A harsh life among ‘super over-caffeinated’ penguins (reprise)

The Wild with Chris Morgan

KUOW News and Information

Science, Nature

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Behind most wildlife documentaries is someone who has spent countless hours, often in challenging conditions, waiting for that perfect shot. Chris talks to filmmakers Jeff Wilson and Mark Smith about their experience filming Adelie penguins for four months in Antarctica. With wind gusts up to 150 miles per hour it is one of the coldest and harshest continents on earth.

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0:46.2	the very best of them are on a mission,
0:48.5	a mission to get as close as possible to the animals they are documenting.
0:52.0	Imagine standing in a crowd of 500,000 Joe Peshes
0:57.5	from Goodfellas. It's kind of like that and they go completely nuts. That's Jeff Wilson. He's a
1:04.2	producer I've worked with before. We became friends among the bears of Alaska filming for the BBC.
1:09.3	And he's involved with top shows like Planet Earth,
1:12.4	Frozen Planet and Our Planet. You know, we're literally sitting in there thinking this, the roof
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