BBC Two 2011 1 season 4 eps Ended

The Animal's Guide to Britain

Name: The Animal's Guide to Britain
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Chris Packham

2011 1 season 4 eps

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Season 1

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60 min

S1 · E1 · Apr 14, 2011

Freshwater Animals Episode 1

Chris looks at freshwater animals. In the Highlands, Chris witnesses a fabulous fishing display by ospreys and, in Poole Harbour, learns how to tempt them to nest much further south. He investigates what white faced darter dragonflies, black water voles and brown trout can tell us about the changing nature of our waterways. And he discovers the grisly truth behind why beavers became extinct here, some 400 years ago.

60 min

S1 · E2 · Apr 21, 2011

Grassland Animals Episode 2

Chris looks at grassland animals. Chris burrows into the grassland himself so that he can observe the eating habits of starlings, clever and well-adapted grassland predators. British starlings have had their ups and downs: they were once so common that they famously stopped Big Ben due to numbers perching on the clock hands, but nowadays their food supply is dwindling, thanks to modern pesticides.

60 min

S1 · E3 · May 5, 2011

Woodland Animals Episode 3

Chris looks at woodland animals. Chris meets our top woodland predator, the goshawk. With the use of high speed photography, Chris demonstrates how these impressive raptors twist and turn in flight to negotiate dense thicket, something which could account for the forests that they like to inhabit in Britain. Chris also meets the hedgehog, the animal that gets the best national health service after humans; and the fallow deer, an animal that has been so pampered through history that it has sometimes been treated better than its human neighbours. Chris discovers that stag beetles rarely move beyond the M25 when looking for a home - a nice piece of rotting wood to live in. And he meets a man who is so determined to make Britain a better home for the red squirrel, that he wants the rest of us to eat the grey ones.

60 min

S1 · E4 · May 12, 2011

Coastal Animals Episode 4

Chris investigates why the waters and coastlines of the UK are the most popular places in the world for two of our coastal species: the grey seal and the Manx shearwater. He also makes a stand for an animal that he considers much misunderstood - the British gull. And he meets two animals which have truly extraordinary ways of sensing Britain's coastal environments - the shore crab which finds its way around by smelling through its feet, and the bottlenose dolphin which can identify a fish at 200 paces in the pitch black, using echolocation.

4 episodes in Season 1

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“Chris Packham presents the series that examines Britain from an animal's point of view.”

Each episode, he encounters an elite group of five animals each of which senses the world in a very different way. By understanding their needs, problems and histories on these islands, Chris reveals what they make of modern Britain - and its humans.

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Cast

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Chris Packham

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Total runtime 3h 56m · Episode length 59 min · Type Miniseries

Show info

Premiered

April 14, 2011

Final episode

May 12, 2011

Status

Ended

Network

BBC Two

Country

United Kingdom

Type

Miniseries

Episode length

59 min

Total runtime

3h 56m

Original language

English

Production

United Kingdom

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Languages

Spoken on screen

English

Some details come from TheTVDB.

The Animal's Guide to Britain

Season 1

Freshwater Animals Episode 1

Grassland Animals Episode 2

Woodland Animals Episode 3

Coastal Animals Episode 4

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