Episode 1
A Letter From Russia
2016-11-05 • 47 min
Four children investigate the spoon-billed sandpiper's fragile existence. In Tibet, a trainee monk teaches environmental husbandry to nomads. A young girl fights to overcome her deafness.
TV season
2016-11-05
Documentary series exploring the everyday lives of people throughout China, combining personal stories and natural history to create a rarely seen portrait of what life is really like in the world's most populous nation.
Episode 1
2016-11-05 • 47 min
Four children investigate the spoon-billed sandpiper's fragile existence. In Tibet, a trainee monk teaches environmental husbandry to nomads. A young girl fights to overcome her deafness.
Episode 2
2016-11-12 • 47 min
A young monk learns that a new dam threatens the snow leopard's habitat. Four children investigate a mystery illness in their town. A mother stands up to a factory that she believes is causing cancer.
Episode 3
2016-11-19 • 47 min
Novice monk Gama discovers that a huge open cast mine threatens to contaminate the Yellow River. Courageous young mum Ms Wu finds out that a factory has been releasing poisonous hydrogen cyanide.
Episode 4
2016-11-26 • 47 min
Novice monk Gama makes it across the plateau to the largest Tibetan monastery in the world. The four young journalists involve schools across Asia in their quest to save the spoon-billed sandpiper.
Episode 5
2016-12-03 • 47 min
Gama begins his studies at a breathtakingly beautiful monastery. Reporter Xu comes under attack for his battle against electro fishing. And have the young journalists won the competition they entered?