REEP - What's On - TV & Radio Listings

Saturday 28 August

Nature's Great Events

7:00pm

The Great Salmon Run. David Attenborough describes the annual return made by half a billion Pacific salmon to the rivers of Canada and Alaska where they were born - and where bears hungrily await them. Every year, the fish travel up to 20,000 miles to spawn and die, swimming upstream and leaping over giant waterfalls as part of an extraordinary natural history event that helps sustain the entire ecosystem.

Sunday 29 August

Living World

6:35am

Harbour Seals. Lionel Kelleway visits Loch Fleet in Scotland, where he watches harbour seals pupping on a sandbank. He also meets Line Cordes, a PhD student who has been observing the animals for four years and can now identify each individual seal by the markings on its face.

A Guide to Coastal Birds

2:45pm

Sea Cliffs. On the Devonshire coast, Brett Westwood is joined by bird watcher Stephen Moss and wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson to identify more of the birds to be found around the British coastline. This time they look at cliffs birds such as the fulmar, the kittiwake, the guillemot and the razorbill.

Countryfile

7:00pm

Adam Henson and Ellie Harrison visit the Shropshire town of Ludlow to mark the 10th anniversary of its farmers' market. They explore the history of these markets in the UK, and look back at an archive report from the 1990s, when John Craven went to Los Angeles to report on what was then a new trend in America. Adam also takes on a local farmer in a competition to cook the tastiest sausage, and the presenters recap some of the food-related items the show has covered in the past year.

Mountain Gorilla

8:00pm

Last Stand of the Silverback King. Titus the gorilla king faces the biggest challenge of his life. Although he's lived longer and sired more offspring than any other known gorilla, his time as a great leader may be coming to an end as a power struggle looms with his son Rano. But Titus has a little orphan in his care - and both their lives hang in the balance. In Uganda, young silverback Marembo is back with his raging hormones and desire to be dominant.

Monday 30 August

Uncertain Climate

9:00am

Roger Harrabin has reported on the climate for almost 30 years, but last November, when he worked on the 'Climategate' story, he started to have doubts about the real science of climate change. Public trust in climate science looked assured as nations moved towards the climate summit in Copenhagen, but apparently now less than half of the British population accepts that humans are responsible for changing the climate - the fundamental premise of many Government policies. What happened to cause this swing in public sentiment? At this crucial moment in global climate policy-making, Harrabin talks to seminal figures in the climate change debate including Tony Blair, Nigel Lawson, Crispin Tickell and Steve McIntyre.

Panorama

8:30pm

Britain's Disappearing Wildlife. The UK's rich mixture of wild animals is decreasing sharply, from butterflies and bees to skylarks and red squirrels. Two international targets, aimed at halting the decline in some of Britain's native species, have not been met. Does this mean the future of our food supply could also be under threat?

Tuesday 31 August

Saving Species

11:00am

New series. Brett Westwood hears stories from members of the public about swifts, discussing how they are often seen as part of the landscape of towns and cities. He also follows the birds on their migration south to Africa, discovering how well they would fit into the environments of countries they pass through on their journey.

Wednesday 1 September

Costing the Earth

9:00pm

Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster. Bad weather shouldn't cause 1,800 deaths in the world's richest country. Five years on from Hurricane Katrina, Tom Heap visits New Orleans to investigate the real reasons for the high death toll. It may be classified as the result of a natural disaster, but the famously fractious locals agree on one thing - nature had nothing to do with it.

Thursday 2 September

Natural World

7:00pm

Africa's Dragon Mountain. An intimate portrait of South Africa's spectacular Dragon Mountains, where giant antelope, bone-cracking vultures and raucous baboons all struggle to survive in its extreme landscape. The camera follows cats and jackals as they patrol the slopes, watching for any weakness that can be exploited in their hunt, while the eland antelope face constant challenges from birth - they must climb high to find food, but on the way face wildfires, freezing rain and starvation in a land that is as beautiful as it can be brutal.