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I managed to secure an evening release pass to see the Matt Schofield Trio at The Bullingdon in Oxford (which used to me my local pub in my student days). A fantastic gig with some of the best guitar playing I’ve heard. The combination of drums, guitar and Hammond organ is just so right. It […] Read more »

Lat week I did a morning’s photography for our good friends Dan & Claire (Dan designed and built this website) – their company, Mabel & Rose sells vintage garden furniture – much of it sourced from France. It was all slightly rushed between dropping off Max & Felix, then charging back to pick up Felix, […] Read more »

We had a very good shoot despite working from some rather iffy information (the 60 Oryx turned out to be the same group of 20 seen in 3 different locations on 3 different days, no newborn while we were there, and the jackals, I’m sure, play very little role in predating the young) – other […] Read more »

Heading off to Tunisia for three weeks for the BBC Natural History Unit’s ‘Africa‘ series – the plan is to film Jackal predating Scimitar Horned Oryx … at night. It’s going to be tricky but we have half the BBC’s infra-red kit store to keep us occupied. Really looking forward to this – it’s a […] Read more »

Back home from a really good trip up to the soggy wilds of Marojejy, not quite as soggy as anticipated, but some great filming of the Silky Sifaka’s and the amazing Erik Patel. Discovered that in my absence England have managed to make a complete balls-up of the Grand Slam, but at least Max got […] Read more »

I’m heading back out to Marojejy National Park in northern Madagascar for more Silky Sifaka filming. This time I’m promised it will be wetter and with more leeches, how exciting! I’m back on the 25th March. Read more »

We had a really good trip to Washington D.C., filming the amazing Sascha Von Bismarck, Executive Director of the Environmental Investigation Agency, about his work to bring a halt to the trade in the trade in illegal timber. He might just save the world …. more to follow! Read more »

We’re off to Washington DC for a few days to interview the head of the Environmental Investigation Agency for our ‘Lemur Blues’ Natural World. Read more »

The second programme in the Madagascar series, ‘Lost Worlds’ – the programme I spent most of my time working on – has got more amazing figures; over 4 million viewers and an AI of 91%. There were also some great viewer’s comments including: ‘It’s not a cookery show ….’, ‘It’s not that different from other […] Read more »

Programme 1 of Madagascar got an amazing 4 million viewers on Wednesday night – roughly double the typical BBC2 figure – with an AI of 91. Read more »