After Dark
For the first time, cutting-edge camera technology reveals the secrets of Wales’s nocturnal wildlife, from swimming hedgehogs to fishing bats, super moons to comets.
For the first time, the veil of darkness is lifted as cutting-edge technology reveals the secrets of Wales’s nocturnal wildlife. Filmed across the seasons, from the biting cold of winter to sweltering summer nights, a variety of innovative cameras capture wild action between sunrise and sunset. Military-grade long lens thermal cameras, which record heat rather than light, film 20,000 starlings racing to roost under Aberystwyth’s pier and bats hunting insects over Margam Lake. Super-sensitive cameras which film at night in colour reveal the nocturnal secrets of badgers, moths, hedgehogs, toads and owls. And infrared light illuminates 300 lesser horseshoe bats leaving their castle roost. This is Wales like you’ve never seen it before.
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Land of the Wild: After Dark - Trailer
Duration: 00:30
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Wonderful Wales at night
Duration: 02:02
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Why did the toad cross the road?
Duration: 02:47
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Hedgehogs are prickly and picky
Duration: 02:32
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Producer | Peter Fison |
Director | Anne Gallagher |
Executive Producer | James Smith |
Executive Producer | Martha Holmes |
Production Manager | Caryl James |
Narrator | Michael Sheen |
Broadcasts
- Wed 16 Dec 2020 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One Wales & Wales HD only
- Sun 20 Dec 2020 16:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One Wales HD & Wales only
- Sun 4 Apr 2021 17:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Wales HD & Wales only
- Wed 18 Aug 2021 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Wales HD & Wales only
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