Television

Romancing Barbie

Barbie of Swan Lake is based on Tchaikovsky’s music
Barbie of Swan Lake
is based on Tchaikovsky’s music.

Barbie of Swan Lake features on Pogo on Saturday at 2 pm. Based on the beautiful music of Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake features Barbie in the role of Odette, the young baker’s daughter, who follows a unicorn into the Enchanted Forest, where she is transformed into a swan by Rothbart, an evil wizard. It is her destiny to save the forest. Armed only with her courage, determination, honesty and intelligence, she goes about her job and saves the forest from extinction while the handsome Prince Daniel falls in love with her.

Jaws of death

An animal’s bite can provide vital clues to what it eats, how it kills and how much force is in its jaws. Herpetologist Dr Brady Barr is on the hunt for the greatest jaw-snapping power on the planet. In Dangerous Encounters—Bite Force on National Geographic on Tuesday at 9 pm Dr Barr travels around the globe on a series of death-defying expeditions to study reptiles and other creatures in their native habitats. Armed with a bite force metre that measures force, from the pit bull to the great white shark he measures each animal’s power and witnesses first hand the various differences in their method of attack.





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