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Sunday 28th July
Factual > History > Documentaries
The Mystery of Rome's X Tombs
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Historian Dr Michael Scott unlocks the secrets of a mysterious tomb recently discovered in one of Rome's famous catacombs. Found by accident following a roof collapse, the tombs contained over 2,000 skeletons piled on top of each other. This was quite unlike any other underground tomb seen in Rome. They are located in an area of the catacombs marked as 'X' in the Vatican's underground mapping system - hence the name The X Tombs.
Michael Scott joins Profs Dominique Castex and Philippe Blanchard, head of a team of French archaeologists with experience of investigating mass grave sites. Carbon dating the bodies suggest they died from the late 1st century AD to the early 3rd century AD, which would mean these people lived and died during Rome's golden age.
The remains of an early Medieval fresco were found on the wall sealing the tomb suggesting this could be the last resting place of a group of unknown Christian martyrs. But the bones don't show the signs of physical trauma you would expect after a violent death.
The bodies were a mixture of men and women, most of them late-teenagers and young adults. They were placed in the tombs with great care, packed in head to foot. Further clues suggest they were laid to rest after a series of mass death events. This raises the idea they may have died from disease.
The streets of Ancient Rome were like an open sewer and the famous roman baths were also a breeding ground for infection. DNA expert and palaeogeneticist Johannes Krause is called in to try to identify what disease may have killed them.
Meanwhile, the French team uncover further clues to the identity of the people. They find cultural connections with Northern Africa. Was this a wealthy immigrant community? Or a select group of Ancient Rome's elite?
Documentaries > Biography
Alan Whicker: Journeys to the End
ITV1, 10:15-11:10pm
In tribute to the veteran broadcaster who died recently this documentary looks back at the ground-breaking, 50 year career of Alan Whicker. This is the story of a TV pioneer who brought the world into our living rooms – whether he was in Venice or Palm Beach, Hong Kong or the Australian Outback, on the QE2 or Orient Express, or simply interviewing some of the planet’s most fascinating characters - from plastic surgeons to the rich and famous.
We will hear from those who worked with Alan Whicker, from those who encountered him on and off screen, and from other broadcasters who were touched and inspired by his work on revolutionary series like Tonight and Whicker’s World.
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Monday 29th July
Documentaries > News > Current Affairs
NHS Undercover
Channel 4, 8:00-9:00pm
News
Panorama - Tainted Love: Secrets of the Dating Game
BBC1, 8:30-9:00pm
Panorama exposes the tricks of the UK's online dating industry, worth millions of pounds a year. Reporter Fiona Walker investigates how some unscrupulous dating websites are preying on those looking for love and searching for their perfect partner. She reveals a world where millions of photos and private details are taken from social media sites without people's consent and reused to set up fake profiles of imaginary potential partners to tempt the lovelorn. Celebrities, politicians and even children are among those whose personal information has been targeted. Whistleblowers reveal how they create fake profiles and adopt multiple personas to reel in those looking for love - all to boost profits.
Factual > Science & Nature > Nature & Environment > Documentaries
The Secret Life of Rockpools
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm
Paleontologist Professor Richard Fortey embarks on a quest to discover the extraordinary lives of rock pool creatures. To help explore this unusual environment he is joined by some of the UK's leading marine biologists in a dedicated laboratory at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. Here and on the beach in various locations around the UK, startling behaviour is revealed and new insights are given into how these animals cope with intertidal life. Many popular rock pool species have survived hundreds of millions of years of Earth's history, but humans may be their biggest challenge yet.
Factual > History > Documentaries
The Baby Born in a Concentration Camp
BBC1, 10:35-11:10pm
Anka Bergman gave birth to her baby daughter Eva in a Nazi concentration camp.
During her pregnancy, Anka witnessed the horrors of Auschwitz and endured six months of forced labour. If the Nazis found a woman was pregnant, she could be sent straight to the gas chambers. Amazingly, Anka's pregnancy went unnoticed for months.
Anka eventually gave birth - on the day she arrived at an extermination camp. Anka weighed just five stone and was on the brink of starvation; baby Eva weighed just three pounds.
Remarkably, both mother and daughter survived, and are living in Cambridge. Now they tell their story.
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Tuesday 30th July
Documentaries
Why Don't You Speak English?
Channel 4, 9:00-10:00pm, 2/2
The four immigrants are halfway through their period of learning English. After a week spent living with their British hosts, the immigrants now turn the tables as they welcome the Brits into their own homes.
The Brits are about to get a crash course in immigration - why people come here, how hard it is for them to communicate, and how isolated they can become.
