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[#122844] Written by: artistharry [15/11/09, 10:42]
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Last Chance to See

Join Britain\'s best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in the footsteps of his
great friend, the late writer Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy), along with
zoologist Mark Carwardine, to remote parts in search of some of the rarest and most threatened
animals on Earth.

Twenty years ago Carwardine teamed up with Adams and embarked on a groundbreaking expedition in
search of some of the world\'s most endangered animals. This time, he is joined by Stephen Fry to see
how all those animals have been faring in the years since and which, if any, survived.

In this programme we follow the duo on six separate journeys which take them from the steamy jungles
of the Amazon to the ice-covered mountain tops of New Zealand and from the edge of a war zone in
Central Africa to a sub-tropical paradise in the North Pacific. Along the way, they search for some
of the weirdest, most remarkable and most troubled creatures on earth: a large, black, sleepy animal
easily mistaken for an unusually listless mudbank, a parrot with a song like an unreleased
collection of Pink Floyd studio outtakes, a rhino with square lips, a dragon with deadly saliva, an
animal roughly the length of a Boeing 737 and the creature most likely to emerge from the cargo
doors of a spaceship.

Last Chance to See is a unique insight into the disappearing world around us, and this is their
hilarious, entertaining, informative and thought-provoking adventure.
Episode 1
Amazonian Manatee Following in the footsteps of author Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry joins zoologist
Mark Carwardine to find some of the most endangered animals on the planet, beginning with the
Amazonian manatee. With just a few thousand remaining, the duo search for the creatures by following
the pink dolphin - said to be the key to finding the `ghosts of the Amazon\' - before the trip takes
a dramatic turn