Embarrassing Bodies (seasons 3 to 7)
Weekdays from Monday 6th July at 21:00 on BBC Lifestyle
The Embarrassing Bodies BAFTA winning doctors are back, once again aiming to de-stigmatise common complaints that many people would rather ignore than take to their GP. Dr Christian Jessen, Dr Dawn Harper and Dr Pixie McKenna take a look at patients' ailments and discuss treatment plans.
Meat: A Threat to Our Planet
Tuesday 7th July at 19:00 on BBC Earth
Science and wildlife presenter Liz Bonnin travels around the world to investigate the impact that our hunger for meat is having on our planet’s environment.
Liz travels from Texan mega-farms, the Amazon rainforest where she discovers how beef farming is a leading cause of deforestation and, in South Africa, Liz discovers life in our oceans are effected – driving African penguin towards extinction.
Liz also meets the scientists and entrepreneurs urgently looking for solutions and at the end of her journey, Liz starts to assess her own attitude to meat, and questions what we can all do to save our fragile planet.
Dragons' Den, Season 17 Set 2
From Wednesday 8th July at 20:00 on BBC Brit
Dragon’s Den returns with Series 17 where budding entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five multimillionaires. But will they be willing to invest their own cash?
The Supervet (Season 6)
From Monday 13th July at 18:00 on BBC Earth
The Supervet returns for another series with Professor Noel Fitzpatrick and his team at Fitzpatrick Referrals changing the lives of some of the UK’s most critically sick and in need pets.
The brand new series includes the likes of 4 year old pug and beagle cross Barney, who is rushed into Fitzpatricks after being hit by a bus. His ankle has been crushed by the wheel and he has lost forty percent of the bone. Faced with the prospect of losing his leg, Barney’s family are praying Noel can come up with a way to save the leg and repair the damage. Worryingly the puggle’s wound is contaminated and is a serious infection risk, so Noel must find a way to fix the ankle without infection spreading. In a world first The Supervet invents a custom implant that holds the ankle together by fitting inside the bone.
The Restaurant that Burns Calories
Tuesday 14th July at 19:00 on BBC Earth
Perhaps a good idea for post quarantine life?
Welcome to a restaurant like no other. Where behind the scenes is not just the kitchen, but a secret gym and an army of exercisers - aiming to burn off every single calorie the diners eat.
With a three-course meal plus drinks easily coming in at 2,500 calories, it’s going to get sweaty. How will the diners feel when all is revealed? And how will they feel when they have to take a turn on the treadmills? This high-energy stunt combines humour with innovation to reveal the science of calories.
Mister Winner
From Friday 10th July at 20:40 on BBC Brit
This new comedy series follows the ironically named Leslie Winner, a well-meaning optimist who frequently finds himself in the midst of chaos, through a combination of silly decisions and tough luck.
However, the pressure is on now for Leslie to finally pull himself together, as he prepares for his wedding to beloved fiancé Jemma and attempts to win over his skeptical father-in-law to be.
The series poses the question, by the end of the series "will Leslie be a winner or will his surname continue to be ironic?"
Stacey Dooley Investigates: Spycam Sex Criminals
Tuesday 21st July at 22:00 on BBC Brit
Stacey Dooley investigates a new kind of sex crime which is sweeping South Korea.
In a country where pornography is illegal, Molka is a DIY alternative where mobile phones and hidden cameras capture footage of women at their most intimate moments without their knowledge. With 6,000 cases reported to the police in 2018. Stacey meets both the perpetrators and victims of this huge and threatening phenomenon, known as 'molka'.
Over 90 percent of the population of South Korea owns a smart phone, and some users are utilising these and other ever-improving technologies to create pornographic material without people’s consent. As camera technology has improved, it has become easier than ever to hide cameras in public places.
Some of these cameras are as small as the head of a needle. Changing rooms, toilet cubicles and even showerheads can be hiding hidden cameras, some of which are used to live stream pornography to illegal websites.
Wild Tokyo
Sunday 26th July at 17:00 on BBC Earth
Situated on Japan’s largest island, Honshu, Tokyo is the largest and busiest metropolitan area in the world. But behind Tokyo’s concrete curtain are natural refuges where wildlife has adapted and learnt to co-habit in Earth’s most human-dense territory. Home to 38 million people, a quarter of Japan’s population, this is a land where Earth’s tallest towers and busiest streets accommodate some of the rarest animals in the world - and scientists are pouring more time, energy and money than ever before into studying these human-animal cohabitations.
From the mountainous forests of Tokyo’s Okutama region, along the Tama River, through the wild sanctuaries of Tokyo’s city centre and out to its network of volcanic islands - Wild Tokyo features stunning 4K photography, shot by the world’s best natural history cinematographers, this film will reveal an unseen side of Japan’s capital city.
Charles & Di: The Truth Behind Their Wedding
Thursday 30th July at 20:00 on BBC Lifestyle
Find out the truth behind the fairytale wedding of the century which was watched by three quarters of a billion people around the world. But all wasn’t as perfect as it seemed.
At 11:30am on Wednesday 29 July 1981, 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer walked up the aisle of St Paul’s Cathedral towards HRH Prince Charles.
This documentary uses rich archive and interviews with people who knew the couple to tell the revealing, and often, shocking inside story of the seven days running up to the wedding. It compares what the jubilant public saw from the outside to the doubt, fear and heartbreak suffered privately by two individuals propelled by a fate they couldn’t control.
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