大象传媒

With a wing span that can measure up to 3.5 metres in length, it鈥檚 hardly surprising that the Wandering Albatross has inspired not only awe but a spiritual response from many of us. And whilst Samuel Taylor Coleridge didn鈥檛 do it any favours when he portrayed the Albatross as a bird of ill omen in his poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as Brett Westwood discovers in this programme, our relationship with the Albatross is far more complex than this; as we have both caught and eaten them, studied their flight and been so inspired by them, that as one man says 鈥淚n my next life I鈥檓 coming back as Wanderer鈥�. Producer Sarah Blun