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    Derren Brown: The Experiments

    Every Sunday at 20:25

    The award-winning illusionist returns to our screens with The Experiments, a four part series designed to illustrate how easily our behaviour can be manipulated.

    Each episode features a mixture of stunts, suggestion, and thought-provoking entertainment combined with tried and tested psychological experiments. Throughout the series we see Derren investigate hypnosis, turn himself into a game show host, attempt to convince someone to confess to a crime they didn’t commit, and discover what it is exactly that makes someone lucky or unlucky.

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    The Indian Doctor

    From Friday 18 May at 16:30 and 17:15

    The Indian Doctor tells the story of Dr Prem Sharma, a high flying Delhi graduate, who arrives in the UK in 1963 as part of the “first wave” of Indian doctors wooed by the then health minister Enoch Powell.

    Prem and his wife Kamini want to build a new life for themselves following a family tragedy. But, rather than finding a job as a high-flying consultant in London, Prem finds himself in the Welsh coal mining village of Trefelin, where he quickly starts to realise things are not quite as they should be.

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    Deal or No Deal

    Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Monday at 17:00

    Every game of Deal or No Deal has the potential to end with the player £250,000 better off… or going home with just 1p.

    The drama inherent in the show’s format explains why it’s a worldwide smash hit, and this specially selected run of episodes collects together some of the most tense and surprising encounters between players and the Banker.

    With each player bringing their own unique personality to their game, no two shows are alike, but the tension of the outcome of each is always excitingly unpredictable.

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    Just one question...

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    Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent

    From Monday 14 May at 20:00

    DI Anna Travis (Kelly Reilly) is back after her promotion, reunited with DCS James Langton (Ciarán Hinds) and DCI Mike Lewis (Shaun Dingwall), who is heading his first murder case.

    A fatal shooting in a notorious drug dealer’s squat takes place in North London. The victim is Frank Brandon, an ex-police officer from the drug squad, and friend of James Langton. Travis and the team are soon at the scene trying to connect the presence of their ex-colleague with such desperate surroundings.

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    A man kills the surgeon who has just changed his face!

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    Top Gear USA

    Every Wednesday at 20:00

    Hosted by comedian Adam Ferrara, champion rally and drift racer Tanner Foust and racing analyst Rutledge Wood, Top Gear USA has all the trademarks that have made Top Gear such a success with fans all over the world.

    Over the series, the trio of presenters tackle a number of extreme challenges, including a moonshine run along a classic Prohibition route in the Deep South, racing a HALO jumper in a Hennessey Velociraptor across the Arizona desert and evading a Cobra helicopter gunship in a Dodge Viper... through the middle of a town.

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    Different accents - same motoring madness

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    Planet Earth Live

    Starts 6th May at 20:50

    Join the world’s best natural history film-makers for the most ambitious live wildlife series ever undertaken!

    Experts and cameramen/women from the award winning BBC Natural History Unit combine the spectacular cinematography of Frozen Planet with the live techniques of Big Cat Live and Springwatch to follow real-life animal dramas from around the globe throughout May - a critical time for many of the Earth’s young animals.

    From baby elephants in Kenya, black bears in Minnesota, macaque monkeys in Sri Lanka, meerkats in South Africa, grey whales in the Pacific to the lions of the Masaai Mara, the lives of many wild youngsters hang in the balance.

    Expect the unexpected as nature writes the script.

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    Real animals - real lives - in real time!

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    Life in the Undergrowth

    Every Wednesday at 21:00

    David Attenborough ventures into the bizarre, ferocious and surprisingly beautiful world of the invertebrates, embarking on a ground-breaking exploration into a spectacular miniature universe never normally seen, but teeming all around us.

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    A Bug's Life

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    The Making of a Queen

    Wednesday 30 May at 22:00

    The Making of a Queen documents how, in February 1952, a shy and petite twenty-five-year old woman was suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into the limelight as she became one of the most famous people in the world; the Queen of England.

