Yes, it was beautifully filmed stuff and the "diary" section at the end was - for once - every bit as gripping as the main body of the programme. Driving around in the dark, following starving and desperate lions in an open-top car? And having to change a tyre while surrounded by the same lions? I wonder what their life-insurance premiums are like?
(As a footnote, I normally object to these "diary" things because they're only there to allow the main programme to only last 50 minutes. That, in turn, makes it easier for the BBC to sell its programmes to America and other commercial channels which need to stuff adverts in them. And, usually, they're just rather repetative tales about how a camerman had to sit in a field for seven years to get two seconds of film.)
The other excellent prog on at the moment is The Power of Art. Obviously, it doesn't have the emotional wallop of the the Natural World but it's well-made, intelligent TV and Simon Schama is very good at evaluating the art and putting it in its historical context (he is, in case you don't know, an art historian rather than a historian per se).Statistics: Posted by Captain Howdy — Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:29 pm
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