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Attenborough Nature Companion

  • Introduction
    • Basic structure of the project
    • The importance of an outline
    • Filming locations
    • Thematic View
  • Life collection
    • Life on Earth (1979)
      • 01- The Infinite Variety
      • 02- Building Bodies
      • 03- The First Forests
      • 04- The Swarming Hordes
      • 05- Conquest of the Waters
      • 06- Invasion of the Land
      • 07- Victors of the Dry Land
      • 08- Lords of the Air
      • 09- The Rise of the Mammals
      • 10- Theme and Variations
      • 11- The Hunters and Hunted
      • 12- Life in the Trees
      • 13- The Compulsive Communicators
      • Series in retrospect
    • The Living Planet (1984)
      • 01- The Building of the Earth
      • 02- The Frozen World
      • 03- The Northern Forests
      • 04- Jungle
      • 05- Seas of Grass
      • 06- The Baking Deserts
      • 07- The Sky Above
      • 08- Sweet Fresh Water
      • 09- The Margins of the Land
      • 10- Worlds Apart
      • 11- The Open Ocean
      • 12- New Worlds
    • The Trials of Life (1990)
      • 01 – Arriving
      • 02 – Growing Up
      • 03 – Finding Food
      • 04 – Hunting and Escaping
      • 05 – Finding the Way
      • 06 – Home Making
      • 07 – Living Together
      • 08 – Fighting
      • 09 – Friends and Rivals
      • 10 – Talking to Strangers
      • 11 – Courting
      • 12 – Continuing the Line
    • The Private Life of Plants (1995)
      • 1- Travelling
      • 2- Growing
      • 3- Flowering
      • 4- The Social Struggle
      • 5- Living Together
      • 6- Surviving
    • The Life of Birds (1998)
      • 01- To Fly or Not to Fly?
      • 02 – The Mastery of Flight
      • 03- The Insatiable Appetite
      • 04- Meat-Eaters
      • 05- Fishing for a Living
      • 06- Signals and Songs
      • 07- Finding Partners
      • 08 – The Demands of the Egg
      • 09- The Problems of Parenthood
      • 10- The Limits of Endurance
    • The Life of Mammals (2002)
      • 01 -“A Winning Design”
      • 02- Insect Hunters
      • 03- Plant Predators
      • 04- Chisellers
      • 05- Meat Eaters
      • 06- The Opportunists
      • 07- Return to the Water
      • 08- Life in the Trees
      • 09- The Social Climbers
      • 10- Food for Thought
    • Life in the Undergrowth (2005)
      • 1- Invasion of the Land
      • 2- Taking to the Air
      • 3- The Silk Spinners
      • 4- Intimate Relations
      • 5- Super Societies
    • Life in Cold Blood (2008)
      • 1- The Cold Blooded Truth
      • 2- Land Invaders
      • 3- Dragons of the Dry
      • 4- Sophisticated Serpents
      • 5- Armoured Giants
      • Life Collection in retrospect
  • BBC blockbusters
    • The Planet Series
      • The Blue Planet (2001)
        • 01 -“Introduction”
        • 02- The Deep
        • 03- Open Ocean
        • 04- Frozen Seas
        • 05- Seasonal Seas
        • 06- Coral Seas
        • 07- Tidal Seas
        • 08- Coasts
        • 09- Deep Trouble
        • 10- Making Waves
      • Planet Earth (2006)
        • 01- From Pole to Pole
        • 02- Mountains
        • 03- Fresh Water
        • 04- Caves
        • 05- Deserts
        • 06- Ice Worlds
        • 07- Great Plains
        • 08- Jungles
        • 09- Shallow Seas
        • 10- Seasonal Forests
        • 11- Ocean Deep
      • The Frozen Planet (2011)
        • 1 – To the Ends of the Earth
        • 2 – Spring
        • 3 – Summer
        • 4 – Autumn
        • 5 – Winter
        • 6 – The Last Frontier
