Close Calls: on Camera

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Close Calls: On Camera

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Series looking at the split-second moments when everyday events turn into disasters.

Series which shows the split-second moments when everyday events are transformed into disasters and meets the people who lived to tell the tale.

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Close Calls: On Camera: Series 6: Episode 3

Episode 3

Series 6

BBC One - Close Calls: On Camera, Series 6, Episode 3

An adventurous pensioner is lost on Ben Nevis in a howling snow storm.

Nick Knowles presents close calls caught on film. In this episode an adventurous pensioner is lost on Ben Nevis in a howling snow storm, and a van driver skids on black ice.

Nick Knowles introduces ordinary people who have survived extraordinary near misses, featuring real-time CCTV and phone recordings plus the dramatic accounts of both rescuers and rescued. 

In this episode an adventurous pensioner is lost on Ben Nevis in a howling snow storm, and a van driver skids on black ice to end up teetering on the very edge of a motorway bridge.

Close Calls: On Camera: Series 6

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Series presenting the stories of people who have survived extraordinary near misses

Nick Knowles presents stories of people who have survived extraordinary near misses, with real-time CCTV and phone recordings and the dramatic accounts of both the rescuers and rescued

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