Wildlife film-maker Justine Evans recently had a friend visit her home near the Forest of Dean. As night fell, Evans took them mountain biking through the forest trails, which she regularly does with her wolfdog for no other reason than “it’s quite fun doing it in the dark”.
While they were out night riding, Evans recalls her friend turning to her and saying, “Oh, it’s not all that spooky, is it?”
SHARK! Celebrity Infested Waters sees celebs sink their teeth into their fear of oceans by jumping into shark infested waters. The as yet unconfirmed ‘A-listers’ will be swimming with gradually bigger and more dangerous sharks off Bimini, an island in The Bahamas home to 10 different breeds of shark.
On top of this, the stars will be educated on why sharks aren’t quite as intimidating as they seem, learning about their place in the ecosystem and why the world without them would actually be a lot scarier than the sharks themselves.
Seven years ago, documentary producer Tom Mustill was kayaking with a friend in Monterey Bay, California, when an adult humpback whale breached beside them, landing on their kayak. They were forced underwater and narrowly avoided being crushed by the whale. Fortunately, he and his friend escaped uninjured.
Meerkat: A Dynasties Special follows on from the award-winning 2018 series, Dynasties, and once again sees Sir David Attenborough narrate the dramatic story of a vulnerable species.
In one of the harshest environments on Earth, a young meerkat queen, Maghogho, is struggling to establish her dynasty.
The Makadikadi salt pans of Botswana are so hot and dry that almost no life can survive, yet it is there that Maghogho must raise her pups.
When he’s not jetting across the world to tackle some of nature’s harshest conditions, the 44-year-old survival expert can be found with his family on a remote island off the coast of Wales, living a life you can only imagine is the real-life equivalent of The Wild Thornberrys (minus the talking animals).
He was able to correspond from a mountain in Switzerland in what could possibly be the most Bear Grylls-esque setting for an interview you could imagine.
The sequence – a huge topic on social media - was described by award-winning natural history cinematographer Jamie McPherson as “the most powerful he’s ever shot.”
McPherson was discussing the series, which launched on the streaming service on April 5, at a joint RTS-Wildscreen screening of the Frozen Worlds episode, which featured the walruses.
“The sequence has become a symbol of climate change,” said Keith Scholey, series producer of the eight-part Our Planet, which is narrated by David Attenborough.
The team behind the hit natural history series discuss how they set about capturing the incredible footage from beneath the sea.
Watch highlights of the event, chaired by Torin Douglas, and featuring Blue Planet II's executive producer James Honeyborne, series producer Mark Brownlow and assistant producer Sarah Conner
The team behind the hit natural history series discuss how they set about capturing the incredible footage from beneath the sea.
Watch the event in full, chaired by Torin Douglas, and featuring Blue Planet II's executive producer James Honeyborne, series producer Mark Brownlow and assistant producer Sarah Conner
