Narrated by Gary Watson

The horse has been domesticated tor 5,000 years, but even now when it is liberated from man's control, the horse reverts to the ways of its wild ancestors.

This programme shows how three groups of horses behave when they are wholly or partly free from man's control. First, the ponies of the New Forest, which have been partially managed by man for hundreds of years; second, the herd which lives in simulated natural conditions at a research station in the south of France, and, finally, the horses on an uninhabited island off the east coast of the USA - the nearest a domesticated horse can come to being a wild animal once more.

BBC Bristol