April 08, 2025
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The unforgiving frontier of climate change. The calving of a gigantic iceberg or the risks of fossil fuel exploration in the arctic are never far from our news screens. Yet what does it mean for those that live there? Join us as we follow polar bears, walruses, seals and penguins as they find their icy Edens in peril. Brought to you by the speakers, adventurers and explorers that have joined the tradition of the polar explorer and returned to tell us why this frozen frontier is vital for our planet.
Huw Cordey
Huw is one of the world leading producers in natural history. His work has taken him across the globe from the Andes to the Amazon, filming everything from filming big cats in Africa to the orangutan of Borneo. A former producer of the BBC Natural History Unit, Huw has worked on long-running series such as Big Cat Diary, Land of the Tiger, Andes to Amazon,and Sir David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals. In 2003, he became part of the Planet Earth team and produced three episodes for this hugely popular and multi-award-winning series. Leaving the BBC to join Silverback Films, Huw has been the series producer on the award winning BBC’s The Hunt, a major blue-chip series that focused on the complex relationship between predator and prey, the “Jungles” episode for Netflix’s first natural history series Our Planet and the producer/director for Netflix’s Dancing with the Birds, a one-off special about birds of paradise and bowerbirds. Recently, he was the series producer on A Perfect Planet, a blue-chip landmark series looking at Earth’s natural forces for BBC1 and director of Netflix’s forthcoming Secrets of the Orangutan movie.
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