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00:00This planet, hanging in space like a lonely blue pea, is our home.

00:16We share it with a dazzling number of other lifeforms, because the other planets are frankly

00:22hopeless.

00:23No, this planet is the best one.

00:27It's got everything.

00:29Flying things, furry things, stripy things, wet things, cold things, more wet things,

00:39and penguins.

00:41So many animals that if you put them side to side, they would cover the whole Earth,

00:47which they already do.

00:49For that planet is this planet, round planet, the story of everything.

01:00Not everything, not shoes, don't talk about shoes, but most things.

01:09The Arctic, one of the iciest places on Earth.

01:15Oh look, there's an iceberg.

01:18Serene, majestic, and quite breathtaking.

01:24Its only natural enemy is the Titanic, and it saw that off years ago.

01:32Here, everything is frozen.

01:37This bit, that bit, and the bits of Garth the cameraman when he got these shots on Baffin

01:44Island.

01:45But the residents are okay with that.

01:50The dandy arctic fox, the polar bear, let's get one of those in, and the mighty narwhal.

02:01The cold never bothered them anyway.

02:05It's the warmth they fear, especially since we clicked the setting on Earth's freezer

02:11to defrost, probably.

02:12It says here, I have to say possibly, but I'm going to say probably.

02:17Or, almost certainly.

02:20Sorry, Debitha, someone's got to tell the truth around here, and these animals can't

02:26talk, so it's got to be me.

02:29The arctic, a year in the frozen wilderness.

02:38Even though it's becoming unfrozen, except it might not be, but if it is, that may or

02:43may not be due to human activity.

02:46Good lord, all these disclaimers, it's like doing an insurance advert.

02:51I hate those.

02:53But they do pay well.

02:59Sunrise in space.

03:02Of course, in space, the sun doesn't rise.

03:05It's a trick of the Earth.

03:08But down on Earth, bells, bells, the sky's on fire.

03:14Not really.

03:15Nothing much burns here.

03:20Winter is drawing to a close.

03:23The sun is rising, for the first time in nearly four months.

03:29Here it comes.

03:31Come on.

03:36At minus five degrees, it's definitely full body thermals for me, but it's positively

03:42balmy for her, which means it's time to cut loose.

03:47Wahey!

03:51You'd think, living in the arctic, she'd get bored of sledging, but no.

03:55This polar bear's having a whale of a time.

03:59Which is a weird expression, because if you ask me, whales always look rather bored.

04:04Oh, hello.

04:07Twins.

04:10At two months old, these cubs are getting their first glimpse of the outside world.

04:17And it's white.

04:18Very white.

04:20Like Berkshire.

04:22God, they're adorable, aren't they?

04:25But don't try and give them a cuddle.

04:27The mum will rip your face off and snap your pelvis like a dead twig.

04:32Then claw your heart out and spread your guts over the snow.

04:36I'll, I'll, I'll stop.

04:38I'll stop.

04:40It may look like they're just mucking around, but this is serious preparation for the next

04:46stage of their journey.

04:49Mother shows them what life has in store by repeatedly biting them on the bum.

04:54It's a metaphor.

04:56One minute you're the second biggest natural historian in the country, the next you're

05:00doing adverts for funeral plans, but I don't complain.

05:10Her milk will soon run dry, so it's a slide to the frozen ocean to hunt.

05:17If global warming hasn't turned the sea into a giant slush puppy.

05:22If global warming is a real thing.

05:28It's not just polar bears looking for food.

05:31This fluffball, the arctic fox, is also on the lookout for a meal.

05:36And there are no bins to go through here.

05:41She might look full of fun, but actually she's famished.

05:47You can see it in her eyes.

05:50Oh, what luck.

05:51She's inadvertently stumbled upon the carcass of this reindeer.

05:56Which the crew definitely didn't leave here on purpose for her to find.

06:01Just to confirm that did not happen.

06:05She may be hungry, but without gravy, spuds and Yorkshires, she's just not interested.

06:11So this picky eater sets off in search of better food.

06:17Warm food.

06:19Tabby, speaking of warm food, any sign of my toasted panini?

06:26This is what she is after.

06:28No, not the hair.

06:29Too rabbit-y.

06:30Or the ptarmigan.

06:31Too snow-barley.

06:33Ah, perfect.

06:35Ox tongue.

06:36And ox tail.

06:38And ox.

06:39No, basically it's an ox.

06:41A musk ox.

06:44250 kilos of angry cow.

06:49That fox has balls.

06:51Either that, or it is totally insane.

06:56This little chancer looks as though she's set her sights on stealing a newborn calf right from under its mother's snout.

07:05Although it says here in my notes that Foxy might not be going for the newborn at all.

07:11She might have set her sights on eating the placenta.

07:15But that's so new age I'm going to ignore it.

07:18It's a moment of high drama.

07:22You can tell by the rapid bongos.

07:25Fox versus afterbirth.

07:28One of the great battles of the natural world.

07:33Oh, it's all over.

07:35The musk ox tells Fox to foxtrot Oscar.

07:39It's hardly a lion-noshing wildebeest, is it?

