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Mike Gunton
Mike Gunton is a British television producer and a senior executive at the BBC Natural History Unit, the world's largest production unit dedicated to wildlife film-making. In November 2009 he became the Unit's first Creative Director. As Creative Director of BBC Studios Natural History Unit, he is responsible for bringing new and pioneering stories about the natural world to global audiences, including the BAFTA and Emmy winning Planet Earth II, which was viewed by millions worldwide''.'' In 2018, his ground-breaking animal behaviours series, Dynasties'','' won a number of awards and was acclaimed by Sir David Attenborough as inventing a new genre in natural history film making. A fellow of the Royal Television Society, he also speaks internationally and is an ambassador for natural history making, BBC Studios and the natural world. He was the executive producer of ''Life (2009 TV series), Life'', a nature documentary series which revealed the adaptive survival strategies of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa (2013 TV Series)
''Africa'' is a 2013 British television series created by the BBC Natural History Unit. It focuses on wildlife and wild habitats in Africa, and was four years in the making. It consists of six hour-long episodes and six 10-minute-long featurettes. Broadcast As ''Africa'' was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom, the six episodes are each an hour in length, comprising the main programme and a 10-minute featurette called ''Eye to Eye'' which details the filming of a particular event. In the United States, ''Africa'' was broadcast as a seven-part series on the Discovery Channel starting from 8 January 2013. While the first five episodes are redubbed in the American version as Forest Whitaker gives narration, the sixth ("Africa: The Future") is left untouched as David Attenborough presents the episode on-screen. The seventh is a compilation of the ''Eye to Eye'' making-of featurettes. In China, it was broadcast on the Chinese language version of CCTV-9. In Singapore, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trials Of Life
''The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Behaviour'' is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 3 October 1990. A study in animal behaviour, it was the third in a trilogy of major series (beginning with '' Life on Earth'') that took a broad overview of nature, rather than the more specialised surveys of Attenborough's later productions. Each of the twelve 50-minute episodes features a different aspect of the journey through life, from birth to adulthood and continuation of the species through reproduction. The series was produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Turner Broadcasting System. The executive producer was Peter Jones and the music was composed by George Fenton. Part of David Attenborough's 'Life' series, it was preceded by '' The Living Planet'' (1984) and followed by '' Life in the Freezer'' (1993). Background The se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural World (BBC TV Series)
Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the Ecosphere (planetary), ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the Scientific law, laws, elements and phenomenon, phenomena of the physical world, including life. Although humans are part of nature, human activity or humans as a whole are often described as at times at odds, or outright Anthropocentrism, separate and even superior to nature. During the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries, nature became the passive reality, organized and moved by divine laws. With the Industrial Revolution, nature increasingly became seen as the part of reality deprived from intentional intervention: it was hence considered as sacred by some traditions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau, American transcendentalism) or a mere decorum for divine providence or human history (Hegel, Marx). However, a vitalist vision of nature, closer to the pre-Socratic one, got reborn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nile (TV Series)
''The Nile'' is a 2004 BBC Television documentary that tells the history and natural history of the Nile. Production The series was produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in co-production with the Discovery Channel. Episode three includes footage from the 1971 BBC Television mini-series '' The Search for the Nile''. Reception Reviews ''The Times'' calls it an, "enlightening BBC series", that, "uses stunning photography and restrained dramatisations to pay homage to the longest river on Earth." The reviewer concludes, "never mind the cardboard dramatisations – this is an heroic story." Ratings *Episode two (2004-03-07): 3.4 million viewers (15% audience share). Awards *Shanghai International TV Festival 2005 **Won: Magnolia Award for Best Photography in a Nature Documentary: Richard Kirby Episodes Episode one: ''Crocodiles and Kings'' Since the dawn of history the miraculous annual floodwaters have risen to transform the desert into a fertile paradise where the grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Natural History
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galápagos (2006 TV Series)
''Galápagos'' is a three-part BBC nature documentary series exploring the natural history of the Galápagos Islands and their important role in the formation of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. It was first transmitted in the UK on BBC Two in September 2006. The series was filmed in high definition, produced by Mike Gunton and Patrick Morris of the BBC Natural History Unit and narrated by actress Tilda Swinton. The series was proposed to the BBC by the principal cinematographers Paul D. Stewart and Richard Wollocombe. Episodes The episodes, each 50 minutes in length, are as follows: * "Born of Fire" - an introduction to the volcanic islands * "Islands that Changed the World" - reveals how the islands helped shape the theory of evolution * "Forces of Change" - how life has evolved to cope with climatic and volcanic changes Some of the endemic wildlife featured in the series includes frigatebirds, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, Galápagos tortoises, Galápagos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellowstone (UK TV Series)
''Yellowstone'' is a BBC nature documentary series broadcast from 15 March 2009. Narrated by Peter Firth, the series takes a look at a year in the life of Yellowstone National Park, examining how its wildlife adapts to living in one of the harshest wildernesses on Earth. Yellowstone debuted on BBC Two at 8:00pm on Sunday 15 March 2009 and has three episodes. Each 50-minute episode was followed by a ten-minute film called ''Yellowstone People'', featuring visitors to the Park and locals who had assisted the production team. The series was the channel's highest-rated natural history documentary in over five years with audiences peaking at over four million. In the United States, an edited version of the series was broadcast under the title ''Yellowstone: Battle for Life''. It aired as a two-hour TV special, and premiered on Animal Planet on 22 March 2009. The series was one of the most popular titles at BBC Worldwide's annual market for international clients with pre-sales to nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
