Wednesday, October 14th TV listings for Cottage Life
River Monsters Congo Killer
Jeremy explores the legends and mystery surrounding the Congo River in Central Africa.
Sizing up three rounds of answers that are right, wrong, and plain old impossible.
Paid programming.
QI Piecemeal
Sandi Toksvig discusses piecemeal topics with Alan Davies, Jimmy Carr, Gyles Brandreth and Sally Phillips.
Unearthed The Lost Empire of Palmyra
Palmyra: pearl of the Syrian Desert; experts return to the site and use CGI reconstruction to reveal the secrets of Palmyra's ancient engineers.
Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America
The secrets of a dilapidated concrete wall wedged perilously into the Italian mountains; peek at five eerie circular structures on a Cuban island; explore a former American escape route from nuclear Armageddon; a submerged link to D-Day.
Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America
Flee to an aviator's secluded Wyoming retreat away from the limelight and feel the weight of history in a famous Southern barbershop. Pop into a Connecticut building founded on regional rivalry and scratch your head at the Coney Island of the South.
The origins of a colossal image of a man carved into the red sands of Central Australia; mysterious mummies and peculiar whale bones resting in two different parts of Chile's Atacama Desert; a lost Egyptian tomb.
The World's Deadliest Weather Volcano Eruption
A deadly volcano eruption causes catastrophic destruction, and a tornado flips cars on a highway.
Unearthed The Lost Empire of Palmyra
Palmyra: pearl of the Syrian Desert; experts return to the site and use CGI reconstruction to reveal the secrets of Palmyra's ancient engineers.
River Monsters Congo Killer
Jeremy explores the legends and mystery surrounding the Congo River in Central Africa.
Mysteries From Above Ancient Civilizations
Come across a set of disturbingly familiar stone monoliths in Colombia, then explore a lost city in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; puzzle over an ancient ruin in Corinth, Greece, and explore an old structure on a Maltese island.
Abandoned Inventions The Heist and the Hounds
Exploring a covert mission to recover a sunken Soviet submarine packed with Cold War secrets, then examining a disastrous wartime weapon; seeing how these forgotten discoveries helped shape the rise of the internet.
Building Giants Athens Super Skyscraper New
In Greece, engineers want to build the country's first real skyscraper; they have to take into account earthquakes, unstable ground, and strong winds from the Mediterranean.
Weird Earth Giant Orb and an Evil Eye New
A bizarre, gelatinous orb confronts scuba divers; a powerful blast levels a city; an ominous shape, dubbed the "Evil Eye" by witnesses, looms large over a city.
Abandoned Inventions The Heist and the Hounds
Exploring a covert mission to recover a sunken Soviet submarine packed with Cold War secrets, then examining a disastrous wartime weapon; seeing how these forgotten discoveries helped shape the rise of the internet.
Building Giants Athens Super Skyscraper
In Greece, engineers want to build the country's first real skyscraper; they have to take into account earthquakes, unstable ground, and strong winds from the Mediterranean.
Weird Earth Giant Orb and an Evil Eye
A bizarre, gelatinous orb confronts scuba divers; a powerful blast levels a city; an ominous shape, dubbed the "Evil Eye" by witnesses, looms large over a city.
The World's Deadliest Weather Volcano Eruption
A deadly volcano eruption causes catastrophic destruction, and a tornado flips cars on a highway.
Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America
The secrets of a dilapidated concrete wall wedged perilously into the Italian mountains; peek at five eerie circular structures on a Cuban island; explore a former American escape route from nuclear Armageddon; a submerged link to D-Day.
Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America
Flee to an aviator's secluded Wyoming retreat away from the limelight and feel the weight of history in a famous Southern barbershop. Pop into a Connecticut building founded on regional rivalry and scratch your head at the Coney Island of the South.
River Monsters Congo Killer
Jeremy explores the legends and mystery surrounding the Congo River in Central Africa.
Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America The Wright Brothers: Cleared for Takeoff
An unassuming factory marks a revolutionary leap forward -- and upward -- in how humans travel; due to ongoing legal battles and innovative designs from their many competitors, these historic upstarts would soon be grounded.
Buried Evidence Warriors
Shedding light on the origins of organized warfare and the brutality it left behind; hunting for the beginnings of organized combat in Germany; finding evidence of Roman power in Denmark, and pondering the symbolic role of elite fighters.
Mysteries From Above Stone Cold Mysteries
Get petrified by cryptic rock structures normally hidden from view; look inside curious dwellings in the Peruvian Andes; visit a sacred monolith in Wyoming's Black Hills; haunt a Turkish stone village; spot an immovable waterfall in Mexico.