• ‘Try not to step on any toads!’: David Attenborough’s camera wizards on how to film Britain’s wildlife

    ‘Try not to step on any toads!’: David Attenborough’s camera wizards on how to film Britain’s wildlife
    They have shot previously extinct butterflies, soaring white-tailed eagles and the lesser spotted David Attenborough. Now the team behind some of the BBC’s best nature docs are training their lenses closer to homeFerocious oceanic storms. Biting ants. Venomous snakes coiling round camera equipment. Weeks sat in icy water. But mostly weather. British weather. Gloom, hailstones, mud and rain; sometimes for weeks on end.Wildlife film-makers work with forbearance in hostile environments all ar

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