TRANSCRIPT - This film is about the Burren, which is this rather extraordinary rocky world on the west coast of Ireland. And I've been in wildlife filmmaking for close on 40 years now. And my very first job was here.
I came down and couldn't believe this different landscape that we have in Ireland. I didn't know it at the time, I lived on the other coast. And to see this vast rocky desert and the moods and the changing light was extraordinary.
(gentle music continues) You expect Ireland to be green and verdant and rich. But this place was different and I've been enchanted ever since. And it's taken a few decades to come back and make a film here, but we finally got round to it.
So we're setting off for the next two years to capture its natural history, its wildlife, its landscape. And we hope viewers around the world will enjoy it and see something different about Ireland. In Ireland, the weather rules everything.
We always say we need two years to do anything in Ireland. 'cause literally a season can be wiped out with say rain for weeks and weeks and weeks and you just get nothing. Everything heads for home, sits in its burrows, hides away, and we can get one bad spring and summer, which if you were depending on it would mean you're getting nothing.
So fingers crossed, we'll get some good weather and fingers crossed, the animals will be happy and relaxed and do their thing. (gentle music continues) Big challenges are that it's bare rock, a lot of it. Also, it has small littl.
