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Primeval – Episode 3
Saturday, 8 January 2011, 7:00PM – 8:00PM A mysterious group come through an anomaly in a theatre, unknowingly followed by deadly tree creatures. In a frantic chase through the city, the creature is tracked down, only for the anomaly to close and one of the group to be stranded. A group of mysterious strangers hide [...]
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Shaun Ryder dismisses EMI snub myth
Shaun Ryder has exploded the myth he once walked out on a massive record deal to buy drugs – insisting the snub was deliberate. Ryder’s band, Happy Mondays, fell apart shortly after record giant EMI withdrew the offer of a five-album contract – reportedly worth £1.7 million – in the mid-1990s. Music industry legend has [...]
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Primeval – Episode 2
Sunday, 2 January 2011, 7:00PM - 8:00PM Reunited with an old friend, Connor comes across a deadly Kaprosuchus terrorizing the docks. Working with new ARC leader Matt, they manage to stop the creature, but will Connor’s bravery earn him his place back on the team? Abby and Connor begin to contemplate life without the ARC. But while Abby [...]
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Pompeii
Tuesday 14 December – 9.00-10.00pm BBC TWO Pompeii: the most famous volcanic eruption in history. We may know how its victims died but now, a landmark BBC Two film sets out to answer a much more interesting question – how did they live? Throughout 30 years of research at Cambridge, Professor of Classics Mary Beard [...]
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Chernobyl will open its doors to tourists, 24 years after the nuclear explosion
Since January, the Chernobyl nuclear plant will open its doors to tourists, with visits to the plant that failed and caused the most important civil nuclear disaster in history. Viktor Baloga, the Ukrainian Emergencies Minister, announced that the works will be completed to open the tourist site, but only to groups with official approval, with [...]




