Scotland's Western Isles
Neil Oliver searches for sea eagles, recently reintroduced to the island of Canna. Kate Rew hunts for the marvellously titled bone-eating snot flower.
Neil Oliver searches for sea eagles, recently reintroduced to the island of Canna.
Kate Rew is hunting for the marvellously titled bone-eating snot flower, a mysterious creature that lives on whale skeletons.
Alice Roberts visits Skye to explore what remains of a remarkable industry which grew up 200 years ago to extract chemicals from seaweed for glass manufacture. Alice investigates the desperate living and working conditions for the locals who harvested the kelp.
Nick Crane stretches credibility to the limits as he sets out to discover the true length of Britain's coastline. He discovers that the answer is infinitely absorbing as he stumbles across a brain-expanding branch of mathematics that revels in the twists and turns of nature. It turns out it's because of this fractal maths that we are able to make our mobile phones so small.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Neil Oliver |
| Presenter | Nicholas Crane |
| Presenter | Alice Roberts |
| Presenter | Kate Rew |
| Executive Producer | William Lyons |
| Series Producer | Steve Evanson |
Broadcasts
- Sat 6 Nov 2010 19:30麻豆社 Two except Scotland & Wales
- Sun 21 Nov 2010 19:30麻豆社 Two Wales
Sun 6 Feb 2011 19:00
Mon 8 Aug 2011 18:30麻豆社 HD- Mon 15 Aug 2011 19:00麻豆社 HD
- Tue 11 Oct 2011 19:00麻豆社 Two except Wales
- Fri 14 Oct 2011 19:30麻豆社 Two Wales
- Fri 6 Apr 2012 16:00麻豆社 HD
- Thu 9 Aug 2012 19:00麻豆社 Two Northern Ireland & England only
- Tue 18 Sep 2012 19:00麻豆社 Two Wales
- Thu 11 Oct 2012 19:00麻豆社 Two Scotland
- Mon 1 Jun 2015 19:00麻豆社 Two Wales
- Wed 16 Sep 2015 16:45
- Thu 10 Dec 2015 00:25麻豆社 Two Wales
- Thu 10 Mar 2016 00:40麻豆社 Two Wales
- Mon 16 May 2016 00:05麻豆社 Two Wales
- Fri 1 Jul 2016 14:45麻豆社 Two except Northern Ireland
- Sun 29 Oct 2017 06:05
- Tue 18 Dec 2018 13:00
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