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Episode length - 10 mins
Pre-school wildlife series.
See also: BD0019 Polar Lands
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1. First Steps.
Andy Day looks at the tricky first steps of baby animals. Polar bear cubs slip on the arctic snow, while in Africa, a baby elephant needs mum's help to stand up. Mandarin ducklings face a huge leap from their tree trunk nest in Russia. Baby animals must master many of the same skills as humans, suck as climbing, swimming and getting around.
2. Climbing.
Andy Day looks at baby animals as they learn climbing skills. Bears make excellent climbers, but that doesn't mean the young don't have to practice this vital skill needed for food, safety and somewhere to rest, as well as learning which are the right trees to climb. Their first attempts are on trees that are too small or too slippery but the third tree they choose is just right. Giant otters must master the art of climbing up muddy river banks to mark their territory and maintain its boundaries, which is tougher than it first appears. They try to copy mum but can only get half way. Ibex are mammals that rely on the safety afforded by cliff faces. The young are born at the top of a cliff, but there is no food up there. They must descend to the bottom where there can find water and plants to eat. Mum descends alone leaving her young to play, but once they start to descend they realise it's a skill they are born with.
3. Too Hot Too Cold.
Andy Day looks at a selection of baby animals as they learn how to warm up and cool down. When king penguins are too cold they huddle together for warmth and when they need cool down they will take a mud bath. The young penguin dives face down into a muddy pool in one of its first attempts to learn this skill. The Japanese macaque uses hot springs to stay warm in the snowy winter, learning the value of these hot tubs of the animal world. Meanwhile, in the baking heat of the summer the best place for an elephant to cool down is in the water, and for young elephants this is a fun learning experience.
4. Jumping.
Andy Day looks at a selection of baby animals as they learn valuable jumping skills. For baby animals, jumping can help in so many ways. Springbok don't just jump, they pronk, which means showing off! The odd-looking Jerboa jumps to avoid danger, while the Arctic fox pups jump to help them burst through the snow in order to find food.
5. Getting Around.
Andy Day looks at a selection of baby animals as they learn how to stand up and move around. Newborn wildebeest can learn to stand just three minutes after they are born. Adelie penguin chicks must race to catch a parent for food, while young caiman need mum to dig them out of their nest and carry them to the water in her jaws.
6. Fishing.
Andy Day looks at a selection of young animals as they learn important fishing lessons. Mum finds it easy, but fish slip away from young grizzly bears in Canada. Meanwhile, oriental darters practice with twigs, while river otter pups watch mum's sat-nav guide her to the fish in North America.
7. Hitching a Ride.
Andy Day takes a look at how young animals get a ride. In Madagascar, ring-tailed lemurs get a piggyback from mum, while kangaroos have a special pouch to carry their babies. And tiny poisondart frogs carry their tadpoles up into the trees of Central America.
8. Breakfast Time.
Andy Day takes a look at young animals as they learn important skills. A young sea otter watches mum as she cracks a shellfish open, while Capuchin monkeys learn how to break into yummy nuts. And an elephant calf faces the challenge of learning how to use its trunk.
9. Swimming.
Andy Day takes a look at young animals as they learn important swimming skills. In New Zealand baby fur seals choose a safe pool in a river, while in Antarctica, Adelie penguin chicks have to learn how to sink. Polar bears live on the ice but are also great in the Arctic water.
10. Bedtime.
Andy Day takes a look at young animals as they learn how to make a place to rest. Many young apes must learn how to make a bed out of leaves, while in Tibet, bar-headed geese make a soft, fluffy nest out of feathers on the hard rock. And meerkats spend the night in underground burrows.
11. Playtime.
Andy Day takes a look at young animals as they learn by playing. Polar bear cubs in the arctic and langur monkeys in India all love to play. But the masters of playtime are the gorillas, who climb trees, roll around and try to beat their chests like dad.
