Matt Baker's British Isles - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
In this first episode, he heads to Kent to meet the Englishman teaming up with one of the world's most prestigious champagne houses to realise a dream of making the first true Anglo-French sparkling wine. In the Highlands, Matt meets two ex-farmers whose lives are entwined with the village of Crathie's church.
Episode 2
Matt Baker explores the Ffestiniog hills of north Wales's World Heritage Landscape, meeting a man who has committed his working life to the future of the world's oldest independent railway company. Then, in the Dumfries and Galloway countryside, he meets a self-taught food pioneer who grows mushrooms that are sought after by Michelin-star chefs worldwide.
Episode 3
Matt meets a family whose generations have been drawn back to Northern Ireland's most northerly tip to spend their days combining a love of native breed horses and of their homeland. Matt also heads to Falkirk to meet the people dedicated to caring for two of Scotland's manmade wonders, the 100-feet-high Kelpies and the Falkirk Wheel - the world's only rotating boat lift.
Episode 4
Matt joins a band of people travelling to Scotland's wild places to preserve the buildings. And finally, Matt weaves his way to Portadown to meet the man whose family founded the nation's oldest carpet company, which today supplies the finest establishments in the world and lays the groundwork for kings and queens.
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