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Station:
BBC One (GB)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2002-09-25
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Donal MacIntyre is blasted, roasted, frozen and soaked on an epic journey to experience the wildest weather the planet can throw at him. In Wild Weather, the tough man of journalism meets his match in a new series exploring how the world's weather works. From a gruelling marathon in the heat of the Sahara to paragliding through the fury of the monsoon, MacIntyre is tested to the limit.Wild Weather explores the elements and hears from scientists investigating how the weather works, and those who are trying to tame it. Using state-of-the-art 3D graphics, this wild ride through the weather is brought terrifyingly alive.
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S1E2 - Wet
Paragliding into the heart of a monsoon rain cloud, Macintyre experiences earth's wildest, wettest weather. He also visits Europe's wettest place, learns the secret of rain-making and experiences the terror of a flash flood.
Air Date: 02 Oct 2002 15:00 (CDT)
S1E3 - Cold
Macintyre is buried alive on a journey south from the North Pole, visits Mount Washington in Greenland - known as the home of the world's worst weather- before climbing cold's most incredible monument, a glacier.
Air Date: 09 Oct 2002 15:00 (CDT)
S1E4 - Heat
Maclntyre follows heat's journey from the steaming jungles of Belize on the Equator, through the blinding sandstorms of the Sahara desert - where he runs the infamous Marathon of the Sands - to the snows of the Arctic.
Air Date: 15 Oct 2002 15:00 (CDT)