07:42But it's truth.

07:44Everything we show is truth.

07:47Especially the dead reindeer.

07:52Spring heralds good news.

07:57With more daylight, it should be easier to get some bear necessities.

08:03But honey, fancy ants, pawpaws and perically pears are not widely available on this patch of Arctic sea ice.

08:15So, for this polar bear, that means ringwood seal.

08:22A polar bear can sniff out a seal from more than 30 kilometres away.

08:28Which might seem impressive, but there is nothing else about but snow.

08:33And take it from me, seals absolutely honk.

08:39Ringed seals may be some of the smallest in the world, but these seals are crammed with calories.

08:47The bear utterly focused on the seal.

08:50Much like a human who can think only of the toasted panini he was promised so very long ago.

08:58You're nearly here.

09:00I hate to tell you, but he's been nearly here for 25 minutes now.

09:06He treads lightly to avoid alerting the seals to the fact that he, a 500 kilo chubster, is hoping to feast on them.

09:15Look at him tippy-toeing around.

09:18I've never seen a polar bear look so positively dainty.

09:22He sniffs.

09:24He waits.

09:26Dramatic pause.

09:29Should get a BAFTA for that line alone.

09:32He steadies himself to blast through the snow like a hairy clawhammer.

09:40Oh, and that has done literally nothing.

09:45Well, the seal might just have heard that.

09:50There he is.

09:53No, he's at the other hole, you great nit.

09:59A fun game of hide-and-seek for the seal.

10:03But the bear just can't keep up.

10:07Today, the seal wins.

10:10Mr. Bear is a sad bear.

10:13He was really looking forward to chewing the seal's neck clean off.

10:19He leaves, perhaps to stand on top of a mint.

10:28Now, this time-lapse is over.

10:33Now, this time-lapse indicates that it's June in the Arctic.

10:39It's a nice visual way of saying it's June without me having to say it's now June.

10:45Which I suppose I've now said three times.

10:48Anyway, it's June, and it's officially springtime in the Arctic.

10:54Or what passes as springtime in the Arctic.

10:59The mercury reaches the giddy heights of zero degrees Celsius.

11:07As it warms, giant cracks appear in the ice.

11:12The ocean becomes a jigsaw puzzle, where all pieces constantly change shape.

11:18And it's not even a good idea to put them together.

11:21If ever you did, you wouldn't get a nice painting of a Lancaster bomber, you'd just get some ice.

11:28Each of these gargantuan cracks creates a superhighway for another species.

11:38Narwhals.

11:42Freakish unihorned creatures who travel thousands of kilometers in search of food.

11:53Narwhal. Narwhal.

11:57Narwhal. You simply can't say narwhal enough.

12:02It's one of the best words in all natural history.

12:06Narwhal. Yes.

12:11The distinctive tusk is actually a giant canine tooth sticking out through their lip.

12:19The tusk is purely ornamental, but thought to be for sexual display.

12:25Like the jag Alan down the road bought. It's tragic. Lost all his hair.

12:30Not that you could tell from his Tinder profile.

12:36The narwhals have sophisticated echolocation, but today it has let them down.

12:42They've gone the wrong way up a one-way ice floe.

12:46Things could get gnarly. Or narwhally.

12:56But it's a massive letdown, with one side meekly agreeing to back up down the channel.

13:03Let's be honest, we were all hoping for violence.

13:06Not you, Tabitha, I know, but the rest of us.

13:10Spring moves on, and at long last the polar bear has found a meal.

13:16What? Where's the footage of it?

13:19We've already wasted five minutes watching the blasted thing trying to catch something.

13:25But Garth spent five months out there, what do you mean he missed it?

13:33With food in his belly, the male polar bear's thoughts turn to finding a mate.

13:39Which, if he's anywhere near as bad-handed as he is finding food, it could take a while.

13:44Think about it. The object of his affections is white. He's white. Everything is white.

13:52There's always the chance you'll spot a potential mate on the horizon, but it will end up being a rock covered in snow.

13:59And you can't mate with a rock covered in snow.

14:02It's cold and lifeless and can't give you love. The love that you ache for.

14:11But this fellow has had a stroke of luck. He has picked up a scent. The smell of a female.

14:20Ah, the most wonderful smell you can imagine. After Play-Doh, of course.

14:27He catches her up and saves a bit of energy by walking in the compacted snow of her footprints.

14:34How does he know that they're not his footprints?

14:38I mean, he could spend the next few hours walking round and round in a circle. An arctic circle.

14:46Finally, he claps eyes on her and all the months of loneliness melt away.

14:53And, with a coy, over-the-shoulder glance, she signals it's time to go upstairs.

15:00He's known her for forty seconds and is ready to take things further.

15:05And she means upstairs. Liminecki thinks this coffee better be worth it.

15:16Looks like it is.

15:21I won't describe the act of bare love in more detail, as some things are best left to the poets.

15:33Once you find a mate, competition, like making love in the snow, can be painful.

15:42Female polar bears are essentially polygamous.

15:46They're not like those couples-for-life penguins way down south.

15:50Which leaves the males fighting for their attention.

