Birds Britannia

Birds Britannia is a BBC four-part television series about the birds of the United Kingdom, first shown from 7 to 28 November 2010 on BBC Four.^[1] It was produced by Stephen Moss.

Each of the four, sixty-minute episodes concentrates on one kind of bird: garden birds, waterbirds, seabirds and birds of the countryside.^[1]

The series has no presenter, and is narrated by the Scottish actor Bill Paterson,^[1] with filmed interviews with a wide range of experts and bird enthusiasts, including David Attenborough, Mark Cocker, Jeremy Mynott, Tim Birkhead, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, Christopher Frayling, Kate Humble, Rob Lambert, Desmond Morris, David Lindo, Helen Macdonald, Andrew Motion, Tony Soper, and Bill Oddie.^[1]

It has been announced that a book of the same title, by Stephen Moss, will be published by Collins in April 2011 (ISBN 978-0007413447).^[2]

See also

• Birds Britannica, a book by Cocker and Richard Mabey
• List of Britannia documentaries

References

External links

• Birds Britannia at BBC Online
• Birds Britannia at IMDb
• BBC Natural History blog entry by producer Stephen Moss
• Garden birds video clips from Birds Britannia on BBC Nature

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