Episode 3 - Murder On The Mountain
46minEveryone who knew Dian Fossey was shocked by her brutal murder, but not surprised. She'd made many enemies and long feared for her life. An inept police investigation provided few clues but eventually someone was charged - gorilla researcher Wayne Maguire. He fled the country before being sentenced to death and has lived with the consequences ever since. Did he really kill her, or has he been the victim of a 30 year injustice? And if not him, then who?
Episode 2 - Dark Side of The Mountain
46minAt dawn on December 27, 1985, cries of horror cut through the early morning mist on an isolated mountainside in Rwanda. Workers gather outside a corrugated iron cabin. Inside, one of the greatest names in wildlife conservation lies dead, killed in a brutal machete attack. Dian Fossey was world famous, but in the remote cloud forest where she fought to save Mountain Gorillas from extinction, she'd made dangerous enemies.
Episode 1 - Gorilla Girl
46minDays after the slaughter of Dian Fossey's favourite gorilla, Digit, Sir David Attenborough arrives to find her coughing blood but insisting on taking him to film the gorillas in what becomes one of TV's most famous sequences. But she's outstayed her welcome in Rwanda and has to take a two year break in the USA. There, she writes "Gorillas in the Mist" and becomes a celebrity but can't wait to return to Rwanda. When she does, nothing is the way it was.