Natural World - Season 24 - Eps 18: Satoyama: Japan's Secret Water Garden
In the heart of rural Japan lies Satoyama, a landscape of lakes and rivers home to an incredible variety of fish, water birds, snakes and dragonflies. This poetic documentary follows 83-year-old fisherman Sangoro Tanaka, who lives according to an ancient way of life that has much to teach the world about sustainable living. Narrated by David Attenborough.
About Natural World
Title: Natural World
First Air Date: 1983-10-30
Last Air Date: 2020-03-20
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.1/10 (from 26 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 40
Total Episodes: 543
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: BBC Studios, BBC Studios Natural History Unit, BBC
Synopsis
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
Cast
David Attenborough
Self - Host
John Hannah
Narrator (voice)
Juliet Stevenson
Narrator (voice)
