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  • 2014-06-09T20:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 59m
  • 1h 58m (2 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Adam Nicolson looks at how and why whale populations were so drastically reduced in the 20th century, and attempts to see whaling through the eyes of the time.

2 episodes

Series Premiere

2014-06-09T20:00:00Z

1x01 The Rise

Series Premiere

1x01 The Rise

  • 2014-06-09T20:00:00Z59m

Archive footage and testimony from the last of the whale hunters helps Adam Nicolson reveal what it was like to have hunted whales in Antarctica in the early 20th century.

2014-06-16T20:00:00Z

1x02 The Fall

1x02 The Fall

  • 2014-06-16T20:00:00Z59m

Granted access to ruined whaling stations on South Georgia, Adam Nicolson continues to explore the role British whalers played in Antarctic whaling as late as the 1960s.

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