWII.
Now these former “comfort women”
are demanding an official apology from
a reluctant Japanese government. [RP] [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario. [CC]
(2 of 2). Bill Bailey follows in Alfred Wallace’s
footsteps, from the heart of Borneo to the
exotic Spice Islands. [CC]
See description on first page.
(4 of 4). New Orleans, 1984: a young
delinquent is killed accidentally by his
accomplice during a robbery attempt.
His best friend, George Toca, is arrested
and sentenced to life imprisonment. [CC]
10:00pm Fake or Fortune [NEW!]
10:43pm Mary and Myself
A meta-narrative about two ChineseCanadian women making their theatrical
debut playing “comfort women” in
The Vagina Monologues. [RP] [CC]
Mystery Old Master. A beautiful church
in the heart of the Lancastrian countryside
has for over 200 years been home to a
possible 16th-century Italian Old Master,
but it is also at the centre of an unusual
mystery. [CC]
10:50pmHungu
10:00pm Redesign My Brain
Help Me Adapt (1 of 3). Dr. Michael
Merzenich, the pioneer of the neuroplasticity revolution, teaches Todd Sampson
how to turbo-charge his thinking speed,
attention and memory. [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
12:00am Imaginary Feasts
See April 24 at 10pm [RP] [CC]
1:00am Redesign My Brain
Help Me Adapt (1 of 3). See 10pm [RP] [CC]
Under the African sun, a child walks in
the desert with his kin. Death is prowling,
but a mother’s soul resurrected by music
will return strength and life to the child
when he becomes a man. [RP] [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
1:00am Fake or Fortune
12:00am The Apology
2:00am Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero
1:47am Mary and Myself
3:00am Question Period [NEW!]
See description on first page.
See 9pm [RP] [CC]
See 10:43pm [RP] [CC]
See description on first page.
12:00am The Innocence Network
(4 of 4). See 9pm [RP] [CC]
Mystery Old Master. See 10pm [RP] [CC]
(2 of 2). See 7pm [RP] [CC]
Question Period in the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario. [CC]
1:54am
2:00am Impossible Engineering
Ultimate Airport. See 7pm [RP] [CC]
Hungu
See 10:50pm [RP] [CC]
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4:05am 10 Billion: What’s On
3:00am Striking Balance
Your Plate?
In the middle of the heated debate about
food security comes this broad and
analytical look into global food production
and distribution – from artificial meats
to trendy self-cultivation. [RP] [CC]
Mont Saint-Hilaire (3 of 8). See 10pm [RP] [CC]
FRIDAY APRIL 28
7:00pm National Geographic
7:00pm Striking Balance
Mont Saint-Hilaire (3 of 8). Along the
plains of the St. Lawrence River and
30 kilometres from Montreal, Mont SaintHilaire boasts primeval forests, rocky
summits, and a glacially formed lake
at its centre. [CC]
7:00pm National Geographic
4:00amProsecutor
See 7pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
SATURDAY APRIL 29
Life on the Reef. Rescue crews respond
to a human and environmental emergency
in one of the most sensitive parts of the
Great Barrier Reef and a critical salvage
mission is launched. [CC]
See description on first page.
9:00pmHeartbeat
9:00pm How to Prepare for Prison
Hollywood or Bust. Film director Denzil
Arcourt plans a film shoot in Aidensfield,
but Mike quickly reveals Arcourt’s true
plans for the town. A farmer tries to resolve
problems with a neighbour with a shotgun.
14+ [CC]
10:00pm Midsomer Murders
Incident at Cooper Hill, part 1. Mysterious
lights are seen in the sky over famous UFO
hot-spot Cooper Hill. When a local forestranger suffers a strange death, the visiting
UFO spotters are convinced aliens are
responsible. 14+ [CC]
Into the Wilderness: Hawaii. In the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, more than 7,000
species of birds, fish and mammals create a
unique web of life that we’re only beginning
to understand. [DV] [CC]
8:00pmLocomotion:
Dan Snow’s History of Railways
(2 of 3). Tracing the development of the
railways from simple tracks to a truly
national network. [CC]
9:00pm Masters of the Pacific
8:00pm Life and Death in the
Valley of the Kings
Death (2 of 2). Joann Fletcher discovers
the ancient Egyptian afterlife and
examines spectacular mummies. [RP] [CC]
8:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
SUNDAY APRIL 30
Fuelled by fear, regret, defiance and
redemption, this documentary follows
the story of three people facing prison for
the first time. [DV] [CC]
10:30pm Migrant Dreams
This award-winning doc follows the story
of migrant workers who come to work in
Ontario greenhouses as part of Canada’s
Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
Coast: The Tribes of the American
Northwest [NEW!]
Survival. Archeologist Jago Cooper reveals
how a cultural tradition that began over
10,000 years ago managed to survive against
the odds. [CC]
10:00pm The Somme 1916:
From Both Sides of the Wire
Defence in Depth. Historian Peter Barton
concentrates on the second phase of the
battle, from the middle of July to the
middle of September 1916. [RP] [CC]
11:01pm The Apology
Life on the Reef. See 7pm [RP] [CC]
More than 200,000 women across Asia were
forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial
Japanese Army during WWII. Now these
former “comfort women” are demanding an
official apology from a reluctant Japanese
government. [RP] [CC]
12:30am Life and Death in the
1:00amLocomotion:
Valley of the Kings
Death (2 of 2). See 8pm [RP] [CC]
Dan Snow’s History of Railways
(2 of 3). See 8pm [RP] [CC]
The first permanent International Criminal
Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese
President Omar Al-Bashir. The cameras
follow the prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo
at the UN. [DV] [CC]
1:30am How to Prepare for Prison
2:00am Masters of the Pacific Coast:
See 10:30pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
3:00am The Somme 1916:
1:00amHeartbeat
4:00am Time Team
From Both Sides of the Wire
Defence in Depth. See 10pm [RP] [CC]
11:00pm The Agenda with Steve Paikin
See description on first page.
[DV] [RP] [CC]
11:31pm National Geographic
12:00amProsecutor
Hollywood or Bust. See 9pm. 14+ [RP] [CC]
2:00am Midsomer Murders
Incident at Cooper Hill – part 1.
See 9pm [RP] [CC]
See 9pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
3:00am Migrant Dreams
Chapel of Secrets. Tony Robinson leads the
team to the village of Beadnell on a beautiful
stretch of the Northumbrian coast to explore
an unusual promontory. [CC]
The Tribes of the American Northwest
Survival. See 9pm [RP] [CC]
4:00am National Geographic
Into the Wilderness: Hawaii.
See 7pm [DV] [RP] [CC]
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