The Way We Went Wild is a three-part BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 TV

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 series, first shown on BBC Two

BBC Two

BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...

, about British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 wildlife

Wildlife

Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative....

 presenters. It was narratted by Josette Simon

Josette Simon

Josette Patricia Simon OBE is a British actor of Antiguan descent. She trained for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.-Career:...

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Episode 2

Episode 2, screened on 20 June 2004, featured Sir Peter Scott

Peter Scott

Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC and Bar, MID, FRS, FZS, was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer and sportsman....

 and Sir David Attenborough

David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...

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Episode 3

Episode 3, screened on 27 June 2004, again featured Attenborough, plus a number of more recent, younger wildlife presenters, including Saba Douglas-Hamilton

Saba Douglas-Hamilton

Saba Iassa Douglas-Hamilton is a Kenyan wildlife conservationist and television presenter.-Early life:Born on a farm near Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, she is the daughter of zoologist, Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Oria Douglas-Hamilton née Rocco. Saba means "seven" in Swahili...

, Steve Leonard

Steve Leonard

Stephen "Steve" Leonard is a British veterinarian and television personality.-Early life:Leonard's family moved to Cheshire, from Northern Ireland, when he was six weeks old....

 and Charlotte Uhlenbroek

Charlotte Uhlenbroek

Charlotte Jane Uhlenbroek is a British zoologist and BBC television presenter.-Early life:Her Dutch father was an agricultural specialist with the United Nations who took his English wife and their family round the world with him. Uhlenbroek was born in London, but her parents moved to Ghana when...

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Interviewees

The people interviewed about the featured presenters were:

• Doug Allen
  Doug Allen (actor)
  Doug Allen is a British actor. He has appeared in a variety of British television programmes and in film, but remains best known for playing the role of Nathan Williams in the BBC soap opera EastEnders between 2001 and 2002...
  
  
• Richard Attenborough
  Richard Attenborough
  Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is a British actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. As director and producer he won two Academy Awards for the 1982 film Gandhi...
  
   (brother of David)
• Chris Baines
  Chris Baines
  Professor Chris Baines is one of the UK's leading independent environmentalists. He is a gardener, naturalist, television presenter and author.Baines grew up in Sheffield...
  
  
• Linda Barker
  Linda Barker
  Linda Barker is an English interior designer and television presenter.-Education:Barker studied Fine Arts at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Farnham. She then did odd jobs in various areas including fashion, before settling into a career as an interior designer...
  
  
• Laura Beaumont (wife of Bill Oddie)
• David Bellamy
  David Bellamy
  David James Bellamy OBE is a British author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist. He has lived in County Durham since 1960.-Career:...
  
  
• Mike Beynon
• Jeffery Boswall
  Jeffery Boswall
  Jeffery Boswall is a naturalist, broadcaster and educator.One of the longest serving producers with the BBC Natural History Unit , and the writer and presenter/narrator of many of the programmes he produced, he has also been prominent in the development of the ethics of natural history broadcasting...
  
  
• Richard Brock
  Richard Brock
  Richard Brock worked in the BBC as a natural history film producer for 35 years. He was a member of the production team on the highly successful Life on Earth, and served as executive producer on The Living Planet, collaborating with David Attenborough...
  
  
• Tim Brooke-Taylor
  Tim Brooke-Taylor
  Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE is an English comic actor. He became active in performing in comedy sketches while at Cambridge University, and became President of the Footlights club, touring internationally with the Footlights revue in 1964...
  
  
• Nicola Davies
• Dudu Douglas-Hamilton
• Iain Douglas-Hamilton
  Iain Douglas-Hamilton
  Iain Douglas-Hamilton, OBE, is a zoologist known for his study of elephants.He earned both a B.Sc. and a D.Phil. in zoology from Oriel College, Oxford, and he is the recipient of the 2010 Indianapolis Prize for his work on elephant conservation.His chief research interest is to understand elephant...
  
