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Wednesday September 6

Nature: PREDATORS

One reviewer claimed that the first episode of this series about apex predators, which followsCrikey. It does have Tom Hardy narrating, although he’s less Reggie Kray than thespy David Attenborough, as cameras follow two cheetah brothers in their attempts to survive on a tinder box dry savannah ravaged by drought. When fire inevitably disrupts the cheetahs’ food supply, they are reduced to hunting hares. The other apex predators featured are polar bears in Canada, lions in the Okavango Delta and pumas in Patagonia.

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