大象传媒

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• The landscape that inspired a life's work

• Brett Westwood

  鈥淚t was a pigeon that flew into my bedroom when I was a few months old, and liberally decorated the cot, that set me off on a career with wildlife. That鈥檚 if you believe my parents anyway. Whatever the reason, in my early years, nothing hopping, crawling, flying or blooming really escaped my attention, and close encounters with wildlife have included a grass snake which regurgitated a frog in my pocket, and an adder which reacted, not unreasonably, to being penned in tank in my bedroom by biting me. At least I know I鈥檓 not allergic to anti-venom,鈥� says Brett Westwood.
  
  Many years on, with the promise of a life in the legal profession fast fading, Brett is now a freelance writer and broadcaster after more than 15 years working as a radio producer and presenter at the 大象传媒 Natural History Unit. Here he produced and presented many programmes for 大象传媒 Radio 4 including and . He also presented or co-presented the live series and and the 鈥� 鈥︹�� series about birds and their habitats. More recently he has written the scripts for and co-authored the accompanying book with Stephen Moss.
  
  Brett is also involved with various wildlife and conservation groups in Worcestershire where he lives and he still thinks that nothing beats a productive field-trip combined with a picnic. 鈥淣atural history never lets you age鈥� he says, and those aspects of wildlife which absorbed him as a child still continue to do so, although he watches adders from a distance now.