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WILD NEW WORLD

Wild New World: Ice Age Oasis

17/10/2002

Ice Age Oasis

Wild New World

BBC Two - Wild New World, Ice Age Oasis

Florida used to be home to giant ground sloths, glyptodonts, sabre-tooths and skunks.

Among the creatures that inhabited Florida at the time of the first human visitations were giant ground sloths, and armoured glyptodonts the size of a small car.

Thousands of years ago, the first people to visit Florida were not greeted by holiday theme parks but by giant ground-sloths with fearsome claws, and armoured glyptodonts, the size of a small car. And did the most notorious prehistoric predator of all, the sabre-tooth cat, finally meet its match in a skunk?

This dramatic new series reveals the spectacular wildlife of Ice Age North America, as the first people to enter this vast continent would have seen it. Evidence uncovered from today's landscapes is used to build a picture of the prehistoric past.

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America's prehistory and wildlife, from the arrival of humans to the end of the ice age.

The sloths and glyptodonts that inhabited 
Florida at the end of the Ice Age. First shown on BBC2  (AD)

Missing Believed Wiped

How a hunt for missing tapes turned up episodes of Dad's 
Army and other comedy gems. A salvaged episode of The Likely 
Lads follows.

The Likely Lads

A situation comedy about two young Northern men who share life's ups and downs.

The Likely Lads: Series 2: Episode 4: Last of the Big Spenders

Episode 4

Episode 4: Last of the Big Spenders

Series 2

Last of the Big Spenders

BBC Two - The Likely Lads, Series 2, Last of the Big Spenders

The lads ask out a couple of girls with expensive tastes and soon run out of money.

Terry and Bob finally pluck up the courage to ask two saleswomen out, but are unprepared for their expensive tastes.

Terry and Bob finally pluck up the courage to ask two saleswomen out, but are unprepared for their expensive tastes. After drinks, a meal and a losing streak at a casino, the lads are seriously out of pocket.

The Likely Lads: Series 2

Knowledge, drama, comedy and the arts for a broad adult audience.

The misadventures of two young Northern men in the Swinging Sixties.

Hit sitcom following the misadventures of two young Northern men in the Swinging Sixties.

Missing Believed Wiped:The Likely Lads

Sophiatown

During the 1940s and 50s, Sophiatown in Johannesburg was an enclave of creativity amid the insanity of apartheid. Storyville pays tribute to a bygone era.  (AD)

Football and Freedom: This World

The contrasting fortunes of two promising young South African footballers from very different backgrounds. 
First shown on BBC2

The Guguletu Seven

Storyville exposes the disturbing truth behind the shooting of seven young men by South African police in 1986.

The New Americans

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Showing nightly, the experiences of immigrants struggling to settle in the United States.

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