Bristol Zoo

So she does a lot on, she's on Instagram a lot and on Discord and things like that.

And she was in a chat room with a girl who is a keeper at Bristol Zoo, I think it

was.

Oh, wow.

So she said she was a few hundred off this.

So my daughter sent one of mine to her library.

So if anybody's a keeper at Bristol Zoo, one of them is in your library somewhere.

Wow, I love that.

And here's the bonus point, it was a fictionalised version of Thirsk in North Yorkshire.

Question three, in Animal Magic, which zoo did Johnny Morris supposedly work as a zookeeper? And that was Bristol Zoo.

Question four.

In the original Fly on the Wall documentary, The Family, where did the Wilkins family you feature in the series live? And they lived in Reading.

Hello

... assisted by personnel from Bristol Zoo.

Good evening.

Retrieved off Dartmoor.

[laughs] Yes, the world seen through my TV screen as a child gave me a view of a world which has shifted across the years.

Where once we laughed at keeper Johnny Morris as he gave voices to all the animals at Bristol Zoo, well, animal magic has now given way to animal reality.

I do try so hard not to be political with this podcast, but the wonder of nature often stops me in my tracks and makes me think how perhaps the beauty and variety of the species we share our world with can be greatly diminished when we don't see them for what they are: something that brings equal value to life as that found through the efforts of mankind.

On those occasions when I felt fortunate enough to see a pod of dolphins racing against a giant cruise ship, I get lost in their majesty.