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Thursday 28 August
07:00 PM The Prophet Muhammad
It is the world's fastest growing faith. One of every four people on earth finds spiritual peace in the words of the Quran. Nearly fourteen hundred years ago, the angel Gabriel came to Muhammad with revelations that he was to deliver to all of mankind. He spent the rest of his life communicating God's message and setting and example for how each human being should live. More >

Thursday 28 August
08:00 PM Modern Marvels: Twin Towers of the East
April 1996 saw the passing of the torch, from old to new, west to east. Rising almost 1500 feet above the earth, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia became the tallest buildings in the world. The towers were the culmination of an engineering marvel involving experts from around the globe and the determination of one man to transform his country into a 21st century power. More >

Thursday 28 August
09:00 PM Human Weapon: Silat: Martial Art of Malaysia
Few martial arts match the exoticism of their country like Silat. Beautiful, yet deadly, Silat was born in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Practiced in secrecy for centuries, and with its strong ties to Islam, Silat is one of the most intriguing and least understood fighting systems on the planet. More >

Thursday 28 August
10:00 PM MONSTER QUEST: THE REAL HOBBIT
MonsterQuest travels to the interior of Sumatra, in Indonesia, looking for what locals call the Orang Pendak, translated as: Man of the Woods. Could this strange mystery ape, with its human face, be a surviving ancestor to the Flores Man, dubbed the Real Hobbit in 2004, when skeletal remains were found on the neighboring island of Flores? An expedition is launched deep within the rain forest, where locals claim to see the creature with regularity...and they find footprints of an unknown upright walking beast. Will camera traps reveal its identity? More >

Thursday 28 August
11:00 PM Engineering an Empire: Da Vinci's World
After the fall of Rome, Italy slowly fell into a dark sleep. It wasn’t until the 11th century when the Holy Roman Empire loosened its grip on Italy, that it reawakened. Autonomous city-states emerged, and though ravaged by waves of the plague, these tiny republics began to revitalize their cities and build on a massive level not witnessed since the rise of the Rome. More >

Thursday 28 August
12:00 AM Tsunami 2004: Waves of Death
The 2004 tsunami was caused by a 9.3 earthquake - the second strongest quake on record. It was nature's fury at it's worst, targeting most of its destructive energy at northern Indonesia and Thailand in the east, Sri Lanka, India and the coast of Africa to the west, and killing more than 200,000 people in 14 countries. More >