The Polar Bear Family and Me
Spring
Season 1 Episode 1 of 3
Cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to document the lives of a polar bear and her two cubs over the course of three seasons. In spring, he and a team of arctic survival experts manage to find a birth den and meet mother Lyra and offspring Miki and Luca as they emerge from it. Gordon then helps scientists fit the adult with a tracking collar and tests a bear-proof filming hide as he takes on the mission of living with the family
The Polar Bear Family and Me airs on BBC Two Wales at 2:15 PM, Thursday 18 December. (Subtitles, repeat, audio description.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
Nature ➝ Animals ➝ Environment
Gordon Buchanan
Presenter
Saritha Wilkinson
Series Director
Ted Oakes
Producer
Tim Martin
Executive Producer