        • 7 – On Thin Ice
        • 8 – The Epic Journey
      • Planet Earth II (2016)
        • 1- Islands
        • 2 – Mountains
        • 3 – Jungles
        • 4 – Deserts
        • 5 – Grasslands
        • 6 – Cities
        • 7* – A world of wonder
      • Blue Planet II (2017)
        • 1- One Ocean
        • 2- The Deep
        • 3- Coral Reefs
        • 4- Big Blue
        • 5- Green Seas
        • 6- Coasts
        • 7- Our Blue Planet
        • 8- Oceans of Wonder
      • Seven Worlds, One Planet (2019)
        • 1 – “Antarctica”
        • 2 – Asia
        • 3 – South America
        • 4 – Australia
        • 5 – Europe
        • 6 – North America
        • 7 – Africa
      • A Perfect Planet (2021)
        • 1- Volcano
        • 2- The Sun
        • 3- Weather
        • 4- Oceans
        • 5- Humans
      • The Green Planet (2022)
        • 1 – Tropical Worlds
        • 2 – Water Worlds
        • 3 – Seasonal Worlds
        • 4 – Desert Worlds
        • 5 – Human World
      • Frozen Planet II (2022)
        • 1 – Frozen Worlds
        • 2 – Frozen Ocean
        • 3 – Frozen Peaks
        • 4 – Frozen South
        • 5 – Frozen Lands
        • 6 – Our Frozen Planet
        • The series in retrospect
      • Planet Earth III (2023)
        • 1 – Coasts
        • 2 – Ocean
        • 3 – Deserts and grasslands
        • 4 – Freshwater
        • 5 – Forests
        • 6 – Extremes
        • 7 – Human
        • 8 – Heroes
        • 9 – Wonders of nature
    • Nature’s Great Events (2009)
      • 1- The Great Melt – Arctic Summer
      • 2- The Great Salmon Run – Grizzly Wilderness
      • 3- The Great Migration – Surviving the Serengeti
      • 4- The Great Tide – Army of Predators
      • 5- The Great Flood – Kalahari Flood
      • 6- The Great Feast – Pacific Feast
    • Life (2009)
      • 01- Challenges of Life
      • 02- Reptiles and Amphibians
      • 03- Mammals
      • 04- Fish
      • 05- Birds
      • 06- Insects
      • 07- Hunters and Hunted
      • 08- Creatures of the Deep
      • 09- Plants
      • 10- Primates
    • Africa (2013)
      • 1- Kalahari
      • 2- Savannah
      • 3- Congo
      • 4- Cape
      • 5- Sahara
      • 6- The Future
    • Life Story (2014)
      • 1- First steps
      • 2- Growing up
      • 3- Home
      • 4- Power
      • 5- Courtship
      • 6- Parenthood
      • 7- The Full Circle
    • The Hunt (2015)
      • 1- Hardest Challenge
      • 2- In the Grip of the Seasons
      • 3- Hide and Seek
      • 4- Hunger at Sea
      • 5- Nowhere to Hide
      • 6- Race against Time
      • 7- Living with Predators
    • Dynasties (2018)
      • 1- Chimpanze
      • 2- Emperor
      • 3- Lion
      • 4- Painted Wolf
      • 5- Tiger
    • The Mating Game (2021)
      • 1 – Grasslands: In Plain Sight
      • 2 – Oceans: Out Of The Blue
      • 3 – Jungles: In The Thick Of It
      • 4 – Freshwater: Timing Is Everything
      • 5 – Against All Odds
    • Dynasties II (2022)
      • 1 – Puma
      • 2 – Elephant
      • 3 – Cheetah
      • 4 – Hyena
      • 5 – Macaque: Monkeys In The Mountains
      • Series in retrospect
    • Wild Isles (2023)
      • 1 – Our Precious Isles
      • 2 – Woodland
      • 3 – Grasslands
      • 4 – Freshwater
      • 5 – Ocean
      • (6) – Saving our wild Isles
    • Mammals (2024)
      • 1 – Dark
      • 2 – The new wild
      • 3 – Water
      • 4 – Cold
      • 5 – Heat
      • 6 – Forest
    • Asia (2024)
      • 1 – Beneath the waves
      • 2 – Above the Clouds
      • 3 – The Frozen North
      • 4 – Tangled Worlds
