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The new four-part series for BBC One, "Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart", is produced by Maramedia, which made the acclaimed Hebrides: Islands On The Edge, also narrated by Ewan McGregor. This new project has been three years in the making. A team from production company Maramedia filmed for more than 300 days across the full gamut of Scottish weather. The series follows the course of the seasons over a wild year in the Highlands, revealing how the animals and people of this stunning part of the world manage to turn adversity to their advantage and make a real success living here.

1) Spring: Season of Extremes

It's late March in the Cairngorm mountains and the hills are on fire! Old heather is being burned in readiness for the grouse season. Traditionally, this inferno marks the end of winter and the start of spring in this wilderness. But spring is the most unpredictable of all seasons here. Ospreys, red squirrels, dippers, capercaillies, roe deer and bottlenose dolphins have struggled to find food and raise their young while coping with the extremes of wind and weather.