Could you survive 8 months of isolation?

BBC Earth Podcast

Jenkins Laura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Tv & Film

4.6 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re taking you to the southernmost continent on the planet: Antarctica. This is where cameraman Lindsay McCrae and his team spent 10 months filming emperor penguins for Dynasties. As it was impossible for the crew to leave their location, it meant Lindsay experienced a key life event over 14,000 kilometres from home. In this episode, you’ll also walk among gorillas in the Impenetrable Forest, step into untouched caves and meet the man who finds companionship through whale song.

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0:00.0	This is a podcast from BBC Studios.
0:03.9	BBC Studios.
0:05.9	A commercial subsidiary of the BBC.
0:13.1	I think one of the most amazing things about being in the impenetrable forest
0:21.2	is that you can feel really isolated and, you know, away from civilization
0:27.3	because it's so thick and so enclosed.
0:31.2	If you just have to go off for a pee, you know, you only have to walk like 10 metres away from everyone,
0:35.6	but you can suddenly feel totally on your own
0:38.4	and that's you know it's quite a scary feeling you know you're in the impenetrable forest on your own
0:48.3	today on the BBC earth podcast we're exploring the unexplored places.
0:57.0	We're telling stories of isolation.
1:01.4	And we're starting with this man.
1:04.1	My name's James Hemming and I'm a producer-director on First Year on Earth.
1:09.3	That's a new BBC series coming out next year.
1:12.4	He was filming gorillas in the impenetrable forest,
1:15.2	which sounds like it's in Middle Earth, but it's not.
1:17.1	It's in Uganda.
1:18.2	And it's teeming with life.
1:22.4	The forest is amazing, right?
1:24.2	Sound-wise, it's kind of...
1:26.1	You've got birds and you've got insects. Forests
1:30.7	pretty tricky to see things, but to hear things is amazing. Before you see the
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