16 October 2013. Jane Goodall.
The first film/documentary of a series of four devoted to Planet Earth and the Natural World. J Goodall was born in 1934, graduated in Cambridge (Newnham College) and spent over 45 years of her subsequent life studying the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park (Tanzania). In the process she and fellow scientist Dian Fossey who researched extensively on the social life of gorillas, eevolutionised our understanding of the community behaviour of non human primates. She is a leading figure on issues of conservation and animal welfare.
