http://www.enhancetv.com.au Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:01:47 1000 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Conceptual Photography: This documentary series explores the greatest contemporary photographers of our time. Treading between the realms of dreams and reality, Alan Fleischer's works reveal the artist as an incredible creator of images. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Actor Bud Tingwell (The Castle, Breaker Morant, Innocence) chats to Peter Thompson, giving the student audience a fascinating account of his long and varied career in film and television. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Will scientists ever be able to accurately predict volcanic eruptions? Vulcanologists around the world study gas emissions, temperature changes and seismic and electro-magnetic data to try and predict when volcanoes will erupt. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Every summer, thousands of tourists step aboard a 70-year-old ferryboat named the Ammonia, moored in the sparkling waters of Lake Tinn in southeast Norway. In the middle of the lake, over a thousand feet down, lie the perfectly preserved remains of the Ammonia's sister ship, the Hydro, the target of one of the most daring exploits of the Norwegian resistance in World War II. In the summer of 2003, an exclusive NOVA expedition will attempt to salvage the vital cargo that was on board the Hydro when it sank. Analysis of the cargo may resolve the controversy surrounding what was perhaps the crucial turning point in Nazi Germany's race to build the atom bomb. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Few scientists like to predict the future. Geographer Chris Scotese however, has drawn a map of Earth 250 million years from now. This super-continent is a place of wild extremes. Experts such as climatologist Dr Paul Valdes, atmospheric scientist George Bryan and paleo-biologist Bruce Tiffney predict what life might be like on a future Earth. But other scientists believe a future single landmass world could sow the seeds of destruction for all life on Earth and the formation of a scorched and barren planet in its place. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Deconstructs, second by second, the tragic events that led to the worst day of terrorist attacks on American soil. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Looks at the consequences of the Civil War and how the monarchy itself was under threat. Examines how Oliver Cromwell was able to bring about the execution of the monarch Charles I and the irreversible impact this destruction of the monarchy and subsequent parliamentary rule had. Also considers why the monarchy was restored in 1649, albeit one changed in terms of power. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Four and a half billion years ago, the earth formed from dust in space to become a molten ball of rock orbiting the sun. This episode travels back in time to investigate how the fledgling planet survived a cataclysmic cosmic collision with another world, how molten rock solidified to land, how our oceans filled with water and how life arrived on earth. Geologists study the oldest rocks on earth and meteorites from outer space to solve the greatest geological mystery of all, the birth of the earth. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Tells the story of how English became the battleground in the fight for men's souls. We visit York to see the medieval mystery plays tell the stories of the Bible in English, and find out why the church establishment kept the Bible in Latin only. In Oxford, we find the beginnings of the Reformation in a movement to secretly translate the Bible into English, and see how the people who possessed those Bibles risked death at the stake. We see the impact of printing on the English language, and how that fixed many of the anomalies of spelling and grammar that still make English so difficult for students to learn. And we visit Hampton Court to see how Henry VIII's marriage problems finally brought the English Bible out of hiding and into every church in the land. And we look at how William Tyndale's translation brought dozens of familiar phrases from Let there be light to Ye of little faith into everyday use, and fixed for centuries our idea of how God speaks. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Looks at the consequences of the Civil War and how the monarchy itself was under threat. Examines how Oliver Cromwell was able to bring about the execution of the monarch Charles I and the irreversible impact this destruction of the monarchy and subsequent parliamentary rule had. Also considers why the monarchy was restored in 1649, albeit one changed in terms of power. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Four and a half billion years ago, the earth formed from dust in space to become a molten ball of rock orbiting the sun. This episode travels back in time to investigate how the fledgling planet survived a cataclysmic cosmic collision with another world, how molten rock solidified to land, how our oceans filled with water and how life arrived on earth. Geologists study the oldest rocks on earth and meteorites from outer space to solve the greatest geological mystery of all, the birth of the earth. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Tells the story of how English became the battleground in the fight for men's souls. We visit York to see the medieval mystery plays tell the stories of the Bible in English, and find out why the church establishment kept the Bible in Latin only. In Oxford, we find the beginnings of the Reformation in a movement to secretly translate the Bible into English, and see how the people who possessed those Bibles risked death at the stake. We see the impact of printing on the English language, and how that fixed many of the anomalies of spelling and grammar that still make English so difficult for students to learn. And we visit Hampton Court to see how Henry VIII's marriage problems finally brought the English Bible out of hiding and into every church in the land. And we look at how William Tyndale's translation brought dozens of familiar phrases from Let there be light to Ye of little faith into everyday use, and fixed for centuries our idea of how God speaks. