The Living Isles

This enthralling video, specially produced from the highly acclaimed television series, is a unique celebration of the natural history of the British Isles. It tells the remarkable story of our changing landscape and its wildlife through the last 10, 000 yrs. Beginning with the magnificent golden eagle soaring majestically through the bleak Cairngorms, this vivid account uses breathtaking photography to show how the wilderness left by the last ice age has been transformed into the living landscape of the 20th Century. It traces the shaping of the islands by the rising seas after the great thaw, tells of the colonization of the land, the evolution of the woodlands and the saga of the moorlands and heathlands created by man's transformation of the forest. It also explores the hidden world of encircling seas and the wealth of marine life. This unique story shows how over a thousands years, man and nature in partnership have created a tapestry of great variety and beauty. © BBC