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Natural World : Season 4
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Air date: 15 Sep '85 - 20 episodesNatural 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.
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List of Episodes (20)
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1. Land of the Tiger
15 Sep '85Land of the Tiger looks at the protected species of the Kanha and Ranthambore National Parks, celebrating these elusive and endangered big cats and exploring the delicately balanced ecosystem they inhabit. Interweaving footage of monkeys, deer and the tiger’s main competitor, crocodiles, the couple’s impressive cinematography brings the private world of tigers to life, as these magnificent creatures swim, play, mate, suckle their young and stalk their prey.
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2. Namaqualand, Diary of a Desert Garden
22 Sep '85
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3. Horns of Dilemma
29 Sep '85Documentary on the illicit trade in Rhino horns, which is threatening the five kinds of rhinoceros with extinction.
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4. On the Verge of Life
06 Oct '85Documentary about wildlife which lives around Britain's motorways.
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5. The Man Who Loves Frogs
13 Oct '85
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6. Emas, The High Plains of Brazil
20 Oct '85
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7. The Flight of the Whooping Crane
27 Oct '85
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8. White Rock, Black Water
03 Nov '85
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9. Never Stay In One Place
10 Nov '85
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10. City of Coral
17 Nov '85
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11. Kingdom of the Ice Bear - The Frozen Ocean
24 Nov '85First in a three part series examining Arctic ecology, The Frozen Ocean focuses on the spring to summer months, providing an intimate portrayal of life in a land of relentless ice and intense cold.
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12. Kingdom of the Ice Bear - The Land of Beyond
01 Dec '85Hywel Bennett narrates the second of an award-winning trilogy of films about the Arctic. The winter is long and harsh, but for eight weeks of the year the midnight sun warms the frozen earth, nurturing lush vegetation and a rich variety of flowers, and transforming the barren wastelands into fecund breeding grounds so the life of the Arctic can renew itself.
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13. Kingdom of the Ice Bear - The Final Challenge
08 Dec '85Documentary series about the Arctic and its inhabitants.
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14. Aspen, A Dance of Leaves
22 Dec '85The wild life of the prairies of Canada during the winter months.
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15. The Planet Hunters
29 Dec '85
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16. Short Grass Country
05 Jan '86
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17. The Forgotten Garden
12 Jan '86
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18. Inside Stories
19 Jan '86
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19. Masked Monkeys
26 Jan '86Documentary on Guenons, a species of African forest monkey, and their place in the evolutionary hierarchy.
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20. Sky Hunters
02 Feb '86
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