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Planet Earth: Caves

Planet Earth (2006)

Sci-Fi, Educational, Documentary, Nature, Historical | UK

Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield

BBC Three | Thursday, 24 August 2023 | 19:00

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Thursday, 24 August 2023 19:00

Wednesday, 26 April 2023 12:00

Tuesday, 25 April 2023 23:00

Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:00

Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:00

SEASON: 1

EPISODE: 4 - Caves

SYNOPSIS

David Attenborough looks at the world's caves, including the Lechuguilla Cave in America which contains chambers filled with six-metre-long crystals. Inside Deer Cave in Borneo he finds five million bats, whose droppings support an entire ecosystem, and observes creatures in Texas and Thailand that never see daylight.

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Writer: David Attenborough, Vanessa Berlowitz

Narrator: Sigourney Weaver, Nikolay Drozdov

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