Bruce Parry Season

Weekdays, 8pm to 11pm, from Monday 21st June

Thanks to his fearless travels into the heart of some of the world’s most extreme environments and spending time with some of the world’s most ancient civilisations, Bruce Parry has become a broadcasting legend within the space of a decade.

After his career in the army – Bruce became the Royal Marines’ youngest ever Physical and Sports Officer, and went on to head up British Commando Training – his innate sense of adventure has led him to an award-winning broadcasting career that has seen him travel the world.

And it’s this extraordinary broadcasting career that Eden pays tribute to, in a season featuring Bruce’s best-loved series.

Channel premiere series Bruce Parry’s Amazon sees Bruce embark on an epic journey to discover the stories of the people who live along the world’s greatest river. Travelling over 6,000 km by foot, light aircraft and boat, he meets with tribes, coca growers, loggers and illegal miners all to get a flavour of life along South America’s connecting artery.

He starts his journey at the river’s source – in the High Andes – and follows it down into Peru’s dangerous cocaine producing valleys and on to visit the Ashaninka tribe.

Elsewhere, in the three series of Tribe, Bruce travels to some of the world’s most remote areas to live with indigenous people. During these extraordinary series, he attempts to ingratiate himself with his hosts, participating in a variety of local traditions and customs, in a bid to gain acceptance from some of the most isolated people on the planet.

Whether it’s spending time with the fearsome warriors of the Adi people in the Himalayas and taking part in stick fighting rituals with the Suri tribe in Ethiopia, or exploring cannibalism with the Kombai in Papua New Guinea and taking hallucinogens with the Babongo tribe of the Gabon, this landmark series uncovers ways of life that are alien to the western world and, sadly, disappearing fast.

Finally, in Blizzard: Race To The Pole, Bruce heads up a British team that goes head-to-head with Norwegian explorer Rune Gjeldnes in a recreation of the fateful race to the South Pole undertaken by Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott in 1911. Will 100 years of polar expedition make the race any easier?

Wildest Africa UK Premiere

Weekdays, 8pm (from Tuesday 1st June)

Eden’s Out Of Africa Season – including stunning series like Wild Africa, The Secret Life Of Elephants, Equator and Tropic Of Capricorn – celebrates the continent’s majestic scale, its vibrant culture and incredible wildlife. At the heart of the season is UK premiere documentary Wildest Africa, which showcases the land’s epic natural spectacles and staggering beauty that are truly wild at heart.

This iconic and landmark series is a celebration of Africa’s most spectacular locations, showcasing the full African experience. It journeys from the cradle of human civilisation to the most awe-inspiring natural wonders of the world by going on safari to see the continent’s Big Five – lion, elephant, leopard, black rhino, white rhino and Cape buffalo.

Wildest Africa discovers their secret locations, their cultural and wildlife issues, as well as how the natural wonders they live in are being threatened and what is being done to overcome these environmental pressures.

With a cinematic scope to rival the land it films, Wildest Africacaptures the breathtaking sceneries, stunning details and rich cultures that exist all over Africa.

British Wildlife Season

Weekdays, 6pm, from Monday 21st June

Throughout the summer, Eden goes on the road to explore Great Britain’s vibrant and diverse wildlife population. From urban areas to celebrated countryside, from the hedgerows of middle England to the wetlands of the East, Eden’s British Wildlife Season is packed with our winged, webbed, scaly and hairy co-inhabitants.

With the season continuing into June, things kick off with Wild Thing I Love You.

Bill Bailey leads a team of experts to rescue some of the UK’s most vulnerable wildlife by engineering solutions to help them, as well as offering an accessible and unique insight into the lives of the animals. The ten-part series starts with Bill and the team heading off to the New Forest, and the busy A35, which is a magnet for local deer.

With badger rescue in Staffordshire, helping adders in Cumbria and lending a hand to get a group of mischievous pine martins out of the way of the local community in Northern Ireland, Wild Thing I Love You makes sure wildlife and the human community can live together peacefully.

Amazing Planet UK Premiere

Tuesday 6th to Thursday 8th July, 9pm

The Earth is vibrant in colour and motion, startling in its variety of shapes and textures, and awe-inspiring in its grace and power. But many of the Earth’s most spectacular conjuring tricks unfold in a timeframe that is imperceptible to the human eye.

This stunning UK premiere documentary series has teamed up with NASA and the US Geological Survey to create a 4-D planet Earth, an eye-popping CGI time machine that makes it possible to see in seconds what took eons to create.

The series starts by examining our oceans, and asks how they were created and how they have managed to survive. From the jaw-dropping beauty of the coral reefs to the deepest depths of the Mariana Trench, Amazing Planet looks at how the underwater world can produce some of the wildest conditions on Earth.

With amazing footage of the bumper-car antics of continents; ice ages pulsing out of the poles and back again; the Himalayas surging upwards; the march of sand dunes swallowing and then uncovering African villages, Amazing Planet takes a fresh and revealing look at planet Earth.