      • 5 – Crowded Continent
      • 6 – The Arid Heart
      • 7 – Saving Asia
  • Miscellaneous
    • As himself
      • The Ascent of man (1973)
      • Auntie – the Inside Story of the BBC (1997)
      • Parkinson – Billy Connolly and Sir David Attenborough (1998)
      • The Human Face (2001)
      • BBC’s Timeshift – Attenborough the Controller (2002)
      • Attenborough in Conversation with Mark Lawson (2002)
      • BBC’s William Hodges: The Art of Exploration (2004)
      • The Selfish Green (2005)
      • Gorillas Revisited (2006)
      • 100 Years of Wildlife Films (2007)
      • BBC’s “Favourite Attenborough Moments” (2007)
      • Friday night with Jonathan Ross s17e03 (2009)
    • Factual
      • Extinction, the Facts (2020)
      • Breaking Boundaries – The Science of our Planet (2021)
    • Stand-alone programmes
      • Life that Glows (2016)
      • Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard (2021)
      • Attenborough’s Wonder of Song (2022)
      • Dinosaurs – The Final Day with David Attenborough (2022)
      • Giant sea monster (2024)
    • First Life (2010)
    • Attenborough’s Rise of animals .. (2013)
    • Life in the freezer (1993)
      • 1 – The Bountiful Sea
      • 2 – The Ice Retreats
      • 3 – The Race to Breed
      • 4 – The Door Closes
      • 5 – The Big Freeze
      • 6 – Footsteps in the Snow
    • Wildlife on One
      • The Beetles, Record Breakers (1997)
    • Animal Crime Scene (2005)
      • 1 – Outback Assassin
      • 2 – Ocean Assassin
      • 3 – Arctic Assassin
      • 4 – African Assassin
      • 5 – Amazon Assassin
    • Natural World
    • 60 Years in the Wild (2012)
      • 1 – Life on Camera
      • 2 – Understanding the Natural World
      • 3 – Our Fragile Planet
    • Life in colour (2021)
      • 1 – Seeing in colour
      • 2 – Hiding in colour
      • 3 – Chasing colour
  • Outside Sources
    • Plants behaving badly (2013)
      • 1 – Murder & Mayhem
      • 2 – Sex & Lies
    • BSkyB
      • Flying Monsters (2010)
      • Kingdom of Plants (2012)
        • 1 – Life in the Wet Zone
        • 2 – Solving the Secrets
        • 3 – Survival
      • The Penguin King (2012)
      • Galapagos (2013)
        • 1 – Origin
        • 2 – Adaptation
        • 3 – Evolution
      • Micro monsters (2013)
        • 1 – Conflict
        • 2 – Predator
        • 3 – Courtship
        • 4 – Reproduction
        • 5 – Family
        • 6 – Colony
        • 7 – Making of Micro monsters
      • Natural History Museum (2014)
      • Conquest of the Skies (2015)
        • 1 – The First To Fly
        • 2 – Rivals
        • 3 – Triumph
    • Netflix
      • Our Planet (2019)
        • 1 – One Planet
        • 2 – Frozen worlds
        • 3 – Jungles
        • 4 – Coasts
        • 5 – Deserts to Grasslands
        • 6 – The High Seas
        • 7 – Fresh Water
        • 8 – Forests
    • National Geographic
      • Desert seas (2011)
      • Wild India (2012)
        • 1 – Elephant Kingdom
        • 2 – Tiger Jungles
        • 3 – Desert Lions
    • AppleTV+
      • The Day Earth changed ep (2021)
      • Prehistoric Planet (2022)
        • 1 – Coasts
        • 2 – Deserts
        • 3 – Freshwater
        • 4 – Ice worlds
        • 5 – Forests
  • Early years
  • Introduction
    • Basic structure of the project
    • The importance of an outline
    • Filming locations
    • Thematic View
  • Life collection
    • Life on Earth (1979)
      • 01- The Infinite Variety
      • 02- Building Bodies
      • 03- The First Forests
      • 04- The Swarming Hordes
