http://www.enhancetv.com.au Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:48:13 1000 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ One of the leaders in the field of design, Kevin McCloud is also the writer and presenter of Grand Designs. This series sees Kevin accompany self-builders on their journey to create their dream home. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Jan and Ed decide to restore the decrepit 1880s summer house of Sir Augustus Gregory - an almighty transformation which includes lifting the house and shifting it forward. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Find out how the Whiskers family are getting on and what they've been up to over the last year. Who are the latest villains? Who's in love with who? http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ One of the most stunning, untouched landscapes on earth is found in the heartland of Asia stretching from the impenetrable forests of Siberia in the North to the Chinese wall in the South. And here, a huge variety of rare animal species are found under its deep blue sky. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Heath Ledger and Bryan Brown star in this comical crime drama, the winner of five AFI awards including Best Film, which centres around a young man who finds himself in hot water when his first job working for a notorious gangster ends badly. Hanging around Sydney's Kings Cross, young Jimmy (Heath Ledger) sees an opportunity to break into the criminal scene when Pando (Bryan Brown), a criminal with a fearsome reputation, offers him a small but important errand to run. Jimmy is sent to Bondi to deliver a substantial amount of cash to a woman, but the money goes missing when he goes swimming while waiting for the woman to return. Jimmy organises to rob a bank to repay the money, but word has already gotten back to Pando, who is after Jimmy and intends to kill him. Jimmy and his new love interest, Alex (Rose Byrne) are forced to run for it when Pando's gang tracks him down, but although he escapes with his life, the bank robbery the next day is not without its mishaps either. Even repaying his debt is fraught with danger, but Jimmy is nothing if not determined to do the right thing. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Edward James Olmos stars as Jaime Escalante in this inspirational true story about a teacher and the unmotivated East Los Angeles high school students who he inspires, badgers, threatens and humors into learning the most demanding of all math sciences - calculus. But the accomplishment is so utterly fantastic that the students are accused of cheating. Given a choice to accept the allegation or retake an extremely demanding examination to prove themselves, the students decide to Stand And Deliver. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Look closer. This multiple Academy Award-winning film is a dazzling tale of loneliness, desire and the hollowness of conformity. Lester Burnham is a loser suburbanite rebelling against his dead-end job, his bitch-on-wheels wife, his unloving daughter and imminent middle-age. His subsequent actions unfold into a darkly comic drama laced with a stellar supporting cast and enough roses to fill a nursery. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Jeremy Paxman looks back at the best of the week's films and discussions from Newsnight. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Lock some of the best future thinkers in the world in a room until they tell you how they think the world will look in 2020. Adam Shaw, did just that. Armed with their thoughts, he then travelled the world to put flesh on the theoretical bones. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Jeremy Paxman looks back at the best of the week's films and discussions from Newsnight. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Angler Jeremy Wade re-lives his encounters with some of the world's most bizarre, and gruesome, freshwater monsters - beasts that can swallow you whole, swim up your private parts, or even eat you alive from within! http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Crazy Mythbusters Adam and Jamie take a look back at myths that generated a truckload of angry fan mail. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Test your attentiveness with a series of visual tricks and learn how master magician David Copperfield manipulates an audience's attention to produce amazing illusions. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Hidden deep in the impenetrable jungles of Cambodia, the mighty temple of Angkor Wat is a humbling representation of the Hindu universe. A usurper king who seizes the throne by murdering his great uncle, King Suryavarman II seeks to justify his absolute power over the enormous Khmer Empire with a towering monument to the Hindu god Vishnu. Angkor Wat will also serve as the new king's personal mausoleum, and be his personal heaven for the afterlife. Suryavarman's vision is one of staggering ambition. The largest of the five huge towers soars 65m into the sky, surrounded by a network of concentric courtyards, causeways and outbuildings, all guarded by an enormous 200 m wide moat. Experts estimate workers must cut and transport at least 300 blocks of sandstone weighing from three to fifteen tonnes every day to ensure the temple is completed in Suryavarman's lifetime. Completed in a staggering thirty-five years, Angkor Wat remains one of the largest and most awe-inspiring religious monument. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ At 171m long, the USS Pennsylvania is the biggest submarine in the US Navy. It can dive deeper than a thousand feet, sail for 20 years without refuelling, and remain submerged for up to six months. The vessel carries a crew of 155 men and a deadly nuclear arsenal. Uncover the innovations in six landmark submarines, including the tiny Turtle and colossal German U-boats, that made it possible for engineers to incorporate underwater breathing, torpedos, missile launch systems and stealth technology into ever bigger submarines. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Richard Hammond reveals how Japan's bullet train owes its design to ancient charioteers, a crowbar, a medieval clock, the electric telegraph and a 19th century luxury racing car. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Stephen Hawking is one of the world's most famous scientists. But ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, has left him almost totally paralysed and it is progressing. Unable to walk, talk, or write, his only way of communicating is through a computer program that turns a small movement of a finger or the blink of an eye, into words from a vocal synthesiser. But Hawking remains determined to discover a theory of everything, a complete set of rules for the Universe. Where did the Universe come from and where is it going? What is the nature of time? Will it ever come to an end? http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ After a ten-day Hawaiian vacation, Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton) returns to her San Francisco home with John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), her brand new fiance. Although he's a successful doctor and a Nobel Prize candidate, her parents, Christina(Katharine Hepburn) and Matthew (Spencer Tracy), are taken aback when they discover John is black. While he quickly wins over Christina with his charm and intelligence, Matthew is more hesitant. And as John's parents also have their doubts over the impending marriage, the good doctor certainly has his work cut out for him, as he won't marry Joanna unless there's unanimous parental consent. