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PREMIERE: Friday 13^th January 2006 at 9.00pm

Izaak Walton’s 1653 classic, The Compleat Angler, is being brought to life for the 21st century in a brand new 10-part series, exclusive to Discovery Real Time.

Walton’s novel has become one of the most published books in the English language after the works of Shakespeare and the Bible and the series is based around his original and definitive guide to angling.

Geoffrey Palmer, one of Britain’s best loved actors (of As Time Goes By fame), joins Rae Borras, an east-ender with encyclopaedic angling knowledge, to catch some of Britain’s best fish as they compare the locations, fish and methods of today with those over 350 years ago when Walton wrote The Compleat Angler.

Palmer and Borras use both ancient and modern equipment to compare fishing techniques through the ages.  However, they soon discover that while heavy wooden rods may have been substituted fo Geoffrey Dyson Palmer, OBE (1927 - 2020) - Genealogy - ROXYK