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From the icy oceans of our poles to remote coral islands, Sir David Attenborough’s long-term collaborator Colin Butfield has filmed in every ocean habitat on planet earth. Across one hundred years, eight unique ocean habitats, countless intriguing species – and through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science – Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet. Join Butfield as he shares the story of our last great, critical wilderness.

 

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Colin Butfield: Ocean – Earth’s Last Wilderness

Type:Talk

Ilkley Grammar School, Cowpasture Road, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 8TR

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Season (4 Oct 2026)
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Sunday18:15

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