Wild Isles review: David Attenborough turns focus to UK and Ireland

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Wild Isles, a new BBC nature documentary, has spent a Planet Earth-sized budget a little closer to home. Some of its footage even managed to surprise the show's host, David Attenborough, despite all his experience, finds Bethan Ackerley

By Bethan Ackerley

14 March 2023

Wild Isles

BBC1

In UK from 12 March

THE UK’s forests are incredibly diverse, and no one understands this better than Chris Howard. A veteran of the BBC’s Springwatch series, Howard has filmed British wildlife for over a decade – and has just spent three years delving into its woodlands for a new landmark documentary, Wild Isles.

Howard was volunteering in Scotland’s pine woods, a place close to his heart, in 2019 when he received an offer he couldn’t refuse: the BBC and …

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