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  1. Svalbard's ice giants

    Frozen Planet, 29 June 2009 - 23 July 2009

    Midway between the North Pole and mainland Europe, Svalbard's extreme terrain is home to the largest living land carnivore.

  2. Chasing the Monsoon

    Independent expedition, 28 June 2009 - 26 July 2009

    Wildlife photographer and cameraman Kalyan Varma visits the Western Ghats in search of a rare primate.

  3. Birds on the edge of Britain

    Nature, 22 June 2009 - 26 June 2009

    A BBC Radio 4 team explore the Isle of Man, a wildlife hotspot and home to rare birds.

  4. Arctic ice whales

    Frozen Planet, 20 June 2009 - 31 July 2009

    The Canadian Arctic is home to beluga, bowhead and narwhals which gather there, sometimes in huge numbers, in summer.

  5. Underground Borneo

    Deadly 60, 16 June 2009 - 28 June 2009

    The caves inside Gomantong Hill are home to millions of bats and a gruesome array of insects.

  6. Britain's hidden worlds

    The Living World, 16 April 2009 - 12 May 2009

    From the mysterious life of a rock pool to tiny insect worlds, explore Britain's secret wildlife.

  7. Tales from the taiga forest

    Frozen Planet, 15 March 2009 - 10 April 2009

    A frozen bog in Finland is the perfect place to film the acrobatic fights of black grouse.

  8. Tanzania's high life

    Great Rift, 15 February 2009 - 9 March 2009

    Tanzania's unique mountain wildlife includes rare orchids and a new species of primate.

  9. Revealing New Guinea's forest secrets

    Lost Land of the Volcano, 30 January 2009 - 4 March 2009

    An international team of scientists, wildlife filmmakers and cavers explore the jungles of Papua New Guinea.

  10. Chocó Mountain poison

    Human Planet, 27 January 2009 - 4 February 2009

    These rarely visited mountains are home to the Emberá people, poison dart frogs and armed conflict.

  11. Amazon arachnids

    Deadly 60, 1 December 2008 - 20 December 2008

    James Brickell heads into the heart of the rainforest to look for spiders, scorpians and other creepy crawlies

  12. Surviving the southern whalers

    Frozen Planet, 25 November 2008 - 16 December 2008

    South Georgia is one of the busiest wildlife sites in the world. But this hasn't always been the case.

  13. Tiger Beach: underwater Bahamas

    Deadly 60, 11 November 2008 - 15 November 2008

    The Deadly 60 team head to an underwater beach in search of sharks.

  14. Surfing sub-Antarctic style

    Frozen Planet, 4 September 2008 - 1 November 2008

    Camping on the busiest beach in the world, the Frozen Planet programme team live cheek by jowl to king penguins and elephant seals.

  15. Forest treasures of West Papua

    Life, 1 September 2008 - 30 September 2008

    This sparsely populated island is home to a bird with creative artistry and extraordinary display calls.

  16. Bustling Bird Island

    Frozen Planet, 30 August 2008 - 17 December 2008

    This sub-Antarctic island has huge breeding colonies of seals, penguins and albatrosses.

  17. Barrenlands

    Frozen Planet, 5 June 2008 - 15 July 2008

    The Canadian Barrenlands are usually empty, but in mid summer 1.2 million snow geese arrive to breed.

  18. South Pacific island giants

    South Pacific, 9 November 2007 - 9 February 2008

    BBC film crews explore the islands of the South Pacific in search of monsters.

  19. Australia's outback fortresses

    Life, 30 September 2007 - 26 October 2007

    One of Australia's most agile escape artists lives in the dramatic rock formations of New South Wales.

  20. Dive Hawaii

    South Pacific, 7 August 2007 - 1 October 2007

    The waters surrounding Hawaii are a marine desert. Will the team manage to film the animals living here?

  21. Amazon under the skin

    Life, 1 June 2007 - 30 June 2007

    As the Life team hacked through swamp forest to film uakaris in the trees, deadly coral snakes sneaked into their kit and botfly maggots got under their skin.

  22. Bear country Minnesota

    Natural World: Bearwalker of the Northwoods, 1 March 2007 - 30 April 2008

    Minnesota is home to 20,00-30,000 black bears, the Natural World team get close to a few of them.

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