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  • 1978-01-09T21:00:00Z on National Geographic (UK)
  • 45m
  • 2h 30m (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
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3 episodes

Season Premiere

1978-01-09T21:00:00Z

1978x01 The Legacy of L.S.B. Leakey

Season Premiere

1978x01 The Legacy of L.S.B. Leakey

  • 1978-01-09T21:00:00Z45m

A documentary on the life and career of anthropologist Louis Leakey.

1978-02-16T21:00:00Z

1978x02 The Great Whales

1978x02 The Great Whales

  • 1978-02-16T21:00:00Z1h

“The Great Whales” features the leviathans in captivity, roaming the Pacific, and being hunted. Included: the birth of a killer whale at California's Marineland; the commercial slaughter of whales in the 19th and 20th centuries; and footage of 'singing' humpbacks off Maui.

Explore the living sands of Namib, a remote coastal desert on the southwestern edge of Africa. Learn about the amazing survival techniques of the geckos, baboons and plants born in this forbidding desert, where years pass without rainfall on the scorching sands.

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