May 3, 2026 · 54 min · 18 segments
James Aldred is an Emmy award-winning documentary wildlife cameraman and filmmaker who has collaborated with David Attenborough on projects such Planet Earth, The Life of Mammals and Our Planet. He…
James AldredGuest
Michael BerkeleyHost[classical music]
James Aldred is an Emmy Award-winning documentary wildlife cameraman and filmmaker.
He's collaborated with David Attenborough on projects like Planet Earth, The Life of Mammals, and Our Planet.
He often finds himself suspended from ropes or on platforms high up in the rainforest canopy, capturing shots of rarely seen animals and birds, including orangutans, gibbons, and eagles.
He recalled some of his treetop adventures and the many dangers he's faced in his first book, The Man Who Climbs Trees.
His second, Goshawk Summer, detailed his experience of filming a family of goshawks in the New Forest during lockdown.
His most recent book, A Wagon in the Woods, returns to the New Forest and is about his painstaking restoration of an old horse-drawn wagon he once played in as a child.
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[classical music]
James Aldred is an Emmy Award-winning documentary wildlife cameraman and filmmaker.
He's collaborated with David Attenborough on projects like Planet Earth, The Life of Mammals, and Our Planet.
He often finds himself suspended from ropes or on platforms high up in the rainforest canopy, capturing shots of rarely seen animals and birds, including orangutans, gibbons, and eagles.
He recalled some of his treetop adventures and the many dangers he's faced in his first book, The Man Who Climbs Trees.
His second, Goshawk Summer, detailed his experience of filming a family of goshawks in the New Forest during lockdown.
His most recent book, A Wagon in the Woods, returns to the New Forest and is about his painstaking restoration of an old horse-drawn wagon he once played in as a child.
