Rivers - Friend and Foe
Rivers provide food and water, but they can also flood or freeze. Human Planet meets people for whom rivers can be both a risk to life and a lifeline.
Rivers provide the essentials of life: fresh food and water. They often provide natural highways and enable us to live in just about every environment on earth. But rivers can also flood, freeze or disappear altogether!
Human Planet joins Sam Niang, a Laotian fisherman, as he walks a high wire strung above the raging Mekong River rapids on an extraordinary commute to work.
There's also a look at the remarkable partnership between Samburu tribesmen and wild elephants in their search for water in the dried-out river beds of northern Kenya.
Also in the programme, a father takes his two children on a six-day trek down a frozen river as part of the most dangerous school run on Earth, and the ice dam busters of Ottowa provide a dynamite solution to a city centre hold-up.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Narrator | John Hurt |
Producer | Mark Flowers |
Series Producer | Dale Templar |
Broadcasts
- Thu 24 Feb 2011 20:00
- Thu 24 Feb 2011 23:00成人快手 HD
- Mon 28 Feb 2011 00:00成人快手 HD
- Wed 16 Mar 2011 01:00
- Sun 22 Apr 2012 15:05
- Sat 27 Oct 2012 19:00
- Sun 28 Oct 2012 01:25
- Wed 31 Oct 2012 23:30
- Sat 6 Sep 2014 19:00
- Sun 7 Sep 2014 02:00
- Tue 9 Sep 2014 23:30
- Sat 9 Apr 2016 20:00
- Tue 19 Sep 2017 16:15成人快手 Two except Wales
- Tue 19 Sep 2017 17:00成人快手 Two Wales
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