BBC Dinosaur programmes that I'm missing - catch up on iPlayer while you can.

I can't believe that I didn't work on any of these Dinosaur programmes and that I'm away in the soggy wilderness when they're being broadcast. Too many great films and not enough time to work on, or watch, everything! I only hope that they linger on BBC iPlayer long enough for me to catch up when I get back to the UK.

So while I'm sitting inside our storm-battered, and soggy, house-boat in British Columbia, thinking excitedly about the episodes of 'Planet Dinosaur' awaiting my return home, I notice that I've also just missed...

Extinct: A Horizon guide to Dinosaurs

Dallas Campbell delves in to the Horizon archive to discover how our ideas about dinosaurs have changed over the past 40 years. From realising that lumbering swamp dwellers were really agile warm blooded killers, astonishing new finds, controversial theories and breakthrough technology have enabled scientists to rethink how they lived and solve the mystery of their disappearance. And they can even reveal whether dinosaurs might still be with us today (watch on iPlayer while you can)

Dinosaurs, Myths & Monsters

I also missed this one from last week - Weds 14th Sept BBC One (watch on iPlayer while you can)

I used to present a talk with the same title so I can pretty much guess the content - most of which was probably taken straight from two excellent books by Adrienne Mayor - Fossil Legends of the first Americans and The First Fossil Hunters:Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

In an epic story that takes us from Ancient Greece to the American Wild West, historian Tom Holland goes on a journey of discovery to explore the fascinating ways in which our ancestors sought to explain the remains of dinosaurs and other giant prehistoric creatures, and how bones and fossils have shaped and affected human culture. In Classical Greece, petrified bones were exhibited in temples as the remains of a long lost race of colossal Heroes. Chinese tales of dragons may well have had their origins in the great fossil beds of the Gobi desert. In the Middle Ages, Christians believed that mysterious bones found in rock were the remains of giants drowned in Noah's Flood. 

But far from always being wrong, Tom learns that ancient explanations and myths about large fossilsed bones often contained remarkable paleontological insights long before modern science explained the truth about dinosaurs. Tom encounters a medieval sculpture that is the first known reconstruction of a monster from a fossil, and learns about the Native Americans stories, told for generations, which contained clues that led bone hunters to some of the greatest dinosaur finds of the nineteenth century.