Dolly: The Sheep That Changed The World; Welcome to Earth; Walking with Monica Galetti

“The programme explained the science but kept it simple, with the contributors adding colour…The team, who worked at the Roslin Institute, painted an entertaining picture of their working conditions…The programme showed, the Roslin team were the real stars.”
Anita Singh, The Telegraph

 “This delightful BBC Scotland documentary was full of such characterful details…Misguided concerns over animal welfare aside, the film reminded us of the ethical worries about potential human cloning that fuelled TV discussion programmes at the time. But Dolly’s legacy – the hope for an era of “four-legged drug factories” to treat genetic diseases – is still largely unfulfilled, although it did boost the fruitful area of stem-cell research. Dolly herself died young, overweight from being fed treats by her admirers, and now resides, stuffed by taxidermists, on a plinth at the National Museum of Scotland. But this colourful documentary was more a celebration of the painstaking brains behind this woolly icon.” 
Gerard Gilbert, The i

“The unexpectedly hilarious documentary was crammed full of bad gags from the labs. Even her name was a joke — For all the pioneering science that led to cloning, Roslin Institute was an endearingly eccentric establishment.” 
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“Full of such colour, the programme was like a New Scientist article brought to life, helped by some on-the-nose period pop hits. A middle third explaining cell biology was digestible enough, but the programme was most fun when showing the Dolly media frenzy”
James Jackson, The Times

“Some of it is really quite boring – you have to be seriously interested in film-making to care that much about cameras. It’s why I always skip that bit at the end of David Attenborough films. And some of it is shallow. Our guides may be explorers in the physical sense, but they’re not given the room to provide much in the way of intellectual discovery.”
Emine Saner, The Guardian

“It’s less natural history, more the blow-your-mind spectacle that is Earth, although with an intriguing angle: how Mother Nature relates to our senses. And as an immersion of sound and vision this National Geographic/Disney+ series can’t be faulted, even if it can feel at times like you’re watching a 4K TV screen demo…Predictable to say this perhaps, but it’s also unavoidable to wonder how it would be with David Attenborough presenting, in learned fashion, rather than Smith getting jiggy with tribal dancers in Vanuatu.” 
James Jackson, The Times

“Beside this constant flow of witticism, the chatter of TV presenter and chef Monica Galetti seemed banal and dull…The producers should send some scientists next time. At least we’d get a few jokes.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail