Walking with Cavemen
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Starring | Suzanne Cave, Ruth Dawes, Peter Elliott, Caroline Noh, and Anthony Taylor |
| Narrated by | Robert Winston in the UK, Alec Baldwin in North America |
| Theme music composer | Alan Parker |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Richard Dale |
| Producer(s) | Nick Green, Mark Hedgecoe, and Peter Oxley |
| Running time | 25 min. |
| Production company(s) | BBC Natural History Unit |
| Distributor | BBC Worldwide |
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| Original network | BBC and Discovery Channel |
| First shown in | 1 April 2003 |
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| Related shows | The Walking with... series |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Walking with Cavemen is a four-part television documentary series about human evolution produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom. It was originally released in April 2003. It was subsequently presented in the United States as a two-part series by the Discovery Channel and its affiliates. There was an accompanying book of the same title.
Like previous Walking with... documentaries, Walking with Cavemen is produced in the style of a nature documentary, featuring a voice-over narrator (Robert Winston in the British release, Alec Baldwin in the North American release) who describes the recreations of the prehistoric past as if they were real. As with the predecessors, this approach necessitated the presentation of speculation as if it were fact, and some of the statements made about the behaviour of the creatures are more open to question than the documentary may indicate. The style is different in UK and US versions, as Robert Winston travels through time to the location of drama taking place, while Alec Balwin remains ever in the present day in a lit room with skulls representative of ancestral hominid species highlighted in each drama.
Each segment takes the form of a short drama featuring a group of the particular hominid in question going about their daily lives (the search for food, protecting territory, and caring for the sick and injured). The intent is to get the human viewer to feel for the creatures being examined, almost to imagine being one of them (a trait that the documentary links to the modern human brain).
The documentary was not produced by the same team as the award-winning Walking with... documentary series, but a completely different one. The original series' director, Tim Haines, was not involved, nor Jasper James or the original production company Impossible Pictures. Walking with Cavemen is technically a spin-off of the original series.
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