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Sky TV Guide: Discovery TV Guide for the 2010-03-12

0600 How Do They Do It?
Red Dwarf's Robert Llewellyn visits the Channel Tunnel, an engineering marvel that transports 50,000 passengers every day. And he finds out how escalators work.

0630 How Do They Do It?
Red Dwarf's Robert Llewellyn finds out more about aluminium cans - amazingly, we use 23.5 million of these in the UK every day. And he visits a heritage railway.

0700 How It's Made
Winter jackets, animations, mushrooms, gold rings: more everyday objects are put under the microscope as we find out how they are made.

0730 How It's Made
More everyday objects are put under the microscope, including construction wood and fishing flies. And a look at the recycling process.

0800 Kings of Construction
One of America's most ambitious construction projects, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, is underway on the outskirts of Washington.

0900 More Industrial Revelations
How did beautiful silks lead to today's computer revolution? The answer: binary code. Mark Williams takes us through its invention.

0930 More Industrial Revelations
Mark Williams meets Joseph Whitworth, who standardised the screw, and discovers that HMS Victory was built from 50 acres of woodland.

1000 Time Team
The team is in a secluded Welsh valley to solve an amazing mystery. But as they investigate further, things aren't as they first appear.

1100 Deadliest Catch
When the fleet arrives on the Opi grounds a skipper regrets sending his men out in savage weather to save the boat - there are no second chances on the Bering Sea.

1200 Extreme Loggers
Taking you into the danger zone of one of the most hazardous jobs in history, can logger Bobby Goodson cull trees in mud thats so deep its swallowed huge logging machines?

1300 Swords: Life on the Line
When the Sea Hawk heads to port to drop off its catch, one of the crew quits. The Eagle Eye II crew gets homesick when their trip is extended for another two weeks.

1400 Top Tens
Based upon expert opinion, audience polls and a technical comparison, we rank the all-time top ten infantry fighting vehicles.

1500 The First World War
Re-examines the early months on the Western Front and life under German occupation, through rare archive footage and accounts from survivors.

1600 Time Team
The team is in a secluded Welsh valley to solve an amazing mystery. But as they investigate further, things aren't as they first appear.

1700 Massive Engines
Comedy actor Chris Barrie explores the development of massive digger engines, including one that weighs more than a thousand double-decker buses.

1730 Massive Engines
Comedy actor Chris Barrie explores the evolution of the racing car engine, visiting Beaulieu to see the fastest and most powerful early racing cars.

1800 Deadliest Catch
Three weeks in, the miserable conditions already have the crabbers turning on each other. Plus deadly ice stands between one skipper and the safety of harbour.

1900 Mythbusters
Adam and Jamie get sucked in by a famous nautical 'myth-tery' about killer whirlpools, whilst the rest of the gang are snowed under by a snowplough.

2000 How Do They Do It?
Robert Llewellyn finds out how our skies will cope with the increase of planes over the next 15 years; how the Airbus A380 can carry over 800 passengers and how ketchup is made.

2030 How It's Made
Putty knives, garage doors, electric motors and wool: more everyday objects are put under the microscope as we find out how they were made.

2100 Hitler - A Profile
Hitler's megalomania and fawning subordinates combined to convince him he was the greatest commander in history. But were his military successes more luck than skill?

2200 Bloody Britain
Rory McGrath finds out about the savage witch hunts of the 1640s, learning how to test for a witch and how to protect himself from witchcraft.

2230 Bloody Britain
Investigating the rebellion of 1685, Rory McGrath travels to Dorset, learning how to fire a musket and taking on a horse in a running race.

2300 Bear Grylls: Born Survivor
From the freezing mountain tops to the lifeless steppes, Bear battles whitewater rapids, takes on 100ft climbs, and confronts poisonous snakes and death stalker scorpions.

0000 The FBI Files
When the wife of a wealthy man vanishes an unusual ransom note provides clues to her captor, who turned out to be involved in one of her husband's companies.

0100 The FBI Files
When an employee at an armoured van company receives a call about a money shipment that did not arrive, an FBI search for the missing van begins.

0200 Forensic Detectives
A young woman's body is found in the trunk of a car, forensic clues lead to the killer of a 19-year-old boy and a police officer does the unthinkable.

0300 Forensic Detectives
Tiny evidence helps bring to justice a murderer who stabbed two young women to death. Plus, the search for the identity of a woman found decapitated.

0350 More Industrial Revelations
How did beautiful silks lead to today's computer revolution? The answer: binary code. Mark Williams takes us through its invention.

0415 More Industrial Revelations
Mark Williams meets Joseph Whitworth, who standardised the screw, and discovers that HMS Victory was built from 50 acres of woodland.

0440 Mythbusters
Adam and Jamie get sucked in by a famous nautical 'myth-tery' about killer whirlpools, whilst the rest of the gang are snowed under by a snowplough.

0530 How Does That Work?
See how commonplace items work, including: reverse vending systems, electric razors, wind turbines and wood stoves.

0600 How Do They Do It?
Red Dwarf's Robert Llewellyn heads to Bristol to drive a tugboat and visits Edwards Aquifer in Texas, which is the size of Cornwall and holds 60 trillion litres of water.