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See also:

BD0014 Habitats & Adaptations

https://wslr.co.uk/catalog/view/13

BD0011 Take One Lion

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Episode length - 1 hour

David Attenborough takes a breathtaking journey through the vast and diverse continent of Africa as it has never been seen before.

1 - Kalahari - In Africa's southwest corner, two extraordinary deserts sit side by side. Water is in short supply, yet these deserts are somehow full of life because the creatures that live here have turned the rules of survival on their head. In the Kalahari scrublands, clever meerkats are outsmarted by a wily bird, black rhinos get together to party and giant insects stalk huge flocks of birds. Rain almost never falls in the Namib. The creatures in this desert have gone to extremes as spiders wheel to escape and a desert giraffe fights to defend his scant resources in the greatest giraffe battle ever filmed.

2 - Savannah - East Africa is a land which is constantly changing: wet turning to dry, feast to famine, cold to hot. From dense forests to snow capped peaks, steamy swamps and endless savannah, this unique and varied land is also a haven for life. But away from the familiar, forever-travelling herds, there are a huge cast of other characters - lizards that steal flies from the faces of lions, vast dinosaur-like birds who stalk catfish through huge wetlands, and an eagle who risks everything on the arrival of ten million bats from a far off rainforest.

3 - Congo - The very heart of Africa is covered in dense tropical rainforest. The animals that live here find the most ingenious ways to carve out their space in a claustrophobic landscape. Danger lurks in every shadow, but some animals thrive here, from honey-stealing chimps to birds with a lineage as old as the dinosaurs, thundering elephants and kick-boxing frogs.

4 - Cape - Southern Africa is a riot of life and colour because of two great ocean currents that sweep around the continent's Cape. To the east, the warm Agulhas current generates clouds that roll inland to the wettest place in southern Africa. To the west is the cold Benguela current, home to more great white sharks than anywhere else. Moisture laden fog rolls inland, supporting an incredible desert garden. Where the two currents meet, the clash of warm and cold water creates one of the world's most fabulous natural spectacles - South Africa's sardine run.

6 - The Future - David Attenborough comes face to face with a baby rhino and asks what the future holds for this little one. He meets the local people who are standing side-by-side with the wildlife at this pivotal moment in their history. We discover what it takes to save a species, hold back a desert and even resurrect an entire wilderness - revealing what the world was like before modern man. 

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Episode length - 1 hour

Documentary series presented by Sir David Attenborough which explores the planet's oceans.

1 - One Ocean

From the equator to the poles, new worlds and animal behaviours are revealed, from tool-using fish to mother walruses fighting for space on the ice for their tiring pups.

2 - The Deep

This episode goes on a groundbreaking journey to the deep, home to real-life aliens, from monstrous sharks to shrimps in glass cages and perhaps the origin of all life on earth.

3 - Coral Reefs 

This episode reveals the ingenious ways life exists in the undersea cities of tropical reefs, from mesmerising cuttlefish to a giant carnivorous worm.

4 - Big Blue 

This episode explores the big blue, a vast ocean desert where dolphins race to beat the competition and sperm whales must dive 1,000 metres just to feed.

5 - Green Seas

From enchanted forests to undersea prairies, green seas teem with life. Giant cuttlefish do battle for a mate, and an ingenious octopus outwits deadly sharks.

6 - Coasts

Coasts are the most changeable of the ocean worlds, but they offer great riches. Here sea lions beach large tuna, and moray eels crawl over land to catch their prey.

7 - Our Blue Planet

David Attenborough explores the issues behind the series' most spectacular stories, meets pioneers striving to protect the ocean and examines the future of the planet.

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Episode length - 30 mins

Steve Backshall is on the hunt for the most deadly animals to have ever walked the earth - dinosaurs.

See also: BD0010 Prehistoric Animals

https://wslr.co.uk/catalog/view/10

1 - Land of Giants

2 - Deadly Defenders

3 - King of the Killers

4 - Freak or Unique

5 - Kings of the Sky

6 - Aquatic Terrors

7 - Super Senses

8 - Secret Skills

9 - Deadlier than the Dinosaurs

10 - Backshall's Ultimate

 

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4 discs

A hand-picked collection of programmes and clips to support the theme of "Ancient Egypt".

