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British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 3 - Island Britain
- Broadcast
- 2004 (59 mins)
In this programme we discover how a warmer climate and rising sea levels caused Britain to become an island with 18,000 km of coastline and a changing landscape.
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 4 - Taming the Wild
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
In this programme we discover how just 8000 years ago humans make their first major impact on the land and see that by 1800 virtually every comer of Britain had been tamed and the population had grown to 9...
British Isles: A User’s Guide to Natural History
Episode 5 - Revolution
- Broadcast
- 2004 (58 mins)
In this programme we examine how the advent of the Industrial Revolution radically changed the British landscape.
Landscape Mysteries
In Search of Irish Gold
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Undertaking the first of eight quests across the British Isles, Professor Aubrey Manning seeks clues to uncover a lost Irish Eldorado. Spectacular hoards of gold objects show Bronze Age people in Ireland had...
Landscape Mysteries
Figures in the Chalk
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
The enormous chalk figures which are scattered through much of the landscape of southern England represent a puzzle. While the origins of some are well known, others are shrouded in mystery. In an attempt to...
Landscape Mysteries
Britain Before the Ice
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Following the successful BBC2 series "Talking Landscapes", Professor Aubrey Manning embarks on a new set of journeys in which he follows clues in the geology, natural history, and archaeology of different...
Landscape Mysteries
Secrets of the Flood
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Professor Aubrey Manning collects evidence of a flooded landscape beneath the Solent and of raised rock arches in Scotland, cut by coastal erosion, but now high above the sea. The explanation is the land...
Landscape Mysteries
The Tower People of Shetland
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Professor Aubrey Manning seeks to solve some of the enduring mysteries of the British landscape through clues in geology, archaeology and natural history. On the remote Shetland Isles, a series of monumental...
Landscape Mysteries
The Abandoned Marsh
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Professor Aubrey Manning traces the history of Romney Marsh in Kent, reclaimed from the sea in the 12th Century and now a landscape of abandoned buildings and tales of towns lost at sea. What happened to its...
Landscape Mysteries
The Riddle of the Yorkshire Tracks
- Broadcast
- 2003 (29 mins)
Professor Aubrey Manning seeks to solve some of the enduring mysteries of the British landscape through clues in geology, archaeology and natural history. Strange parallel tracks in the rocks on the North...