Synopsis
Alan Titchmarsh travels Britain to discover why our islands are so diverse, beautiful and extreme. He looks back to the last Ice Age, when polar bears roamed Scotland.
- Programme: British Isles: A Natural History
- Episode: 03: Ice Age
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2004
- Geography | Human and physical geography | Landscapes of the UK
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