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Dr David Starkey presents a complete history of the British monarchy, combining a gripping biographical narrative of England's royal rulers with a thought-provoking, original and intelligent analysis of the gradual emergence of a unique form of government: a constitutional monarchy that would eventually allow the inhabitants of the British Isles an almost unrivalled degree of political liberty and stability. In 1660, the English monarchy was restored with the return from exile of King Charles II. Could the new king, who famously fathered at least 17 bastard children, turn his fertile mind to healing the wounds of division in England? Could he secure the Stuart dynasty, and overcome centuries of rival claimants to the throne and struggles that had been dynastic and then more dangerously religious? This opening programme tells the remarkable story of a king who secured the restoration of the English monarchy by a series of political twists and turns, by aligning his throne with Catholic France and then Protestant Parliament and overcoming plague, the Great Fire and concerted violent opposition to the succession of his Catholic brother James. A reign which restored the authority of the English crown and laid the foundation of the world's first modern state. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Of all great British engineering achievements, the aeronautical ones must surely rank amongst the highest. Speed, endurance and combat ability are some of the key areas where Britain has excelled in aeroplane design. The De Havilland Comet was the first passenger jet to cross the Atlantic, and for speed and style there is nothing to rival Concorde, the only passenger jet ever to break the speed of sound and deliver a sub-three-hour trans-Atlantic crossing. The emblematic Spitfire was the jewel in the crown of British air combat during the Second World War, and the fact that there are still 50 of them flying today is testament to their reliability. Later in the war, Gloster Meteor jet fighter took to the skies and became the precursor for decades of air travel. And in modern times, the British Harrier Jump Jet is still the only vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft ever to grace the skies. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ The sin of envy has led to murder, revolution and even the fall of empires. Yet in today's image-saturated world, has the sin of envy gone from vice to virtue? http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ What happens to the world when mankind stops travelling around it? Oil refineries keep pumping out fuel, but they're turning into ticking time bombs. In the Motor City, a series of harsh northern winters dismantles an automotive headquarters. In Texas, a life-giving river turns into destroyer, while the Alamo succumbs to a new invader. Also, one breed of dog re-discovers its natural hunting instincts, armadillos reach new frontiers and long-horn cattle face a future they've already experienced. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Jamie continues to teach his class basic recipes to cook for life. When one of his pupils finds out she is pregnant she has a new determination to quit her chip habit and get healthy. Jamie teaches her how to cook vegetables and make them tasty. Later, Jamie organises a mass pass-it-on at a local football stadium and attempts to teach 64 men how to cook basic recipes. The day is a huge success and Jamie is struck when he meets Mick the miner, who has never cooked in his life. Jamie decides to invite Mick and three other men he met at the footy to join the class. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Join Jamie Oliver and his good mate Tobie Puttock (Tobie & Matt) as they open the first Fifteen restaurant in Australia, giving Australian kids the opportunity to follow their career aspirations and star in this warts and all series. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ The Greatest Discoveries in Chemistry unlocks the secrets behind why steel is strong and sugar is sweet. The answer lies in elements and compounds that are a billion times smaller than we are and the science of chemistry, which has its origins in some of. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ This episode shows how, in 1995, Edward Witten of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, aided by others, revolutionised string theory by successfully uniting the five different versions into a single theory that is cryptically named "M-theory" - a development that required a total of eleven dimensions. But the new eleventh dimension is different from all the others, since it implies that strings can come in higher dimensional shapes called membranes, or "branes" for short. These have truly science fiction-like qualities, since in principle they can be as large as the universe. A "brane" can even be a universe - a parallel universe - and we may be living on one right now. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Mythbusters Jamie and Adam put their noses to the test to find out if that nasty smell in the car is there to stay. Follow the gasoline trail as they try to flush out the truth in the raccoon in the drain myth. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ This is the story of how the Cornish mining industry developed from picking pebbles out of streams to building a honeycomb of mines running thousands of feet beneath the sea. And Mark Williams also reveals how thousands of tons of Cornish copper were used in the creation of a communications network which linked one Cornish beach to the rest of the world. He starts by collecting heavy pebbles, crushing them under an ingenious automated system of water-wheel powered stamps and then smelting them to release the metal. New technology helped the miners dig even deeper. They developed some of the world's finest steam engines. And in the 19th century a new invention led to a boom in the demand for copper. Thousands of tons of Cornish copper found its way into telegraph cables that linked the county and Britain to Bombay and the Empire. