Notable Episodes
David Attenborough has maintained a close association with the series over its long history, narrating or presenting around 50 programmes. He narrated the Echo of the Elephants films, which followed scientist Cynthia Moss's and cameraman Martyn Colbeck's lengthy study of an African elephant herd in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. In 1996, "Attenborough in Paradise" saw him fulfil a lifelong ambition to observe and film the courtship displays of New Guinea's birds of paradise; he returned to the subject for the 2010 programme "Birds of Paradise".
During the 1980s and 1990s, the Natural World strand included occasional mini-series on particular themes. Notable examples include the three-part series The Flight of the Condor (1982), Kingdom of the Ice Bear (1985) (both released on VHS), and Wild Indonesia (1999).
The most requests ever for an episode to be repeated were for My Halcyon River by Philippa Forrester and Charlie Hamilton James.
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