Natural World - Season 29 - Eps 4: Black Mamba, White Witch
In the small African kingdom of Swaziland, the black mamba is a snake both feared and revered. During summer, these elegant yet lethal snakes turn up everywhere - in homes, schools and cars - and people are bitten every week. Enter Thea Litschka-Koen, a mum and hotel manager who has become known affectionately as the white witch. She and her husband are on call 24 hours a day to rescue and release black mambas when they get too close for comfort. But what everyone wants to know is will they come back again? We follow Thea and her team as they set up a pioneering new scientific project: to track the black mambas they release back into the wild, and find out just how these deadly snakes spend their lives.
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)
