Asia: The Frozen North
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm, Saturday, January 31 on BBC One London HD (101)
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The Frozen North
Season 1, Episode 3
How animals survive when the northern half of Asia is transformed by snow and ice each year. Featuring footage of Himalayan wolves hunting the fast-moving chiru antelope, red-crowned cranes learning to perform intricate mating dances, and Amur tigers in the forests where Russia, China, and North Korea meet - an area that is also home to the world's largest owls
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Cast & Crew
David Attenborough
(Narrator)
Roger Webb
(Executive producer)
Matthew Wright
(Series producer)
Henry M Mix
(Producer)
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Did You Know..
David Attenborough
(Narrator)
Born:
May 08, 1926
in
London
Best Known For:
His more than 50 years of broadcasting.
Early-life:
Born David Frederick Attenborough on May 8, 1926, in London, son of an academic and principal of Leicester University College. He had two brothers - Johnny, who had a car dealership, and film director and actor Richard. During World War Two, his parents also adopted two German Jewish girls, who arrived in Britain as part of the Kindertransport. Attenborough went to Leicester's Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys before studying geology at Cambridge. He served two years in the Royal Navy.
Career:
Attenborough joined the BBC in 1952, making his reputation with the groundbreaking Zoo Quest series, which he hosted for 10 years. He became controller of BBC2 in 1965, overseeing the advent of colour TV, and in 1969 was made BBC director of programming. In 1973, he returned to presenting with the series Eastwards With Attenborough and The Tribal Eye. In 1979, he wrote and presented Life On Earth and its sequel The Living Planet in 1984. The following year, he was knighted. He has since made several more programmes, such as Life in the Freezer (about Antarctica; 1993), The Private Life of Plants (1995), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), Life in the Undergrowth (2005) and Life in Cold Blood (2008), First Life (2010), Frozen Planet (2011) and Life Story (2014). He continues to narrate and present documentaries.
Quote:
"I'm not sure there's any need for a new Attenborough. The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about."
Trivia:
In addition to his knighthood, Attenborough has also been awarded more than 30 honorary degrees and has several species and fossils named after him.
Roger Webb
(Executive producer)
Matthew Wright
(Series producer)
Born:
July 08, 1965
in
Croydon
Best Known For:
Hosting The Wright Stuff on Channel 5.
Early-life:
Alexander Matthew Wright was born in Croydon on July 8, 1965. He had an early foray into acting at 14 when he appeared in the Children's Film Foundation production Big Wheels and Sailor (1979). He went on to study English and drama at the University of Exeter.
Career:
In the 1990s, Wright became a showbusiness correspondent with The Sun and later wrote a column for the Daily Mirror. He left the Mirror in 2000 and in the same year he began fronting daily topical discussion series The Wright Stuff on Channel 5. Since 2007, Wright has been the lead presenter on the London version of BBC regional series Inside Out. In November 2013, he was a contestant on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
Quote:
"The Wright Stuff is about life, relationships and politics - it's the only mainstream TV show to give the public a voice."
Trivia:
Passionate about music, he attends as many concerts as he can.
Henry M Mix
(Producer)
