Chris Bonnington introduces the 1980 Expedition Film Competition for The Mick Burke Award from the Royal Geographical Society, London
In this, the first of two special programmes, we canoe 12,000 miles through the wilderness of North West Canada; join the Akha hill tribes of Northern Thailand to examine their threatened culture; explore the remote cliffs of Iceland with their vast seabird colonies.
These expedition films, together with those to be shown next week, were all made by amateur film-makers competing for the award given by the BBC Natural History Unit and the Royal Geographical Society. It is their work that the judging panel will assess to choose the winners of a competition designed to encourage the many expeditions that set out from the United Kingdom each year, to make a film of their adventures.
Produced by NED KELLY
Executive producer PETER JONES BBC Bristol
(More films and presentation ceremony next Sunday evening)