The Seasons with Alan Titchmarsh (2010)

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Episode Three - Autumn In this brand new four part series for ITV1, everyone’s favourite gardener, Alan Titchmarsh, goes back to his roots to find out how our changing seasons affect everything around us. The series reveals the profound and far-reaching impact that each season has on our wildlife and landscape, and how they shape the way we all live. In the third programme Alan leads us through autumn, as it tracks slowly across the country from North to South. It is a season when wildlife stocks up its larder for the winter and trees brighten the landscape with a kaleidoscope of colours. Alan tells the programme: “There’s one day in every year when I know that autumn has arrived. I can’t predict when it’s going to happen, but I’ll walk out one morning and I’ll be able to smell it. It’s a kind of tang and it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.” The programme’s broad scope encompasses how nature ensures our wildlife will survive the coming winter, the mysteries that

May 23, 2010, midnight

Episode Four – Winter In this brand new four part series for ITV1, everyone’s favourite gardener, Alan Titchmarsh, goes back to his roots to find out how our changing seasons affect everything around us. The series reveals the profound and far-reaching impact that each season has on our wildlife and landscape, and how they shape the way we all live. In the fourth programme Alan takes us through winter, when the scarcity of food means nature has to be at its most inventive to ensure wildlife and plants survive through until spring. The programme’s broad scope encompasses how climate change endangers hibernating mammals, the history behind the year’s most magical festivals, and how the cold dark days affect our mood and health. Alan explains that keeping warm is a constant requirement for all mammals in winter, and they use various means to achieve this. The programme shows sheep in Yorkshire who can survive buried in snow for two weeks by living off the fat they have stored in their

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