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2006-07 Shorts

Episode 3: The Sheep Beside the Sea

Duration: 10 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for 7 months

Documentary telling the unlikely story of a banished flock of stoic sheep. Two hundred years ago they were turned out of their meadows on North Ronaldsay, the most northerly of the Orkney Islands. They were forced to eke out a living on the island's rocky windswept beach, a home they still share today with seals and seabirds. But, deprived of grass, how on earth have they managed to survive? Show less

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