A Year On Planet Earth

Name: A Year On Planet Earth
Released: 2022-12-22T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Stephen Fry

TV Show · Documentary · Educational

Looks at the incredible ways in which all life is impacted by the Earth's journey around the sun, examining how massive seasonal events affect the lives of individual animals as their stories develop across the year.

2022 · 46m

Starring Stephen Fry

EPISODE 3

Episode 3

The Rockies have short summers; Pika must harvest flowers to eat before the snow returns; for Marion Island's king penguin chicks, life has frozen still.
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Autumn signals change and brings opportunity for many, but also huge challenges. For some, like monarch butterflies, it offers a chance to begin again or take a new path.
EPISODE 5

Episode 5

A newly hatched penguin chick grows a fluffy coat and swims past killer whales to leave home; a panda mum's never-ending meal tests the patience of her cub.
EPISODE 6

Episode 6

Scientists, community members and conservationists uncover new behaviour, use pioneering and inventive techniques and put their lives on the line to protect the animals that roam the Earth.