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ From Neolithic flint mines to a 21st-century house powered by solar energy, presenter Ronald Top explores how we have met our basic need to keep warm. The story takes him underground in Poland, in search of coal and flint; then to Sweden, the land of the match-makers; and to England, where the Romans astonished the locals with their early version of central heating. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Our host, Bill Nye, discusses the torturous process by which scientists came to understand that inherited information is passed according to certain rules, rather than transmitted through a blending of fluids or some other false theory. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ How did beautiful silks lead to today's computer revolution? The answer: binary code. In this program Mark Williams takes us through its invention, driven by the desire to weave fabrics, not by hand, but by machine. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Queer short films and doco's including Kris Kross, Secret Love, Two Die and Bouncing Castles. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Will scientists ever be able to accurately predict volcanic eruptions? Vulcanologists around the world study gas emissions, ground deformation, temperature changes and seismic and electro-magnetic data to try and predict when volcanoes will erupt. Their task is vitally important, as many of the 1,500 active volcanoes on the planet are considered utterly unpredictable. Spewing forth lava and ash, they kill an average of 800 people per year, and threaten 500 million more. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Every summer, thousands of tourists step aboard a 70 year-old ferryboat named the Ammonia, moored in the sparkling waters of Lake Tinn in southeast Norway. In the middle of the lake, over a thousand feet down, lie the perfectly preserved remains of the Ammonia's sister ship, the Hydro, the target of one of the most daring exploits of the Norwegian resistance in World War II. In the summer of 2003, an exclusive NOVA expedition will attempt to salvage the vital cargo that was on board the Hydro when it sank. Analysis of the cargo may resolve the controversy surrounding what was perhaps the crucial turning point in Nazi Germany's race to build the atom bomb. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Few scientists like to predict the future. Geographer Chris Scotese however, has drawn a map of Earth 250 million years from now. This supercontinent is a place of wild extremes. Experts such as climatologist Dr Paul Valdes, atmospheric scientist George Bryan and paleo-biologist Bruce Tiffney predict what life might be like on a future Earth. But other scientists believe a future single landmass world could sow the seeds of destruction for all life on Earth and the formation of a scorched and barren planet in its place. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Pentagon 9/11 Pentagon 911 deconstructs second by second the tragic events that led to the worst day of terrorist attacks on American soil. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ By 280 million years ago (the early Permian period), an Ice Age had wiped out the dense coal-forests and with them most of the giant insects and amphibians. A new group of animals and plants took over. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Meet the three medieval King Richards of England. One spent his life fighting battles, one was murdered and one is an accused child murderer. Terry also finds evidence of a King Louis seemingly airbrushed from history. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Body snatching, boiling bones, wilful ignorance and the birth of observation. In this episode, Michael Mosley reveals how surgery dragged itself kicking and screaming out of the dark ages, to transform itself from butchery into a science. The early days of surgery were dark and barbaric, when the surgeon's knife was more likely to kill than save you and invasive medicine generally met being bled by leeches to within an inch of your life. Michael goes right back to the beginning of surgical history and reveals how, against the odds, we got to where we are today. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Delve behind the true, chilling events that inspired Mary Shelley's Gothic horror story Frankenstein and discover the historic inspiration and scientific fact behind the legend. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ On 7 June 1967, the third day of the Six Day War, Israeli forces complete the destruction of Egypt's armies in the Sinai, capture the entire West Bank of the River Jordan, and seize the Old City of Jerusalem. By the time the war ends three days later, Israel has quadrupled the territory under her rule. But the euphoria of victory has turned to anguish as the unresolved issues of this remarkable war continue to plague relations between Israelis and Arabs today. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ On 27 January 1945, Red Army soldiers liberate the camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In this series final, see how the soldiers are not informed of the camps' existence, so when they enter it, they are utterly shocked by the walking skeletons, the remains of the gas chambers and the piles of human hair. But it is not only Auschwitz-Birkenau that horrifies the world. A few months later other concentration camps are liberated among them Bergen-Belsen, where thousands of unburied bodies are strewn over the ground. The British are horrified and unprepared for how to deal with the situation 14,000 prisoners die in the first five days following their liberation; another 14,000 succumb in the following weeks. