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There are some familiar sights in this one-off BBC wildlife doco showing the planet’s eight bear species – six of which, we’re reminded, are in danger of extinction. There are grizzlies chowing on a river full of leaping salmon, pandas munching through forests of bamboo, and a small bear in a hat eating from a jar of marmalade … hold on, that last one isn’t right. But there is a Paddington connection: Hugh Bonneville, who was in the two movies, is the narrator. And the show does head to Paddington’s birthplace to see South America’s only ursine species, the spectacled bear,

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