I'm not sure if this will be available to view outside the UK (although friends in Aus tell me that some other material on those pages can be viewed there), but the BBC Archive website now features all six episodes of the earliest Attenborough series to survive intact. Link below: BBC - Archive - David Attenborough: Zoo Quest for a Dragon - Seeking the Komodo dragon in Indonesia
Maybe try again, it was working for me today, and I wouldn't think that the BBC would allow it to be seen in Palmy and not Christchurch.
ah excellent. Good thing you posted that or I wouldn't have bothered rechecking. Have only watched the first episode so far but very cool. I've had the book for years but I've only ever seen a couple of short clips from the series itself. I loved the bit where David gets off the boat and sees an old man who he says can carry their gear, and then proceeds to unload case after case from the boat -- and then when they set off, the Dayaks are loaded up with piles of bags and the white men aren't carrying a blessed thing! The good old days were awesome!
I watched the first two episodes in Palmy, but now I have got round to watching the rest, only to find that they 'are not available in my area', sigh.
I just tried "Zoo Quest Attenborough" on youtube and while the dragon one isn't there, the top two videos in the search results are sections from the Paraguay series (I haven't watched them yet)
It's a way of connecting to the internet via another server which hides your IP address and therefore may let you get around restrictions like this, as the BBC site won't recognise that you are in another country. I'm not very technical so I can't give you a step by step guide, but google/youtube should give you plenty of instructions.
The proxy (discussed here: http://www.zoochat.com/183/upcoming-documentary-sumatran-tigers-281152/) is working well. I have now watched the first four episodes, they are so cool. Although some of the things David does would not be recieved particularly well today, notably poking a python repeatedly with a stick, raiding a sea turtle nest to make 88 scrambled eggs, and just generally collecting wild animals for zoos. But it is extremely interesting, and as well as showcasing Indonesian wildlife and way of life, it provides insight into the British people of the time, their interests and attitudes towards animals and people. Highly recommended.
I haven't rewatched yet, but I also liked the bit where during one of the studio bits David and the guy from the zoo were discussing a flying fox (fruit bat) that they were showing for the camera, and the zoo guy was saying that they barely ever fly and David was saying that he's seen them in Indonesia flying great distances, and the zoo guy (who had probably never left England before) was basically telling David he was wrong. Classic.