Factual > Religion & Ethics > Documentaries
Kumbh Mela: The Greatest Show on Earth
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
February 2013, Allahabad, India. Over the next 55 days, nearly a hundred million people will come here, to the Great Kumbh Mela. This incredible and awe-inspiring celebration of the world's oldest religion happens every 12 years at the place where Hindus believe two sacred rivers meet. For many Hindus this is their most important pilgrimage, and it happens at one of the most holy sites in India. Hindus come to cleanse themselves in the sacred waters of the river Ganges, to pray and emerge purified and renewed.
This follows British pilgrims as they embark on a once-in-a-lifetime spiritual journey. A journey that will take them into the heart of Hinduism - its philosophy, its beliefs and its traditions. A journey that will culminate in the largest ever gathering of humans in one place.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Documentaries
Imagine... Zaha Hadid: Who Dares Wins
BBC1, 10:35-11:50pm
Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been. Born in Baghdad in 1950 and based in London, Zaha Hadid is now one of a handful of global superstar designers who have changed the way people think about the world through buildings. Yet this hasn't always been the case; Hadid once had a reputation as unbuildable, a 'paper architect' whose projects began as vivid paintings of gravity-defying shapes exploding into the void. How did this extraordinary woman - by turns charming, stubborn, visionary yet exacting - come to build the impossible? imagine... visits her buildings across the globe - from Austria to Azerbaijan - to find out, as Alan Yentob explores what makes Zaha Hadid tick.
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Wednesday 31st July
Factual > Crime > Documentaries
Myra Hindley: The Untold Story
Channel 5, 8:00-9:00pm, 3/3
The final part of the series is called ‘The Lost Body’. This episode will focus on the dramatic revelations during the original police investigation, as the truth emerged that the Evans murder was not a one-off, and Brady and Hindley were serial killers. We reveal how during this inquiry, and the fresh investigation in 1987, all the cases bar one were resolved: Keith Bennett's body was never recovered. We explore how, as Brady and Hindley circled each other like scorpions over the years, their manipulations contributed to the agony for Keith's family. And we see also how Myra's relentless campaign to shift public opinion and win release muddied the truth.
Factual > Arts, Culture & the Media > Arts > Documentaries > Factual > History
Bought with Love: The Secret History of British Art Collections
BBC4, 9:00-10:00pm, 3/3 - The Age of the Individual
Helen Rosslyn explores how collecting reached its maturity in the 19th century when unprecedented wealth from Britain's booming economy encouraged enlightened, philanthropic industrialists to spend their fortunes on art, and in many cases then donate their collections to the nation.
With different taste from the British aristocracy who had dominated collecting to this point, a new breed of art buyer enriched Britain's cultural story by acquiring adventurous and often avant-garde work. Helen looks at the influence of pharmaceutical magnate Thomas Holloway, the Rothschild banking dynasty and the Welsh Davies sisters.
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Thursday 1st August
Documentaries > News > Environment > Current Affairs
Tonight: Throwaway Britain
ITV1, 9:00-10:00pm
With some recycling rates across the nation as low as 14 per cent, and more than a third of household waste ending up in landfill sites, Jonathan Maitland investigates what happens to the millions of tons of rubbish the public throws away annually, and examines ways in which people can reduce the amount they generate.
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Friday 2nd August
Documentaries > Science and Nature > Environment
What's Killing Our Honey Bees? A Horizon Special
BBC2, 9:00-10:00pm
Bees may provide the soundtrack to the British summer, but they also play a hugely significant - and often underestimated - role in the life of the countryside. Bees are worth £430 million to Britain’s agriculture, and one third of what we eat is reliant on bee pollination. Yet their numbers have been falling dramatically.
This year, the EU banned the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in an attempt to reduce bee death, but the UK and US governments argued against the ban. In this film, journalist and bee enthusiast Bill Turnbull will guide us through the bewildering and conflicting science in a bid to understand what is killing our bees. Exploring the science at the heart of the bee controversy, he’ll investigate why bee numbers are falling, and ask whether pesticides really are to blame - and what other factors might be contributing to the decline.
The film focuses on two remarkable experiments that scientists are carrying out to find answers. Each involves a hive of bees where the bees have been fitted with cutting-edge tracking equipment to monitor what happens to them once they fly out of the hive. The bees carry tiny radar transponders which can then be tracked, and the idea of these experiments is to find out how the behaviour of bees is affected by two of the proposed culprits - pesticides and the varroa mite, which carries a lethal virus. In a series of hands-on experiments, Horizon reveals the surprising intelligence and detailed communication of our native bees. Bill Turnbull brings his sense of journalistic enquiry to weigh the evidence and try and
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