Simon King's Shetland Diaries

20121 seriesEntertainment / Factual
Available on BBC Four HD
BBC Four HD

Wildlife filmmaker Simon Kings brings his family along for this adventure, which finds them living in the Shetland Islands. King, with wife Marguerite and daughter Savannah, rents a cottage and the family spends time braving the harsh elements (high winds, driving rain, and, given their proximity to the North Pole, darkness for 8 months of the year) to film wildlife in spectacular settings. And there's plenty of wildlife to film - otters, killer whales, seals, gannets and more frolic in the beautiful, if forbidding, environment.

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1/3. Wildlife cameraman Simon King and his family experience the changing seasons on the Shetland Islands. The winter weather, with winds of over 100mph, makes life tough for them. [S,AD]

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