National Geographic Channel HD Friday
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8:00 AM
Food Factory
Cabbage rolls, sweet and salty popcorn and potato skin chips
A look at the production of cabbage rolls, sweet and salty popcorn and potato skin chips
8:30 AM
Food Factory
Shreddies, Black Forest cake and tzatziki
A look at the production of Shreddies, Black Forest cake and tzatziki
9:00 AM
Ancient China from Above
Satellite footage of China
Archaeologist Sam Willis studies satellite footage to learn about a mysterious civilisation that is changing everything we know about ancient China's origins
10:00 AM
WW2: Hell Under the Sea
A breakdown of the Cuban missile crisis
A breakdown of the Cuban missile crisis, following Soviet submarines carrying nuclear torpedoes, and how a depth charge practice nearly started a nuclear war
11:00 AM
Defending Europe
Historian Onyeka Nubia investigates Spain's Moorish forts
Historian Onyeka Nubia investigates Spain's Moorish forts, while Spanish Historian Claudio Lozano reveals how Cádiz resisted attacks from Queen Elizabeth I
12:00 PM
Car S.O.S.
Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw restore a 1994 Vauxhall Cavalier Turbo
Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw head to Stockport to take on a 1994 Vauxhall Cavalier Turbo owned by a man left unable to move from the neck down after an accident
1:00 PM
Egypt's Sun King: Secrets and Treasures
Exploring the first newly discovered tomb containing a body since Tutankhamen was unearthed
Experts explore the first tomb containing a body to be discovered since Tutankhamen's burial place was unearthed - and which contains 30 more mummies in an adjoining chamber
2:00 PM
Air Crash Investigation
The crash of United Airlines Flight 232 on Sioux City, Iowa, in 1989
How the pilots managed to avert an even bigger disaster when the aircraft they were piloting over Sioux City, Iowa, crashed on the airport's runway in July 1989, leaving 111 dead
3:00 PM
Nazi Megastructures: America's War
The defensive fortifications on the island of Peleliu
The defensive fortifications built by Japanese forces to cover the entire island of Peleliu during one of the most brutal battles of the Second World War
4:00 PM
Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich
Discover how Hitler turned Germany into a dictatorship
Discover how Hitler turned Germany into a dictatorship and how he set about expanding the Reich
5:00 PM
Car S.O.S.
Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw restore the smallest car they have ever worked on
Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw restore the smallest car they have ever worked on for a man who has endured a series of family tragedies
6:00 PM
Seconds from Disaster
The 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster
The disastrous Nasa mission in 1986 to send the first civilian into space on board the Challenger space shuttle, which disintegrated only 73 seconds after lift-off
7:00 PM
Air Crash Investigation
The case of Alitalia Flight 404
Experts investigate why Alitalia Flight 404, which crashed into a hill on its way into Zurich in November 1990 - killing everyone on board - was flying so low
8:00 PM
Area 51: The CIA's Secret Files
An expose of activity at the Groom Lake Testing Facility
Former radar specialists, pilots and security guards at Area 51 cast new light on the secretive and ground-breaking research conducted at the Groom Lake Testing Facility in Nevada
9:00 PM
Air Crash Investigation
The crash of British European Airways 548
The crash of British European Airways 548, which saw 118 people killed after the plane plummeted into a field shortly after taking off from Heathrow in 1972
10:00 PM
Airport Security: Rome
Border Police stop a father and son travelling with fake passports
At Rome's Fiumicino Airport, Border Police stop a father and son travelling with fake passports, and a Bulgarian woman who has been flagged by police remains defiant
11:00 PM
Air Crash Investigation
The deadliest single aircraft accident in history
Slamming into a mountain, Japan Airlines 123 becomes the deadliest single aircraft accident in history and threatens to ground 747s worldwide
12:00 AM
Plane Crash Recreated
A failure on a 2010 flight that led to a tense emergency landing
Qantas Flight 32, which on November 4, 2010 suffered an uncontained failure in one of its engines, leading to a series of failures and a tense emergency landing