Reindeer Girls; Heads up

[seany boy]

Quick heads up for this.....

BBC Natural World, Reindeer Girls
Tonight (09/04/08) BBC 2 8.00pm.

"Profile of 17-year-old reindeer herders Elle and Inga from Norway, as they accompany the animals on the annual migration across the Artic tundra".

Looks like it may be worth watching.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/naturalworld/page1.shtml#3

 

[littlebiglane]

thanks for that

 

[Jared]

Ah just saw this in time, only missed a few minutes.

 

[fishy1]

You can also get it on the bbc iplayer thing which is good.

 

[spamel]

That was great. i really enjoyed it and the mothers yoik was fantastic to listen to, boy can she sing!

 

[Jared]

Yeah, was good.

The only thing that would've liked to seen closer was the ear marking.

 

[Eric_Methven]

I managed to catch the last 20 minutes of it. Brilliant! Now that's bushcraft.

Eric

 

[decorum]

Good programme - thanks for the heads-up.

 

[jojo]

Thanks for that, I would have missed it otherwise. As Eric said, brilliant. Real, daily bushcraft, by experts.

 

[Matt Weir]

Living truly within nature, literally dependant on themselves, their calender dictated by the reindeer and only touching on the modern world seems like looking at an opposite of my life.

I'm glad someone is living right

 

[Jedadiah]

Yeah, was good.

The only thing that would've liked to seen closer was the ear marking.

Did you not see the fella with more reindeer ears in his mouth than teeth? Only joking, i saw the 'internet' bit where they were looking at all the different ear markings and there were a staggering amount. What a top programme, really enjoyed it. The bison prog after it was good as well, looking forward to next weeks programme about re-populating Scotlands ancient wildlife, it'll make a change from senslessly eradicating badgers in Wales!

 

[Dan1982]

was a great programme! really enjoying these shows, a refreshing break from the usual midweek rubbish on tv.

did wonder if the sami used ferries in the olden days though!

Dan

 

[redandshane]

Thanks for that really interesting
What a beautiful country was my main thought
You can watch it for a week on the BBC i player
which may also be useful for those of you who didn't catch the whole programme

 

[Jared]

Did you not see the fella with more reindeer ears in his mouth than teeth? Only joking, i saw the 'internet' bit where they were looking at all the different ear markings and there were a staggering amount. What a top programme, really enjoyed it. The bison prog after it was good as well, looking forward to next weeks programme about re-populating Scotlands ancient wildlife, it'll make a change from senslessly eradicating badgers in Wales!

Thats what I wanted to see, him cutting the various marks into the ear.

All the ones they shown it just look like cutting a bit out.

 

[Jared]

was a great programme! really enjoying these shows, a refreshing break from the usual midweek rubbish on tv.

did wonder if the sami used ferries in the olden days though!

Dan

Probably got them to swim across I bet, thought the ferry was just to help prevent any losses of mother & unborn calf.

Nice aluminum poled canvas lavuu too.

I do wonder why our sheep farming didn't take a similar route. Not as valuable?

 

[StJon]

Great tv... one of the interesting bits was the girls going to Sami school and being taught about their cultural heritage. I also like they way they embrace modern technology when the time is right.
jon

 

[MartiniDave]

A great program, I was hooked from start to finish. Not sure I could life that life myself, but it would be great to try it for a week or so. Good work from the Beeb.

Dave

 

[sandbender]

This episode will be repeated on Sunday 13th April at 17:50

on BBC 2 and BBC 2 SCOTLAND

 

[loz.]

You can also get it on the bbc iplayer thing which is good.

Sorry, this programme is only available to play in the UK