Radio Times

Book ID 961

On this day

Author: William Gallagher

Radio Times

Extract Date: 4 December 1958

See also

Extract ID: 5465

"The photographing of wildlife by means of still and moving pictures is now a commonplace but one of the great pioneers in this field was a man called Cherry Kearton," said RT. In his heyday, Kearton (1871 to 1940) was a pipesmoking Dr Livingstone type but it started Safari photography young: "and at 16 had developed a camera specially adapted for the purpose." Look: the start of it all was shown on BBC TV that day.

This extract was reproduced in the Radio Times for 1-7 Dec 2007.

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