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Adventure: Balloon to Serengeti

BBC One
on BBC One London

A balloon flight across Tanganyika took Anthony Smith, Douglas Botting, and Alan Root to the Serengeti Reserve. Here there are half a million of the larger game species.
Swinging silently in a wickerwork basket they watched the migration of vast herds of wildebeest. After landing they watched young wildebeest being born and found themselves involved in a fight between wildebeest, hyenas, and rhinos.
First transmission on Sept. 6, 1962

Contributors

Narrator/balloonist:
Anthony Smith
Filmed by/balloonist:
Douglas Botting
Filmed by:
Alan Root
Film editor:
Robert Walter
Presented by:
Brian Branston
Series edited by:
David Attenborough
Source: Radio Times

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