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21ÌýFEBRUARY 2009
FILMING WILDLIFE
John McCarthy is joined by two wildlife filmmakers. Karen Bass has travelled from the Okavango Delta in Southern Africa to the Arctic for her latest series Nature’s Great Events, while Harry Marshall has often returned to the country of his birth, India, to film everything from irate elephants to snow leopards.
Presented by John McCarthy
Photograph:ÌýSnow Leopard Jumping (courtesy of the , Seattle,ÌýUSA)
This week’s guests:
is the CEO and creative director of Icon Films. Over the past seventeen years Harry has overseen all of Icon’s original production and won national and international awards. Recent films include Mountains of the Monsoon.
Harry was born and grew up in India where he claims his father taught him how to catch elephants using binoculars, tweezers and a jam jar.Ìý Harry moved to England with his family when he was twelve, but made his first of many return trips to India after finishing university, travelling from east to west across the Himalayas, staying in monasteries and hitching rides on lorries. ÌýHe knows he’s back in India when he has a masala dosa and a good cup of south Indian coffee in front of him.
Karen Bass is a multi-award winning documentary producer based in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Natural History Unit in Bristol.Ìý For her most recent project, Nature’s Great Events - currently being shown on ´óÏó´«Ã½1 – Karen and her team had to contend with the increasing unpredictability of the seasonal events which they were hoping to record.Ìý The sardine run off the coast of South Africa didn’t happen at all in 2007 and then only occurred in the final three days of the shoot the following year. While the herring spawn off the Canadian coast, despite the predictions of local scientists, was the latest in twenty five years.
Karen loves being able to enjoy a really good cup of tea wherever she is, so the one luxury which she likes to travel with are teabags.
´óÏó´«Ã½ 1 – on Wednesdays 9.00pm until 18 March 2009)
Nature's Great Events: The Most Spectacular Natural Events on the Planet
by B.B.C.Natural History Unit (Author), Karen Bass (Editor), Brian Leith (Introduction)
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
ISBN-10: 1845334566
ISBN-13: 978-1845334567
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John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East.
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