Boxed set includes:

Teacher notes

Ancient Egypt clips

Selected episodes from:

Nile Shorts - documentary about the longest river in the world, running from the highlands of Ethiopia to the Nile Valley in Egypt

BBC Schools: Ancient Egypt - Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings  - a compilation of short films made especially for schools. Includes chapters on daily life, marriage and family, tombs, mummification and the afterlife.

Horrible Histories Awful Egyptians clips and Crafty Cleopatra special.

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Duration: 30 minutes

All the top sporting action from the past, including Emperor Nero and Jesse Owens singing the history of the Olympics. We're at the finish line to see Pheidippides run the first ever marathon, then we count down the top Marathon cheats of all time and take a look back at some of our favourite Horrible Histories sporting events.

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Episode length - 5 mins

Preschool series introducing children to scientific opposites and materials.

1 - High and Low

2 - Light and Dark 

3 - Rough and Smooth

4 - Thick and Thin

5 - Open and Close

6 - Loud and Quiet 

7 - Floating and Sinking 

8 - Full and Empty

9 - Heavy and Light

10 - Inside and Outside

11 - Push and Pull

12 - Long and Short

13 - Wet and Dry

14 - Liquid and Solid

15 - Near and Far

16 - Up and Down

17 - Flat and Steep

18 - Straight and Wavy

19 - Squashy and Stretchy

20 - Stop and Start

21 - Fast and Slow

22 - Hot and Cold

23 - Melting and Freezing

24 - Over and Under

25 - On and Off

26 - Big and Small

27 - Fabric

28 - Metal

29 - Stone

30 - Wood

31 - Ice

32 - Paint

33 - Paper

34 - Mirrors

35 - Cardboard

36 - Sponge

37 - Plastic

38 - Wool

39 - Shells

40 - Water

41 - Sand

42 - Magnets

43 - Clay

44 - Rubber

45 - Chalk

46 - Bubbles

47 - Fruit

48 - Soil

49 - Vegetables

50 - Trees

51 - Flowers

 

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Episode length - 1 hour

Series in which Alastair Sooke explores the dazzling artistic legacy of ancient Greece.

1 - The Age of Heroes

Alastair explores the surprising roots of Greek art, beginning his journey in Crete at the palace of Knossos, legendary home of the Minotaur. He travels to Santorini to the "Greek Pompeii", and finds gold in the fabled stronghold of Mycenae and dazzling remains from Greece's Dark Ages. Alastair discovers the beginnings of a defining spirit in Greek art, embracing mythology, a passion for symmetry and an obsession with the human body.

2 - The Classical Revolution

 Alastair Sooke unpicks the reasons behind the dazzling revolution that gave birth to classical Greek art, asking how the Greeks got so good so quickly. He travels to the beautiful Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, and to the island of Mozia to see the astonishing charioteer found there in 1979, and marvels at the athletic bodies of the warriors dragged from the seabed - the Riace Bronzes. It was a creative explosion that covered architecture, sculpting in marble, casting in bronze, even painting on vases. Perhaps the most powerful factor was also its greatest legacy - a fascination with the naked human body.

3 - The Long Shadow 

Alastair Sooke explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Greek masterpieces that changed the course of western culture. Succeeding centuries have found in ancient Greek art inspiration for their own ideals and ambitions. Filming in Italy, Germany, France and Britain, Alastair's investigation includes The Venus of Knidos, the first naked woman in Western art, the bronze horses of St Mark's in Venice which became a pawn in an imperial game and the naked discus thrower, the Discobolus, personally bought by Adolf Hitler and used by him as a symbol of Aryan supremacy.

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A collection of "Rotten Romans" clips from Horrible Histories Series 1 - 5.

NB: These clips are also available as part of boxed set "BD0001 The Roman Empire and its Impact on Britain". Search for "BD0001" to see a full list of contents and to request this resource.

