I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.
In this episode, I have a chat with the Creative Director at the BBC Natural History Unit, producer Mike Gunton, about nature, reality, lordly sirs, dueling giraffes, vindictive elephants, night rhinos, and deep frontiers.
Gunton’s latest BBC nature documentary, AFRICA, arrives on DVD & Blu-Ray on 2/26, while the feature film ONE LIFE is in theaters now and comes to home video in April.
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