The Snow Wolf: A Winter’s Tale

9.00pm BBC Two

The BBC’S worldwide reputation for excellent nature programmes can only be enhanced by this dramatised natural history special.

It follows an alpha female wolf, a formidable hunter in the Italian Alps.

However, a dramatic event sees her forced to ee her pack and journey over the treacherous frozen mountain range for new territory.

As well as trying to feed herself, she also gives birth to a whole new family.

Will providing for all six of her new pups prove too much, even for such an exceptional mother?