• Air date: 06 May '84 8 episodes
      Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
  • List of Episodes (8)
    • 1. Plight of the Bumble-Bee

      06 May '84
      The programme is about bumble bees in the forests of New England. We follow a queen bumble bee as she emerges from hibernation to find a suitable nest site and establish a colony from the eggs she has carried over the winter. She duels with a rival queen. Honey bees, bee mites and wax moths also feature in her life story.
    • 2. Salim Ali's India

      13 May '84
    • 3. The Kiwai

      20 May '84
    • 4. Commandos of Conservation

      03 Jun '84
    • 5. Long Point

      10 Jun '84
    • 6. Beneath The Keel

      17 Jun '84
      This film looks at marine life off the Devon coast, as viewed by filmmakers Jeff Goodman & Laurie Emberson, who like to get close to and interact with these creatures. Sparkling jewel anemones, exotic cup corals, massed spider crabs and rare red band fish are just a few of the unusual animals that make their homes beneath the waves of our coastal waters.
    • 7. Treasures of the Gulf

      01 Jul '84
    • 8. Fragments of Eden

      22 Jul '84