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Now turn to POP two. You'll hear a naturalist called Nick Phillips talking about his career as a
presenter of wildlife programmes on television. Questions seven to fourteen complete the sentences
with a word or short phrase you know have forty five seconds to look at part two. Hello I'm Nick
Phillips. Welcome to my talk about life as a naturalist in my work on the T.V. wildlife series called
Rain Forest travels I never saw myself as a medium. Actually I was always set on a career in geology
thinking it's a get me to some interesting places. In fact the university courses on imaginably boring
natural history would have been more interesting indeed. I was working as a nature writer when the
idea struck me from the first programme to go off into the jungle filming whatever came my way. I
edited the footage and sent it to various T.V. companies one of which took me on as resident
adventurer to use their own term a contradictory label I've always thought because to be honest
global wonder it would have been more accurate for rain forest travels we worked incredibly long
days. Wild life rhythms. I mean being up before dawn and working right into the night on the biggest
post for me was on the night walks under a moonlit sky with the help of a head torch in a magnifying
glass. You could focus on a tiny area and lose yourself in the data. Now whether animal tracks tree
bark Whatever the middle of the day we had off and it's then that I worked on my wildlife books
jungle creatures my latest had some good initial reviews but proved a lot more time consuming than
green treasures my debut publication. I guess I'm lots more competing commitments now. Anyway
things have changed over the fifteen years I've been working especially the technology the filming
equipment is now extremely sophisticated in the film itself much more sensitive and the power we
use lighter batteries now when you can't see everything around yourself from lenses to cables This is
very welcome. Everyone thinks my job is glamorous but believe me there's no well less glamorous
than the rainforest and spend half my time in a leaky tent trying to make sure no kit gets wet or the
spiders don't invade my sleeping bag that said I do sleep remarkably well in the rain forest. I find I
positively enjoy the nighttime sounds of the frogs and crickets rather like a concert preferable to the
loud chorus of monkeys which acts as my dawn alarm call. Let me put it that way. Now actually
things do go wrong sometimes animals don't always do what you want or ones we nearly missed
filming Samantha low because of an airport delay and another time an angry elephant stopped us
getting close ups of a car if you just have to accept these things and stay true to the spirit of the
program showing natures it is an encouraging viewers especially children to develop a love for
wildlife. That's what it's about. Just last month after recording a program where I was showing a
video of small mammals to a live audience I was approached by a seven year old impressed by shots
of a field mouse something she'd never seen before. He whispered I spotted my first batch yesterday
having recognized the animal from a previous show. Now that made my day. Now you'll hear part
two again. Hello I'm Nick Phillips welcome to my talk about life as a naturalist in my work on the
T.V. wildlife series called Rain Forest travels I never saw myself as a medium. Actually I was always
set on a career in geology thinking it's a get me to some interesting places. In fact the university
courses on imaginably boring natural history would have been more interesting indeed. I was
working as a nature writer when the idea struck me from the first programme to go off into the
jungle filming whatever came my way. I edited the footage and sent it to various T.V. companies one
of which took me on as a resident adventurer to use their own term a contradictory label I've always
thought because to be honest global one hundred would have been more accurate. Very rain forest
travels we worked incredibly long days. Wild life rhythms mean being up before dawn and working
right into the nighttime. The biggest plus for me was on the night walks under a moonlit sky with the
help of the head torch in a magnifying glass. You could focus on a tiny area and lose yourself in the
data. Now whether animal tracks tree bark whatever. In the middle of the day we had off and it's
then that I worked on my wildlife books jungle creatures my latest had some good initial reviews but
proved a lot more time consuming than green treasures my debut publication. I guess I'm lots more
competing commitments now. Anyway things have changed over the fifteen years I've been working
especially the technology the filming equipment is now extremely sophisticated in the film itself
much more sensitive. The power we use lighter batteries now when you can't see everything around
yourself from lenses to cables This is very welcome. Everyone thinks my job is glamorous but believe

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me there's no well less glamorous than the rainforest and spend half my time in a leaky tent trying to
make sure no kit. It's what all the spiders don't invade my sleeping bag. That said I do sleep
remarkably well in the rain forest. I find I positively enjoy the nighttime sounds of the frogs and
crickets rather like a concert preferable to the loud chorus of monkeys which acts as my dawn alarm
call. Let me put it that way. Naturally things do go wrong sometimes animals don't always do what
you want or ones we nearly missed filming some antelope because of an airport delay and another
time an angry elephant stopped us getting close ups of a car off you just have to accept these things
and stay true to the spirit of the program showing natures it is an encouraging viewers especially
children to develop a love for wildlife. That's what it's about. Just last month after recording a
program where I was showing a video of small mammals to a live audience I was approached by a
seven year old impressed by shots of a field mouse something she'd never seen before. He whispered
I spotted my bat yesterday having recognized the animal from a previous show. Now that made my
day. That's the end of Part two.