  
• John Downer
• Alastair Fothergill
  Alastair Fothergill
  Alastair Fothergill is a producer of nature documentaries for television and cinema. He is the executive producer of the multi-award winning series The Blue Planet and Planet Earth and the co-director of the associated feature films Deep Blue and Earth.Fothergill attended Harrow...
  
  
• Graeme Garden
  Graeme Garden
  David Graeme Garden OBE is a Scottish author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, who first became known as a member of The Goodies.-Early life and beginnings in comedy:...
  
  
• Jane Goodall
  Jane Goodall
  Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE , is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National...
  
   (uncredited archive footage)
• David Gower
  David Gower
  David Ivon Gower OBE is a former English cricketer who became a commentator for Sky Sports. Although he eventually rose to the captaincy of the England cricket team during the 1980s, he is best known for being one of the most stylish left-handed batsmen of the modern era. Gower played 117 Test...
  
  
• Hans Hass
  Hans Hass
  Hans Hass is a diving pioneer known mainly for his documentaries about sharks, the energon theory, and his commitment, later in life, to the protection of the environment. He was born in Vienna, Austria.-Early years:...
  
   (archive footage)
• Lotte Hass
  Lotte Hass
  Charlotte Hildegard Hass is the second wife of the Austrian naturalist and diving pioneer Hans Hass and worked as an underwater model and actress in several of his films...
  
   (archive footage)
• Diane-Louise Jordan
  Diane-Louise Jordan
  Diane-Louise Jordan is a British television presenter. She was the first black presenter of the children's television programme Blue Peter, being involved in the programme from 25 January 1990 until 26 February 1996, making her its fourth longest-serving female presenter .Born in 1960, Jordan grew...
  
  
• Eric Knowles
  Eric Knowles
  Eric Knowles is a British antiques expert whose main interest is in ceramics.He first became famous after being a ceramics expert on the Antiques Roadshow. He has also appeared in such programmes as, Going for a Song, Going, Going, Gone, Noel's House Party, Call My Bluff and 20th Century Roadshow...
  
  
• Betty Leonard
• Dennis Leonard
  Dennis Leonard
  Dennis Patrick Leonard was one of the Kansas City Royals' most dominating pitchers of the late '70s and early '80s, but a promising career cut short due to injuries. In 1975, his first full year he managed to bust out with a 15-7 record...
  
  
• Shauna Lowry
  Shauna Lowry
  Shauna Lowry is a television presenter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is probably most famous for being the reporter on the popular BBC series, Animal Hospital and ITV 1's Style Challenge. She also presented the National Lottery and presented coverage of Northern Ireland's celebrations on...
  
  
• Nigel Marven
  Nigel Marven
  Nigel Marven is a British wildlife presenter, television producer, author, and ornithologist.-Career:Marven studied botany at Bristol University until the age of 22 when he left to begin his career at the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol...
  
  
• Leonard Miall
  Leonard Miall
  Rowland Leonard Miall was a broadcaster and administrator at the BBC for 35 years, from 1939 to 1974. In retirement, he became a research historian, studying the history of broadcasting.-Early life:...
  
  
• Desmond Morris
  Desmond Morris
  Desmond John Morris, born 24 January 1928 in Purton, north Wiltshire, is a British zoologist and ethologist, as well as a popular anthropologist. He is also known as a painter, television presenter and popular author.-Life:...
  
  
• Stephen Moss
  Stephen Moss
  Stephen Moss is a British natural historian, birder, author and television producer. He is married, with five children , and lives in Somerset, having moved there from West London....
  
  
• Trude Mostue
  Trude Mostue
  Trude Mostue is a Norwegian celebrity veterinary surgeon and television presenter.She was born in Oslo, Norway, grew up in Siggerud, lived for many years in the United Kingdom, but now resides in Norway....
  
