Factual: History

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The BBC West region started on 1st September 1957 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One West.

BBC One West

Series 1

Walking with Beasts

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Factual: Science & Nature

Bringing the Cenozoic period to life with computer animation and anamatronics.

Bringing the Cenozoic period to life with computer animation and anamatronics. From a time the world forgot, discover the amazing wildlife that roamed once the Earth.

BBC Four

The BBC South West region started on 20th April 1961 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One South West.

BBC One South West

The BBC South region started on 5th January 1961 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One South.

BBC One South

BBC One London

London

BBC One West Midlands

BBC One region covering Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.

BBC One East Midlands

The BBC East region started on 1st May 1959 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One East.

BBC One East

BBC One North West

The BBC North East & Cumbria region started in 1959 (tbc) as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One North East & Cumbria.

BBC One North East & Cumbria

BBC One Yorkshire

BBC One Oxfordshire

Formerly part of a wider BBC One South East region that included London and part of the South region. Separated from BBC One London 2001-09-03 following reorganisation of the South East region.

BBC One South East

BBC One Cambridgeshire

BBC One Channel Islands

BBC One Yorks & Lincs

BBC One Scotland

Scotland

BBC Northern Ireland region started on 19th April 1955 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One Northern Ireland.

BBC One Northern Ireland

BBC One Wales

Wales

Walking with Beasts: Series 1: Episode 4: Next of Kin

Episode 4

Episode 4: Next of Kin

Next of Kin

BBC One - Walking with Beasts, Series 1, Next of Kin

Ethiopia 3 million years ago, home of ape-man Australopithecus & sabre-toothed Dinofelis.

We travel back 3 million years to Ethiopia, where Australopithecus, one of the first upright apes, lived in danger of being hunted by sabre-toothed Dinofelis.

This episode travels back in time to Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago to witness the beginnings of mankind.  It follows a group of Australopithecus, a type of ape which, just like us, walks upright on two legs.  But unlike us, these early members of the human family were not predators, they were prey.  Things get worse and worse for the group as they are hunted by a sabre tooth cat called Dinofelis and fall victim to other dangers such as malaria, rival Australopithecus and a rampaging fourteen tonne Deinotherium.

Walking with Beasts: Series 1

BBC One

The prehistoric creatures that ruled the Earth after the dinosaurs were gone.

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