MONDAY 02 OCTOBER
Seasonal special
Autumnwatch
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC2 London & South East
VIDEO Plus+: 3753
Subtitles, widescreen
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As an intermittently blazing summer fizzles out and the leaves fade to brown, who better to mark the changing season than Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King? The excitable nature-watchers are more used to tracking and televising the onset of spring, but this new departure should be every bit as enjoyable. It's in the nature of the programme (so to speak) that much of what we see will be unrehearsed, unpredictable and often live. But we're promised dramatic spectacles ranging from red deer stags fighting for supremacy in a Scottish glen to the birth of grey seal pups on weather-beaten islands. We'll also be kept up to date on individually tagged geese completing their epic migration from Canada to their wintering ground in Northern Ireland. Plus, as they say, much, much more. Oddie will hold it all together with his uniquely shambolic charm, Humble will smile for Britain and poor old King will be huddled on a windswept hillside somewhere whispering to the camera. It should be a treat.
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