Attenborough’s Passion Project – Episodes 3&4
Catch up with the most recent episodes of Attenborough’s Passion Project. From Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 6.30pm on BBC 2. Available to watch free, online here on BBC iPlayer.
The BBC marks veteran natural historian David Attenborough’s 90th birthday by revisiting four `passion project’ films from the vast back catalogue of documentaries he has created throughout his career.
The third programme revisited is a selection of extracts from Lost Worlds and Vanished Lives. It is a series detailing the lives of now-extinct animals, which first aired in 1989. It showcases some of the world’s most significant fossil sites, and David Attenborough shares details of ancient sea creatures, sabre-toothed predators and immense dinosaurs, including the gentle Brachiopoda and the Tyrannosaurs – which are thought to be among the greatest predators to have ever roamed the planet.
The final part of David Attenborough’s `passion project’ films is a documentary originally broadcast in 2009, to mark the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth. David Attenborough shares his views on the naturalist’s theory of evolution, revealing why he believes it is now more important than ever before. He considers how Darwin reached his conclusions and the way major scientific discoveries have helped underpin and strengthen them since the publication of On the Origin of Species more than 150 years ago. Last in the series.