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BBC1

9pm



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[RTKangaMummy]

SUNDAY 05 MARCH



Documentary

Planet Earth

9:00pm - 10:00pm

BBC1 London & South East




VIDEO Plus+: 3679
Subtitled, Widescreen





1/11 - From Pole to Pole

This latest blockbuster from the natural history unit is liable to give you the shivers - and not just because half of it is set in the snow. Scene after scene makes the hairs on your neck stand up: baby polar bears taking their first steps; Japanese cherry trees coming into blossom; an elephant lost in the desert; a vast flock of geese. The idea, and it's a thrillingly ambitious one, is to give an overview of the whole teeming planet. And it works. It really is as if someone wanted an intergalactic tourist board video to sell the glories of Earth to the rest of the cosmos, then persuaded a team of geniuses to shoot it. And it's not all ponderous, majestic stuff, by any means. There are red-in-tooth-and-claw sequences (a couple of which might upset younger viewers) and one very funny moment where we see a troop of baboons wading anxiously into the flood waters of the Okavango, holding their front paws above the water like dainty Larry Graysons. But mostly it's haunting, sublime TV, painted on a grand canvas. And not to be missed.

RT reviewer: David Butcher




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[7up]

about time attenborough was on again. sounds fantastic, cant wait

[RTKangaMummy]

BBC1

9.00pm

TONIGHT

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[7up]

cheers kanga, forgot about that

[RTKangaMummy]

You welcome

[RTKangaMummy]

9.00 TONIGHT

SUNDAY 26 MARCH



Documentary

Planet Earth

9:00pm - 10:00pm

BBC1 London & South East




VIDEO Plus+: 3539
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described





4/5 - Caves

Caves: the final frontier. Dark, forbidding places with slimy walls and nightmarish occupants, they remain - for reasons obvious to anyone who's even dimly aware of their slimy walls/nightmarish occupant status - one of the world's least explored areas. Thankfully, the exceptionally talented Planet Earth team are on hand to give us the low-down, their lenses probing the nooks and crannies that man forgot. Thus, we visit the biggest cave shaft in the world (Mexico's Cave of Swallows), meet the sausage-like troglodyte creatures that potter about in an underground passage in Texas, and go for a wander in Borneo's Deer Cave, a place where bats flutter like sweet wrappers and cockroaches frolic in the resulting 100m mound of guano. It is, as always, wow-inducing stuff, with camerawork that leaves the efforts of other nature documentaries in the dark.





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[RTKangaMummy]

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[Whizzz]

This prog always makes me go 'Wow'

I shuddered at the bats & cockroaches though - couldn't watch that bit !