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1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 min. 8 sec.) ; 358427338 bytes |
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In 1985 The Observer Colour Magazine paired up the naturalist Mark Carwardine and The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy writer Douglas Adams and invited them to travel to Madagascar in search of the Aye-Aye, a strange and little known nocturnal lemur thought to be on the edge of extinction.Douglas and Mark found that they enjoyed the journey, and each other's company, to such a degree that they decided to spend a year travelling the globe in search of other endangered animals.In 1990 the book Last Chance To See by Douglas and Mark was published as a companion to the BBC radio series of the same name.In 2001, as Douglas and Mark were discussing the possibility of new adventures, Douglas suffered a heart attack and died.Stephen Fry was a close friend of Douglas, and when Douglas and Mark spent a year travelling the world, Stephen lived in Douglas's house, and recalls "taking urgent phone calls to send maps and lenses to faraway places."In 2008-09, exactly 20 years after the original journey, Stephen and Mark head off to see what has become of the animals over the past two decades, and to discover what has affected their fortunes.In the first episode of the series Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine meet in Manaus in the Amazon to go in search of the lugubrious Amazonian Manatee |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-10-10 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Amazonian manatee.
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Boto.
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Endangered species -- Habitat.
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Manatees -- Protection.
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Manatees -- Research.
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Wildlife conservation.
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Amazon River.
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Streaming video
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Carwardine, Mark, host
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Fry, Stephen, host
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Green, Tim, director
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