Bear Grylls is on Channel 4 tonight 9.00pm to 10.35pm. Something about Paragliding over Everest. I am guessing that that he did not do it wearing a pair of Craghoppers Kiwi shorts 
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 The Bear was on tv the other day talking about the filming of this thing with the Lilly Savage chap. Grylls was also talking about the new upcoming episodes he has recently been filming for the latest Born Survivor offerings. He apparently never misses a chance to over state the dangers he has been in during filming of the survival adventures! He stated that he had to survive Sumatran swamps braving hundreds of man-eating crocodiles, that now have a taste for human flesh! All because they have been feeding for the last few years on the rotting corpses of all of the dead victims of the Tsunami! Not the greatest thing to go mentioning as the nation tucks into its tea really I thought at the time. And a little crass and insensitive of him as well I do feel, as lots of folks in the UK lost people out there but a few years back ago-and it would not have just been locals bodies becoming crocodile dinners would it now!
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That woman is walking the Wainwright way again tonight on BBC2 AT 6.30pm. Today she goes up climbing onto Castle Crag in the Borrowdale Valley.  It is nice up there!
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 Just thought I'd mention Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture which was on BBC2 last Wednesday (I missed it) but is still available to watch (but not to download) via the BBC iPlayer for another 4 days. I mention it because the very first sequence sees him going to Greenland and building an igloo with the Inuit - very interesting if you've not seen it done before. The sequence starts about 2 mins 30 into the program and runs to the 16 min mark. Oh, and a warning, it also includes some images of a shot polar bear.....
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Monday night @ 8pm on five, the Gadget Show is putting "... a range of tents to the test in extreme conditions ..."
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Ha, they're probably taking them all to Glastonbury!! 
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We have another episode repeated of the Alive tv true life survival tales show today again, at 4.50 on Channel 4.
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Often knocked in the reviews as a bit of a modern day movie turkey, the film Sahara, from 2005, on Channel 4 tv tonight at 8pm is still well worth a watch anyways I do genuinely feel! This is the terrestrial tv premiere of what is arguably quite an underated adventure film really, surely worthy of a watch by Indiana Jones type movie fans if no one else! I like it, for what it is, a little bit of pure escapism-even if the plot and acting are nothing to write home about in the worthiness stakes compared to the latest upcoming actual new Indie film outing, in the cinema offing as we speak!
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 you didn't say what the film is Trev - it's Sahara for those who are interested. Edited - you didn't say the film name before I'd posted!
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BBC2 Wednesday the 9th April sees a great new programme in the Natural World Series too! A look again at the reindeer herders of Norway. following two 17-year-old cousins, as they accompany their families herds of animals on the annual migration across the bleak Arctic tundra. Fabulous stuff indeed!
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 Not sure how out of doorsy it'll be, but my recorder's set for: Melvyn Bragg's Travels in Written Britain Sunday 06 April 10:45pm - 11:45pm STV (was Grampian/Scottish) 1/4 - North Journey VIDEO Plus+: 219728 (source, RadioTimes.com) "Wainwright's Walks" is still kicking around on BBC Scotland. Castle Crag on Monday. "The Man Who Cycled the World" is on Monday/Tuesday too. Trev, that Natural World series is getting good. The prog about Seton's hunting of the wolf "Lobo" led onto talking about the Scout movement and national parks in the US. I wasn't sold on it, but glad I watched it.
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Sorry there Roger, yes, just before you posted I had looked back and too realised that I'd gone and forgotten to put in the flipping film name! So I then indeed pronto went back in there to do so! Well spotted though anyways; if I had a cigar to give out then it would be yours now!
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 Just a reminder... THE GADGET SHOW, CHANNEL 5 @ 8.00 are testing some tents apparently.
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They also tested 3 gps systems, Glyn - Satmap, Garmin and Magellan units.
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I don't think they did Garmin or Magellan any favours in their test. Satmap looked very impressive however.
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Aye, good advertising for Satmap - I certainly went to their site after the programme.
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 Moose in the glen Multi-millionaire Paul Lister is creating Europe's first wild nature reserve, in Scotland. He believes that the Highlands are in terrible shape - stripped of the old Caledonian pine forests and ravaged by excessive numbers of red deer. At his estate at Alladale, Paul intends to welcome back native animals, including bears and wolves. He's beginning with wild boar – and moose. Advertised as - Fri 16 Apr 8.00pm BBC Two But if that date is correct, it'll be a Wednesday!
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Sunday sees an ITV series starting on the Highlands (I don't know if fencing off parts to improve their shape is mentioned). Bear Ghrylls is back on C4 in the evening.
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The Alive tv show repeat episode was a very good interesting one today, even if I did always personally prefer the Ray Mears tv show re-enactment version myself-more positively instructive! Use of the snow boots to drink water from the snow from etc. Anyways, the most important thing about this story is the big rule of not eating snow and ice to survive thirst-wise, before actually taking the time and trouble to wait to melting it for its water content; as eating snow and ice just lowers you survivability chances, as it lowers ones core body temperature, as inner heat goes to melting the cold stuff down to water within your body. If anything in winter snow survival situations, studies now show that you would likely be practically constantly hand to mouth now non-stop eating snow for water content if you ever tried to. With the loss of inner core body heat you are actually working against the human body's own in-built survival mechanisms, in trying to satisfy/slate your thirst like that. Better to melt the ice or snow to water as snowmelt instead.Either burning up fuel in a fire to do so, or else even slowly naturally drip by precious gradual water drip! If you missed this important story of the Turkish case of the US Forces chap and his son lost on a snowy mountain, then you can now go to the Channel Four link I put in earlier on back in this OM TV Guide thread here; and you can download the free bit there available, to enable one to watch this show on your pc whenever you wish to in the next month. Other past episodes from all other Chanbnel 4 shows from the same time period are too similarly there for the watching, in the same manner.
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