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Steve Nicholls sets out on a remarkable journey along the River Tees in north-east England, travelling from the industrial estuary to its source high in the Pennine Hills.
It was the Tees estuary that first sparked Steve’s lifelong fascination with the natural world, leading to a distinguished career in documentary filmmaking. As he follows the river’s eighty-mile course, he draws on his global travels and experience in nature films to place the plants and wildlife he encounters within a broader perspective.
Blending personal reflection with nature writing, botany, geology and history, he explores the profound impact of industry and agriculture on the Tees and its valley. Steel River becomes both a natural and social history of this striking landscape, and a wider commentary on environmental decline, using the Tees as a powerful example while considering the damage done to the natural world over thousands of years of human activity.
Steve Nicholls sets out on a remarkable journey along the River Tees in north-east England, travelling from the industrial estuary to its source high in the Pennine Hills.
It was the Tees estuary that first sparked Steve’s lifelong fascination with the natural world, leading to a distinguished career in documentary filmmaking. As he follows the river’s eighty-mile course, he draws on his global travels and experience in nature films to place the plants and wildlife he encounters within a broader perspective.
Blending personal reflection with nature writing, botany, geology and history, he explores the profound impact of industry and agriculture on the Tees and its valley. Steel River becomes both a natural and social history of this striking landscape, and a wider commentary on environmental decline, using the Tees as a powerful example while considering the damage done to the natural world over thousands of years of human activity.