Tall & Tiny: Nature’s Extremes – Eden

Eden’s new documentary Tall & Tiny: Nature’s Extremes looks at the very big and the very small living and naturally formed things on Earth

From the giant blue whale feeding off tiny krill, to delicate little hummingbirds and huge harpy eagles, Eden’s one-off documentary Tall & Tiny: Nature’s Extremes travels around the world to capture wildlife at both ends of the size scale.

It begins in the Great Barrier Reef with minute seahorses hiding in the coral, before leaping to the Amazon rainforest to capture a family of giant river otters and the largest rodent in the world, the capybara.

Dik-diks Tall & Tiny: Nature’s Extremes — Dik-diks, so-called because of the noise they make, in Eden’s Tall & Tiny: Nature’s Extremes

In Africa, as ostriches two-and-a-half metres tall spirit across the sand, a lofty giraffe stretches his magnificent neck, while tiny antelope called dik-diks hang out with a herd of elephants.

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TV Times rating: ***

Joanne Lowles has been writing about TV since 2002. After graduating from Cardiff University with a Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism, she worked for All About Soap magazine covering the ups and downs of life on the cobbles, the square and the Dales.

Next came nearly 10 years at TV Times magazine as a writer and then deputy features editor. Here she spent many happy days interviewing the biggest names in entertainment and visiting the sets of some of our most popular shows including Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife and Strictly Come Dancing.

With a love of nature and wildlife she’s also interviewed the leading experts in this area including David Attenborough, Chris Packham and Steve Backshall. She’s also travelled the world visiting Mongolia, Canada and South Africa to see how the best in the business make the most brilliant natural history documentaries.

Freelance since 2013, she is now is a digital writer and editor for What to Watch, previews the best on the box for TV Times mag each week and loves being constantly surprised, entertained and informed by the amazing TV that she is lucky enough to watch.