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Sound-rich, immersive, narratorless portraits of five researchers and explorers - hell bent on pursuing their goals, whatever it takes!
Episode 1 - Deep in the rain forests of Uganda, Catherine Hobaiter wants to understand the minds of chimpanzees - there's heartbreak along the way with a murder ... and delight, when she observes the chimps rain dancing.
Episode 2 - Roger Munns jumps into the ocean ahead of 10 charging 40-ton whales in an attempt to film a mating 'heat race'. Will he succeed - or get crushed?
Episode 3 - Vulcanoloy student Dario Tedasco nearly died when his supervisor was engulfed in lava on his first field trip to Hawaii, He described how it happened.
Episode 4 - Sarah Dykman cycled 10201 miles following the Monarch butterfly migration from Mexico to Canada and back, educating thousands of school children about these amazing insects along the way.
Episode 5 - the first man to get to the five deepest places on Earth describes how there's no hope of rescue if something goes wrong, 4 hours below the surface.

Series treatment, research, interviews, recording, editing & sound designed by me, (1, 4 & 5) working with Florian Bohr (2 & 3) and executive producer Martin Smith (BBC).