Behind the scenes with the Perfect Planet film crews as they document epic wildlife stories.
Prince William, founder of the Earthshot Prize, is joined by Sir David Attenborough, a member of his Earthshot Prize Council, explore the best way to protect and restore nature. Sir David explains exactly what about the approach to modern life is causing a global decline in biodiversity.
Northern Africa is home to the greatest desert on Earth, the Sahara. On the fringes, huge zebras battle over dwindling resources and naked mole rats avoid the heat by living a bizarre underground existence. Within the desert, where the sand dunes `sing', camels seek out water with the help of their herders and tiny swallows navigate across thousands of square miles to find a solitary oasis.
The magnificent steam train Tornado is coupled with 13 luxury vintage carriages on a six-hour journey through Yorkshire to Northumbria and the Borders. Travelling in style from York to Edinburgh on a 200-mile historic trip.
For Alaskans, utilizing the frozen trails to secure resources is a requirement for survival in dark winter. At the family hunting grounds in Kiwalik, Chip Hailstone follows a trail of wolves to find harvestable game.
Raging in the state of Louisiana, Hurricane Ida destroyed thousands of homes and claimed dozens of lives. In Norway, rough seas forced a captain to abandon ship. And the scale of the fires in California horrified more than just the state's residents.
Ben heads back to the stunning Saharan landscape of Morocco, where he first met Karen, an extraordinary artist who had turned her back on urban life to live in the middle of the desert. Ben learned how Karen had transformed her arid plot of desert into a stunning artist's retreat. They trekked into the sand dunes, built bamboo shelters and embraced Karen's life in her local Berber village.
Going behind the scenes of `The Mating Game' with Sir David Attenborough to discover the stories behind the missions to mate and leave a lasting legacy.
Prince William, founder of the Earthshot Prize, is joined by Sir David Attenborough, a member of his Earthshot Prize Council, explore the best way to protect and restore nature. Sir David explains exactly what about the approach to modern life is causing a global decline in biodiversity.
Northern Africa is home to the greatest desert on Earth, the Sahara. On the fringes, huge zebras battle over dwindling resources and naked mole rats avoid the heat by living a bizarre underground existence. Within the desert, where the sand dunes `sing', camels seek out water with the help of their herders and tiny swallows navigate across thousands of square miles to find a solitary oasis.
Jessie runs the race of a lifetime at the Iditarod. Ricko hunts for small game. The Hailstones go on a family rabbit hunt. Sue clears snow from her rooftops.
Personal stories of those caught up in sometimes deadly natural catastrophes, accompanied by camera footage showing meteorological phenomena, including hurricanes, earthquakes, monsoons and more.
A magical mid-summer railway journey through central Sweden starts in Mora on the Inlandsbanan. This traditional town is in the county of Dalarna, the heart of Swedish traditional culture and often known as`Sweden in miniature'.
Ben ventures to Central America and a remote island off the coast of Panama. His host Jaimie is an inventor, who has built a unique home and an unconventional family to create his own wild utopia. Ben gets stuck into island life.
A look at the extraordinary strategies monkeys, apes and lemurs must use to survive in the most unexpected places. Times are hard for a troop of bearded capuchins in Brazil's badlands. With no rain for eight months, food and water are scarce. But these monkeys can do something very few primates can: they use tools, and make them too.
Prince William, Sir David Attenborough and Christiana Figueres, the inspirational diplomat who led negotiations for the Paris Agreement on climate change, highlight inspiring and often unexpected solutions to the climate challenge. Looking at ideas like creating diamonds from the air and protecting the great whales, the programme examines the causes of climate change.
Borneo is the richest rainforest island of all, home to 60,000 species of plants and animals. Six thousand of them are unique, and more are discovered almost daily. But this `paradise' is an illusion, the lush forest is effectively growing on a desert, with the soil shallow and poor in nutrients, having been leeched by eons of incessant rain.
Kim and Pierre turn their attentions to harvesting big game, and Mike returns home to discover a cabin in much need of repair. In Lutsel K'e, Becky tries to sort out her green team of sled dogs, and Bentley accelerates his winter preparations.
Dr Mosley travels the world to meet people who seem to have unlocked the secrets to defying aging. He investigates the science behind their claims and, in doing so, provides viewers with tangible tips on how to live longer, healthier lives.
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the space observatory of the next decade. In addition to investigating the planets outside of our solar system, the observatory will peer back to some of the earliest galaxies that formed after the Big Bang.
When bears, wolves and foxes are your only neighbours, life can be pretty lonely. Add minus-60-degree days and a constant battle for the most basic necessities, and you have the daily challenges of people who live in remote corners of Alaska. This series takes viewers deep into an Alaskan winter to meet tough, resilient residents as they try to stay one step ahead of storms and man-eating beasts to survive the season. When the closest neighbour is more than 300 miles away, these Alaskans subsist solely on what is hunted and foraged. They catch fish for currency in bartering for supplies, or use their packs of sled dogs for transportation. Also highlighted is a time of year not always part of what viewers see in Alaska: spring! Ice is breaking, animals are waking, and residents face new tests before deep cold returns.
Yorkshire-born Moli and his Californian wife Noelle left city life behind to set up their own business as wildlife safari guides in the unexplored Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.
A magical mid-summer railway journey through central Sweden starts in Mora on the Inlandsbanan. This traditional town is in the county of Dalarna, the heart of Swedish traditional culture and often known as`Sweden in miniature'.
Kim and Pierre turn their attentions to harvesting big game, and Mike returns home to discover a cabin in much need of repair. In Lutsel K'e, Becky tries to sort out her green team of sled dogs, and Bentley accelerates his winter preparations.
Dr Mosley travels the world to meet people who seem to have unlocked the secrets to defying aging. He investigates the science behind their claims and, in doing so, provides viewers with tangible tips on how to live longer, healthier lives.
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the space observatory of the next decade. In addition to investigating the planets outside of our solar system, the observatory will peer back to some of the earliest galaxies that formed after the Big Bang.
When bears, wolves and foxes are your only neighbours, life can be pretty lonely. Add minus-60-degree days and a constant battle for the most basic necessities, and you have the daily challenges of people who live in remote corners of Alaska. This series takes viewers deep into an Alaskan winter to meet tough, resilient residents as they try to stay one step ahead of storms and man-eating beasts to survive the season. When the closest neighbour is more than 300 miles away, these Alaskans subsist solely on what is hunted and foraged. They catch fish for currency in bartering for supplies, or use their packs of sled dogs for transportation. Also highlighted is a time of year not always part of what viewers see in Alaska: spring! Ice is breaking, animals are waking, and residents face new tests before deep cold returns.
Yorkshire-born Moli and his Californian wife Noelle left city life behind to set up their own business as wildlife safari guides in the unexplored Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.
Kim and Pierre turn their attentions to harvesting big game, and Mike returns home to discover a cabin in much need of repair. In Lutsel K'e, Becky tries to sort out her green team of sled dogs, and Bentley accelerates his winter preparations.