      • 05- Conquest of the Waters
      • 06- Invasion of the Land
      • 07- Victors of the Dry Land
      • 08- Lords of the Air
      • 09- The Rise of the Mammals
      • 10- Theme and Variations
      • 11- The Hunters and Hunted
      • 12- Life in the Trees
      • 13- The Compulsive Communicators
      • Series in retrospect
    • The Living Planet (1984)
      • 01- The Building of the Earth
      • 02- The Frozen World
      • 03- The Northern Forests
      • 04- Jungle
      • 05- Seas of Grass
      • 06- The Baking Deserts
      • 07- The Sky Above
      • 08- Sweet Fresh Water
      • 09- The Margins of the Land
      • 10- Worlds Apart
      • 11- The Open Ocean
      • 12- New Worlds
    • The Trials of Life (1990)
      • 01 – Arriving
      • 02 – Growing Up
      • 03 – Finding Food
      • 04 – Hunting and Escaping
      • 05 – Finding the Way
      • 06 – Home Making
      • 07 – Living Together
      • 08 – Fighting
      • 09 – Friends and Rivals
      • 10 – Talking to Strangers
      • 11 – Courting
      • 12 – Continuing the Line
    • The Private Life of Plants (1995)
      • 1- Travelling
      • 2- Growing
      • 3- Flowering
      • 4- The Social Struggle
      • 5- Living Together
      • 6- Surviving
    • The Life of Birds (1998)
      • 01- To Fly or Not to Fly?
      • 02 – The Mastery of Flight
      • 03- The Insatiable Appetite
      • 04- Meat-Eaters
      • 05- Fishing for a Living
      • 06- Signals and Songs
      • 07- Finding Partners
      • 08 – The Demands of the Egg
      • 09- The Problems of Parenthood
      • 10- The Limits of Endurance
    • The Life of Mammals (2002)
      • 01 -“A Winning Design”
      • 02- Insect Hunters
      • 03- Plant Predators
      • 04- Chisellers
      • 05- Meat Eaters
      • 06- The Opportunists
      • 07- Return to the Water
      • 08- Life in the Trees
      • 09- The Social Climbers
      • 10- Food for Thought
    • Life in the Undergrowth (2005)
      • 1- Invasion of the Land
      • 2- Taking to the Air
      • 3- The Silk Spinners
      • 4- Intimate Relations
      • 5- Super Societies
    • Life in Cold Blood (2008)
      • 1- The Cold Blooded Truth
      • 2- Land Invaders
      • 3- Dragons of the Dry
      • 4- Sophisticated Serpents
      • 5- Armoured Giants
      • Life Collection in retrospect
  • BBC blockbusters
    • The Planet Series
      • The Blue Planet (2001)
        • 01 -“Introduction”
        • 02- The Deep
        • 03- Open Ocean
        • 04- Frozen Seas
        • 05- Seasonal Seas
        • 06- Coral Seas
        • 07- Tidal Seas
        • 08- Coasts
        • 09- Deep Trouble
        • 10- Making Waves
      • Planet Earth (2006)
        • 01- From Pole to Pole
        • 02- Mountains
        • 03- Fresh Water
        • 04- Caves
        • 05- Deserts
        • 06- Ice Worlds
        • 07- Great Plains
        • 08- Jungles
        • 09- Shallow Seas
        • 10- Seasonal Forests
        • 11- Ocean Deep
      • The Frozen Planet (2011)
        • 1 – To the Ends of the Earth
        • 2 – Spring
        • 3 – Summer
        • 4 – Autumn
        • 5 – Winter
        • 6 – The Last Frontier
        • 7 – On Thin Ice
        • 8 – The Epic Journey
      • Planet Earth II (2016)
        • 1- Islands
        • 2 – Mountains
        • 3 – Jungles
        • 4 – Deserts
        • 5 – Grasslands
        • 6 – Cities
        • 7* – A world of wonder
      • Blue Planet II (2017)
        • 1- One Ocean
        • 2- The Deep
        • 3- Coral Reefs
        • 4- Big Blue
        • 5- Green Seas
