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Since its inception in the 1950s, the Natural History Unit has produced a wealth of material for television, radio, and more recently, cinema. Being the first and the largest production unit devoted to natural history programme making, it maintains an extensive archive of images and sound recordings
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for television. Parsons, by then an experienced producer with the NHU, recognised the potential for a similar treatment with natural history as the subject and approached Attenborough in 1970 with the idea. Attenborough was receptive, even to the idea that he should present the series, but both men
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In the early 1960s, natural history filmmaking was being held back by the limitations of the available technology, particularly the restrictions of shooting often fast-moving subjects in poor light and spectacularly colourful subjects in black and white. The second of these problems was about to be
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In October 2007, the BBC announced that the NHU would suffer cuts of a third in both staff numbers and its £37 million annual budget, as a result of the Government's decision to impose a lower than inflation increase in the television licence fee. The cutbacks were widely condemned within the
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When Attenborough resigned from his administrative duties to return to programme making at the start of 1973, planning for the proposed series resumed. It was another three years before the resourcing and financing were agreed, the outline episode scripts written (by Attenborough) and a production
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In response to the criticism, Keith Scholey, Factual Controller of BBC Vision, promised that the BBC would "continue to make and show the ambitious, large-scale, truly memorable series that audiences associate with BBC natural history output". Titles affected by the cuts include the BBC Two
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awards for its "outstanding contribution over the past 44 years to broadcasting about the natural world". It was praised for being "a national resource for people's understanding and love of wildlife on our planet, and a symbol of both quality and talent in public service broadcasting".
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Attenborough, by then controller of BBC 2, wanted to make a strong statement on BBC's second channel of the boundless possibilities that colour television offered, and recognised that natural history was the obvious subject matter to choose. He commissioned a series called
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Productions. Each year it produces around 100 hours of television and 50 hours of radio programmes, making it the largest wildlife documentary production house in the world. The BBC commissions programmes from the Unit for broadcast on five terrestrial television channels
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and involved over 1 million miles of travel. Attenborough himself has said that if it had not been for computerised airline schedules, the series would have probably been impossible to undertake. When it was finally broadcast in 1979 on
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still commanded much higher audiences than the fledgling television service, but Hawkins was not alone in recognising the potential for natural history programmes for the newer medium. His vision was shared by
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Post 2010, a greater emphasis was placed on climate change, which several special programmes broadcast focusing on the issue. More broadly, series looked at the negative effects of climate change and
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under the stewardship of David Attenborough, who had retired from programme-making to move into BBC administration. The first natural history film to be shown in colour was Ron Eastman's
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was being developed, and the BBC made funds available to begin filming in colour to allow filmmakers to experiment with the latest equipment in preparation for the switchover.
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Until such formalities were completed, natural history programmes were the responsibility of the Features office of the West Region. One of the first programmes was an
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By the early 1950s, Hawkins had been promoted to Head of Programmes, West Region and was keen to translate his success to the developing medium of
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approved the official formation of a Natural History Unit. Gillard was on the search for a senior producer to head the new Unit, and asked
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as well as film materials. The filmography article presents a chronological summary of the Unit's major television and film productions.
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Although much of the Unit's early output concentrated on British and European wildlife, one of its first productions to be broadcast was
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Nicholas Crocker, a senior producer with West Region, became the Unit's first Head in September 1957. Founder members included
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and was the Unit's first colour production. This was one of six films made for the BBC by part-time film-makers Ron Peggs and
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and Tony Soper, was a successful format for young audiences which ran for over 20 years. The Unit also collaborated with
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Since launching commercially, the Natural History Unit has won commissions from international broadcasters including
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team in place. Parsons would serve as series producer and share production duties for the individual episodes with
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In 2016, BBC's non-news content production, including natural history, was separated into a commercial subsidiary
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strand on BBC Two has featured series on all the world's major land areas over the past eighteen years, including
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True to Nature: Christopher Parsons looks back on 25 years of wildlife filming with the BBC Natural History Unit
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In 2007, the Unit celebrated its 50th anniversary and was rewarded with a special award at the
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on several films of his animal-collecting expeditions, beginning with the studio-based series
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Productions already underway were not affected by the cuts, so the following year came
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in recognition of its unique contribution to wildlife film and documentary making.
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One of Attenborough's main achievements as Controller of BBC 2 was to commission
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firmly established and Gillard and Hawkins lobbying hard, the BBC management in
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realised at that time that it was beyond the scope of the Unit's capabilities.
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NHU filmmakers are regularly nominated and rewarded at film festivals such as
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since its formation in 1957, and has been headed by Jonny Keeling since 2021.
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also received a three-year commission from BBC Two on its 25th anniversary.
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and audience approval ratings, particularly for 'blue-chip' series such as
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The Natural History Unit as a whole was awarded the Gold Medal at the 2001
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to take on the role. Attenborough had good credentials (he was a trained
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media industry and by programme-makers, including David Attenborough.
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and was eventually seen by an estimated 500 million people worldwide.
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One of the early problems for the Unit was the difficulty in sourcing
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and often ground-breaking footage of wildlife from around the globe.
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DVD (2003). Bonus feature: Heads of the BBC Natural History Unit
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On television, the anniversary was marked with the broadcast of
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The NHU has also diversified into other programme formats. Its
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Around the same time, the technology to broadcast and receive
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programmes, whilst another pioneering husband-and-wife team,
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in 1946 and proved an immediate success, later augmented by
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brand. Original content is also broadcast on the BBC Earth
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The Natural History Unit is a specialist department within
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that produces television, radio and online content with a
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in 1953, the first TV collaboration between the BBC and
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Content is marketed internationally under BBC Studios'
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within series that did not focus solely on the topic.
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