🎬A look at the work of The Forestry Commission Keepers. Described by the Keepers themselves.

Please note this film includes a deer cull sequence.

Featuring:
Martin Noble
Andy Page
John Gulliver

Carnyx Wild ©2002

🎬 Peter Owen-Jones looks at four seasons in the year of the New Forest. Originally screened on BBC Four in January 2019.

‘The New Forest is a timeless place - there are no fences and the animals roam free. I’ve always wondered how the forest and the commoning way of life have survived in the middle of southern England for so long. It’s been an incredible experience finding out.’ - Peter Owen-Jones.

Over the year, with its dramatic seasonal changes, Owen-Jones ventures out into the forest and immerses himself in the lives of the Commoners, a group of around 700 people who have retained grazing rights for their animals, which date back to medieval times. From the first foals born in spring to the release of the stallions and the annual herding of the ponies, he discovers a hardy people who, despite the urban development around them, and the pressures on the landscape of 13 million visitors a year, retain a deep love of the land and a determination to see their way of life survive.

Presented by Peter Owen-Jones
Photography Paul Williams
Additional Photography Max Williams
Natural History Photography Aaron Cook
Produced by Mark Woodward
Executive Producer (Big Wave) Sarah Cunliffe
Executive Producers (BBC) Mandy Chang & Jo Lapping
Directed and Edited by Nick Stringer

A Big Wave production for BBC (2018)

🎬Roger Finn presents a short documentary about Aldo Galli who illustrated Watership Down.

Aldo graduated from Agricultural Sciences at the University of Milan in 1992 and moved to England in 2001.

"Creating the Watership Down collection was, without doubt, a unique experience and a great satisfaction. Quite possibly, it was the final development of an idea that I had unconsciously carried in the back of my mind since my childhood, when a Christmas I received as a present a novel that told the story of a band of rabbits…." Aldo Galli.

A BBC South Today Feature

🎬British Pathé – A look at the three lighthouse keepers on the Needles lighthouse off the Isle of Wight. Needles lighthouse. Three lighthouse keepers keep watch. Solent, off Isle of Wight. Various shots as the boat with one relief lighthouse keeper and more food arrives at the Needles. L/S of the keeper who is going home, he waves from the top of the lighthouse. M/S as new keeper climbs the steps to the lantern and unscrews the bulb to polish it, another is cleaning the glass outside. M/S as one walks out with a mat and sits down. M/S of another writing a letter home. M/S man stitching mat. The other one rolls up his letter and puts it in a bottle. M/S as he throws it out to sea where it may drift home.

🎬Jack Hargreaves and Stan Bréhaut came over to the New Forest on 26th December 1979 to follow the annual Point To Point race across the Forest. The meeting place for the race was near the High Corner Inn and the finish a few miles away at Stoney Cross. Stan visited the New Forest earlier in the year to film the opening shots.

This sequence has been restored and upscaled for NFG Media Archive, so can now be viewed in high definition for the first time.

The surviving Out Of Town episodes can be purchased on DVD and Blu-Ray from:
https://new.networkonair.com/further-.... The recently discovered 'Lost Episodes' are also now available to buy.

Our thanks to Gudrun Fowler and Mike Womersley at Northam TV Centre for their help and advice.

🎬 Children of the New Forest is a 6 x 30 minute full cast drama series (based on the book) made by Child's Play Productions for BBC. It was first broadcast in 1998.

During the 17th Century English Civil War, four children of a dead Cavalier are rescued and hidden by a forester. Based on the book by Frederick Marryat in 1847.

The series was filmed in Dorney in Buckinghamshire. Mapledurham Estate in Oxfordshire and The New Forest.

Tom Wisdom as Edward Beverley
Joanna Kirkland as Alice Beverley
Danny Worters as Humphrey Beverley
Emily Ruck-Keene as Edith Beverley
Craig Kelly as Reverend Abel Corbould
Garry Cooper as Oswald Partridge
Ralph Ineson as William Hammond
Wolf Christian as Brother Robert
John Blakey as Brother John
Kelly Reilly as Patience Heatherstone
Richard Hope as Heatherstone
Malcolm Storry as Jabob Armitage

A Child's Play Productions for BBC (1998)