Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestSimon is enjoying the islands at their best, with 19 hours of glorious sunlight, the remarkable Simmer Dim - the Shetland word for the midnight gloaming - and a plethora of wildlife. His expensive high-speed camera breaks, but with a little help from the locals he manages to get it repaired and uses it to capture some wonderful footage of powerful gannets diving for fish.
Wildlife cameraman and presenter Simon King sets off on an adventure to the Shetland Isles to live, through the changing seasons, with his family.
Cinematography
Storm-lashed cliffs that make your living room feel impossibly safe.
Practical Effects
Actual months spent freezing on a rock in the North Sea. No green screen nonsense.
Writing
Simon's whispered narration — part David Attenborough, part exhausted dad.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Simon King was already famous from 'Big Cat Diary' — this was his midlife crisis masterpiece.
Shetland's 'Up Helly Aa' fire festival appears briefly; locals initially thought the BBC crew were mad for visiting in winter.
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