There's nothing in your basket
Back to ProgrammeJames Aldred, wildlife cameraman and winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing in 2022, explores the question of what happens to nature when we are no longer there.
In early 2020, James Aldred was commissioned to film the lives of a family of goshawks in the New Forest. Then lockdown. No more cars, no more aeroplanes, no one in the woods – except James – in a place empty of people but filled with birdsong and new life.
In these silver nights and golden days, there were tumbling fox cubs, calling curlew and, of course, the soaring goshawks – shining like fire through one of our darkest times.
