Inside Life

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{{Infobox television

| image = Inside life dvd.jpg

| alt = Inside Life DVD cover

| caption = Region 2 DVD cover art

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| genre = Nature documentary
Children's television

| writer =

| director =

| presenter =

| narrated = Barney Harwood

| composer =

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| num_episodes = 10

| executive_producer = Wendy Darke

| producer = Scott Alexander
Doug MacKay-Hope
Vanessa Coates

| location =

| runtime = 30 minutes

| company = BBC Natural History Unit

| channel = CBBC

| first_aired = {{start date|2009|10|13|df=yes}}

| last_aired = {{end date|2009|12|15|df=yes}}

| related = Life

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Inside Life is a BBC nature documentary series for children's television which aired on the CBBC Channel in autumn 2009. It is a companion to the BBC Natural History Unit's series, Life, which looks at the extraordinary lengths to which animals and plants go in order to survive and reproduce. The aim of Inside Life is to present this information in a way that is simple for children to understand. Each of the ten Inside Life programmes follows a lucky child as they accompany the Life filmmakers on expeditions around the world with the aim of capturing groundbreaking wildlife footage. The series is aimed at 7-9 year olds.

In each 30-minute programme, the presenter (called an Inside Life "agent") first sets out on a fact-finding assignment in the UK to discover more about the animal they will be filming, before joining the Natural History Unit's expedition team to try to film the species in the wild.{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/09_september/18/inside.shtml | title=Inside Life Press Release, by BBC}}

A hardback book, Inside Life by Doug Hope and Vanessa Coates was published 2 October 2009 to accompany the series. It is presented in the style of a scrapbook and gives an insight into the programme's creation, as well as providing educational material about the animals featured in the series.{{cite book | title=Inside Life (hardcover), by Doug Hope and Vanessa Coates| id={{ASIN|038561716X|country=uk}}}}

A 2-disc DVD box set of the television series was released by 2Entertain on 30 November 2009.{{cite web | url=http://www.bbcshop.com/Science+Nature/Inside-Life-DVD/invt/bbcdvd3069 | title=Inside Life DVD, by 2Entertain}}

Episodes

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|EpisodeNumber=1

|Title=Polar Bears

|DirectedBy= Vanessa Coates

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|10|13|df=y}}

|ShortSummary= Louise is sent to the freezing state of Alaska to help film some wild polar bears.

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|EpisodeNumber=2

|Title=Komodo Dragons

|DirectedBy=Doug Mackay-Hope

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|10|20|df=y}}

|ShortSummary= Isobel travels to Komodo to help the Life team film the Komodo dragon.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=3

|Title=Gibbons

|DirectedBy=Vanessa Coates

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|10|27|df=y}}

|ShortSummary= Bryony scales dizzying heights to help the Life team film gibbons in the treetops of Thailand.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=4

|Title=Garter Snakes

|DirectedBy=Scott Alexander

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|11|3|df=y}}

|ShortSummary= Matthew travels to Canada to get up close and personal with garter snakes.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=5

|Title=Frigate Birds

|DirectedBy=Jerry Short

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|11|10|df=y}}

|ShortSummary= Gregory takes to the skies as he assists the Life in filming frigate birds.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=6

|Title=Fish Frenzy

|DirectedBy=TBC

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|11|17|df=y}}

|ShortSummary=Sam heads to Patagonia in hope of filming a huge underwater bait ball.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=7

|Title=Tigers

|DirectedBy=TBC

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|11|24|df=y}}

|ShortSummary= Scarlett travels to India to film tigers and to find out just how alive the rainforest really is.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=8

|Title=Rock Climbing Fish

|DirectedBy=TBC

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|12|1|df=y}}

|ShortSummary= Jacob heads to Hawaii to capture some footage of the waterfall climbing Gobies.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=9

|Title=Bahamas Reef

|DirectedBy=TBC

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|12|8|df=y}}

|ShortSummary=James dives down in the Bahamas to see just what it takes to create a coral reef.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=10

|Title=Madagascar Lemurs

|DirectedBy=TBC

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|12|15|df=y}}

|ShortSummary=Billy flies to Madagascar to help the Life film the ring tailed lemurs.

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References

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