National Geographic Channel +1 Thursday
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9:00 AM
Food Factory
Machines used to prepare food
What are the origins of society's most popular culinary commodities? Get a backstage pass to the mechanical wonders involved in creating a vast multitude of consumer goods
9:30 AM
Food Factory
A look at how certain foods are made in factories
What are the origins of society's most popular culinary commodities? Get a backstage pass to the mechanical wonders involved in creating consumer goods
10:00 AM
Air Crash Investigation: Special Report
Experts investigate when a passenger plane slams into a fighter jet
Experts investigate when a passenger plane slams into a fighter jet, and when two flights crash in the world's deadliest-ever mid-air collision
11:00 AM
WW2: Hell Under the Sea
A young U-Boat officer is at the centre of clashes over Nazi ideology
The career of a young U-Boat officer begins with promise when he is awarded command of his own submarine, but clashes over Nazi ideology cause tension
12:00 PM
Airport Security: Peru
A divorced couple denies travelling together, but carry identical bags filled with cocaine
A divorced couple denies travelling together, but carry identical bags filled with cocaine, while another passenger is found with over 35 capsules of drugs in his belly
1:00 PM
Car S.O.S.
Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw restore a Japanese rally car
Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw secretly restore a Japanese rally car belonging to a man unable to work on it due to a degenerative back condition
2:00 PM
Border Protection Spain
The Coastguard encounter a potential suicide
The Coastguard encounter a potential suicide, drug traffickers carrying three tons of hashish, fishermen invading protected waters and a suspicious German sailboat
3:00 PM
Air Crash Investigation
A DC-8 with just three working engines crashes during take-off
When a DC-8 with just three working engines crashes during take-off, killing all three pilots, the training simulator is found to have been fatally wrong
4:00 PM
Drain the Oceans
New discoveries reveal how the Mississippi river shaped America
From a steamboat in a cornfield to the true story behind Hurricane Katrina's floods, new discoveries reveal how the Mississippi river shaped America
5:00 PM
Lost Treasures of Egypt
A sealed sarcophagus reveals a stunningly preserved mummy
At Oxyrhynchus, a sealed sarcophagus reveals a stunningly preserved mummy, while a team searches for a long-lost burial chamber in Philadelphia
6:00 PM
Car S.O.S.
A Willys Jeep targeted by arsonists
Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw come to the rescue of a Willys Jeep owned by a Second World War veteran, after it was targeted by arsonists
7:00 PM
Defending Europe
Alex Churchill discovers how Britain tackled Napoleon
Archaeologist Tony Pollard explores Rochester Castle and an infamous medieval siege, while military historian Alex Churchill discovers how Britain tackled Napoleon
8:00 PM
Air Crash Investigation
The 1999 plane crash that killed John F Kennedy Jr and his wife
Investigating what caused John F Kennedy Jr's light aircraft to crash into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999, killing him, his wife Carolyn and his sister-in-law Lauren
9:00 PM
Rocky Mountain Railroad
A restored, vintage train takes an epic journey across Canada
To help celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, the Canadian Pacific Railway takes a perfectly restored, vintage train on an epic journey from coast to coast
10:00 PM
Ice Road Rescue
Thord's skills are put to the test with the rescue of an excavator
Thord's skills are put to the test with the rescue of an excavator, but there is trouble when rookie Terje's reckless driving ends in disaster
11:00 PM
Life Below Zero: First Alaskans
The lives of the indigenous peoples of Alaska
Indigenous Alaskans use their connection to the land to showcase self-reliance, self-sustainability, and self-determination
12:00 AM
Air Crash Investigation
A discovery that had far-reaching effects for commercial aviation
Investigators can find nothing wrong with a plane that crashed moments after take-off - but the real cause has far-reaching effects for commercial aviation
1:00 AM
Air Crash Investigation
A fatal collision at Los Angeles International Airport in 1991
A fatal collision at Los Angeles International Airport in 1991, when an air-traffic controller assigned an inbound flight to a runway where another plane was waiting to take off
2:00 AM
Ultimate Airport Dubai
Highlights from the series, featuring an appearance by Pele
Highlights from the series, featuring Pele dropping in to the VIP lounge and the staff discovering a stash of potentially lethal drugs
3:00 AM
Bid & Destroy
The team suffers a setback
The team members suffer a setback when the house they have been asked to tear down is vandalised and its valuable contents removed
3:30 AM
Abandoned
The team finds valuable items in an old farmhouse
The team members find a valuable Windsor icebox, an Edison phonograph and a secret manual for the Boeing B-52 bomber in an old farmhouse
3:55 AM
Abandoned
A disused cotton factory in Georgia
The team uncovers a Depression-era portrait, a Zenith radio and a home-made hot rod at a disused cotton factory in Georgia
4:20 AM
Food Factory
Dijon mustard, coconut macaroons and hazelnut cream-filled wafers
A look at the production of Dijon mustard, coconut macaroons and hazelnut cream-filled wafers
4:45 AM
Food Factory
Fat-free Greek yoghurt, butter cream and Swiss roll cakes
A look at the production of fat-free Greek yoghurt, butter cream and Swiss roll cakes
5:10 AM
Exotic Animal ER: Double Dose
Monkey the anxious bush baby has been harming his tail
Monkey the anxious bush baby has been harming his tail. Will Dr K have to amputate?
5:35 AM
Exotic Animal ER: Double Dose
A baby skunk has a bloated belly, and a rabbit has severe swelling in his jaw
A baby skunk has a bloated belly, and a rabbit has severe swelling in his jaw which could kill him if left untreated