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Horizon: When Polar Bears Swam in the Thames

on BBC Two England

The earliest known fossil remains of a polar bear come from Kew. So, when polar bears swam in the Thames, did Britain really look like present-day Greenland? What was the Ice Age? Was it so long ago? Will it happen again?

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