From his emergence in the 1950s
- when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared in the West Coast & became, seemingly
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DEEP JUNGLE is an exploration of the most alien & feared habitat on earth. Starting with man's earliest recorded adventures, Fred Pearce adventures high into the canopy
- home to two-thirds of all the creatures on our planet, many of them never coming down to earth. Even now, new species of animals are being discovered. & Pearce discovers secrets about how evolution works, the intricate links that connect us all, & maybe even clues to where humans came from.

The jungle holds the key to our future foods & medicines, our climate & to our understanding of how life works. At the start of a new millennium Pearce asks why we continue to waste precious time
- & billions of dollars
- looking for signs of life elsewhere in our universe when the greatest range of life-forms that have ever existed lies right here on our doorstep. Today environmentalists say we are on the verge of destroying the last rainforests, & with it the planet's evolutionary crucible, & maybe even its ability to maintain life on Earth. But nature has a way of getting its own back. The Mayans & the people of Angkor went too far in manipulating nature & paid the ultimate price. Their civilisations died & the jungle returned. Nature reclaimed it's own & it may do so again.. .




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These are dark days for England; the Tudor succession hangs precariously in the balance, along with the lives of its people. The wrong religion can all too easily mean a brutal death in a time when the difference between 'faithful' & 'heretic' rests on the monarch alone. With the shadow of the dreaded Inquisition looming across the continent from Spain, one family, lead by two brave men ...

These are dark days for England; the Tudor succession hangs precariously in the balance, along with the lives of its people. The wrong religion can all too easily mean a brutal death in a time when the difference between 'faithful' & 'heretic' rests on the monarch alone. With the shadow of the dreaded Inquisition looming across the continent from Spain, one family, lead by two brave men ...