15:56Two proud males brawling in the name of sex.

16:00Is there a better sight?

16:03No, he's given up.

16:12Over the next few weeks, bloodier battles ensue.

16:17But our male manages to hold on to his lady love.

16:21It's been an emotional whirlwind.

16:31But now it's time for the male and female to go their separate ways.

16:37Her to the joys of motherhood, him back to fighting and trying to kill things.

16:43Nature loves a gender stereotype.

16:55As summer finally arrives, the Arctic tundra is transformed from a pure white wasteland

17:04into this, a browny-green wasteland.

17:09This is no longer the land of the polar bear.

17:12This is the land of the woolly bear.

17:16A sort of wandering eyebrow, and one of the first creatures to emerge when the snow retreats.

17:25The woolly bear caterpillar spends the whole of this brief summer

17:30eating, eating, eating.

17:33It's a race to grab enough grub before winter arrives.

17:41And when it does, this little fellow has an amazing trick up his sleeve to survive.

17:47Not that it has sleeves, it's a caterpillar.

17:51It crawls under a rock and freezes.

17:54Body, guts, blood, all frozen, like an Arctic roll.

18:00Spongy on the outside, solid on the inside, and lots better than a Viennetta.

18:07That's it for him, you may be thinking.

18:10But no, he survives to live another year.

18:15That's it for him, you may be thinking.

18:18But no, he survives to live another day.

18:22The next spring, it thaws and begins eating again.

18:27And it does this for an incredible 14 years.

18:31Or seven years, depending on which scientific journal you read.

18:36Finally, it rises from the dead one last time,

18:41finds a spot and weaves a cocoon,

18:48and emerges as a beautiful plain brown moth.

18:55Well, its mother thinks it's beautiful.

19:01The biggest tragedy is that after all that time, it flew straight into one of our lights.

19:07It's 14 years, Tabitha. 14 years.

19:11It was that long since I ordered my panini.

19:15Yes.

19:17Like high season in any resort,

19:21summer in the Arctic brings in the tourists.

19:25Around 18 million of them.

19:28Most are birds.

19:30Yeah, they've all turned up now the sun's out, haven't you?

19:33Yeah, but where were you when it was 40 below,

19:36when we had to blow Torchgarth's tongue off the side of his skidoo, eh?

19:42There are some excellent divers, like these shearwaters.

19:50And then, there are guillemots.

19:54Safe to say they weren't paying attention when Mother Nature gave her diving lesson.

20:01It may look suicidal, but these guillemots are built for bouncing.

20:12It's remarkable.

20:23He's made it, and will go on to enjoy a happy life.

20:30Perhaps even one day having chicks of his own.

20:34Ah, or maybe not.

20:39Fortunately, summer is brief.

20:44And as autumn arrives, so does the snow and ice.

20:51After her liaison with a male suitor,

20:55this female is now with cub.

20:59Or, as the experts put it, knocked up.

21:05She used to dig a den to give birth in private.

21:09Apart from our cameras, they don't count.

21:13Yes, this is the Arctic, and Mama Bear has to build her own labour ward

21:17in the most inhospitable hospital in the world.

21:27There's no time to nap. You haven't finished yet.

21:30What are you doing?

21:35Oh, I see.

21:38What are you doing?

21:43Oh, I remember. This is the clever bit.

21:47Keen to conserve energy for the months ahead,

21:50she lies down and lets the Arctic winter finish the job,

21:54covering herself in a layer of snow until she disappears completely.

21:59Which isn't hard.

22:01She's white, the snow is white, you know the drill by now.

22:06By November, it's full-on blue-balled, wind-swept winter.

22:14A convenient sunrise later, and it's already February.

22:22And to give us a happy ending, new life appears.

22:27And the pitter-patter of tiny paws can't be heard because of the snow.

22:34But they're there.

22:36Another generation to rough and tumble it out in this Arctic wilderness.

22:45So now we've come full circle.

22:49Full Arctic circle.

22:54We've witnessed the staggering ingenuity of those that live in this shrinking winter wonderland.

23:04And it is shrinking. Definitely. Not probably.

23:10The Arctic is under threat, and it takes a brave person to point that out.

23:16A brave person who will one day be recognised for taking a stand.

23:22No, I don't think I'm going over the top, Tabitha. This is my calling.

23:28The plight of the animal kingdom is what drives us filmmakers to live a nomadic existence.

23:35Chasing these transcendent moments of beauty.

23:40The animal may go extinct, but our film will last as long as humans have eyes.

23:59In preparation for filming in one of the most hostile environments in the world, and bringing you these stunning images,

24:08the round planet team needed to familiarise themselves with the challenges of the landscape.

24:15The team were put through their paces using high-tech simulation technology.

24:23The training was designed to prepare the crew for unexpected surprises out on the tundra.

24:32Yet, despite the best possible equipment, nobody saw the polar bear.

24:38The polar bear was a very small creature.

24:44So let's just say that particular exercise is now under review.

24:53Ah, panini.

24:57Oh, I said without avocado.

25:02Oh, I said without avocado.

25:07Oh, I said without avocado.

25:12Oh, I said without avocado.

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