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Beck's Futures Shorts

2/5. Art by Saskia Olde-Wolbers and Tonico Lemos Auad. More avant-garde art at 10.20pm

WILD NEW WORLD

Wild New World: Edge of the Ice

24/10/2002

Edge of the Ice

Wild New World

BBC Two - Wild New World, Edge of the Ice

The mastodon and scimitar-toothed cat were among the animals living on the ice's edge.

Research suggests that the first Americans were hunters who travelled by boat. The animals they encountered included the elephant-like mastadon and the scimitar-toothed cat.

Thirteen thousand years ago, the north-west corner of the New World was a place where animals survived at edge of the ice.

The elephant-like mastodon and its biggest predator, the ferociously fanged scimitar-toothed cat, were just two of the most impressive beasts that lived here. Coastal fringes and islands were an important ice-free sanctuary while much of the continent was buried under ice. And the latest research suggests that this may be the place where the first people entered North America, possibly using boats to travel down the north-west coast. Their arrival occurred around the time of one the biggest floods of the ice age, when a towering 600-metre-high wave wiped out millions of animals and created a waterfall that makes Niagara Falls look puny by comparison.

This dramatic 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 bizarre creatures that once roamed 
America, including the mastodon and the sabre-toothed tiger. 
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The World

With Brian Hanrahan. 
Followed by Weather

Vivienne Westwood Talks to Kirsty Wark

BBC Four - Vivienne Westwood Talks to Kirsty Wark

Kirsty Wark interviews fashion icon Vivienne Westwood.

Kirsty Wark interviews the fashion icon Vivienne Westwood about her career as one of Britain's most inventive and influential fashion designers.

Filmed on location at her V&A retrospective, Vivienne Westwood discusses her career from the early days of designing clothes worn by the Sex Pistols to her catwalk shows. 

She gives an insight into how she works, including her use of very British fabrics such as Harris tweed and tartan and her reinterpretation of historic garments such as the corset and crinoline.

Knowledge, arts, music and culture from the UK and the world.

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Vivienne Westwood talks to Kirsty Wark

Orphans of Nkandla

To conclude BBC4's South African season, a poignant film focusing on the plight of Zuzuland's Aids orphans - stigmatised, poverty-stricken and alone.

Beck's Futures Short

3/5. Artworks by Haluk Akakce and Hayley Tompkins.

Profile

Weekly portraits of those in the news and others who ought to be

Profile: Stephen Hawking

08/01/2002

Stephen Hawking

BBC Four - Profile, Stephen Hawking

On his 60th birthday, a look at Professor Stephen Hawking's remarkable life.

As Professor Stephen Hawking celebrates his 60th birthday, friends, family and colleagues look back at his remarkable life, and assess his contribution to science.

Stephen Hawking - Profile

The cosmologist's life and ground-breaking work.

Life Story

Jeff Goldblum , 
Tim Piggott-Smith , Alan Howard and Juliet Stevenson star in a drama about the race to find the structure of DNA.

The New Americans

2/5. Ricardo and Jose join the LA Dodgers' rookie team, while Naima and Hatem get married. Continues tomorrow at lam.

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