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Timewatch Season 28 · Episode 7

In Shackleton's Footsteps

4th April 2009 1 hour Season 28 Episode 7

A small group of British men have some unfinished family business in Antarctica. A century ago their ancestors, under the leadership of the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, tried and failed to become the first men to reach the South Pole. Following in their footsteps, the team embarks on a 900-mile trek across an area so rarely visited that more men have walked on the Moon. 7/7.

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Season 28 · Episode 8

The Prince and the Plotter

Forty years ago on 1 July, Wales was celebrating one of the great royal events of the 20th century - the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon. It was a day of pomp and pageantry, but also a day of bombs and threats to the lives of the royal family. Presenter Huw Edwards chronicles the extraordinary events of a day when police, politicians, and royalty held their collective breath as a group of nationalist extremists violently plotted against the investiture.
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