Natural World
Natural World is a TV show on BBC4. BBC Two's classic wildlife series which tells in-depth stories of incredible animals, featuring award-winning photography in some of the most extraordinary places in the world. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 59 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in June 2026.
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Wildlife film. In southern Africa, a pride of lions have rewritten the rules - they have learnt to take down elephants. A follow-up to Africa's Giant Killers.
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Nature documentary looking at a post office in Antarctica that is surrounded by 3,000 gentoo penguins.
May 2026
Wildlife series. On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, a pair of white gyrfalcons and a pack of Arctic wolves are struggling to raise their young.
Bill Bailey introduces a delightfully eccentric cast of creatures that do things differently; unconventional and unusual, these animals turn oddness into opportunity.
Wildlife documentary series. We spy on a sett of badgers for a year in a Devon valley with hidden underground cameras. Narrated by David Attenborough.
Documentary following a pair of tigers released in a nature reserve. They must fight for territory and learn to hunt. Will they mate and start a family, or will they be killed?
April 2026
Documentary about Central Africa's forest elephants, as new acoustic research sheds light on their social lives and unique vocalisations.
Wildlife documentary. How does a chimpanzee see the world? A research project attempts to answer that question by giving chimps a special camera.
Documentary following a pair of tigers released in a nature reserve. They must fight for territory and learn to hunt. Will they mate and start a family, or will they be killed?
A professor develops an extraordinary relationship with an octopus when he invites it to live in his home to learn about its intelligence.
March 2026
Documentary featuring the fascinating lives of Britain's beautiful butterflies, filmed in exquisite detail and celebrating their enduring appeal to the British people.
Wildlife film. Cameraman Colin Stafford-Johnson explores Ireland's mighty river Shannon and reveals the intimate lives of the wildlife he encounters.
An intimate and revealing film that follows two mother mountain lions struggling to raise their kittens in Wyoming's spectacular Rocky Mountains.
Wildlife documentary. The touching story of a giant otter cub called Sancho who was rescued and is being raised by Brazilian naturalist Carolina Vargas.
Three enthusiasts in South Africa investigate the honey badger's fearsome reputation as nature's most aggressive and pugnacious fighter.
February 2026
Wildlife documentary. Diablo the giant otter raises his family of six unruly cubs in the Peruvian jungle.
January 2026
Wildlife documentary following Professor Con Slobodchikoff, who believes prairie dogs use a language second only to humans in its complexity.
Looking at the secret lives of the wildlife in one of Britain's favourite gardens, from a family of foxes that play after hours to toads in the Italian garden.
At the jungle animal hospital in Guatemala, the wards are full of exotic patients, many of them orphans rescued from the illegal pet trade.
Baghani, a Royal Bengal tiger, hunts wild boar in the Ranthambore National Park.