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The BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of BBC Studios that produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme. It is best known for its highly regarded nature documentaries, including The Blue Planet and Planet Earth, and has a long association with David Attenborough's authored documentaries, starting with 1979's Life on Earth.
This is a chronological list of selected television programmes and feature films produced or co-produced by the BBC Studios Natural History Unit since its inception in 1957. It is not intended to be exhaustive given the large amount of material the Unit has produced in its history, but it does capture all the major TV series and films for which ...
The Living World is a long-running natural history radio programme, made by the BBC and broadcast on its Radio 4. [1] The series was created at the BBC Natural History Unit by Dilys Breese and Derek Jones, initially as a 52-week series, in 1968. [2] It chiefly covers topics related to the flora and fauna of the British Isles, with occasional ...
Julian Hector, head of the Natural History Unit at BBC Studios Productions, will step down at the end of the year after five years leading the unit, and almost three decades at the BBC. Since ...
What followed eventually became the BBC Natural History Unit, having its origins in radio early in 1946 when Hawkins designed a programme called The Naturalist, with the curlew's song as a signature tune. This was followed by Birds In Britain, Birdsong of the Month and many more.
A former BBC wildlife TV presenter, author and naturalist has died aged 95. Tony Soper co-founded the BBC's Natural History Unit, which began in Bristol in 1957 and has since produced countless ...
Boswall began as a radio producer, upon joining the BBC Natural History Unit in 1957, producing series including Birds of the Air and The Naturalist. He started to work on television programmes in 1964. He produced the Look series (introduced by Peter Scott) from 1963 to 1969, which is the series which made Peter Scott a household name in Great ...
In each of the 20 programmes, Attenborough discusses a particular subject of personal resonance, drawing on his experience of six decades filming the natural world. The series was produced by Julian Hector, head of radio at the BBC Natural History Unit. A second 20-part series of Life Stories called New Life Stories began on 18 February 2011. [1]