Wild Isles
Just a heads up! I’m sure many of us will be aware and be looking forward to Sir David Attenborough presenting his latest series. What a national treasure, what an ambassador for wildlife, environmental issues and rewilding. Date for the diary:- 12th March, 8pm on BBC One and iPlayer.👍
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Make the most of it. The BBC have pulled the final programme off terrestrial broadcasting, apparently for fear of a backlash from Tory MPs. It will be available on iplayer though.
So much for impartiality. Disgraceful.
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" The camera men (women) spend hours out in all conditions to film these programs and he comes along and takes all the praise by just talking over it."
But surely that ignores the thousands of hours he's spent over countless years in much more uncomfortable environments paving the way for today's cameramen, Husky. I think he deserves all the plaudits he gets.
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No problem with that, HD, I was just trying to provide a bit of context. Incidentally, did you miss the feature on the programme on the BBC morning news, where they featured two of the camera persons who contributed to the programme? (Simon King was one of them). I think it's pretty clear that everyone involved in the making of series such as these does get equal credit.
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I agree M & Sir David Attenborough is a personal friend to most of his Camera operators/videographers. In a lot of his epic programmes he eulogises their expertise & out & out skills, it was made a feature in some of them. He is so not a me,me,me person👍🏻
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What on earth has he done or said to be viewed so, Husky? He certainly did put those hard hours, weeks, years in as both a very young man and in later years to support the cause. Much of what he ‘warned’ us about over the many decades has unfortunately come to pass. At his ripe old age he deserves to be cared for as an ambassador to the cause! Just my opinion but I’m sure I’m backed by the majority of the world’s population in this view?
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David Attenborough has always been much, much more than a presenter of Natural History programmes. It’s mainly thanks to him that BBC2 became as popular and mainstream as it did, and he commissioned some of the greatest and most memorable programmes that it ever broadcast.
At 96, having had a pacemaker and two knee replacements fitted, it’s remarkable that he is still as involved in programme making as he is, and even if he isn’t as out there as he used to be, he still deserves every accolade that comes his way. A truly remarkable broadcaster. If ever anyone deserved a space in Westminster Abbey, along with with Newton and other great scientists/explorers, he is worthy of one. He’s an activist as well, not afraid to show things how they are, and what is going wrong.
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I’d love to have an interesting friendly conversation with you Micky, around this and the other misguided shenanigans, but there’s absolutely no way it would be tolerated on this forum sadly. The World needs more people like DA, working to raise awareness of what’s going on👍
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Not my finest post, meant to say~
Yes, funny how GLs vociferous condemnation of that regime which hosted the recent World Cup did not cause such issue but his latest comments are drawing so much attention. Seems some issues are okay with the powers that be whilst others are not even to be hinted at! Sound like hypocrisy and gagging to me. Not dissimilar to another regime which is bordering on Europe today.
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I rather enjoyed see the football without people talking over it however a wild life programme without comments from a presenter explaining things might be harder to understand. But I hear a lot of youngsters watch programmes with the subtitles on and the sound off nowadays so this says something about the way things are going?!
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Well that lived up to all the hype! Truly fantastic and a prophetic warning for all of us. So much damage already done!
Now looking forward to the rest of the series. Apparently the sixth episode will only be available on iplayer for reasons beyond my ken and that of many others, a must view by all accounts!1 -
I thought the dormice sequence was exquisite, I hardly dare breathe worried the Owl would see mama Dormouse👍🏻😊
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Some superb photography and showing nature in its harsh light. Perhaps too much propaganda about what is an evolving landscape. Neverthe less one of the best wildlife programme put out by the BBC. Such an improvement from Countryfile and the Watch canned programmes and presenters.
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Hopefully these programmes will wake folk up to the real truth about our ‘evolving’ landscape!
‘A YouGov poll commissioned for the new campaign found that 76% of people are worried about the condition of nature in the UK.
Just 5% of people rated the UK as one of the worst countries for protecting nature, while 55% said they thought the UK was doing as well as the rest of the world or better.
The truth is the UK is in the bottom 10% of countries globally for protecting nature, according to the Living Planet Index produced by the Natural History Museum.’
What a dreadful state of affairs. Whole article below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64903069
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Allowing the escape of pollutants & sewage into hitherto pristine environments like chalk streams is a crime & should be prosecuted as such without fear or favour. The destruction of wildlife & its habitats should be stopped & the ‘money first’ lobby should be fined massively & its destructors jailed to help them focus on their morals or lack thereof.
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The GB population needs to become more aware of what political decisions, by all parties, are being taken in their names. A great deal of our wildlife, environmental and animal cruelty legislation either isn’t working, or is being watered down in the name of profit and ensuring that the rich get richer and can avoid prosecution. That’s why people like DA and others speaking out is important. Your average Brit either doesn’t really have a clue, or has other priorities and the blinkers stay on.
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Sadly, Ttda, the only way the " General Public " will come aware of whats going on around them is if the Tax Man starts mugging them on the Market Square with a handfull of cronies bearing 12 bore shotguns and leg--irons for the Reluctant Payers to wear.
Travelling into Crewe t'other day a Local Councillor started spouting about the work they were doing in readiness for the WONDERFUL HS2 and the help it will bring to this knackered old Victorian town. A couple of days later even the Nation TV companies said " Don't Hold Yer Breath "
Even now they are telling us that we will need PHOTOGRAPHIC IDENTIFICATION just to put a tiny X on a ballot paper, !!
Brian Knows we are supporting Ukraine etc etc but was not aware that we are trying to fight off Communist methods as well
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Now looking forward to the rest of the series. Apparently the sixth episode will only be available on iplayer for reasons beyond my ken and that of many others, a must view by all accounts!
The "sixth episode" isn't part of the series but an add-on sponsored by a few of the big wildlife charities and as such has given the BBC kittens in expecting a deluge of complaints about bias from the hunting and game lobby, not to mention the right wing of the HMG, so they've decided to put it out on iplayer.
Personally I'd have preferred it to be aired as a sixth episode. Maybe we could ask Gary to tweet about it.
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