    In her first year on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II had to deal with a series of national disasters; flooding, train and plane crashes and a war in Korea. Yet by the time of her coronation 16 months later, the country was on the road to economic recovery, and the new Queen was celebrated with one of the most significant displays of pageantry and monarchical adoration the world has ever seen.

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    The woman under the Crown

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    James May's Toy Stories: The Great Train Race

    Friday 18 May at 22:00

    After he conceded a bitter defeat in 2009, James May returns to Devon for a second attempt at joining the towns of Bideford and Barnstaple with a Hornby model railway. Two years on, James is piqued by the sense of unfinished business and spurred on by a fresh challenge.

    Armed with a crack team of engineers, a fresh approach, and a revolutionary but temperamental track laying machine, James’ attempt with his trusty Flying Scotsman includes crashes, a battle of wits, and a dramatic, emotional conclusion.

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    All Aboard!

BBC Lifestyle

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    Grand Designs Series 9

    Every Sunday at 19:00

    In series nine of Grand Designs, we see a family from Braintree who decide to leave their cramped two-bedroom London flat to take on the conversion of a huge grade two listed timber-framed barn, another couple build a home big enough to house their own dance floor and DJ booth in a plot of land carved out of someone’s back garden in Kensington, and in Cornwall, stonemason Adam and his partner renovate a dilapidated grade two engine house into their dream home.

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    Restoration Roadshow

    From Wednesday 16 May at 10:00

    Antiques expert Eric Knowles and a team of antiques restorers invite members of the public to a roadshow set within the grounds of some of the UK’s most beautiful stately homes. The public bring along their damaged heirlooms and attic treasures in the hope that they can be restored.

    Items are appraised and valued before restoration, and viewers discover the back story and history of the item, plus the reason the owner would like to see them returned to their former glory.

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    The Road to a Bright Past

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    Service!

    From Thursday 17 May at 20:00

    Great service matters almost more to Michel Roux than great food. He believes waiters and sommeliers are the unsung stars of the restaurant world, and is on a personal mission to train eight young people as front-of-house superstars.

    The trainees will receive the best tuition, learning the skills needed to run service in some of Europe's best restaurants, and Michel hopes they will discover that front-of-house service offers a brilliant career.

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    At your service!

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    Waybuloo

    From Thursday 24 May at 19:00

    More adventures in Nara with the Piplings.

    In these new episodes, Lau Lau finds a glittery Narmole, Yojojo has a disastrous trip in Nok Tok’s car when he drives it recklessly into the pitcher plant, and De Li’s plans to make plumpkin soup is thwarted when she discovers a caterpillar has made his home in it.

    Take your children on a journey through stories of co-operation, friendship and enjoyment.

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    Welcome to the happy land of Nara

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    Numtums

    From Monday 14 May at 06:25 and 14:25

    The Numtums are ten cuddly creatures with numbers on their tummies, who love to dance, dress up, play, tickle, fly, and most of all count!

    In this series, numtum number 1 turns cartwheels, numtum number 7 juggles seven teddy bears, and numtum number 10 draws a number ten in the air with her aeroplane. The numtums also go for a boogie at the disco, and stop their friends the flamingos from ruffling their feathers.

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    Countdown to fun

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    Raa Raa the Noisy Lion

    Every day at 09:50, 13:50 and 17:50

    Raa Raa is a loveable little lion who enjoys exploring the jingly jangly jungle in his cubby buggy looking for new and noisy things to do with his friends.

    Raa Raa’s friends include Zebby, who’d rather be snoozing than on an adventure, Huffty, who loves music and singing, and Ooo Ooo, who loves nothing more than being mischievous and having a laugh and a joke. There’s also Topsy, Raa Raa’s tallest and oldest friend who can always find the solution to a problem in one of his books, and Crocky, who loves to help his friends – but he’s a little bit accident prone!

    With jungle adventures come many challenges, but Raa Raa and his friends realise they can solve any problem by co-operating and working together as a team.

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    Planet Earth Live

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    Join the most ambitious wildlife series ever undertaken as nature writes the script.

    Follow real-life animal dramas from around the globe throughout May - a critical time for many of the Earth’s young animals.

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