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Arguably the most accessible of Bunuel's biting satires, a lyrical exploration of a neglected doctor's wife leads a bizarre double life. With couture by Yves Saint Laurent, Catherine Deneuve is ice cool and untouchable as the bored wife who turns to prostitution. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Time Team America goes in search of the nation's mysterious roots at Roanoke Island. In 1586 the English sent the first group of hardy, hopeful colonists to make a go of it in the New World. But when English ships returned with supplies just three years later, they found the settlement empty and colonists gone. The colonists had left behind only one clue: the word Croatoan carved in the gatepost of their fort. It took 20 years for the stunned English to establish another settlement in America. The fate of the Roanoke colonists remains one of the most chilling and maddening questions of American history. Time Team America spends three days at Fort Raleigh in hot pursuit of archaeological evidence that will put the ghost of Roanoke to rest and establish where the first colony in America was actually located. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Once the biggest and most influential city on the planet, founded by Alexander the Great and home to Cleopatra, Archimedes and the largest library in the world. How did this shining beacon for civilisation and knowledge meet its classical demise? Featuring stunning visualisations from the major movie Agora, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes looks at Alexandria past and present, unearthing archaeological gems and following in the footsteps of Hypatia, the city's last great female philosopher and guardian of great Library of Alexandria, whose murder would bring down the curtain not just on an era but on the ancient world as a whole. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Time Team are in search of the real-life Flintstones at one of Britain's major early Stone Age sites at a holiday camp at Elveden in Suffolk. The site dates back 400,000 years when our early ancestors shared the country with lions, rhinos and elephants but, contrary to the movies, definitely no dinosaurs. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Time Team America goes in search of the nation's mysterious roots at Roanoke Island. In 1586 the English sent the first group of hardy, hopeful colonists to make a go of it in the New World. But when English ships returned with supplies just three years later, they found the settlement empty and colonists gone. The colonists had left behind only one clue: the word Croatoan carved in the gatepost of their fort. It took 20 years for the stunned English to establish another settlement in America. The fate of the Roanoke colonists remains one of the most chilling and maddening questions of American history. Time Team America spends three days at Fort Raleigh in hot pursuit of archaeological evidence that will put the ghost of Roanoke to rest and establish where the first colony in America was actually located. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Once the biggest and most influential city on the planet, founded by Alexander the Great and home to Cleopatra, Archimedes and the largest library in the world. How did this shining beacon for civilisation and knowledge meet its classical demise? Featuring stunning visualisations from the major movie Agora, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes looks at Alexandria past and present, unearthing archaeological gems and following in the footsteps of Hypatia, the city's last great female philosopher and guardian of great Library of Alexandria, whose murder would bring down the curtain not just on an era but on the ancient world as a whole. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrew's University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. In the first episode, he explores the way medieval man understood the world as a place of mystery, even enchantment. The world was a book written by God. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ As the fighting worsens and the casualties grow in 1862, President Lincoln announces to the astonished Cabinet that after lengthy thought he has decided to emancipate the slaves. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ The history of the Normans is a global history, a chronicle of the roots of modern society, religion and politics and the legend of something deeper, our ancestral roots as Europeans. Above all, theirs is a story that has yet to be told. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Reveals the latest discoveries in the deadly world of asteroids. Will a recently returned Japanese spacecraft become the first to bring an asteroid sample back to our planet? What would happen to America's east coast if the massive asteroid impact that helped form Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago struck today? And why did President Barack Obama choose an asteroid as the destination for the next great manned mission into space? Learning about these huge space rocks isn't just about science, it's about survival. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Step back in time with MAX's Rewind as we count down the Top 20 songs from years gone by. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ In Rome, Charley and Ewan battle traffic before heading down the winding roads of Sorrento and along the Amalfi Coast. Tensions are high on the ferry ride from Sicily to Tunisia, as voices are raised over safety concerns and Charley's dangerous bike stunts. The whole group is edgy, making for a shaky beginning to the African adventure. However, the long boat ride helps the team work out some of their differences, and everyone is excited about the first leg of their trip through Africa. Leaving the customs office four bottles of vodka lighter, the group is ready to head through Tunisia and pay a visit to the original Star Wars set. Taking in the beautiful landscapes and the ancient Roman ruins of Leptis Magna, the boys begin to settle into their journey. Riding across the coastal roads of Libya, a sudden change in weather slows their progress to a halt. Putting up camp for the evening, the winds pick up and trouble looms as their first Libyan sand storm approaches. The next day, Charley and Ewan travel well into the night to reach Tobruk, Libya, spending more than 13 hours on the bike - barely able to see from the darkness and sand. Physically drained, they finally arrive in Tobruk. