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Britain's Biggest Every Quarry Blast

If you like rock and big explosions then you'll love this. Britain's Biggest Ever Quarry Blast - 50,000 kgs of explosives were used to blast 200,000 tonnes of granite. Here's the mega-blast in slow...

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Cute Kangaroos and the Kangaroo song!

Next weeks episode of Natural World 'Kangaroo Dundee'.  Here's a sneak preview...

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Springboks jump for joy on the Cape #Africa #Attenborough

Episode one brought us the gobsmacking scene of gladiatorial rubber-necked giraffes, episode two brought the terror of giant cannibal prehistoric monster birds. Last week twitter was alive with...

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Dung Beetle makes Mountain out of a Sand Dune - BBC #Africa #Sahara

Africa - Sahara, tonight, 9pm on BBC One This week David Attenborough takes us to Northern Africa and, arguably, the greatest desert on Earth, the Sahara. On the fringes, huge zebras battle over...

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Spellbinding New Zealand Moon Video

What's remarkable about 'Full Moon Silhouettes' is firstly that it's not a time-lapse, and secondly the moon is so unbelievably big that you expect an ET flyby. It was filmed by astrophotographer Mark...

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David Attenborough TWEETS LIVE 1-2pm #AskAttenborough

Imagine, if you could ask Him one question... what would it be? Now's your chance! David Attenborough is going to be answering questions on twitter and facebook TODAY, live, at 1 - 2pm. Africa has...

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Baby Rhino meets Sir David Attenborough #Africa #BBC

Africa, The Future, BBC One, 9pm In tonight's final episode of Africa, Sir David Attenborough warns about the potential future for the continent's wildlife and focusses on the importance of...

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Otterly Brilliant - Giants of the Amazon #NaturalWorld

TONIGHT: Natural World, Saturday 9th Feb, 8pm BBC2 Diablo the giant otter lives in a lake in the jungles of Peru, with his unruly family of six cubs. Even at the tender age of six months, they need to...

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Wild Arabia - A Golden Visual Treat

Look at what I'm missing! While I'm in the steamy jungle of Sumatra, 'Wild Arabia' will be starting on BBC 2 Friday 22nd February. Please make the most of having access to a TV by watching this golden...

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Enchanting Arabian Leopard in 'Jewel of Arabia' - Don't miss this beauty!

Don't miss this beauty! Friday March 1st, BBC2, 9pm. 'The Jewel of Arabia'. Swept by the annual Indian Ocean monsoon, the Dhofar Mountains  become a magical lost world of waterfalls and cloud forests...

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Wacky Races & Camel Jockeys replaced by Robots #WildArabia

Wild Arabia, Tonight - March 8th, 9pm"Even by the BBC’s high standards, its current crop of natural history series are quite outstanding – with this three-part series on the under-appreciated wildlife...

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Alien Nation - The wonderful world of Insects in 6 films

BBC Four is super-sizing the insect world in an ambitious new season - Alien Nation. The season features six programmes that will cast a light on this miniature realm in a unique and unprecedented...

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You are 96.4% Orang-utan - meet the newest member of the family @OrangutansSOS

I was recently in Sumatra to work with the Sumatran Orang-utan Society. Not only did I experience the wonderful work that they are doing to save this species, but I also had the privilege of spending...

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The cutest face in the forest - The Slow Loris

(Photo: Paul Williams, taken at the JAAN Animal aid network, Jakarta.) A few months ago I visited JAAN, Animal Aid Network, in Java to see the work that they are doing on the front line of wildlife...

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Alien Anatomy - Insect Dissection #BBC4 - Gunther Von Hagens eat your heart out!

Insect Dissection: How Insects Work - Wednesday 20 March, 9-10pm A colony of army ants can be over 700,000 strong. When a flea jumps it accelerates at a rate 20x faster than a rocket being launched...

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The Slobbering Sloth Bears of India - Dancing no more

I've been lucky enough to spend time with several species of bear but when I visited Karnataka in India,  I found sloth bears to be one of the most endearing and characterful of them all (to find out...

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Wrestling Wild Sloth Bears - Feeding Time at Daroji sanctuary, India

Cameraman David Heath and I sat quietly just a few metres away from wild sloth bears as they slobbered, tussled and wrestled over honey at Daroji bear sanctuary, India. These bears are wild and...

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The Secret Life of Rock Pools - with Prof Richard Fortey

Pop your knotted hanky on and roll up your trousers for an hour of rock pooling with our favourite TV palaeontologist, Professor Richard Fortey, who we last saw presenting Survivors: Nature's...

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The forgotten father of evolution - Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero

I'm currently filming in peninsular Malaysia before moving onto Borneo, it's a part of the world that I  am becoming very familiar with as we produce the BBC Natural History series 'Monsoon'. My...

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Out of the office: Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

I'm currently out of the office on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, the highest peak between the Himalayas and PNG. We're filming for the BBC series 'Monsoon' and waking up to scenes like this... I may not be...

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