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Filming in the Rainforest - camerawoman, Justine Evans
Specialist camerawoman Justine Evans talks about the challenges of filming in the rainforest Working at heights involves intense preparation and meticulous attention to safety concerns, but can produce...
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Filming at night - camerawoman, Justine Evans
Camerawoman Justine Evans talks about the challenges of filming wildlife at night.Night time filming is a relatively unexplored area of wildlife documentary making. As Justine tells us, until recently...
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Why are Scottish watervoles Black & English ones Brown? A Watervole's History...
Why are most Scottish watervoles black while English ones are brown? From 'The Animal's Guide to Britain' starting this Thursday 8pm, BBC2The first episode is one that I produced - 'Freshwater Animals'...
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Do Beavers bite off their own testicles? A Beaver's History of Britain
I'm proud to announce that some of the clips from my programme of 'Animal's Guide to Britain' are now live on the BBC website. The series starts with 'Freshwater Animals' on Thursday, BBC2 8pm. In the...
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Face-Huggers of Slaughter Beach - Spawning Horseshoes & Frenzied Voracious Birds
The horseshoe crabs are spawning, thousands of shorebirds are arriving, and I've finally found time to publish some photographs and video that I recorded when I visited Delaware Bay in 2008. We were...
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Fancy working in the BBC? New careers site is launched
BBC Launches new 'Careers' website to help people find an opportunity within the BBC. The only reason I have had such a privileged and enjoyable career making wildlife films in the BBC is because in...
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Squirrel Pie & Stag Beetles from Hell - Animals Guide to Britain, Woodland...
BBC 2, Thurs May 5th, 8pm After a weeks break, thanks to Snooker, Animals Guide to Britain is back. This weeks episode takes a look at some of our woodland animals. It contains one sequence in...
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Let's be Scilly - it's a week celebrating Britain's seas, BBC 2
Britain's Secret Seas: Sunday 8th May, BBC2 8pmAnimal's Guide to Britain - Coastal Animals: Thurs 12th May, BBC 2 8pm Britains Secret Seas - Episode 1, Giants of the WestFeaturing glorious underwater...
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Chris Packham dives into Poo! Animal's Guide to Britain - Grasslands
BBC 2, 8pm, Thursday 21st AprilBBC Programme PageTonight is the second episode in my series 'Animal's Guide to Britain'. In this episode Chris explores the world of grassland animals. He begins with...
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Goshawk put to the test, extraordinary slow motion footage - Animals Guide to...
Animal's Guide to Britain - Woodland Animals, Thurs 5th May, 8pm BBC2 Snooker Balls! The 3rd episode of 'Animal's Guide to Britain' - Woodland Animals - has been pushed back a week by Snooker. So...
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Chris Packham's First British Beaver & Attenborough on Harry Hill
Harry Hill does David Attenborough & 'Life in Cold Blood'You know you've made it big when Harry Hill takes the mick out of your film. On 'Life in Cold Blood' we waited in anticipation every week...
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The End of the World? A Horizon Guide to Armageddon - BBC4
Thurs 12th May, 9pm, BBC4I remember when Horizon was boring blokes in tank tops. This film continues the style of recent years in which trendy poster boys share their scientific passions. In this case...
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Extreme survival or Surviving Armageddon? What to watch tonight - Inside the...
Thurs 12th May, 9pm, BBC One I can't decide what to watch after 'Animal's Guide to Britain' this evening. Do I watch How to Survive Armageddon with Horizon (see my earlier post) or simply how we...
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Watching ospreys fish & building artificial nests
WATCH Animal's Guide to Britain - Freshwater AnimalsBBC 2, 8pm, Thurs 14th 2011 'The Osprey… a spectacular bird and a highly specialised fish hunter. Every spring several hundred Ospreys make the 3000...
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Gulls, Shearwaters, Crabs, Seals & Dolphins - Animal's Guide to Britain - BBC2
TONIGHT, Thurs 12th May, 8pm, BBC2Its the last episode of 'Animal's Guide to Britain' tonight and this time Chris Packham will be exploring Britain through the eyes of Coastal animals.Despite the...
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Incredible floaty-glidey Steadicam shot at Eurovision
This is a phenomenal shot, possibly wasted on Eurovision, but quite remarkable when you see how it was done. This shot was created using a steadicam. This is a stabilizing camera mount, which...
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Memories of 'Britain Goes Wild' - 7 years later Springwatch wins Bafta
At the Craft Bafta Awards on sunday night Springwatch was awarded the Bafta special award in recognition of it's 'outstanding creative and technical teamwork and the role it has played in developing...
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Springwatch quick & easy guide to british bird song
From BBC SpringwatchEpisode 1 Naturalist Chris Sperring takes us on an audio tour of the Mendip Hills in early spring.
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'Sperm Wars' - Inside the Human Body - Creation, BBC One
Thursday 5th May, 9pm, BBC One This series takes the magnificence, beauty and awe of Wonders of the Solar System and shunts it straight up the backside of a human being to explore our inner workings....
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BBC Science Looking for a Trainee TV Researcher
Just a couple of days ago I told you about the new BBC Careers website. Already the BBC Science Unit in London are launching a new position - a trainee television researcher. This sort of opportunity...
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Building Your Brain - Inside the Human Body
Thursday 19th May, 9pm BBC OneI've been hooked on this series since it started. Episode one, aptly named 'Creation', included sperm wars and the eerily alien-like assembling of a human face. Last...
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Getting close to the wild welsh ponies of the Brecon Beacons
Slowly and calmly I was able to approach these wild ponies as they grazed on the grasslands and hillsides of the Brecon Beacons National Park in South Wales.A Brief History of the Welsh PonyWelsh...
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Bolshy Bird - digging up worms for my local Robin
This morning we finally decided that it was time to get stuck into the garden and trim back some of the jungly grass that was slowly encroaching on our house. As soon as the lawnmower started whirring...
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Top 7 'Evolution' moments including Homer sapien, Mr Garrison's take on...
Here is a list of what I consider to be the top 6 TV Evolution moments. Witness the evolution of Homer sapien and then watch it all in reverse with the classic noitulovE commercial. Be carried away...
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Beautiful Planet - free to use space images from Nasa
Whilst making 'How Earth Made Us' I needed to locate a wide range of satellite imagery. Fortunately all the images produced by Nasa are in the public domain and are free to use. They're also quick to...
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