The Brecon Beacons with Iolo Williams

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Iolo Williams explores the Brecon Beacons.

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The Brecon Beacons with Iolo Williams: Series 1 - Reversions: Episode 1

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Series 1 - Reversions

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Iolo braves a blizzard on the high peaks and visits the most crooked church in Britain.

Iolo Williams explores the magic of the Brecon Beacons over the seasons. In this episode, he braves a blizzard on the high peaks and visits the most crooked church in Britain.

In this episode, it's the winter and spring. During the coldest months, there are often blizzards on the high peaks while the lowlands are sunny. On the snowy slopes, foxes look for food while a great grey shrike, a ruthless hunter from Scandinavia, looks for animals to eat. Cormorants like to congregate near water reservoirs while red deer hide away in secluded gullies in one of the wildest locations in the Beacons.

During spring, the nesting season is in full swing. Hundreds of dotterel rest on the Black Mountain during their journey from Africa to their breeding sites in Scotland, peregrines nest in an old quarry in the Central Beacons.

Next to the largest natural lake in south Wales, water voles are managing their ditches. Iolo discovers a magnificent diverse landscape with huge caves, stunning waterfalls, ancient woodland and canals.

He visits the most crooked church in Britain and an old gunpowder works and meets Kate Mobbs-Morgan who uses a horse to lead timber from an ancient oak woodland, National Park warden Judith Harvey who takes Iolo to one of the best views in the Beacons, and Trefor Prothero who teaches Iolo the art of traditional hedge laying. On the uplands near Llandeilo, Stuart Fry is repairing a 300-year-old stone wall.

The Brecon Beacons with Iolo Williams: Series 1 - Reversions

Iolo Williams explores the magic of the Brecon Beacons over the seasons.

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