10,000 YEAR WAR

An AGB Films series for BBC NHU / BBC Worldwide / National Geographic (2x1 hour)

Deep in the heart of Australia, near a town called Alice Springs, lies a sanctuary for orphaned red kangaroos, run by an unlikely ‘mum’ called Brolga - AKA Kangaroo Dundee. This series follows the realisation of Brolga’s dream to build the first wildlife hospital within 1500km of Alice Springs, in the shape of a Kangaroo, naturally!

This natural history human soap hybrid, follows Brolga as he expands operations by opening his doors to a wacky bunch of animals, including a trio of camels, a southern hairy-nosed wombat and three emu chicks, as well as charting the trials an tribulations of building a wildlife hospital.

AGB Films, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit and BBC Features, produced an in depth pilot for a landmark environmental history series, presented by world historian, Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

This is the story of ambition: the human ambition to change nature. It's a radically new approach to history that explores our love-hate relationship with the natural world. We journey to every habitable environment on the planet and show where the balance of power lies between humankind and the rest of nature.

The basic urge to transform the planet is a large part of what makes us human. It's what makes us the most widely dispersed species on earth and the most disaster-prone.

Each episode spans a different environment, picking a path across the wreckage of history and today's ruins in waiting - past and present combining to help us read the future, or maybe the future we can avoid.

It is a tale of triumph: dazzling civilisations laboriously created in defiance of the hostile forces of climate and geography. It is a tale of tragedy: eco-systems wrecked by over exploitation; civilisations in ruins.

To tell our compelling story we introduce a new, witty and controversial voice to television: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto - an historian whose unique and original style has won many prestigious awards including The World History Association Book Prize, awarded by his peers for pioneering a new form of history: environmental history.

REVIEWS

A superb storyteller …
THE INDEPENDENT

He makes history a smart art…
THE TIMES

He is in a class of his own….
THE SPECTATOR

The voice of reason…
THE GUARDIAN

Witty and sharply original…
THE OBSERVER