ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the way gender relates to a range of discursive practices, both verbal and visual, associated with Natural History programmes on television. We'll be looking at the presentation of biological science — its ideology still untouched by feminist challenges and reconceptions — and at the way gender is accommodated in its narratives and discourse; and we'll be considering the implications of the narration (both script and voice) for the gendered construction of its audience. We'll also be addressing the issue of female scientists, and their status in a TV form where almost all the production team are men, and whose appeal, we suggest, is primarily to a male audience. 1
