A Wild Year
A Wild Year is a TV show on BBC2. A unique insight into the nature of three iconic regions of the British countryside. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 13 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2026.
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A Wild Year
Exploring the restless rhythms of the British countryside. Hidden away in the most easterly part of the British Isles are the Fens of East Anglia, a landscape of wild wetlands and fertile farmland.
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A look at Pembrokeshire’s wild and rugged coast, where life is defined by the rhythm of the seasons and the power of the sea.
Cutting-edge camera techniques give a new and unique perspective on a turbulent year in the life of England's largest national park.
As spring creeps in, the red grouse, unique to the British Isles, enjoy the young shoots of the heather that is almost all that can grow on the impervious sandstone of North Yorkshire’s moorlands.
In the north east of England lies a wild and remote moorland. This ancient landscape of heather-clad uplands and sheltered dales is home to red grouse and tough moorland sheep.
It’s April, and in one the region’s most sheltered harbours, local crab fishermen are making the most of the ideal conditions.
Winter on the moors is tough, although the sheep for whom they are home have been bred to cope with the cold and snow better than most, even the ewes who are pregnant at this time of year.
It might be isolated, but Ramsey Island has enough attractions to ensure inhabitants stay here all year around, with seals to spot, surfing and plenty of sheep.
A look at Pembrokeshire’s wild and rugged coast, where life is defined by the rhythm of the seasons and the power of the sea.
The rivers of the Fens are an ideal place for bulrushes to prosper, and they’ve helped sustain an important and traditional local industry.
It’s summer, and that means that means the hum of mowers cutting back the grass, and the buzz of shearing machines, as flocks of sheep are shorn, after being herded down from the hills.
In the Fens of East Anglia, Connick ponies are drafted into to help reclaim land on one of Europe’s most important wetlands.
Bluebells, sailboats and Beatrix Potter are just some of what the Lake District offers over 16 million tourists who flock to the area every year – some are there to take the plunge in Lake Windemere.