12. Drinking.
Andy Day takes a look at young animals and how they find a drink when needed. Sand grouse chicks in Namibia rely on dad, whose feathers are like a sponge, while an elephant calf has to learn to drink with a trunk. And ostrich chicks follow mum and dad to find water in the desert.
13. Playing Tricks.
Andy Day loves the tricks young animals learn. Californian ground squirrels use an old snakeskin to confuse a hungry rattler. The coconut octopus rolls away from trouble in an old shell, while the orchid mantis plays many tricks - even kung fu!
14. Flying.
Andy Day with a flying school for animals. In Antarctica, a wandering albatross chick masters the largest wings of any bird, while lar gibbons swing through the rainforest as if they are flying. Meanwhile, the great grey owl chicks leap from the top of huge trees.
15. On the Move.
Andy Day tries to keep up with young animals on the move. The sengi is one of the fastest small mammals on earth - it even has a racetrack. In the Arctic, guillemot chicks leap from clifftop nests. And chacma baboons walk upright to reach the best food.
16. Talking.
This episode looks at how young animals talk. Andy Day learns that lions aren't born with loud roars. In Antarctica, a penguin chick can be heard by his mum amid 150,000 other penguins. A baby macaque must learn the value of funny faces if she is to fit in.
17. Teamwork.
Andy Day explains how baby animals are great at teamwork. In Africa, young meerkats learn to look out for their mob. Emperor penguins work together to keep their chicks fed and warm. The fry of convict fish stick together in a shoal to fool bigger fish.
18. Hiding.
Young animals must learn to hide. Andy Day sees how coatis follow mum's tail to safety in the forest. Eider ducks keep a wolf busy while their ducklings find a safe spot. The big mouthed hap is strangest of all - the young fish hide in its mouth.
19. Exploring.
Andy Day looks at how young animals explore. In Antarctica, a seal pup takes its first journey under the ice. Leopard cubs must climb as they explore the river bank with mum. A tiny goby fish faces a huge obstacle - getting up a waterfall!
20. Lunchtime.
Andy Day explains about the favourite meals of young animals. For meerkats, a scorpion is a tasty desert treat. In Finland, raccoon dog pups stock up before winter arrives. Young capuchin monkeys learn how to hammer and roll shellfish to get them open.
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Episode length: 5 mins
The animated adventures of friends who can always count on each other. Find out what happens when numbers come to life and how they really work.
Stream selected episodes from this series here.
1. One - Learn all about the number 1 with Numberblock One. A little block falls out of the sky, meets her numberling and discovers one wonderful world, singing and counting to one.
2. Another One - One discovers it's tricky to play tennis alone, but then bumps into a magic mirror and meets another One. They join forces to make Two.
3. Two - Learn all about the number two with Numberblock Two. Two finds a pair of magic dancing shoes and shows One that everything is better with two, singing and counting things that belong in pairs.
4. Three - Learn all about the number three with Numberblock Three. Three arrives with a bang and a song-and-dance about her favourite number - 1, 2, 3, Everybody Look at Me.
5. One, Two, Three - Three does magic tricks with apples to show the others who goes first, who is biggest and how to surprise the number friends.
6. Four - Four is the new block on the block and he can't wait to share how much he loves to be square.
7. Five - Five arrives to get the band together, and the party started, with a big high five. Learn all about the number five with Numberblock Five.
8. Three Little Pigs - The Numberblocks present their very own, very numbery version of the classic tale The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Square. Learn about adding ones and simple counting with the number friends.
9. Off We Go! - Five and friends set off on a rhyming romp through field and forest, but they keep getting mixed up.
10. How to Count - It's a lovely day for a picnic, but one of the flapjacks is missing! Is there a flapjack-snaffler on the loose or has Three forgotten what Numberblocks do best?
11. Stampolines - Three opens a stampoline park, where her friends have splatty fun making inky prints of all the shapes they can make. Learn to recognise amounts on sight with the Numberblocks.
