Radio Times

Review by:

David Crawford

Cameras have been following provocative conservationist Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd organisation for years as they take direct action to stop whaling. So as they head to the Faroe Islands to stir up the water over the islanders’ annual grind, in which pilot whales are herded on to beaches and slaughtered, we get a new series filled with drama, conflict and subterfuge.

Critics complain that Watson upsets local people’s traditions just to raise his profile and earnings, but here we learn the Faroese perspective: the whales are killed for meat, and the grind is legal.

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1/5. Captain Paul Watson and his crew of environmental activists begin a campaign to halt a tradition of slaughtering pilot whales in the Faroe Islands known as `the Grind'.

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