Monday 20th February, 7:30pm : "Adventures in Wildlife Film Making" by Dr George McGavin to tell us about what it's really like to make a wildlife film for the BBC.

Tales from Television: bringing the natural world to your living room New camera technology can help make stunning footage for natural history programmes but the key to success is down to a lot of hard work, planning and a bit of luck. In this lecture we take a ‘behind the scenes’ look at some of the highs and lows of some recent BBC documentaries.

Bio: George McGavin was an academic zoologist for thirty years before becoming a television presenter. He is an Honorary Research Associate of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and a Research Associate of the Department of Zoology at Oxford University as well as a Fellow of the Linnean Society and the Royal Geographical Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. His programme credits include Expedition Borneo, Lost Land of the Jaguar, Lost Land of the Volcano, Lost Land of the Tiger, The Dark: nature’s night-time world, Prehistoric Autopsy, Miniature Britain, Planet Ant, Dissected: the incredible human hand and foot, Monkey Planet, The Secret Life of your House (ITV) and the multi-award winning documentary After Life: the strange science of decay. His most recent programme The Oak: nature’s greatest survivor, shown recently on BBC4 won the Royal Television Society Award for the best Science and Natural History Documentary and the Grierson Award for the Best Science documentary. George is a regular presenter on BBC’s The One Show and has written numerous books on insects and other animals.