Radio
| Genre | Wildlife documentary |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 4 |
| Starring | Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine |
| Air dates | October 1989 to November 1989 |
| Website | BBC Radio |
The Observer project was successful, and Adams and Carwardine developed a radio series around the same concept for BBC Radio 4. Carwardine later said
- "We put a big map of the world on a wall, Douglas stuck a pin in everywhere he fancied going, I stuck a pin in where all the endangered animals were, and we made a journey out of every place that had two pins."
The journeys undertaken were to see:
- The Aye-aye in Madagascar;
- The Komodo dragon on the island of Komodo in Indonesia;
- The Kakapo in New Zealand;
- The Mountain gorilla in Zaire;
- The Northern white rhinoceros in Zaire;
- The Yangtze River Dolphin in China;
- The Rodrigues fruit bat on the island of Rodrigues, Mauritius;
- The Amazonian manatee in Brazil
- The Juan Fernández fur seal on the Juan Fernández Islands, Chile
Read more about this topic: Last Chance To See
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