A Museum in a Modern World

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Episode 1 of 6

Duration: 1 hour

Jimmy Doherty goes behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum to join the people who are uncovering secrets, solving mysteries and making discoveries among the 70 million items in the historic collections.

In the first of this series, Jimmy gets to grips with Darwin's finches, Dippy the Diplodocus and a radical project aiming to hold back extinction.

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  • Jimmy with one of the museum's 70 million specimens

    Jimmy with one of the museum's 70 million specimens

Credits

Presenter
Jimmy Doherty
Presenter
Mark Carwardine
Presenter
Liz Bonnin
Presenter
Chris van Tulleken
Presenter
Kate Bellingham
Director
Ian A Hunt
Director
Sophie Harris
Producer
Ian A Hunt
Producer
Sophie Harris
Producer
Tim Green

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