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Palin's journey has revolved around getting from one end of the globe to the other in order to catch this ship which sails from Africa to the Antarctic. He makes it in time, to find out there is no room for him and his team. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Since the nineteenth century, Western gardeners have harboured a stereotype image of the perfect exotic garden and Monty visits the pre-eminent of these - the mysterious Jim Thompson's Garden in Bangkok. He then pushes on to Singapore - a City in a Garden - before finally touching down in the lush and sensuous island of Bali, where what he learns about South-East Asian gardens surprises him. Highlights: The Royal Palace Gardens, the floating gardens of the Klongs and the mysterious Jim Thompson's garden in Thailand; in Singapore, the City in a Garden, and the lush and spiritual garden traditions of Bali. Gardens: 73. Thailand - Jim Thompson's Garden, Bangkok 74. Thailand - The Grand Palace, Bangkok 75. Thailand - The Klong Gardens, Bangkok 76. Singapore - The City in a Garden 77. Singapore - Wilson Wong's Community Garden 78. Indonesia - Pura Taman Ayun, Ubud, Bali 79. Indonesia - Traditional Home Compound, Ubud, Bali 80. Indonesia - Villa Bebek, Sanur, Bal (designed by Made Wijaya). http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ To many, East and West appear set on an inevitable collision course, with Christianity, Judaism and Islam locked in permanent confrontation. But on this revealing journey through Europe, Rageh Omaar proves that this is not how it has always been. Armed with his special insight and knowledge of the Middle East, Rageh sets out from the coast of southern Spain where Muslims first entered the Iberian Pennisula in 711. He travels to Cordoba where he discovers a city once ruled by Muslims that was centuries ahead of any in Europe. Medieval Cordobans trod pavements lit up by street lamps; it would be hundreds of years before Londoners and Parisians no longer wallowed in mud through darkened streets. From there, his journey continues to 13th-century Paris, where Christian scholars were persecuted by the Church for trying to apply logic to religious faith. Back in Spain, while this intellectual crisis was breaking in Paris, the Nastrid Dynasty of Granada were building what would be the last will and testament to Muslims rule in the West. Inside the magnificent royal palaces of the Alhambra, Rageh sees firsthand the knowledge that Muslims possessed in mathematics, architecture and poetry. But in 1492, Muslims lost their last kingdom in medieval Europe to Spain's first monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella. Finally, Rageh returns to Tarifa, where he began his journey. At the local cemetery, he finds anonymous tombs of modern North African immigrants. Just some of the hundreds who have died in recent years attempting to reach Europe to start a new life, their forgotten bodies washed up on the very beaches where their victorious ancestors once entered Spain and changed European history forever. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ In this series finale, see the Queen's support staff of over 300 people, known as the Royal Household, attempting to operate as smoothly as every one of the 630 clocks ticking away in Buckingham Palace. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Jerry's Jewish parents narrowly escaped Nazi Germany, leaving behind their families and all knowledge of his roots. Springer undertakes a painful investigation into his family's tragic past. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ British actor Stephen Fry embarks on a deeply personal journey: HIV. Stephen delves into the complex world of HIV and, in his usual critical but compassionate manner, examines society's understanding of the virus. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ On 27 January 1945, Red Army soldiers liberate the camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In this series final, see how the soldiers are not informed of the camps' existence, so when they enter it, they are utterly shocked by the walking skeletons, the remains of the gas chambers and the piles of human hair. But it is not only Auschwitz-Birkenau that horrifies the world. A few months later other concentration camps are liberated among them Bergen-Belsen, where thousands of unburied bodies are strewn over the ground. The British are horrified and unprepared for how to deal with the situation 14,000 prisoners die in the first five days following their liberation; another 14,000 succumb in the following weeks. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ On his way to school Bastian escapes the neighbourhood bullies by ducking into a bookshop. A mysterious leather bound book attracts Bastian's attention. It doesn't take long for Bastian to discover the book is a gateway to an enchanting world called Fantasia. Fantasia is a magical world filled with all the wonders a young boy could imagine. However, Fantasia faces impending doom if the deadly "Nothing" that grips the land cannot be stopped. Bastian is desperate to save Fantasia, but what can one little boy do to save an entire world from extinction? http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Jamie continues to teach his class basic recipes to cook for life. When one of his pupils finds out she is pregnant she has a new determination to quit her chip habit and get healthy. Jamie teaches her how to cook vegetables and make them tasty. Later, Jamie organises a mass pass-it-on at a local football stadium and attempts to teach 64 men how to cook basic recipes. The day is a huge success and Jamie is struck when he meets Mick the miner, who has never cooked in his life. Jamie decides to invite Mick and three other men he met at the footy to join the class. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Join Jamie Oliver and his good mate Tobie Puttock (Tobie & Matt) as they open the first Fifteen restaurant in Australia, giving Australian kids the opportunity to follow their career aspirations and star in this warts and all series.