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

A Year on Planet Earth

TV Show · Documentary · Educational

A look 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 · 52m

Starring Stephen Fry

EPISODE 1

Winter

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

45 min
EPISODE 2

Spring

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 getting harsher.

45 min
EPISODE 3

Summer

Summer can be extreme. In The Rockies, summers are short. Pika must harvest flowers to eat before the snow returns. For Marion Island's king penguin chicks, life has frozen still.

45 min
EPISODE 4

Autumn

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

44 min
EPISODE 5

Full Circle

See the incredible strategies animals like red squirrels, pikas and penguins use to cope with their changing worlds, as we journey through the seasons, in our orbit around the sun.

44 min
EPISODE 6

A Year on My Planet Earth

These are the stories of the scientists and conservationists who have have used pioneering techniques to uncover new behaviour, enabling us to film this extraordinary series.

44 min

Stephen Fry

Narrator
Martha Holmes

Producer
Tom Hugh-Jones

Producer
Grant Mansfield

Producer

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