An English oak can live for a thousand years. Imagine the tale it might tell of changes witnessed and the dramas that unfolded around it. From before the Norman Conquest, through the Black Death, civil war, industrial revolution to the present day, this film charts one tree's life story as it links the first millennium to the dawn of the next.
Tom Baker
Narrator
An English oak can live for a thousand years. Imagine the tale it might tell of changes witnessed and the dramas that unfolded around it. From before the Norman Conquest, through the Black Death, civil war, industrial revolution to the present day, this film charts one tree's life story as it links the first millennium to the dawn of the next.
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