Radio Times

This issue of the "Radio Times" weekly radio and television listings magazine contains an article entitled "Ghosts at the End of the Earth" about the lemurs of Madagascar. This single-page article (p. 25) is the only colour page in the magazine and features four colour photographs. It was published to coincide with the transmission of "The World About Us: Ghosts at the End of the Earth: A New Quest for Lemurs" on BBC2 (in Colour) on 31 August 1969 at 7:25pm, a 50-minute natural history documentary narrated by David Attenborough.

A series of films from all over the world about our astonishing planet and the creatures that live on it.

Ghosts at the End of the Earth: A New Quest for Lemurs

Narrated by David Attenborough

Lemurs are animals unique to Madagascar. They have been isolated on this vast island off the south-east coast of Africa for twenty million years. Shy, gentle, and in some cases beautiful creatures, they have in time been hunted by the Malagasy people as food and feared as reincarnations of the dead. An Oxford University Expedition has completed a two-month field study and for the first time a great deal of lemur behaviour has been recorded on film.

Photographed and directed by Guy Blanchard. Produced by Barry Paine from the South and West.

See colour feature on page 25.

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