12. The Whole of Me - The Numberblocks show us what they are made of in a song and dance all about the parts that make a whole. Find out how to split numbers into smaller numbers with the Numberblocks.
13. The Terrible Twos - Double trouble as Four splits and a pair of tricky twins turn up - the Terrible Twos, who decide it's time to tickle their friends to pieces.
14. Holes - Five and friends discover a hole that makes their heads fall off! Learn how to count up and down and how to add to five with the Numberblocks.
15. Hide and Seek - Five is so good at hide and seek, she can find the others without looking up from her book - but how? Learn how to add to five with the Numberblocks.
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Short clips taken from All Over the Place Asia series 1 and 2. A lively look at unusual and interesting locations around the continent.
1 - Onam festival, India
2 - Kung Fu, China
3 - Palace of the Winds, Jaipur
4 - Karne Mata rat temple, India
5 - Dragon escalator, China
6 - Hutongs, Beijing
7 - Mueang Boran ancient city park, Thailand
8 - Fort Kochi, India
9 - Wudang mountain and Taoist temple, China
10 - Tai Chi, traditional waist drumming, Chinese fan dancing
11 - Temple of Heaven, Beijing
12 - Burj Khalifa, Dubai
13 - Largest spice market in Asia, Delhi
14 - Batu caves, Kuala Lumpur
15 - Singapore
16 - Komodo National Park
17 - Holla Mohalla Sikh (Sikhi) festival
18 - Shimla hilltop city, India
19 - Manta Rays, Indonesia
20 - The White Temple, Chiang Rai
21 - Holi festival, Delhi
22 - Wolong Panda Reserve, China
23 - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Bring your topic to life with this augmented reality flashcard set, suitable for Key Stage 1 and 2. Simply download the FREE Zappar app to your devices and scan the cards.
Each card links to a short video relating to a key question about food and farming, including:
How does our food grow?
How do machines help farmers?
How do we get energy from our food?
How has farming changed over time?
What can we eat instead of meat?
What do people eat around the world?
What happens to wonky fruit and veg?
What is the future of food?
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Episode length: 30 mins
Genius-hunters Dick and Dom are back on the road with a new quest to go head to head with the world’s most fantastical feats of engineering. From sky-scraping buildings and mammoth tunnels, to hair-raising roller coasters, they’ve all got one thing in common: they're works of Absolute Genius!
1. Deep Underground.
Dick and Dom don their hard hats and head underground to reveal the three tunnelling geniuses whose ideas revolutionised the way we dig deep below the earth. Needing no excuse to blow things up, they put the genius of dynamite to the test, visit the world's largest boring drill burrowing its way through the Alps, before building their own tunnelling robot.
2. Mile High City.
Dick and Dom head to the home of the skyscraper, New York city, to piece together the genius ideas that have seen buildings soar to incredible heights. Braving the scary heights of some mammoth structures, the boys become human guinea pigs at a lift-testing facility, get right up close to the blistering heat of a steelworks and attempt to build their own skyscraper from a very unexpected material.
3. Battling Nature.
Dick and Dom go head to head with the fiercest forces in nature as they enter the genius world of engineering against floods, wind and earthquakes. They head to the Netherlands to see how one of the world's great coastal defences keeps the sea at bay, find a suitably hair-raising method to put earthquake proofing to the test and tackle gale-force winds in their bid to storm-proof their most precious possessions.
4. Massive Movers.
Dick and Dom go supersized in this massive movers spectacular in which they trace the origins of the genius ideas that have made shifting heavy weights a whole lot easier. In their element, the boys head to a scrapyard to find out how hydraulic grabbers work, get up close to one of the weirdest-looking aircraft ever built and get to grips, literally, with the world's largest hydraulic hand.
5. Everlasting Energy.
Dick and Dom's quest takes them into the frazzling, windy and fast-flowing world of renewable energy. Heading deep into the searing Nevada desert, the pair discover how the sun's energy could keep the world powered forever, at the iconic Hoover Dam, they uncover the genius behind how a vast lake can generate epic amounts of power, before they put all they have learnt to the test with their own suitably wacky take on a power station.