        • 6- Coasts
        • 7- Our Blue Planet
        • 8- Oceans of Wonder
      • Seven Worlds, One Planet (2019)
        • 1 – “Antarctica”
        • 2 – Asia
        • 3 – South America
        • 4 – Australia
        • 5 – Europe
        • 6 – North America
        • 7 – Africa
      • A Perfect Planet (2021)
        • 1- Volcano
        • 2- The Sun
        • 3- Weather
        • 4- Oceans
        • 5- Humans
      • The Green Planet (2022)
        • 1 – Tropical Worlds
        • 2 – Water Worlds
        • 3 – Seasonal Worlds
        • 4 – Desert Worlds
        • 5 – Human World
      • Frozen Planet II (2022)
        • 1 – Frozen Worlds
        • 2 – Frozen Ocean
        • 3 – Frozen Peaks
        • 4 – Frozen South
        • 5 – Frozen Lands
        • 6 – Our Frozen Planet
        • The series in retrospect
      • Planet Earth III (2023)
        • 1 – Coasts
        • 2 – Ocean
        • 3 – Deserts and grasslands
        • 4 – Freshwater
        • 5 – Forests
        • 6 – Extremes
        • 7 – Human
        • 8 – Heroes
        • 9 – Wonders of nature
    • Nature’s Great Events (2009)
      • 1- The Great Melt – Arctic Summer
      • 2- The Great Salmon Run – Grizzly Wilderness
      • 3- The Great Migration – Surviving the Serengeti
      • 4- The Great Tide – Army of Predators
      • 5- The Great Flood – Kalahari Flood
      • 6- The Great Feast – Pacific Feast
    • Life (2009)
      • 01- Challenges of Life
      • 02- Reptiles and Amphibians
      • 03- Mammals
      • 04- Fish
      • 05- Birds
      • 06- Insects
      • 07- Hunters and Hunted
      • 08- Creatures of the Deep
      • 09- Plants
      • 10- Primates
    • Africa (2013)
      • 1- Kalahari
      • 2- Savannah
      • 3- Congo
      • 4- Cape
      • 5- Sahara
      • 6- The Future
    • Life Story (2014)
      • 1- First steps
      • 2- Growing up
      • 3- Home
      • 4- Power
      • 5- Courtship
      • 6- Parenthood
      • 7- The Full Circle
    • The Hunt (2015)
      • 1- Hardest Challenge
      • 2- In the Grip of the Seasons
      • 3- Hide and Seek
      • 4- Hunger at Sea
      • 5- Nowhere to Hide
      • 6- Race against Time
      • 7- Living with Predators
    • Dynasties (2018)
      • 1- Chimpanze
      • 2- Emperor
      • 3- Lion
      • 4- Painted Wolf
      • 5- Tiger
    • The Mating Game (2021)
      • 1 – Grasslands: In Plain Sight
      • 2 – Oceans: Out Of The Blue
      • 3 – Jungles: In The Thick Of It
      • 4 – Freshwater: Timing Is Everything
      • 5 – Against All Odds
    • Dynasties II (2022)
      • 1 – Puma
      • 2 – Elephant
      • 3 – Cheetah
      • 4 – Hyena
      • 5 – Macaque: Monkeys In The Mountains
      • Series in retrospect
    • Wild Isles (2023)
      • 1 – Our Precious Isles
      • 2 – Woodland
      • 3 – Grasslands
      • 4 – Freshwater
      • 5 – Ocean
      • (6) – Saving our wild Isles
    • Mammals (2024)
      • 1 – Dark
      • 2 – The new wild
      • 3 – Water
      • 4 – Cold
      • 5 – Heat
      • 6 – Forest
    • Asia (2024)
      • 1 – Beneath the waves
      • 2 – Above the Clouds
      • 3 – The Frozen North
      • 4 – Tangled Worlds
      • 5 – Crowded Continent
      • 6 – The Arid Heart
      • 7 – Saving Asia
  • Miscellaneous
    • As himself
      • The Ascent of man (1973)
      • Auntie – the Inside Story of the BBC (1997)
      • Parkinson – Billy Connolly and Sir David Attenborough (1998)
      • The Human Face (2001)
      • BBC’s Timeshift – Attenborough the Controller (2002)
      • Attenborough in Conversation with Mark Lawson (2002)
