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''Life Story'' is a British natural-history television series with Mike Gunton, Rupert Barrington and Tom Hugh-Jones from the
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on the production team. The six-part series reveals the challenges faced by individual animals at different stages of their lives and was first broadcast on
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in 2014. The series is introduced and narrated by David Attenborough.


Production

The series was announced by the
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on 8 July 2011 with the working title ''Survival'', later changed to ''Life Story''. It is a BBC Television, Discovery Channel and
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co-production and is the first Natural History Unit series to film using ultra high-definition 4K cameras. The series was marketed by BBC Worldwide at the BBC Worldwide Showcase event in 2014. The series has been produced with extensive use of surround sound effects, and with out-of-frame sounds changing with each change of shot; something that is often minimised to avoid distraction but which works well on wildlife material. It is currently broadcast with Dolby 5.1 surround on
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Broadcast


British television

''Life Story''s world premiere took place at Bristol's Cinema de Lux on 14 October 2014, to coincide with the BBC's 80th anniversary in the city. The television broadcast began on 23 October 2014 on
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and BBC One HD. The UK broadcast consisted of six episodes, each of which included a 10-minute
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documentary called ''Life Story Diaries''.


International

The series was mainly broadcast internationally on
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channel, with a few exceptions for some countries. In Canada,
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aired the series on CBC-TV from 11 January 2015. On 6 June 2015, the series began its run on American television on the Discovery network, premiering on the Discovery Channel, and retained David Attenborough's narration from the original British television broadcasts.


Episodes


Merchandise


DVD and Blu-ray

The series was released in the UK as Region 2, two-disc
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(BBCBD0281) box sets by BBC Worldwide on 1 December 2014. In United States, both DVD and Blu-ray were released on 29 March 2016 by
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. As for Canada, both DVD and Blu-ray Disc were released under Bilingual Edition on 10 November 2015. In Australia and New Zealand, DVD and Blu-ray were released by ABC DVD/
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on 8 October 2015.


Books

In the United Kingdom, an accompanying hardcover format was written by Mike Gunton and Rupert Barrington. It was released on 9 October 2014 and published by BBC Books ().


References


External links

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