For several years I kept a copy of a BBC production that was shown in the early 90’s on the Discovery channel: “The Wonderful World of Dung”. It’s the only video that I would not loan to others in the department–keeping it as a special treat for my students as we wrapped up the year. It’s a fun video that explores the importance of dung in ecosystems, in animal behavior and as an energy source–lot’s of connections. For the past several years I have scoured the internet looking for a legal source so that others could purchase legal copies for presenting to their students. No luck until a request was made to the AP Biology listserv. It seems that one of the AP f0lks has connection in Discovery and made a request to access the show again. If enough folks email discovery with a request, Discovery will either re-show the video or will market it in their store. Here’s the post with instructions:
Hi… so here’s the deal… if you want Discovery Channel to show the video on United Streaming or maybe re-release the video… you’ll need to email them with a request, please send a message to the customer support at Discovery Education at education_info@discovery.com.
Hopefully the deluge of requests will spark a response. Thank you to the 30 teachers who emailed me directly.
Robin Groch
2 responses so far ↓
1 Paula Donham // May 14, 2008 at 10:37 am
I’ve sent in my 2 cents. I’ve been trying to borrow this video from Brad for years - it would be great to have a legitimate copy of it. I hope others make requests so we get Discovery to make it available.
2 mrdcmemories // Aug 10, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I have a good copy of The Wonderful World of Dung”, originally recorded to VHS, as it aired on The Discovery Channel in the ’90s.
Commercials have been removed. The body of the program is complete except for a few seconds at the end of each commercial break. (The person who taped it made the mistake of waiting too long to resume the recording.) The end credits are not complete.
I’ll gladly give a DVD of the show to anyone who requests it at no charge. (I’ll only need a mailing address to send it.)
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