Oldbury on Severn and Inside Planet Earth

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Science, Nature, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Clare walks with Mike Gunton, the man in charge of Planet Earth III, another blockbuster series from the BBC’s Natural History Unit. Mike’s a passionate walker and he takes Clare on a favourite local route around Oldbury on Severn where he courted his wife, and once filmed a sequence in a graveyard about the grim sounding ‘burying beetle’. He also shares stories of his many years working with Sir David Attenborough, and what it’s like making some of the most beautiful and memorable TV shows of recent years. Oldbury on Severn is, as it sounds, near the banks of the longest river in the UK which runs 220 miles from its source in the Cambrian Mountains in mid-Wales to where it meets the sea at the Bristol channel. They meet at St. Arilda's Church and head off on a circular walk of around five miles ending back in the village, at the local pub.

Map: OS Explorer 167 Thornbury, Dursley and Yate

Presenter: Clare Balding Producer: Karen Gregor

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Greg Jenner. I'm the host of Your Dead to Me, where the best names in comedy and history
0:05.5	join me to learn about and laugh at the past. You are a traitor. And in the new series, we'll meet
0:11.2	Aristotle. I think he might have been a time traveller. Someone who's like almost a glitch.
0:15.3	We'll dive into the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. In England at this period,
0:19.8	there's people can't get on the housing ladder.
0:21.5	This sounds familiar.
0:23.2	And we'll discover the arts and crafts movement.
0:25.3	I love the clothes.
0:26.3	I love the vibe.
0:27.1	Yes, we're a comedy show that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.
0:30.5	You're dead to me.
0:31.3	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:34.3	BBC Sounds.
0:35.6	Music, radio, podcasts.
0:52.3	It's an overcast, slightly humid day. I've come to South Gloucestershire, not far from the banks of the River 7, feeling as if I'm in real rural countryside, but actually only, gosh, less than 10 minutes from the M4. And I've come here to meet a man who to many people has the dream job.
0:58.0	He has worked for the BBC Natural History Unit for more than three decades. His name is Mike Gunton and he has overseen some of the best and most celebrated programmes the BBC has ever broadcast and the most recent of which
1:12.6	Plyther 3 will be coming to our screen shortly so so much to talk to him about we're meeting in
1:19.2	st. Arilders church in old brian 7 so walked up the hill to get here and can see a pinky tower rising behind the gravestones and Mike is standing there
1:32.6	with his bright red walking pole. Hey Mike how are you? I'm very good Claire. How are you? I'm great. I'm very
1:38.8	excited to meet you to talk about your work but also to be here. Is this Is this area home for you? It's not far from home.
1:46.0	I live in Bristol, but this has been a very special place with this whole area. My father and I
1:50.3	used to live about five miles down there. I used to come here when I used to be courting with my wife,
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