25.10.06

Natural World: On the trail of Tarka

TONIGHT 8PM - BBC 2
(and repeated again on Sunday 29th October 6.10pm - BBC 2)

No one has ever succeeded in making a film about Britain’s river otters…until now. Award winning filmmakers Charlie Hamilton James and Philippa Forrester went in search of otters on a short stretch of the River Torridge in Devon, immortalized eighty years ago by Henry Williamson in his famous novel Tarka the Otter. Over months of patient fieldwork they got to know a family of wild otters and filmed the kind of intimate footage that had always been thought impossible. The result is both a lyrical portrait of these shy creatures, and a tribute to Williamson’s skills as a writer and naturalist.

Produced by - Philippa Forrester & Charlie Hamilton James
Photography - Charlie Hamilton James & Jamie McPherson
Series Editor - Tim Martin

AS PART OF THE BBC BROADBAND TRIAL THIS PROGRAMME CAN BE VIEWED AGAIN OVER THE NEXT WEEK BY VISITING:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo

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