      • BBC’s William Hodges: The Art of Exploration (2004)
      • The Selfish Green (2005)
      • Gorillas Revisited (2006)
      • 100 Years of Wildlife Films (2007)
      • BBC’s “Favourite Attenborough Moments” (2007)
      • Friday night with Jonathan Ross s17e03 (2009)
    • Factual
      • Extinction, the Facts (2020)
      • Breaking Boundaries – The Science of our Planet (2021)
    • Stand-alone programmes
      • Life that Glows (2016)
      • Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard (2021)
      • Attenborough’s Wonder of Song (2022)
      • Dinosaurs – The Final Day with David Attenborough (2022)
      • Giant sea monster (2024)
    • First Life (2010)
    • Attenborough’s Rise of animals .. (2013)
    • Life in the freezer (1993)
      • 1 – The Bountiful Sea
      • 2 – The Ice Retreats
      • 3 – The Race to Breed
      • 4 – The Door Closes
      • 5 – The Big Freeze
      • 6 – Footsteps in the Snow
    • Wildlife on One
      • The Beetles, Record Breakers (1997)
    • Animal Crime Scene (2005)
      • 1 – Outback Assassin
      • 2 – Ocean Assassin
      • 3 – Arctic Assassin
      • 4 – African Assassin
      • 5 – Amazon Assassin
    • Natural World
    • 60 Years in the Wild (2012)
      • 1 – Life on Camera
      • 2 – Understanding the Natural World
      • 3 – Our Fragile Planet
    • Life in colour (2021)
      • 1 – Seeing in colour
      • 2 – Hiding in colour
      • 3 – Chasing colour
  • Outside Sources
    • Plants behaving badly (2013)
      • 1 – Murder & Mayhem
      • 2 – Sex & Lies
    • BSkyB
      • Flying Monsters (2010)
      • Kingdom of Plants (2012)
        • 1 – Life in the Wet Zone
        • 2 – Solving the Secrets
        • 3 – Survival
      • The Penguin King (2012)
      • Galapagos (2013)
        • 1 – Origin
        • 2 – Adaptation
        • 3 – Evolution
      • Micro monsters (2013)
        • 1 – Conflict
        • 2 – Predator
        • 3 – Courtship
        • 4 – Reproduction
        • 5 – Family
        • 6 – Colony
        • 7 – Making of Micro monsters
      • Natural History Museum (2014)
      • Conquest of the Skies (2015)
        • 1 – The First To Fly
        • 2 – Rivals
        • 3 – Triumph
    • Netflix
      • Our Planet (2019)
        • 1 – One Planet
        • 2 – Frozen worlds
        • 3 – Jungles
        • 4 – Coasts
        • 5 – Deserts to Grasslands
        • 6 – The High Seas
        • 7 – Fresh Water
        • 8 – Forests
    • National Geographic
      • Desert seas (2011)
      • Wild India (2012)
        • 1 – Elephant Kingdom
        • 2 – Tiger Jungles
        • 3 – Desert Lions
    • AppleTV+
      • The Day Earth changed ep (2021)
      • Prehistoric Planet (2022)
        • 1 – Coasts
        • 2 – Deserts
        • 3 – Freshwater
        • 4 – Ice worlds
        • 5 – Forests
  • Early years

Outside Sources

series

Prehistoric Planet (2022)

Plants behaving badly (2013)

The Day Earth —Changed (2021)

Wild India (2012)

Conquest of the Skies (2015)

Natural History Museum (2014)

Galapagos (2013)

Kingdom of Plants (2012)

The Penguin King (2012)

Flying Monsters (2010)

Micro monsters (2013)

Our Planet (2019)

stand-alone programmes

Prehistoric Planet (2022)

Plants behaving badly (2013)

The Day Earth —Changed (2021)

Wild India (2012)

Conquest of the Skies (2015)

Natural History Museum (2014)

Galapagos (2013)

Kingdom of Plants (2012)

The Penguin King (2012)

Flying Monsters (2010)

Micro monsters (2013)

Our Planet (2019)

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