The Fens: A Wild Year

(BBC2, 9pm-10pm)

Water has always been the driving force in East Anglia its ebb and flow has shaped the fenland. The wetlands once covered hundreds of square miilles, , bbuu t t ttooddaayy, well omvo er e 9t 0 hpae n r 9c0e % nt has been converted into farmland. Every winter, thousands of whooper swans return to the flooded pastures of the Ouse washes from their Arctic breeding grounds.