Stella and the Apes of Mount Asserick
Stella Brewer grew up amongst the animals of the Abuko game reserve in West Africa. She could not bear to see young chimpanzees - orphaned by poachers - condemned to a life behind bars. But young chimpanzees depend on their mothers for safety and emotional support for as long as eight years.
This is the extraordinary story of how Stella decided to become foster mother to four young chimps and went off to the forest to teach them the ways of the wild - a story of her courage, the affections and jealousies of her all-to--human children, and the adventures both comic and tragic that befell them. Directed and photographed by BARON HUGO VAN LAWICK Narrated by ANNA FORD
Editors MICHAEL ANDREWS and ANTHONY ISAACS BBC Bristol