1: Spring – Season of Extremes | Highlands – Scotland’s Wild Heart

Duration: 59'00''

Synopsis

Ewan McGregor narrates a series about the wildlife of the Scottish Highlands. It is spring, the most unpredictable of all seasons in the Cairngorms.

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