The Great British Year: Spring
01:15 am - 02:15 am, Sunday, April 12 on BBC Four (9)
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Spring
Documentary following British wildlife through the seasons. Spring marks a series of beginnings, as trees explode with blossom and mornings fill with the chorus of birdsong. Long-tailed tits frantically build nests, a stoat mother hunts rabbits to feed her playful young, while in the oceans, seahorses sway to a graceful courtship dance. As spring becomes summer, guillemot chicks leap from their cliffs to begin life at sea. Narrated by Joseph Fiennes
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Joseph Fiennes
(Narrator)
Born:
May 27, 1970
in
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Best Known For:
Playing the Bard in Shakespeare in Love.
Early-life:
Born Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on May 27, 1970, but was brought up in West Cork, Ireland. He is the son of novelist Jennifer Lash and photographer Mark Fiennes. The youngest of six siblings, he is the brother of fellow actor Ralph, film-makers Sophie and Martha, composer Magnus and his conservationist twin Jacob. After leaving art school, he worked with the Young Vic Youth Theatre before going on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Career:
He made his first professional stage appearance in the West End in The Woman in Black and went on to join the Royal Shakespeare Company for two seasons, taking roles in Son of Man, Les Enfants du Paradis, Troilus and Cressida, and the award-winning The Herbal Bed. Joseph's screen debut was in The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, and he attained international acclaim after appearing in Elizabeth and playing the part of William Shakespeare in 1998's Oscar-winning romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love. After returning to the stage, he also appeared in several high-profile movies including Enemy at the Gates and The Merchant of Venice, as well as US series Flash Forward, Camelot and American Horror Story.
Quote:
'I withdrew after Shakespeare in Love and went back to the theatre, to what I know. I'm an actor, and whatever speaks to me I will do.'
Trivia:
In 2014, he was one of a number of celebrities to design a card for the charity Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. They were auctioned off.
James Brickell
(Series producer)
Mike Gunton
(Executive producer)
