Our Planet
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Our Planet is an interactive environmental centre in St Lucia in the West Indies. Our Planet uses highly advanced media (holograms, lasershows, large touchscreens, interactive floors and globes, etc) to entertain and educate its visitors. Our Planet is also pioneering a new development model. As an environmental social enterprise it uses capitalistic means (ticket sales) to generate funding for philanthropic ends (the environment) and as a self-financing model intends to replicate to other Caribbean areas.
"Our Planet" is also a television
series shown on the CBeebies
channel. It features clips of animals with a common theme, for example animals who jump. The first series was narrated by Andrew Sachs
, famous for playing Manuel in Fawlty Towers
. The second series, broadcast in 2006 was narrated by Simon Davies
who also presented Tikkabilla
. It also shows clips of the same children used in Higgledy House, also filmed in Bristol.
"Our Planet" is also a television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
series shown on the CBeebies
CBeebies
CBeebies is the brand used by the BBC for programming aimed at children 6 years and under. It is used as a themed strand in the UK on terrestrial television, as a separate free-to-air domestic British channel and used for international varients supported by advertising, subscription or both...
channel. It features clips of animals with a common theme, for example animals who jump. The first series was narrated by Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs is a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayals of Manuel in Fawlty Towers, a role for which he was BAFTA-nominated, and Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street.-Early life:Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Katharina , a...
, famous for playing Manuel in Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers
Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Twelve television program episodes were produced . The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom played major characters...
. The second series, broadcast in 2006 was narrated by Simon Davies
Simon Davies (British TV presenter)
- Biography :Simon Davies is from Cardiff, South Wales. He presented the BBC television programme Tikkabilla, has been on Corners television series as himself, and narrated the second series of Our Planet shown on CBeebies in 2006....
who also presented Tikkabilla
Tikkabilla
Tikkabilla is a UK children's television programme, shown on BBC1, BBC2 and on the CBeebies channel.The programme aims to educate pre-school children in an entertaining manner...
. It also shows clips of the same children used in Higgledy House, also filmed in Bristol.