documentary series
Television documentaries are televised media productions that screen documentaries.
Television documentaries exist either as a television documentary series or as a television documentary film.
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on
geology
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, co-produced by the
BBC
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and
The Learning Channel
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. Produced by
David Sington
David Sington is a British-born director, producer, screenwriter and author. He read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1981.
Career
He started his career in 1982 at the BBC World Service as a studio manager and subs ...
, the series was narrated by
Aubrey Manning
Aubrey William George Manning, OBE, FRSE, FRSB, (24 April 1930 – 20 October 2018)
A number of filming locations were used around the world including
Alaska
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,
India
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, and
Barbados
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.
Episodes
A total of eight episodes were produced with each episode having a runtime of 50 minutes.
# The Time Travellers (1 November 1998)
# The Deep (8 November 1998)
# Ring of Fire (15 November 1998)
# Journey to the Centre of the Earth (22 November 1998)
# The Roof of the World (6 December 1998)
# The Big Freeze (13 December 1998)
# The Living Earth (20 December 1998)
# A World Apart (27 December 1998)
Merchandise
A two-disc DVD of the series was released on 7 August 2006.
A book entitled ''Earth Story: The Shaping of Our World'' () was written by Simon Lamb and David Sington. It contains 240 pages and was released on 29 October 1998.