Stephen Fry follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps along with zoologist Mark Carwardine to remote parts of the earth in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s writer Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy) traveled the globe with zoologist Mark Carwardine in search of endangered animals. Twenty years later the late Adams' great friend Britain''s comic genius Stephen Fry returns with Mark to see if the species are still in existence. The pair look for man-eating Komodo dragons a flightless parrot the Yangtze river dolphin man's closest living relative the pygmy chimpanzee and a bizarre creature that appears to have been assembled from pieces of other animals. Their journey is a unique insight into the disappearing animals of the world.
Join Britain’s best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams’ footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine and together they embarked on a groundbreaking expedition, travelling the globe in search of the world’s endangered animals. Twenty years later the late Adams’ great friend, Stephen Fry, returns with Mark to see if the species still exist.
The Natural History Museum attracts nearly 4 million visitors every year has 8 000 visiting scientists 70 million specimens 350 resident experts and contains examples of 90% of the world's known natural diversity. It has a world wide reputation that is genuinely second to none. By securing unrivalled access to the Natural History Museum this fascinating 6-part series follows the world class scientists their work and their stories. The National History Museum's work defines everything around us from fleas to forests precious rock formations to dinosaurs. It is an institution literally buzzing with life - whether it's field trips to Costa Rica sky diving for butterflies prepping submersibles in Loch Ness working with NASA to analyse comet dust or trying to find the cure for malaria - the Natural History Museum is at the thick of it. Helping to catalogue and conserve the extraordinary richness of life with groundbreaking projects in 68 countries . This series embraces all of the extraordinary work of the Natural History Museum - both front of house behind the scenes and out in the field.
In the previous series Last Chance To See Stephen Fry & Mark Carwardine went in search of the Northern White Rhino but the animal was declared extinct before their planned encounter. Now Stephen and Mark embark on a new adventure - to follow an attempt to take White Rhino's from captivity and return them to Kenya. The film follows the fortunes of four rhinos but can they survive such a long journey to such a contrasting country? And can zoo animals ever reacclimatize to the African bush? This is a dramatic engaging and at times emotional story following the last hope for one of the biggest and most spectacular African animals.
Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur Stephen Fry as he follows in the footsteps of his great friend the late writer Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) along with zoologist Mark Carwardine to remote parts in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. Twenty years ago Carwardine teamed up with Adams and embarked on a groundbreaking expedition in search of some of the world's most endangered animals. This time he is joined by Stephen Fry to see how all those animals have been faring in the years since and which if any survived. In this programme we follow the duo on six separate journeys which take them from the steamy jungles of the Amazon to the ice-covered mountain tops of New Zealand and from the edge of a war zone in Central Africa to a sub-tropical paradise in the North Pacific. Along the way they search for some of the weirdest most remarkable and most troubled creatures on earth: a large black sleepy animal easily mistaken for an unusually listless mudbank a parrot with a song like an unreleased collection of Pink Floyd studio outtakes a rhino with square lips a dragon with deadly saliva an animal roughly the length of a Boeing 737 and the creature most likely to emerge from the cargo doors of a spaceship. Last Chance to See is a unique insight into the disappearing world around us and this is their hilarious entertaining informative and thought-provoking adventure.
The Last Chance to See saw Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur Stephen Fry follow in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on earth. The Last Chance To See - Complete Collection is a 3 disc set featuring the original BBC series alongside a new unseen episode called Last Chance To See - Return Of The Rhino. The Return of the Rhino sees Stephen and Mark embark on a new adventure - to follow an attempt to take Rhino's from captivity and return them to Kenya. Last Chance to See is a unique and thought provoking insight into the disappearing world around us.
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