Britain From Above is a 2008 six-part British television miniseries

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 in which journalist Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr

Andrew William Stevenson Marr is a Scottish journalist and political commentator. He edited The Independent for two years until May 1998, and was political editor of BBC News from 2000 until 2005....

 takes to the skies of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 in search of the view of Britain from above to research all areas of past and present British life. An epic journey revealing the secrets, patterns and hidden rhythms of our lives from a striking new perspective.
He discovers how each and every one of us is interconnecting making Britain what it is today. Cutting edge technology is used in the series to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before.

The series was filmed in High Definition

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 and aired on BBC One, Two and Four for three weeks starting August 10, 2008 and is repeated regularly. The official website features all the films from the programmes, exclusive material including Rewinds through time at 16 different locations, Rough Cuts of magic moments and Behind the Scenes. The site also shows aerial images by photographer Jason Hawkes.

Episode list

#	Title	Subject	Airdate	Running time
1	24 Hour Britain	Andrew Marr goes on a journey through a day in the life of Britain as seen from the skies.	10 August 2008	60 mins
2	The City	Comparing exhaustive footage of London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...  in the 40s with the city of today.	10 August 2008	30 mins
3	Man Made Britain	Andrew Marr discovers how some of Britain's greenest landscapes were shaped by humans	17 August 2008	60 mins
4	The Land	Comparing exhaustive footage of East Anglia East Anglia East Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of...  in the 1940s with the countryside of today.	17 August 2008	30 mins
5	Untamed Britain	Andrew Marr microlights and paraglides to get a bird's eye view Bird's Eye View "Bird's Eye View" is a single by Oakland Hip Hop group Zion I, released in 2005 on Live Up Records. The single was the first released from their third album True & Livin. The song, like Common's classic "I Used to Love H.E.R.", addresses the state of Hip Hop by comparing the culture to a woman. The... of our untamed landscape.	24 August 2008	60 mins
6	The Industrial Landscape	Comparing footage of Britain's industrial landscape in the 1940s with today.	24 August 2008	30 mins