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Lonely Planet author John Vlahides braves political turmoil and plunges deep into the heart of Madagascar. In this mysterious land of taboos and ancestor worship, he explores a spooky subterranean river system, meets a healer who treats him with tobacco and booze, and earns his rock-climbing stripes on the archipelago of Nosy Hara. In the Central Highlands, he gets the surprise of his life at a circumcision ceremony, becomes the star of the show in a coming-of-age bull-wrestling fiesta and is welcomed into an ancestral re-burial ceremony that blurs the division between life and death. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Five Amish teenagers - Jerry, Andrew, Leah, Becky and Leon - bid an emotional farewell to their loved ones, as leaving their closed community for the very first time hits home. Their first challenge is getting to the UK: how will they cope with their first experience on an aeroplane? Over the next four weeks they will stay with four very different British families and it's a baptism of fire as first up they find themselves in the concrete jungle of London. Their London teenage hosts are street dancers, an art form that's completely alien to them. The Amish come from spacious homes in safe communities; how will they cope with the noisy, bustling streets of London? It's a massive eye-opener for the five innocent travellers, who are shown the seedy streets of Soho, discover the grim reality of knife crime and begin to realise just how different the lives and morals of their hosts are. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Tokyo is by far the biggest city on the planet. Diego explores where past and present collide, where the line between reality and science fiction is thin. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Stopping at the Tobruk War Cemetery, Ewan and Charley press on with their journey. Arriving safely in Egypt, the team reunites with the two Americans from the trip who were unable to make the journey into Libya. With the deadline of catching the weekly ferry from Egypt to the Sudan rapidly approaching, the hard rides are taking its toll. The boys have just enough time to stop for lunch in Alexandria before heading straight to Cairo. Spirits are lifted as Charley and Ewan take an incredible ride by the pyramids. After a private tour of the pyramid of Khufu, the team receives an armed escort for the last three hours to Luxor travelling through countless checkpoints. Taking a detour from the trip, Ewan and Charley fly down to Kenya to visit Riders for Health a charity which helps using local health practitioners get around to patients using bikes. Heading back to Egypt, the boys catch the ferry to cross the border into Sudan and their first day biking on the sand in Sudan. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ The Weather behind Black Saturday. Australia's worst bushfire struck regions across Victoria on, February 7, 2009. This Australian documentary, looks behind the human tragedy to explain extreme weather conditions that led to Black Saturday. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Kylie travels to China for inspiration for her cooking, to the boomtown city of Shanghai and the former British colony of Hong Kong, where she meets many who share her passion for food. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Neil serves up easy to prepare meals made in minutes using fresh and seasonal ingredients and simple easy-to-follow recipes. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Jamie makes cauliflower macaroni, chicory salad with insane dressing, followed by stewed fruit. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Donna cooks up an easy chicken pie, shows her secret to simple jam tarts and makes a magical baked lemon pudding. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Is it true that a soldier who was shot through his nether-regions made a nearby woman pregnant when the bullet caught her? The Mythbusters find out. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ With industrialisation, there were more mouths in towns and cities to feed and fewer men left to work the land. So how did food production keep up? http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Join genome pioneer J Craig Venter on a globe-circling ocean voyage, seeking new life forms and genetic secrets that could help solve the planet's most urgent energy and climate challenges. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Cities were traditionally developed around water until the railway age expanded their boundaries. As the population grew, how did they cope? http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Australian Story reveals the untold story behind a crime that registered in the minds of many because it was so unusually cruel and seemingly senseless. The victim was a young music student called Phil Evans. His life changed forever when he was attacked and mutilated in his own home in Brisbane in July 2003. All his fingers were hacked off and his dreams of a career playing the saxophone were wrecked, seemingly forever. Phil Evans himself came under intense police scrutiny as detectives searched for a motive for what they believed might be a drug revenge attack. The young man freely admitted that he was a marijuana user. And at the time of the attack he was working casually as a barman in a nightclub. Was there a link? http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ One of the leaders in the field of design, Kevin McCloud is also the writer and presenter of Grand Designs. This series sees Kevin accompany self-builders on their journey to create their dream home. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Jan and Ed decide to restore the decrepit 1880s summer house of Sir Augustus Gregory - an almighty transformation which includes lifting the house and shifting it forward. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Do you feel djoorabiny, do you feel happy? Or do you feel menditj, do you feel sick? Make sure you share how you feel with someone who cares. It's moorditj koolangka! (STUDY GUIDE AVAILABLE) http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Angler Jeremy Wade re-lives his encounters with some of the world's most bizarre, and gruesome, freshwater monsters - beasts that can swallow you whole, swim up your private parts, or even eat you alive from within! http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Crazy Mythbusters Adam and Jamie take a look back at myths that generated a truckload of angry fan mail. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/ Test your attentiveness with a series of visual tricks and learn how master magician David Copperfield manipulates an audience's attention to produce amazing illusions.