In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Addition to VO Demos: Save The Primates
In January 2009, I was approached by Animal Defenders International to provide the English voice for a video depicting the plight of primates in laboratory experiments. There is an opportunity now for the European Union’s MEPs to adopt Europe-wide measures phasing out the use of apes and monkeys in these medieval and barbaric practices, and [...]
Farewell To Alex, The Brainy Parrot
In its latest edition (December 2007–issue 203), the excellent Fortean Times magazine reported the recent unexpected death of Alex the African grey parrot, a pioneer of avian intelligence, at the age of 31 on 6th September 2007. This amazing bird was born in 1976 and purchased a year later, at random, for $600 from a [...]
WDCS Says Ban Dolphin Assisted Therapy
Does the mounting evidence linking dolphins and humans in the evolutionary tree, as mentioned in my recent post, add weight to the belief that Dolphin Assisted Therapy (DAT) is A Jolly Good Thing? After all, our cetacean cousins are intelligent, gregarious, social creatures whose interactivity with those in need of palliative treatment or respite from [...]
The Dolphin-Human Connection
I recently visited a site called Mother Earthbeats, where I found a post called Dolphins and Humans .. are we related? which in turn took me to a site called Earthcode run by Paula Peterson, which elaborates on the Dolphin-Human Connection — and what a very interesting connection it is. In a nutshell, Paula says [...]
Gracile or Robust?
Will your descendants be Eloi or Morlock? Gracile or Robust? Genetically superior upper-class or inferior, dim-witted underclass? According to evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry, of the London School of Economics, in a report for satellite TV channel Bravo, there may well be just such a sub-division of humanity in about 100,000 years, eerily mirroring H. G. [...]
Banwell Bone Cave
For just four special days during each year, a local place of interest opens its doors to allow the public a rare glimpse into an amazing past age. Banwell Bone Cave was discovered in 1824, on land then owned by George Henry Law, Bishop of Bath and Wells. His estate nestled on the shoulder [...]
Absent Friends
My dear friend Chrissie suffered a grievous loss this week. Her beautiful horse Astral was put down. After fourteen years of diligently looking after him — mucking out his stable twice a day, riding him, caring for him whenever he was ill — you can imagine the magnitude of her loss. Astral was twenty years [...]
Einstein The Bird
Who’s a clever boy then? (With thanks to my voice-over colleague Marian Kemmer)
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