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Natural World

1983–2020 · 39 seasons

A calm, beautifully filmed window into wild lives, often tense but ultimately soothing and awe-inspiring.

Overview
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • nature
  • environment
  • survival
  • exploration
  • science
Places
  • wilderness
  • sea
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • documentary
  • anthology
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism10
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
documentary
Created by
Mark Woodward, Jamie McPherson, Ted Oakes, Martyn Colbeck, Emma Napper, Lynne Richardson
Written by
Anne MacLeod, Martin Dohrn, Anuschka Schofield, Mark Fletcher
Starring
John Hannah, Juliet Stevenson, Ian Holm, Honor Blackman, John Hurt, Geraldine James, Robert Lindsay, Art Malik
Music
Fraser Purdie
Cinematography
David Wright, Bob Poole
Length
39 seasons, 543 episodes, 60 min each
Network
BBC Two
Country
United Kingdom, France
Languages
English

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