Planet Earth Live

Monday May 7 at 6.50am.
Continues Fridays and Mondays at 7.00am.
Plus, encore screenings at 9.30pm.

Hosted by Richard Hammond and Julia Bradbury, Planet Earth Live is...

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  • Planet Earth Live

    Planet Earth Live

    Monday May 7 at 6.50am.
    Continues Fridays and Mondays at 7.00am.
    Plus, encore screenings at 9.30pm.

    Hosted by Richard Hammond and Julia Bradbury, Planet Earth Live is...

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  • The Survivors

    The Survivors

    Sundays at 7.30pm, from May 13

    Since the emergence of life on our planet more than 3 billion years ago, it has faced a...

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  • Walking with Cavemen

    Walking with Cavemen

    Sundays at 8.30pm, from May 13

    Spanning both the immense time-scale of evolutionary change, and the intimacy of individual lives...

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  • How to Build a Dinosaur

    How to Build a Dinosaur

    Sunday May 27 at 8.30pm

    In this programme, presenter and anatomist Dr Alice Roberts follows the entire reconstruction...

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TIM SCOONES

Tim is the mastermind behind Planet Earth Live, an ambitious project which is the result of over ten years of innovation in techniques and formats at the BBC Natural History Unit.

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Planet Earth Live
Life is Sharing

  • Planet Earth Live is the biggest live wildlife broadcast ever undertaken.

  • As a child, Richard Hammond started his own wildlife club and armed with a nature kit set out to study the wildlife in his Solihull garden.

  • In Africa, Richard will be joining Kenyan elephant researcher David Daballen who knows more than 700 of the Samburu elephants by name.

  • Our closest relatives, the chimps and gorillas, laugh when tickled.

  • Dolphins can point with their bodies and have been known to communicate an object's location to human divers.

  • Flamingos are only red because of the food they eat.