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

Available on 7plus

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.

Documentary · 2022 · 46 min

Starring Stephen Fry

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Stephen Fry explores how nearly all life on Earth is impacted by its annual journey around the sun, which includes the northern winters, which bring notably harsh conditions for polar bears.

45 min · 18 Oct 2023
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

As the North starts to face the sun, the great melt begins and there's a baby boom, but for penguins and foxes in the South, conditions are about to get harsher.

45 min · 25 Oct 2023
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.

45 min · 1 Nov 2023
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.

44 min · 8 Nov 2023
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.

44 min · 15 Nov 2023
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.

44 min · 22 Nov 2023