Within the remaining episode of Martin Clunes: Islands of the Atlantic explores the windswept Faroe Islands and their Viking heritage, then ends in spectacular Greenland with its Inuit traditions, calving glaciers and huge ice sheet.

On the ultimate a part of his Atlantic travels Martin Clunes visits the windswept Faroe Islands, formed over 60 million years by volcanoes, their dramatic cliffs house to hundreds of vibrant puffins and the distinctive Faroese sheep breed. He dives in freezing waters for big horse mussels and performs electrical bass with a Viking heavy metallic star.

Halfway between Scotland and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are a bunch of 18 islands on the mercy of the North Atlantic climate. Regardless of the difficult local weather, that is house to some 55,000 islanders, the descendants of historical Viking settlers.

On an island the place there are extra males than girls, Martin meets a lady farmer Harriet Olafsdottir. The Faroese sheep are distinctive to this archipelago, and Harriet owns 68. Martin joins her at one of many busiest occasions of the yr – lambing season – and she or he explains how her household tried to discourage her from turning into a farmer, as a result of it wasn’t seen as a job for a lady.

Harriet says: “As a result of farming is a really heavy job. It’s numerous bodily labour. However I discovered methods to make it simpler. Some folks nonetheless assume, ‘you shouldn’t be a farmer since you’re a lady’. Additionally I embellish my sheep with flowers, which isn’t very masculine. So for me, it’s not a contest of who has the most important, strongest, fattest sheep. For me it’s the prettiest.”

8.50pm Thursday 29 Might on ABC.