Jane Goodall: Beauty and the Beasts

BBC Four HD

7:15 PM to 8:15 PM

Sunday 19 October

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In 1960, a young secretary from Bournemouth, with no scientific qualifications, entered a remote forest in Africa and achieved something nobody else had ever done before. Jane Goodall became accepted by a group of wild chimpanzees, making discoveries that transformed the understanding of humans' closest relatives. This programme reveals the person behind the myth, looking at what motivates her and the personal cost her life's work has exacted from her