Hidden Kingdoms

Hidden Kingdoms
Series title over a desert night sky
Also known asMini Monsters (Discovery Channel Version)
GenreFactual
Narrated byStephen Fry
Peter Dinklage (US version)
ComposerBen Foster
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes3 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersMike Gunton (Original Version)
Robert Zakin (Discovery Channel Version)
Producers
  • Mark Brownlow (Original Version)
  • John Cavanagh (Discovery Channel Version)
  • Simon Bell (episode 1)
  • Verity White (episode 2)
  • Gavin Maxwell (episode 3)
EditorStuart Napier (episode 1)
Running time60 minutes
Production companiesBBC Natural History Unit
Discovery Channel
RTL Group
France Télévisions
CCTV-9
R.T.I S.p.A
Original release
Network
Release16 January (2014-01-16) –
30 January 2014 (2014-01-30)
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Hidden Kingdoms is a British documentary television series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 16 January 2014. The three-part series is narrated by Stephen Fry and shows how animals experience the world from their perspective.[1][2] Animals shown include a chipmunk, dung beetle, Rufous elephant shrew and treeshrew, and Japanese rhinoceros beetle.[3]

In United States, the series was shown under the alternative title Mini Monsters, which aired at Discovery Channel on 31 May 2014.[4]

  1. ^ "Fry to narrate Hidden Kingdoms". Belfast Telegraph. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Stephen Fry to be the voice of new BBC natural history show". Radio Times. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Stephen Fry to narrate BBC One Natural History Unit series Hidden Kingdoms". BBC. 21 November 2013. Archived from the original on 30 November 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Mini Monsters: About the Show". Discovery Channel. Retrieved 23 February 2015.