{"id":30976,"date":"2023-03-09T18:29:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1797599"},"modified":"2023-03-09T23:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T22:51:15","slug":"wild-isles-with-david-attenborough-start-date-trailer-and-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/wild-isles-with-david-attenborough-start-date-trailer-and-how-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Isles with David Attenborough: Start date, trailer and how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> The 96-year-old broadcaster is back on-camera for the Beeb&#8217;s brand new nature doc. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 09 March 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Sir David Attenborough is returning to our screens, both as a narrator and on-location, for <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/documentaries\/david-attenborough-new-bbc-documentary-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">BBC One\u2019s Wild Isles<\/a> \u2013 a five-parter exploring the wildlife within this country.<\/p>\n<p>Filmed across the Highlands, Cumbria, Oxfordshire, Somerset and other hubs of wildlife, Wild Isles is Attenborough\u2019s first documentary to be shot entirely in the UK \u2013 something he was <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/documentaries\/david-attenborough-fired-up-wild-isles-uk-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">\u201ctotally fired up\u201d<\/a> about, according to the show\u2019s executive producer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Attenborough] said to me, \u2018Look, I love doing new, and nobody\u2019s done this, and I\u2019ve never done this, so I really want to do it.&#8217;\u201d Alastair Fothergill said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut also, he totally agreed and was totally fired up with the promise that given the money, given the time, we could deliver things that would genuinely surprise people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read on to learn more about the new nature series, coming to BBC One this weekend.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Wild Isles start date<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Wild Isles with David Attenborough begins on\u00a0<strong>BBC One and BBC iPlayer\u00a0<\/strong>at <strong>Sunday 12th March\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0<strong>7pm<\/strong>, with the episode, \u2018Our Precious Isles\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The nature docuseries will air over five weeks, with each episode tackling a different habitat found within the UK.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is Wild Isles with David Attenborough?<\/strong><\/h2> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove\" embed=\"\"> <div class=\"&quot;embed__intrinsic&quot;\"> <div class=\"&quot;brightcove__player\" vjs-playlist-player-container=\"\"> <video data-video-id=\"&quot;6321547765112&quot;\" data-account=\"&quot;69912529001&quot;\" data-player=\"&quot;ByeOf0VZEl&quot;\" data-embed=\"&quot;default&quot;\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"&quot;video-js&quot;\"\/><\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"&quot;\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js&quot;\"\/><p>Sir David Attenborough\u2019s brand new series Wild Isles celebrates the \u201crich variety of habitats\u201d in the UK from killer whales and golden eagles, to \u201csinister woodland plants\u201d that \u201ctake pollinating insects hostage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The five-parter, which is narrated by Attenborough, investigates how the woodland, grassland, freshwater and ocean habitats are the homes for amazing wildlife across Britain, with each episode capturing \u201cthe dramatic and new behaviour\u201d of species in the Shetland Isles, Cumbria, Gloucestershire and other places in the UK.<\/p> <p>The 96-year-old host films on location for Wild Isles in several episodes, saying in the trailer that UK nature \u201crivals anything else [he\u2019s] seen elsewhere\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper\" ep2nwvo0=\"\" data-component=\"&quot;text-block&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer\" e5tfeyi1=\"\">\n<p class=\"&quot;ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph\" eq5iqo00=\"\">\u201cThough rich in places Britain as a whole is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world,\u201d Sir David says on the show (via <a href=\"\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-64860842&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"&quot;ssrcss-11r1m41-RichTextComponentWrapper\" ep2nwvo0=\"\" data-component=\"&quot;text-block&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer\" e5tfeyi1=\"\">\n<p class=\"&quot;ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph\" eq5iqo00=\"\">\u201cNever has there been a more important time to invest in our own wildlife \u2013 to try and set an example for the rest of the world and restore our once wild isles for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wild Isles was filmed over the course of three years and 200 shoots, with the longest episode to capture being episode 1, \u2018Our Precious Isles,\u2019 which took 382 days to complete.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Where was Wild Isles filmed?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/03\/418003-1118360.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=298%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source 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waiting for its mother to return from a foraging trip in the sea.<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>Silverback<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>BBC One\u2019s Wild Isles filmed all over the UK, from the Shetland Isles for the orca sequence and the golden eagles of the Scottish Highlands, to the dormouse of Sussex and Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n<p>Other places that filming took place include:<\/p>\n<ul><li>Oxfordshire<\/li>\n<li>Cumbria<\/li>\n<li>Lake District<\/li>\n<li>Dorset<\/li>\n<li>Skye<\/li>\n<li>Yorkshire Dales<\/li>\n<li>North Pennies<\/li>\n<li>Giant\u2019s Causeway, Northern Ireland<\/li>\n<li>Somerset<\/li>\n<li>Avon<\/li>\n<li>Kent<\/li>\n<li>Gloucestershire<\/li>\n<li>Wiltshire<\/li>\n<li>Islay<\/li>\n<li>River Stour<\/li>\n<li>River Avon<\/li>\n<li>River Frome<\/li>\n<li>Bass Rock<\/li>\n<li>Firth of Forth<\/li>\n<li>Farne Islands<\/li>\n<li>Northumberland<\/li>\n<li>Skomer Island, Pembrokshire<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2><strong>Wild Isles with David Attenborough trailer<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The BBC released a trailer for Wild Isles in February, teasing the stunning wildlife that\u2019s captured throughout the five-parter.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Sir David Attenborough in action below:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;Wild\" isles=\"\" trailer=\"\" bbc=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C-KcTje9sMk?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" web-share=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p><strong>Wild Isles with David Attenborough begins on Sunday 12th March at 7pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. <\/strong><strong>If you\u2019re looking for more to watch, check out our\u00a0<a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/&quot;\">TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/streaming-guide\/&quot;\" 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