• Question: What programmes on tv do u think is most related to your job?

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    Asked by deboraheg to Clare, Dave, Glo, Ozge, Sean on 16 Jun 2011.
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      Dave Sproson answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I guess some of the closest would be the BBC documentaries presented by Iain Stewart, such as Earth: The Power of the Planet, The Climate Wars, and How the Earth Made Us. These are fairly recent, but aren’t on at the moment.

      Also, when the film ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ came out, I was working on how the thermohaline circulation (sometimes, wrongly, called the Gulf Stream) might ‘shut down’. Of course, that film was so unrealistic that it doesn’t really count!!

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      Gloeta Massie answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Oh – that’s hard for me to answer since I don’t have much time to watch tv. Still – I’d say that my job is a combination of MegaShark vs. GiantOctopus, (http://youtu.be/Fa7ck5mcd1o), The Blue Planet, Monster Bug Wars, and Mystery Science Theater 2000 – with a little Master Chef and the Amazing Race thrown in.

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      Clare Woulds answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      The Blue Planet is the best!

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      Ozge Ozkaya answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I think any Attenborough documentary is really great. Things like horizon are also good and sometimes controversial.

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      Sean Clement answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Probably The Blue Planet, Planet Earth on the wildlife side.

      There’s a documentary that’s going to be aired on the BBC either laster this year or early next called ‘Indian Ocean’ It’s by Simon Reeve who is the man who made the Equator and Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn TV series. It will be very relevant to my job because it was filmed in the village I was living in whilst I was there! I won’t be in it but my Dog made it onto film… Sleeping as usual!

      It’s all about the work that we do in Madagascar and the importance of the sea to the Vezo, who are the people that live in the villages up and down the coast of the southwest. He filmed a lot of fishing and all about the various projects that Blue Ventures (the people I work for) carry out in the region. A quick google tells me it’ll be out in 2012 so look out for it! Thanks Deborah!

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