It explores a successful example of artistic fusion where Eastern culture meets Western movement. As we follow the Chrissie Parrott Dance Company’s performances in Surabaya we discover some of the inspiration for their movement – the magical trance dance and the symbolic mask dance as well as the landscape and religion. And it examines the link between culture and commerce and explores directions for the future.

The Bottle Nosed Dolphins of Koombana Bay have been studied by Steve Honnor for the last seven years. Such is his familiarity with these remarkable mammals that they allow him to witness events rarely seen before. As a result we are treated to a fascinating day in the life of a dolphin pod. A young male, “Finky”, is making his first tentative steps towards the opposite sex but with limited success. No doubt his technique will improve with age. The contrast between Finky’s cute attempts and that of the fully grown male is made stark when we witness the violence of a charged up mating session.

Sadly the morality rate of dolphin calves is quite high. The female goes through an intense mourning period, often carrying around her dead calf until it disintegrates. In this weakened state she is extremely vulnerable to predators despite the circle of protection formed by the pod. Steve will occasionally intervene, removing the dead calf so that its mother can regain her strength more rapidly and concentrate on survival.

Despite the dramas of life, dolphins remain one of the most social wild animal species on earth. The image of their lives being one of carefree existence is only part of the picture. Dolphin days are actually highly structured revolving around a routine of work, rest and play just like our own. When the conditions are right though they like nothing better than a good surf and the film captures a group performance of spectacular energy.

What is unusual about the dolphins of Koombana Bay is that they are, for now, happy to live in an area that is highly settled, sharing the waters with commercial shipping and pleasure craft. The ever encroaching presence of human activity will nevertheless take its toll on these animals unless some action is taken. Thanks to the research untaken by Steve Honnor and the Dolphin Discovery Centre, the dolphins habits are now well understand and strategies are being untaken by the people of Koombana Bay to ensure the relationship between humans and animals continues to be one of harmony.

Silent Legacy is Harry’s tale of searching for his identity. It’s a journey that takes us along the Nullarbor and up into the Great Victorian Desert – the land of a great Australian tragedy – the atomic testing at Maralinga.

Silent Legacy is one story of a whole generation of people who lived in an era of social upheaval. A generation who today no longer possess an identity.

Kinship is the basis for all Indigenous relationships and is put in place when Harry finally meets family for the first time.

Sissy takes you behind the scenes to give a rare insight into a sub culture that has created its own space within the gay culture, and it explores the bond that sets the black ‘sisterhood’ apart from the white gays. Sissy is an expression of gay black identity: “We are glamorous, we are here and we are queer”.

Within the last 200 years, Peron, like much of Australia, has undergone a transformation with the arrival of European settlers. Land clearance, farming, and the introduction of a host of feral animals – foxes, cats, goats and rabbits – all resulted in catastrophic change. Some native species were lost forever. Others, like the marsupial bilby hung on in isolated pockets.

On the Peron Peninsular, help is at hand. The bilby is being assisted by government and volunteers to return to its former territory. An electric fence now seals the peninsular off from the rest of the continent. Inside, Project Eden utilises the latest in biological and technological eradication techniques to remove the ferals from within.

Meanwhile in ‘safe houses’, young natives are being reared. June Butcher, retired nurse, runs a captive bilby colony on the out-skirts of Perth. With the help of cameras that see in the dark of the bilby burrow, she witnesses, for the first time ever, the remarkable life cycle of this nocturnal marsupial destined for release into the wild.

However,the battle of the ferals begin to outwit the Project Eden team. With the fox all but eliminated, the cat now dominates the peninsular. A prolific breeder, its numbers soar to un-precedented levels. This unforeseen problem challenges the team’s ingenuity to the limit.

As the day of the bilby release draws closer, will the peninsular provide the promised haven for the bilbies to safely Return to Eden?

Crayfish, by and large, lead lazy uneventful lives at the bottom of the sea – so the majority of us believe. But this is not the case off the coast of Western Australia. On the sandy bottom of the Indian Ocean, hundreds of thousands of Crayfish are on the move. Every Summer they march, crossing great distances, for reasons known only to themselves. For decades, fisherfolk have followed the crays out to sea, living precariously perched on a group of limestone rocks near to their catch. They puzzle over the strange behaviours of their quarry, and profit by second-guessing the direction of their migrations. From this remote outpost come tales of enduring cultural traditions – a church built by the Italians, a sauna by the Finns and a pub by the Australians – and here they stay ‘millionaires in tin huts’ until the season closes.

Lobster fan-fair and festivity heralds the annual Blessing of the Fleet. Fisher-Folk nod at the patron saints as the boats are blessed with great aplomb and the Lobsters wished well. As the leggy crustaceans get down to the business of mating, fighting, giving birth and leaving home, the human hunt begins, amid the cheery chatter of Lobster Tales.

Scientist Tony Lynam from Bronx Zoo’s Wildlife Conservation Society, has come to Khao Yai National Park, central Thailand, to work out exactly how many tigers are left. Thailand is the heart of the Indochinese tiger’s habitat – but of the world’s remaining 5,000 wild tigers, possibly less than 300 remain. Tony sets cameras in isolated areas of forest and waits for tigers to reveal themselves. After three years, he has evidence of people, elephants, deer, wild-dogs, macaques, leopards and a single, large, male tiger. He has also found the prints of one smaller tiger. But with evidence of only two living tigers he does not lose heart. This is the incentive to work harder and faster at creating sanctuaries for whatever remains of wild tigers.

Tony believes the only way to do this is to get people out of the forest. In Khao Yai there are around 500 poachers working daily in the jungle. Thousands more rely on the riches which these poachers extract from the park. Many of these villagers once owned the land which was seized to create the park. They were never compensated for the loss of their land and have no alternative means of survival. Meanwhile, some of the world’s last Indochinese tigers exist in such low numbers they appear to have stopped reproducing. Kuman Prachobchan feeds his three children by poaching. He, and all his neighbours, have no education beyond their expert understanding of the forest. They take bag loads of the exquisitely scented ‘aloewood’ which sells for $900US a kilo. They also set snares and hunt to feed themselves as they work. The greatest and rarest prize for all is a tiger – worth its equivalent weight in cocaine.

Undercover agent and environmentalist, Steve Galster, is closing in on Kuman and his Bangkok dealers. There is no doubt that for both the tiger and the people of Khao Yai National Park, major changes are about to happen. For Kuman and his family, saving the tiger could be disastrous. Eye of the Tiger tells the story of modern conservation challenging ancient traditions. It explores the complexities involved in preserving a magnificent cat and the dwindling forest on which it relies. From the dense forests of Khao Yai to the bustling streets of Bangkok, we meet the people who all have an interest in the tiger. And watch how the people who most threaten the tiger, can become their most important defenders.

Robyn held asbestos sheets for Peter while he cut them. In doing so, she inhaled a microscopic time bomb – fibres of asbestos that sat undetected in her lungs for twenty-seven years.

Like thousands of Australians, Robyn discovers that an innocent renovation has led her to a death sentence. The asbestos fibres have created an incurable cancer that kills its victim within an average of nine months – she has mesothelioma, the most virulent asbestos disease. Robyn and Peter Unger discover that asbestos manufacturer James Hardie had allowed decades to pass before they warned consumers that their lucrative building product was killing people. Knowing this, and that she is only at the very beginning of Australia’s peak in asbestos deaths, Robyn and Peter agree to document the last months they have together.

This is an inspiring personal story of devotion, friendship, loss and the capacity to carry on. Through the Unger family, we discover an epidemic, which has decimated an industry, and is now beginning its journey through our suburbs.