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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Richardson" data-source="post: 1730049" data-attributes="member: 43216">I didn’t enjoy the programme much for the same reasons others have stated (too much waffling poetry and not enough wildlife). Mostly I felt the various parts of the documentary failed compliment each other. One minute the film concentrated on the heavily developed north Thames industrial belt highlighting the problems of contaminated lands etc. It made a point of adding police sirens to the background of a herd of Epping Forest Fallow Deer and seemed to over play on the fact how urbanised parts of Essex are.The next minute we were subjected long poetic sequences in idyllic woodlands and estuaries. I’m well aware such areas exist in the county, I just don’t think the rural lyrical scenes mixed with the urban ones.South Essex is certainly worthy of a full nature documentary, and not just Rainham Marshes. I have spent many hours watching Peregrines hunting over Tilbury Power station and have observed four species of reptiles in the surrounding ‘wasteland,’ along with Water Vole and Black Redstart.</blockquote>