 Clip 1: Fighting at funerals & school for aspiring gladiators - 4:29

Clip 2: Emperor Nero & Lions vs Christians - 3:33

Clip 3: HHTV News Report & Caligula tries to improve his image - 5:56

Clip 4: Caligula declares war against Poseidon - 3:33

Clip 5: Galley slaves & Dodgy War Inventions: The Onager - 2:41

Clip 6: Gaulish leader Vercingtorix & decimation as punishment - 4:51

Clip 7: Roman Gods Direct- 5:08

Clip 8: Roman adverts - sponge on a stick and viper deodorant- 2:34

Clip 9: Gladiator games & “Execution Animals R Us” - 4:57

Clip 10: “Roman Kitchen Nightmares” & Roman toilets - 5:04

Clip 11: “Roman Come Dine with Me” - 3:42

Clip 12: “I’m a Christian, Get Me out of Here!” - 5:27

Clip 13: Dung salesman & Roman dinner party manners- 2:55

Clip 14: “Romo Lottery” & Emperor Tiberius - 4:19

Clip 15: Julius Caesar special - 5:00

Clip 16: Caligula’s British invasion & life as a legionary - 4:19

Clip 17: Gladiators & Diodorus the hunchback - 3:41

Clip 18: The Roman triumph & “the new aBook” advert - 3:28

Clip 19: Caligula’s assassins & video game: “Arena Fighter” - 5:46

Clip 20: “Historical Hospital” - gladiator’s blood - 3:51

Clip 21: Newly recovered Emperor Caligula - 5:17

Clip 22: Tabellarii messenger servoce & a weapon smuggler - 4:17

Clip 23: Barbarians and sacking of Rome - 4:40

Clip 24: Legionaries’ payday & reluctant conscripts- 4:46

Clip 25: The Praetorian guard & “Always-Current Emperor Statue” - 3:48

Clip 26: Great Fire of Rome & video game: Scorpus Chariot Racer - 3:51

Clip 27: Julius Caesar’s hair (advert) & HHTV Roman Britain Report - 6:02

Clip 28: “Historical Dentist” and the Tarpeian Rock - 3:59

Clip 29: Roman dogs & Cato the Elder - 3:47

Clip 30: Barbarian ambush & “Augustus: The Movie” - 4:34

Clip 31: Hadrian’s Wall and Julius Caesar movie bid - 4:28

Clip 32: “Wonders of the Roman Universe” & Battle of Drepanum - 3:41

Clip 33: Roman Baths and Emperor Domitian - 4:36

Clip 34: Pliny the Elder & “Historical Apprentice” - 6:35

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Episode length - 1 hour

Neil Oliver heads for Scandanavia to reveal the truth behind the legend of the Vikings.

1 - Neil begins by discovering the mysterious world of the Vikings' prehistoric ancestors. The remains of weapon-filled war boats, long-haired Bronze Age farmers, and the Swedish site of a royal palace and gruesome pagan ritual conjure up an ancient past from which the Viking Age was to suddenly erupt.

2 - Neil discovers a world of "starry-eyed maidens" and Buddhist statues that are a world away from our British experience of axe-weilding warriors, although it turns out that there were quite a few of those as well.

3 - He explores how the Viking Age finally ended, tracing the Norse voyages of discovery, the first Danish kings, and the Christian conversions that opened the door to European high society. He also uncovers the truth about England's King Canute - he was not an arrogant leader who thought he could hold back the waves, but the Viking ruler of an entire empire of the north and an early adopter of European standardisation.

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Episode length - 60 minutes

Documentary series. Japan's landscapes range from snowy mountains to subtropical warmth. They are full of wildlife – and animals' and people's lives often cross as they adapt to these extremes.

1 - Honshu

Japan's central island of Honshu is home to over 100 million people, and its biggest city, Tokyo, is one of the largest urban metropolises on earth. But it has a wild heart - most of Honshu is mountainous. This wilderness is home to an astonishing range of wildlife - black bears, monkeys, exquisite fireflies and even cow demons. But all across this island, from the mountains to the edge of the sea, people and nature are drawn together in the most unexpected ways.

2 - The Southwest Islands

In the far south of Japan, there is a chain of islands stretching towards the tropics - a place where all life is influenced by the power of the sea, and where volcanoes and typhoons are forces to be reckoned with. The journey begins at an island at the top of the chain and travels south, revealing unexpected stories of isolation, unique wildlife and unsolved mysteries.

3 - Hokkaido

This episode looks at Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost - and wildest - island, a place totally unlike the rest of the country. Every year it swings from a bitter Siberian winter into the warmth of a Mediterranean-like summer, when the thaw reveals a landscape changed beyond all recognition. It takes tough animals and tough people with real ingenuity to survive, and even thrive, in this ever-changing place.

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