Presented by Angela Rippon
In the last of the present series Roger Lovegrove takes us to the Dee Estuary where the RSPB has recently bought 5,000 acres of salt marsh, which at this time of year is rich in wading birds; and Joe Henson visits Exmoor during the round-up of the famous Exmoor ponies-a breed which is closely related to the ancestral wild horse of Europe and which has now become a rare animal on its native moor.
Together with her other guests, Phil Drabble and Elizabeth Eyden , Angela looks at the role of conservation in the countryside, asking whether nature reserves have any wide influence on the health and wealth of our wildlife, and where we fit in. Should such reserves be ' strictly for the birds' or can we hope to enjoy them as well?
Assistant producers
ROBIN HELLIER , GEORGE INGER
Series producer PETER CRAWFORD BBC Bristol