New Forest: A Year in the Wild Wood (BBC Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- As seen on the BBC. Writer and environmentalist, Peter Owen-Jones spends a year in the enchanting landscapes of the New Forest, England. Peter explores its wildlife, history and meets the Commoners, the people whose ancient way of life has helped shape the land since Neolithic times.
This film was made with the support of @NewforestnpaGovUk @ForestryEngland
Ŵhat a lovely well made film made me so homesick for living there it moved me to tears!
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Thank you, we're so glad you enjoyed it.
Absolutely wonderful to watch. The bio-diversity is truly amazing.
Best programme about the forest I’ve ever seen. Thank you
Thank You! We have a short film on The New Forest coast also narrated by Peter, and 2 more being added to the channel soon. Freshwater and heathland. We hope you enjoy :)
What a wonderfully done documentary on the New Forest!
Thank you for watching!
I used to live there, for around three years, I love nature and I felt horrible when I had to move, luckily there is a very strong chance that I will be able to move back in a few months time. Thank you for this documentary it’s given me a lot of hope for the future
Well done!! beautiful documentary 💛🌻
Thank You! We're glad you enjoyed it :)
Wonderful program, I recall many a happy picnic in the New Forest when I was a young woman, you can imagine fairies living there in some of the forest undergrowth it is so magical!
Love this programme and the South Downs one you did with Peter a few years back. Really hope you are getting together again to do another one soon!
Our South Downs film is available to watch in full on here too ☺️ thank you for your kind feedback
Absolutely loved this. Brilliant documentary so glad I came across it
Glad you enjoyed it!
Never heard we had lions in uk? It is a sanctuary of beautifulness the new forest ,was there the other day and the trees had exploded into the autumn colours ,the sun was as shining,I saw pigs and piglets snuggling around in the woods,donkeys ,pony’s,cows,just made me feel so at peace but alive ! And grateful to be on planet Earth and be able to enjoy such wonders x
I'm lucky enough to have moved to the forest a couple of years ago. This documentary has really helped me understand how the place works, it really is a special place. Some very good pubs too!!!
What an outstanding & beautifully presented documentary. Love the New Forest. I grew up in Romsey nearby. Now living worlds away in tropical north Queensland, Australia.
So Glad you enjoyed it, We have a 3 part series with biologist Lizzie Daly called 'Deep Dive Australia' coming soon to Love Nature platforms world wide. Follow us on socials for updates on release :)
Hi from Aussie
TY for sharing .
Absolutely breathtaking
Nature can certainly touch the soul and awaken the inner senses ❤
One of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Outstanding. From Australia 😊
Thank you for watching, we're so pleased you enjoyed it! You can also watch South Downs: England's Mountains Green, our first documentary with Peter Owen Jones.
Brilliant documentary, extremely well made. It explained so much I didn’t know.
A truly superb film. Well done again BBC
Thank you for watching! :)
Wonderful documentary. Thank you.
Amazing more of these please 🙏
Thank you for watching!, our first BBC documentary with Peter 'South Downs: England's Mountains Green' is also available to watch in full on our channel. :)
Lovely film, thank you. The New Forest is beautiful. Have to say that this is a very romantic view of commoning…
I thoroughly enjoyed this doco. ❤
That Heather valley would make a great painting 🎨🖌️
so beautiful :)
One of the best documentrys of a UK forest ..it has lots of hidden secrets this place ... bigger predators then goshawk in here tho !
Well done guys.
Wow, a documentary that actually celebrates British culture and ways of knowing and being and doesn't shovel tonnes of 'climate' and other ideology at the poor viewer. 10/10
The sound level is very variable. You will need to keep your remote to hand...
Home.
Lovely programme but That commoner that said 'produce ugly foals' wow the first thing I said. Even my elderly mum tutted.
I went there in 2016 and all the parking areas were full of people in cars dogging! Seriously it was overrun.
What a hilarious comment, I bet everyone loves the things you say
@TannerCoIin do you know what dogging is? It ain't a walking the dog. Nothing hilarious about lewd acts in public places. It sort of tarnished the day!!!
@Simon-xc6iy You think you're a comedian but are actually frightfully unfunny
@TannerCoIin not at all I'm only relating a problem that is quite shocking. Here in the uk and France that I know of. As I said I parked at a car park giving access to the forest and it was full of people having .... in their cars whilst being watched by others. This was 2016 and maybe the police and council have put a stop to it there. However for me it ruined what should have been a nice day out.
I have no plans to return
I know the New Forest very well, since my parents lived there (in the village of Minstead) for twenty years, and I visited it for holidays for longer than that. This video may be OK as far as it goes (I cannot listen for long to the somewhat off-putting tone of the commentary), but I have to say that there is a far better video about the place on RUclips, i.e. "Ytene, England's Ancient Forest", brilliantly, quietly, and authoritatively narrated by the actor John Nettles (he of "Bergerac" and "Midsomer Murders" fame). As far as I am concerned, that video is the standard one, and cannot be bettered. If anybody really wants an absorbing account of the Forest, I recommend that one, and I think that anything else is completely un-necessary.
I watched that before this one. While the subject matter is the same, they are different and
expand on a different narrative focusing more on the commoners of today rather than some of the more historical aspects.
The world is big enough to have MANY videos of this forest. Having 1 perspective of this place or any place is a terrible, terrible idea. Good for the filmmaker of this video for taking a year to focus on this gem. I hope more people do videos of this lesser known place.
It's a shame the New Forest has become so overgrazed as the years have gone by. New shrubs and trees are becoming progressively few and far between and the earth becomes more compact every year I visit. There's just too many large herbivore and we don't control the population or introduce apex predators. It's death by 1000 cuts - we won't know what we've lost until it's gone and we'll wonder what happened.
This is a well-filmed account of one of the most wonderful parts of the UK, but was spoilt for me by two things. Firstly, the audio quality does not match that of the video, with fluctuating sound levels throughout (and often unnecessary and intrusive music). Secondly, the presenter's over-dramatic style, seemingly to draw attention to himself as the "star" of the programme, detracts from the real star, the forest. His histrionics are unnecessary, and a less self-important presenter would have improved the overall enjoyment of the story.
Ok Jim, or should I say Tim 😅
None of u knew any of this ??? Place is the og
Awesome but i can't understand why people are not allowed to wild camp in this place, it seems to be immoral to me.
You mispronounced 'fungi.'
There has to be other way than burning!! It is so wrong.
Thank you for watching, We worked closely with the New Forest National Park Authority and the commoners, to film a true representation of life and practices of the forest. Their website has a wealth of information on preserving and maintaining this ancient and special place :) www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/
Good documentary but, sorry, I cannot believe a presenter disguised as a beggar.
Why does every BBC presenters talk as if we’re 10 year old, and that annoying music what a waste