The first of nine programmes.
In 1936 W.H. Auden wrote a poem starting "Look, stranger, at this island now".
Rene Cutforth has been travelling round meeting some of the characters who make up this island now and who have fascinated him.
Tonight we meet the first of them, Frank Clitheroe , who is one of that very rare breed, a man who really loves his job. Out at daybreak. he'll still be found checking up on the pheasants and partridges at dusk, yet he finds time to be one of the best gun dog trainers in the country.
Executive producer Jennifer Jeremy
Producer John Kenyon
BBC Birmingham