Episode 7. Maeve O'Meara and Joanna Savill continue to explore the best food and produce around. In this episode, an Iraqi kitchen in Victoria; the Rattlesnake Grill in Neutral Bay; Mrs Smith's Pies of Hobart; and a Dutch-Indonesian feast prepared by the Arona Christian community in Kuranda.
Today on Creature Mania, we check out some seriously big birds, the Rhea, dance with the blue footed booby and dive into the oceans with the amazing marine iguana.
Diego Velazquez. Trying to solve one of the great mysteries of the art world, our two intrepid detectives venture into Velasquez's greatest painting, "Las Meninas." (Repeat)
Why Aren't We Listening? This episode examines the factors that predispose people not to listen, but also offers an opportunity for some focused guided listening in the first movement of Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 "Italian". (Repeat)
Antony And Cleopatra With Kim Cattrall. Kim Catrall discusses William Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra with Janet Suzman, Harriet Walker and Vanessa Redgrave. (Repeat)
Milene Larsson travels to Russia ahead of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics to investigate the effects of the country's state-sanctioned homophobia.
Protecting Manuwangku documents the struggle against ongoing attempts to build a nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal Land in Muckaty in the Northern Territory. Filmed through the lead up to a major rally in Tenant Creek, the film highlights the determination of Warlmanpa and Marumungu people to defend their land and culture and to keep Manuwangku nuclear free.
Space, Stars And Slimy Aliens. What happens to our bodies in space? Can we live on other planets? Who invented the telescope and how can we make one at home? (Repeat)
The Long Depression. Things go from bad to worse as Britain is gripped by an economic depression in the early 1880s. As unemployment jumps from two to 10 percent, some of the men find themselves out of work. The shortage work shortage in the slum is exacerbated by an influx of new immigrants: descendants of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe and English workers from the countryside. Space is now at even more of a premium, and work is scarce, pushing up the rent and causing outrage. With hungry mouths to feed, some of the moms go in search of poverty relief - and encounter the little provisions available to Victorians in desperate straits. Qualifying for extra food and funds is hard, and their morals, parenting and housekeeping is questioned. The slum is reaching breaking point.
Dr Chris and Dr Xand have First Aid tips as they show you what to do if someone chokes. The Ouch-Mobile opens its doors to help solve more medical mysteries, and the doctors look at some of the best bits of Operation Ouch! (Repeat)
Aircraft Carrier. This episode uses stunning CGI animation to explode open the world's biggest aircraft carrier - the USS Ronald Reagan - to reveal the extraordinary technology it employs to defend the United States. At the helm of this mighty warship, Captain Chris Bolt, has just 12 hours to qualify 40 navy pilots for carrier operations. As the ship's nuclear-powered steam turbines power the super-carrier to top speed, her flight-deck crew risk life and limb to launch and land a constant stream of fighter jets. At critical moments, spectacular CGI will crack open the steel hull of the Aircraft Carrier and plunge us deep into its inner workings.
Kimmerosaurus And Clamshell. Andy travels 160 million years into the past to hunt for a prehistoric clamshell. Plunging into the waters of an ancient ocean, he meets some giant swimming reptiles & helps them to escape a creature called Predator X. (Repeat)
Passports, Please! Michael McKean takes a trip around the food globe to find out where some of the most popular international dishes were really born. French Fries are fried, but are they really French? Pizza and Italy go together like cheese and pepperoni, but can the Italians really claim pizza as their own? And no Chinese meal is complete until you crack open that fortune cookie, but was this crunchy treat really invented in China? We get to the bottom of some shocking food origin stories and uncover the hidden identities of our beloved foreign favourites.
A documentary chronicling the Cocos Keeling Islands - where Muslims outnumber Christians by more than five to one, and the Southern Star and the Islamic crescent moon sit side by side on the islands' flag. As Australian strategists eye up the value of the Cocos as a military outpost, the locals are forced to confront that their lives are in the hands of a government almost 6000kms away in Canberra, and they are part of a country that barely even knows they exist. The Cocos Islanders respond by formulating a plan that will ensure they have a voice in determining the future of their homeland. All it requires is for the man who expected to become the next 'King of the Cocos' to collaborate closely with the Malay people that his ancestors treated as virtually like slaves. What could possibly go wrong?
Taste of War. Michael McKean puts food on the frontlines of wars and discover how some of history's most epic battles were decided by what we eat. Did Frozen Dinners save the world in the Second World War? Were hamburgers invented on the battlefield? Did the South lose the Civil War because of salt? Dig into some fascinating food fights and discover how appetites have shaped the world's most critical battles.
Tirelessly seeking the truth on the state of the United States, Chas Licciardello and John Barron dig through a mountain of facts, graphs and expert opinions to separate the fake news from the reality of Trump's White House.
Tirelessly seeking the truth on the state of the United States, Chas Licciardello and John Barron dig through a mountain of facts, graphs and expert opinions to separate the fake news from the reality of Trump's White House.
Tirelessly seeking the truth on the state of the United States, Chas Licciardello and John Barron dig through a mountain of facts, graphs and expert opinions to separate the fake news from the reality of Trump's White House.
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