  
• Neil Nightingale
  Neil Nightingale
  Neil Nightingale is a senior producer at the BBC's Natural History Unit, the largest wildlife film-making production unit in the world, and was its Head from February 2003 until January 2009...
  
  
• Terry Nutkins
  Terry Nutkins
  Terence P. Nutkins is an English naturalist, television presenter and author. He is known for his television appearances, notably in the UK children's programmes Animal Magic, The Really Wild Show, Brilliant Creatures and Growing Up Wild.-Biography:Terry Nutkins was born in Marylebone, London, and...
  
  
• Chris Packham
  Chris Packham
  Christopher George "Chris" Packham is an English naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author. He is the brother of fashion designer, Jenny Packham...
  
  
• Don Packham
• Barry Paine
• Michael Peacock
  Michael Peacock
  Michael Peacock was a British television executive, who from 1963 until the spring of 1965 was the first ever Controller of BBC Two, the Corporation's second television channel....
  
  
• Julian Pettifer
  Julian Pettifer
  Julian Pettifer OBE is a British television journalist. He was President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and is Vice President of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts...
  
  
• Alan Root
  Alan Root
  Alan Root is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who worked on nature documentary series' such as Survival.He was married to fellow filmmaker Joan Root, who was a Kenyan-born conservationist and ecological activist...
  
  
• Gaby Roslin
  Gaby Roslin
  Gaby Roslin is an English television presenter and actress. She rose to fame while co-presenting The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 between 1992 and 1996, and also presented the BBC's Children in Need charity appeal from 1994 to 2004....
  
  
• Mike Salisbury
  Mike Salisbury
  John Michael Salisbury, OBE is a British documentary filmmaker specialising in natural history programmes for television. In a career spanning four decades, he spent over 30 years working for the BBC Natural History Unit where he produced a string of award-winning series, many in collaboration...
  
  
• Falcon Scott
• Jonathan Scott
  Jonathan Scott (zoologist)
  Jonathan Scott is an English zoologist and wildlife photographer specializing in African wildlife. He spends much of his time in the Masai Mara National Game Reserve in southwest Kenya and the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania.He and his wife Angie, who is also a wildlife photographer,...
  
  
• Philippa Scott
  Philippa Scott
  Phillippa Scott, Lady Scott was a British champion of wildlife conservation and the widow of Sir Peter Scott....
  
  
• Robert Falcon Scott
  Robert Falcon Scott
  Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...
  
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• Keith Shackleton
  Keith Shackleton
  Keith Shackleton is a British painter who has concentrated on landscape views and animals. He has also produced limited edition prints. He was a friend of the conservationist and fellow painter Peter Scott and they visited Antarctica together...
  
  
• Tony Soper
  Tony Soper
  Tony Soper is a naturalist, author and broadcaster from Plymouth in England. Born 10 January 1929, he was educated at Hyde Park Elementary School and at Devonport High School, both in Plymouth...
  
  
• John Sparks
• Michaela Strachan
  Michaela Strachan
  Michaela Evelyn Ann Strachan is an English television presenter.-Personal life:Strachan attended Claremont Fan Court School, Esher, a Christian Science school. Later, while at college, she briefly held jobs as an Avon lady and as a kissogram...
  
  
• Moira Stuart
  Moira Stuart
  Moira Clare Ruby Stuart OBE is a British journalist who was the first African-Caribbean female newsreader on British television...
  
  
• Roger Tabor, cat biologist, The Wild Life of the Domestic Cat
• Alan Titchmarsh
  Alan Titchmarsh
  Alan Fred Titchmarsh, MBE DL is an English gardener, broadcaster and novelist. After working as a professional gardener and a garden journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on gardening programmes...
  
  
• Colin Willock
  Colin Willock
  Colin Willock was a magazine editor and a nature documentary writer and producer, working on series such as ITV's Survival....
  
  
• Sheila Young
  Sheila Young
  Sheila Grace Young-Ochowicz is a former speed skater and track cyclist from the United States.-Short biography:...