See also: BD0024 Saving Planet Earth - What Can I Do?
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6. Under Attack.
Dick and Dom are under attack in this high-octane tour through defensive engineering. The boys delve into the work of three geniuses whose ideas have given us impregnable castles, reinforced concrete bunkers and may one day protect planet Earth from asteroid attack! To top things off, they head to the seaside for a mega-sized game of smash the sandcastle.
7. Epic Bridges.
Dick and Dom turn their attention to the incredible world of monster bridges, tracing the genius ideas that have taken us from ancient Roman arches to elegant cable-stayed suspension spans, to a future where we may see bridges 3D-printed by robots. In their challenge, the boys join the Royal Engineers for an army bridge-build race… complete with a severe dressing-down for the loser.
8. Ultimate Playground.
Dick and Dom sample all the fun of the fair in this thrill-ride through the engineering genius of roller coasters and water slides. As well as learning how coasters somehow stay on the track when upside down, the boys don their swimming shorts and bravely research the science behind the world's fastest water slides. Then they put their theories to the test with an epic slide challenge which attempts to topple a record owned by a certain Usain Bolt.
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Duration: 30 minutes
Certificate - U
Year of release: 2016
Wiggle into your wellies, wrap up warm and step into the snow for a wonderful animated adventure. Based on the bestselling bedtime book, written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, We're Going on a Bear Hunt follows the intrepid adventures of siblings Stan, Katie, Rosie, Max, the baby and Rufus the dog, who decide one day to 'catch a big one' and set off on an expedition in search of bears. Coming up against a host of obstacles, the family ventures through a whirling snowstorm, thick oozy mud and a big dark forest on their ambitious quest. But when Rosie and Rufus become detached from the rest of the party it looks like bear hunting might not be such fun after all and the whole thrilling journey has to be done in reverse as the children race back to the safety of their warm home. Olivia Colman, Pam Ferris and Mark Williams provide the voices of the grown-ups while a team of top young talent breathe life into the child characters.
Starring: Pam Ferris, Olivia Colman, Mark Williams, Michael Rosen, Ozzie Latta
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Episode length: 30 mins
Two animations based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.
1. Snow White and Red Riding Hood become lifelong friends as Snow White takes on the might of the wicked Queen, while Red is called home to deal with a pair of hungry wolves - one who has eaten her grandma and then dressed in her clothes, and another who can't stop himself from eating some unsuspecting pigs.
2. Jack grows up with his heart set on next-door neighbour Cindy. She has her eye turned by the eligible prince at the ball, and Jack gets distracted by a giant beanstalk at the bottom of his garden. Will they find true love?
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Episode length: 35 mins
See also: BD0019 Polar Lands
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Andy Day narrates the tale of a special group of baby animals born in some of the coldest and coldest places on earth. Following the ups and downs of plucky baby emperor penguins, snow monkeys, polar bears, arctic foxes, reindeer and otters, this programme finds out just what it takes to survive the first year of life in a world of snow and ice, with a little help from family and friends.
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Programme length: 50 mins
A Musical Journey.
CBeebies favourites take a musical journey through the countryside, around the world, back in time and into space with the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Jessica Cottis. Enjoy inspirational classical pieces and CBeebies themes while joining in with Andy, Cat, Chris, Gem, Rebecca, Mr Bloom and Mr William Shakespeare, at the Royal Albert Hall.
Starring: Ben Faulks, Steven Kynman, Justin Fletcher
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Duration: 45 minutes.
Two children have a magical Christmas Eve adventure as they travel to the Land of Sweets and witness their toys coming to life! Staged at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, with a cast packed full of CBeebies stars.
Starring: Cat Sandion, Ben Faulks, Chris Jarvis, Pui Fan Lee, Andy Day, Joseph Elliott
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