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Weird Nature

Episode 1: Marvellous Motion

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Series looking at strange animal behaviour reveals nature's quirkiest movers and shakers using special FX, from dancing seaslugs to cartwheeling caterpillars. Show more

Contributors

Series Producer:
John Downer
Camera Operator:
Rod Clarke
Camera Operator:
Steve Downer
Camera Operator:
Warwick Sloss
Camera Operator:
John Waters

Fake or Fortune?

Series 1

Episode 3: Van Meegeren

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four HD

Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould enter an art institute in London to try and answer a riddle behind a controversial painting that divides the opinion of scholars. Show more

Timeshift

Series 14

Episode 4: Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest

Duration: 60 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for years

The story of how film-makers turned the conquest of Himalayan peaks into great propaganda by Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany and superpower America from the 1920s to the 1960s. Show more

Contributors

Producer:
Steve O'Hagan
Director:
Steve O'Hagan
Executive Producer:
Michael Poole

Natural World

2010-2011

Episode 4: The Himalayas

Duration: 44 minutes

on BBC Four HD

Available for 5 months

Documentary looking at the variety of wild animals inhabiting the Himalayas, from monkeys, wolves and bears to foxes, snow leopards and pheasants. Show more

BBC Four HD

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