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Birds Britannia

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Genre
  
Natural history

Narrated by
  
Bill Paterson

Original language(s)
  
English

First episode date
  
3 November 2010

Network
  
BBC Four

Program creator
  
BBC

Created by
  
BBC

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of series
  
1

Final episode date
  
24 November 2010

Number of episodes
  
4

Cast
  
Bill Paterson

Similar
  
The Life of Birds, Springwatch, The Secret Life of Elephants, The Nature of Britain, Wildlife on One

Birds Britannia is a BBC's four-part television series about the birds of the United Kingdom, first shown from 7 to 28 November 2010 on BBC Four. 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.

The series has no presenter, and is narrated by the Scottish actor Bill Paterson, 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.

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).

References

Birds Britannia Wikipedia