Humpback Whales: A Detective Story
Nature documentary. Tom Mustill returns to California to find out whether the humpback whale that nearly killed him three years earlier was deliberately trying to hurt him.
On 12 September 2015, a 30-ton humpback whale breached and landed on Tom Mustill and his friend Charlotte Kinloch as they paddled a sea kayak in Monterey Bay, California. Incredibly, both survived the incident, but the near-death experience haunted documentary maker Tom and left him wondering if the whale was deliberately trying to hurt them. To find the answer, Tom returned to California in 2018 to investigate.
Tom meets those who have survived similar hair-raising encounters and the experts who know the whales best. What he discovers raises far bigger questions, not just about what happened that day but also about our relationship with whales and their future alongside us.
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Clips
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Whales Underwater
Duration: 01:13
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Whales in Trouble
Duration: 01:38
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Whale Tails
Duration: 01:39
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Whale 101
Duration: 01:39
Music Played
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Mulatu Astatke
Yegelle Tezeta
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Jonsi & Alex, Riceboy Sleeps
Boy 1904
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KAYTRANADA
Weight Off
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Invisible Minds
Yo Mae Leh
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Nils Frahm
Kaleidoscope
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Roots Manuva
All Things
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The Cinematic Orchestra
All Things To All Men (feat. Roots Manuva)
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The Swingle Singers
Largo [Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 In F Minor Bwv 1056]
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Jamie xx
Obvs
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Jungle
Busy Earnin'
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Anna Meredith
Nautilus
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Air
Alone in Kyoto
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George FitzGerald & Lil Silva
Roll Back
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Director | Tom Mustill |
Editor | Sabrina Burnard |
Line Producer | Cherry Dorrett |
Series Editor | Roger Webb |
Series Producer | Holly Spearing |
Production Company | Gripping Films Limited |
Broadcasts
- Fri 8 Feb 2019 21:00
- Sat 9 Feb 2019 20:00
- Sat 9 Mar 2019 02:10麻豆社 Two except Scotland
- Tue 16 Jul 2019 19:00麻豆社 Two except Scotland
- Sat 29 Feb 2020 17:30麻豆社 Two Wales & Wales HD only
- Sat 29 Feb 2020 18:30麻豆社 Two HD & England only
- Sun 6 Mar 2022 16:15麻豆社 Two England & HD only
- Thu 8 Feb 2024 16:15麻豆社 Two except Scotland