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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

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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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