Giants

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• Sharks

  Nigel Marven goes in search of the world's largest sharks, plunging into murky South African coastal waters in the hope of encountering a great white. The ardent explorer's epic quest also takes him as far afield as America, Australia and Greenland, where he dives beneath a ceiling of ice more than a metre thick to find the massive sleeper shark

• Snakes

  Nigel Marven embarks on a worldwide quest to find some of the planet's largest creatures, beginning with the snake. In the sweltering heat of the Cameroon he wriggles down an aardvark burrow to find an African rock python in its lair, witnesses the courtship rituals of a Burmese python, and wrestles with an anaconda in the swamps of Venezuela

• Spiders

  Intrepid adventurer Nigel Marven searches for scary spiders, visiting the Italian town that gave tarantulas their name, travelling to Thailand, where the eight-legged creepy-crawlies are regarded as a delicacy, and tracking down the monstrous bird-eating variety in the jungles of French Guiana