Tropical Cop Tales

A mad cannibal is tearing scalps from the island's skulls. And deep-frying them. And serving them as delicious crudités. He. Must. Be. Stopped.

Bright blue starfish, crimson feather stars, shell-less snails in designs as extravagant as any Paris fashion show, shrimps of every colour, others that are transparent - just a sample of the animal wonders to be found in a small area of the Great Barrier Reef.

Dame Edith Ezold hosts the Big Night In, the one night off of the year for the Tropical Cops. But is Dame Edith Ezold really the real Dame Edith Ezold? And what makes her Hibiscus Chicken Kebabs so deelushus?

Fish occur in populations of billions and there are over 30,000 species, more than in any other group of backboned animals. The development of the backbone was a crucial advance in evolution -and it probably came from a most unlikely source, a little jelly-like creature called a sea squirt.

The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us. David Attenborough examines the uses and advantages of birds' unique possession - the feather. Man has yet to invent anything that, weight for weight, is as strong as the feather. Feathers are insulators, they provide the surface of the most perfect aerofoils known - bird's wings. Plus they play a central role in courtship.