Last Chance To See - Radio

Radio

Last Chance to See
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

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