Islands of Britain (TV series) explained

Runtime:45 minutes
Company:ITV Productions
Producer:Martin Small
Claire Meech
Rebecca Saponiere
Raghav Shome
Presenter:Martin Clunes
Country:United Kingdom
Network:ITV
Num Series:1
Num Episodes:3
Related:Islands of Oz

Islands of Britain is a 2009 documentary series, filmed over the summers of 2008 and 2009 and hosted by Martin Clunes, which visited a number of the islands that lie off the coast of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as the Channel Islands.

Episodes

Episode 1: The North

Visited Muckle Flugga, Forewick Holm, and Unst in the Shetland Islands then Lewis and Harris, Eigg and Barra in the Outer Hebrides.

Episode 2: The West

Visited Piel Island[1] in Cumbria, Islay in the Inner Hebrides, the Isle of Man, and Rathlin off the coast of Northern Ireland.

Episode 3: The South

Visited Guernsey and Sark in the Channel Islands, St. Michael's Mount, and St Martin's, St Mary's, St Agnes, and Bishop Rock in the Isles of Scilly.

International adaptation

An Australian version of the series titled aired on the Seven Network in 2016, and was co-produced by Buffalo Pictures and hosted by Clunes.[2]

Notes and References

  1. News: TV Star Martin Clunes Hails New King of Piel. NorthWest Evening Mail. 2008-09-23. Jon Granger. 2010-09-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20110605103519/http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/1.117181. 2011-06-05. dead.
  2. Web site: Cameras roll on Islands of Oz . 21 March 2016. 21 March 2016. TV Tonight. David. Knox.