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In 1999 Producer Marguerite Smits van Oyen and cameraman Gil Domb travelled along the coast of Namibia to work in the forbiddden diamond zone. But they were not interested in diamonds but the large seal colonies that line this part of the coast.Marguerite recorded these soundtracks whilst there. Just listen to the sound. 
Hear penguins jackassing
The following year Marguerite was off to a tiny country in the north of Africa on the Red Sea, this time with underwater cameraman Peter Scoones. Marguerite wrote about diving in this area in this November's BBC Wildlife Magazine. Here's an extract.
While filming on land in Djibouti around the Danakil Depression, an enormous salt desert, Marguerite recorded the local Afar people. They sing as they mine the salt.
November 2000 and Amanda Barrett and Owen Newman were on their final trip for the "Savannah" film. They wanted a night sequence for the film and so this time headed off fully equipped to work in the dark. Now that sounds so straightforward but Amanda tells us otherwise. Read on.
"Deserts" Producer Patrick Morris got together with Austrian company Science Vision Filmproduction to share a shoot to this incredibly spectacular but very remote location. Director Michael Schlamburger writes about the wild trip undertaken by his team. Read on.
