British Isles: A Natural History DVD

Advantages: Amazing views of British landscapes, clever special effects.
Disadvantages: Titchmarsh can get on your nerves, and nothing new here for the academic

British Isles: A Natural History was a BBC television series in late 2004 in which Alan Titchmarsh travelled all over the UK to trace the origins of the country and find out how the landscape has changed. As a geography student I watched the series when it was on television, while studying for my A-levels at the time. I have to say that I did not learn a lot from the series; it is rather basic and gives a very broad overview of the past 3 billion ...
...if older members of the British public find this sort of viewing entertaining, but as a 20-year-old I can tell you that it seems to be a waste of valuable filming time when they could be showing more beautiful landscapes! Anyway, that's the great thing about the DVD, you can just skip past these bits if you want to! I have to praise the special effects in the series. Like any nature documentary it has the fast forwarded time series of flowers blooming ... Read review