The man who lives with bears was screened on channel Five on January 3. Here's a few of the amazing things viewers saw. Words by Nigel Blundell, images courtesy of Channel 5
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Atlantic Worlds is a new permanent gallery in the National Maritime Museum. The gallery explores the interrelationship, connections and exchanges created between Britain, Africa and the Americas between 1600-1850 and looks at the impact of empire on three continents.
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The legendary Dandy comic is celebrating its 70th birthday. Cow pies all round!
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If you like Meerkat Manor you'll go wild for Lemur Street. Nigel Blundell introduces Animal Planet's latest stars.
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Famed herb expert Jekka McVicar travelled around the Gardens of China with Saga Holidays. Here is her photo diary of the trip.
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Autumn is a wonderful time to visit Westonbirt, the National Arboretum, writes Jess Wynne
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Enchanting images from Channel 5's series Monkey Life, Monday-Friday at 6.30pm, featuring the Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre. By Sue Blackhall
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Of the seven wonders of the ancient world only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains. So Bernard Weber established the New7Wonders Foundation and asked the world to choose the new Seven Wonders. Over 100 million people voted and the result is a list of global must-sees, including the ruins of Chichen Itza in Mexico above.
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Fuselage from Sussex, tail fin from Texas, Nigel Blundell reports on two pilots who built their dream plane from scratch
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The story of the extraordinary friendship between human and hippo told in ‘Jessica the Hippo’, was shown on the Animal Planet channel on Thursday, June 28 at 9pm.
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Take a look around the Impressionist painter's inspirational garden at Giverny, France. Your guides are Vivian Russell, author of several books on Monet's garden, and the photographer Janet Thomson.
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Crocodiles have the most powerful bite in the animal world. One 2,500lb snap of a croc's crushing jaws can decapitate a man. Enter zoologist Dr Brady Barr… creeping around the lairs of Africa's most voracious predators in a fake crocodile suit on Nat Geo Wild channel's 'Dangerous Encounters' series, writes Nigel Blundell.
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Last summer we met the Saga guide dog, Wyn, for the first time. We followed her as she passed her selection test, moved into her new home and started trying out her new skills in the big, wide world. Here's Wyn on her first birthday and some highlights from the last year. Words by Nigel Blundell. Images by Tom Ferreira
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Deadliest Catch is a series about one of the most dangerous jobs in the world - crab fishing in the icy Bering Sea. Words by Nigel Blundell. Images supplied by Discovery Channel
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See every second of a shark attack on a seal in this slowed-down sequence of images captured by the BBC's Planet Earth team for Shallow Seas
Words by Nigel Blundell. Images reproduced by kind permission of the BBC
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A dozen all-natural, everyday remedies. Words and images by Jekka McVicar
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