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6.00am	How It's Made The processes involved in manufacturing marshmallow biscuits, loudspeakers and electronic door locks and the evolution of these methods with changes in technology
6.20am	How It's Made The processes by which wood-burning stoves, ballet slippers and buses are made, and the ways in which they have evolved with modern technology
6.45am	How Do They Do It? The techniques used in surfing deadly waves and how the Arizona Cardinals' NFL stadium is transformed into a monster-truck venue in just 48 hours
7.10am	How It's Made The processes involved in creating robotic arms, tattoos, napkins and concrete pipes, and how these methods have evolved over the years
7.35am	How It's Made The processes involved in making 3D signs, mattresses, hardwood floors and corrugated pipes, and how production methods have changed with improved technology (888)
8.00am	Scrapheap Challenge Teams faces the challenge of constructing a medieval siege engine or a colossal catapult from the contents of a scrapyard
9.00am	Scrapheap Challenge The teams are challenged to construct a high-powered tractor
10.00am	Extreme Engineering The prototype for a floating tunnel in which magnetically levitated trains could travel between New York, London and Paris at 5,000mph
11.00am	Kings of Construction The building of the El Cajon dam on the Rio Grande, the largest current building project in Latin America. It had an original budget of $750 million and was inteded to supply two per cent of Mexico's electricity (888)
12.00pm	The Wave that Shook the World A look at the causes of tsunamis and whether they can be predicted, following the devastation that resulted from the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004
1.00pm	Space Game The short-lived Seventies collaboration between Russia and America, when the two superpowers set aside their differences to create an international space station
2.00pm	Space: The Final Vacation Experts speculate about what it would be like to take a holiday on a space station or even another planet
3.00pm	Mythbusters The team investigate the explosive possibilities of using a mobile phone in a petrol station, and whether flying at high altitude spells disaster for people with silicone implants (888)
4.00pm	How It's Made The methods used to manufacture hockey gloves and remoulded tyres, and how waste water is treated
4.30pm	How It's Made The evolving processes involved in manufacturing dining room furniture, ambulances and accordions
5.00pm	How Do They Do It? How space shuttles are launched, and the technology that allows the world's most extreme rollercoasters to be built. Plus, how pool tables are made
5.30pm	How It's Made How alkaline batteries, wheelchairs and flutes are made, with an examination of the ways in which these methods have been affected by changes in technology
6.00pm	Scrapheap Challenge The teams take on the challenge of building a one-man diving apparatus from a selection of scrap
7.00pm	Scrapheap Challenge Two teams are challenged to build an off-road vehicle from a pile of junk
8.00pm	What We Still Don't Know Astronomer Royal Martin Rees conducts a scientific investigation into ideas which were once only mentioned in the realms of science-fiction and philosophy. In this episode he explores the possibility of alien life
9.00pm	Download: The True Story of the Internet The history of the Internet, with commentary from the creators of some of the technology. The first episode reveals how the browser was the subject of a battle between inventors
10.00pm	How Do They Do It? The methods used to transport an 11,000-tonne drilling platform halfway round the world, and the secrets of a near-perfect shave
10.30pm	How Do They Do It? The technology used to create a lightbulb that burns hotter than the boiling point of iron. Plus, silencing car engines and the creation of millions of unique locks and keys
11.00pm	How Do They Do It? How space shuttles are launched, and the technology that allows the world's most extreme rollercoasters to be built. Plus, how pool tables are made
11.30pm	How It's Made The methods used to manufacture hockey gloves and remoulded tyres, and how waste water is treated
12.00am	How It's Made The evolving processes involved in manufacturing dining room furniture, ambulances and accordions
12.30am	How It's Made How alkaline batteries, wheelchairs and flutes are made, with an examination of the ways in which these methods have been affected by changes in technology
1.00am	Download: The True Story of the Internet The history of the Internet, with commentary from the creators of some of the technology. The first episode reveals how the browser was the subject of a battle between inventors
2.00am	Space Game The short-lived Seventies collaboration between Russia and America, when the two superpowers set aside their differences to create an international space station
3.00am	How Do They Do It? The methods used to transport an 11,000-tonne drilling platform halfway round the world, and the secrets of a near-perfect shave
3.25am	How Do They Do It? The technology used to create a lightbulb that burns hotter than the boiling point of iron. Plus, silencing car engines and the creation of millions of unique locks and keys
3.50am	Mythbusters The team investigate the explosive possibilities of using a mobile phone in a petrol station, and whether flying at high altitude spells disaster for people with silicone implants (888)
4.40am	Understanding An insight into the work of a mathematician who succeeded in capturing the essence of how the human mind makes decisions
5.30am	How Do They Do It? The techniques used in surfing deadly waves and how the Arizona Cardinals' NFL stadium is transformed into a monster-truck venue in just 48 hours