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Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode consider the role of natural history film and TV today.
Ellen speaks to the wildlife cinematographer, Sophie Darlington ASC who has spent decades recording wildlife for primetime documentaries for the BBC, National Geographic, Netflix and beyond.
Meanwhile, Mark talks to Ed Sayers, director of recent feature film Super Nature, a global love letter to the natural world, filmed on Super 8. Mark also speaks to the Oscar-winning director of My Octopus Teacher, James Reed.
Producer: Mae-Li Evans
A Prospect Street production for BBC Radio 4
28 Sept 2026 ✪ Members first on 25 September 2026 STOCKPORT
Stockport has been ‘flying high’ recently! Development has been moving fast: new apartments, new roads, a new transport interchange, and lots more planned, including a huge upgrade for Stockport railway station and the Metrolink expansion to Stockport town centre.
0:00 Introduction from AidanEyewitness
0:50 Introducing the Cyanlines Project co-founded by Tom Bloxham
2:35 Stockport Railway Station redevelopment plans
5:40 St Thomas’s Hospital redevelopment in progress
8:00 Done flight along the possible Metrolink route Stockport to East Didsbury
13:35 Stockport 8 district and a walk around Weir Mill residential project
Climbing aboard the @Cinemaker drone we’ll take a flight along the five mile route that, I believe, Metrolink trams will take between East Didsbury, the current end of the line, and Stockport.
I mention the Cyanlines project, which has not yet reached Stockport. It is planned to develop paths people on foot or on wheels across the Greater Manchester conurbation
We’ll go for a walk the area west of Stockport Railway Viaductr viaduct that’s being transformed from a former industrial area into a residential district.
I have good local knowledge as I grew up in the Cheadle Heath and Edgeley district of Stockport and was fascinated by my local area even as a five-year-old! I have a personal interest in how modern urban planning shapes the place we live in.
I didn’t mention the Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation, but I’ll look at that in more detail in another video.
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