Wonders of the Monsoon

2014
Wonders of the Monsoon

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EP1 Waiting for the Rains Oct 08, 2014

From India to Australia, all life awaits the transforming power of the monsoon rains.

EP2 Deluge Oct 12, 2014

The grand entrance of the Asian monsoon. The bringer of life and the destroyer of worlds.

EP3 The Drought Oct 10, 2014

The other side of the monsoon. Now, the winds turn dry and bring drought.

EP4 Strange Castaways Oct 26, 2014

A journey to the heart of the monsoon, a world of strange creatures and tropical islands.

EP5 People of the Monsoon Nov 02, 2014

An extraordinary story of the relationship between nature and the people of the monsoon.
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Official Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p026glh9
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Wonders of the Monsoon’ will explore the worlds of such places as the Himalayas to Northern Australia. The show will look at how the wildlife and culture of these places has shaped the Earth through some of its greatest natural phenomena on the planet. The series will take a journey to see how life manages to flourish under the tumultuous weather conditions that annually transforms an enormous part of our planet.

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Tweekums This five part documentary series shows us how the monsoon weather system affects a swathe of countries from India all the way to Australia. It explains how the monsoon isn't just the heavy rains but the whole weather cycle, which includes periods of severe drought. We are shown how this impacts the lives of both the local populations and the varied wildlife of the area. This wildlife includes familiar creatures like Asian Elephants and Orangutans that have featured in numerous nature documentaries as well as showing us less well known creatures like a giant leach that preys on equally giant worms in Borneo and a species of from that signals with its large feet. I really enjoyed this series; each episode showed me things that I didn't know about the way the weather effects an interesting part of the world. The makers visited a wide variety of counties, as well as several islands with unique animals. Narrator Colin Salmon does a fine job delivering his lines in a manner that keeps things interesting without ever sounding overly emotional as some narrators can at times. Each episode also included a final section about the making of the most challenging part of the episode; these are interesting snippets that give us an insight into the making of the episode... I suspect these sections may be lost if the series is shown on channels that include adverts. Overall a really interesting documentary about how the monsoons effect so many lives; both human and animal.