A former BBC wildlife TV presenter, author and naturalist has died aged 95. He died yesterday. (10th January 1929
- 18th September 2024).
Tony Soper co-founded the BBC's Natural History Unit, which began in Bristol in 1957 and has since produced countless wildlife programmes around the world.
Mr Soper was born in Southampton in 1929 and brought up in Plymouth, where he started his career at the corporation as a trainee engineer in 1947.
He was a wildlife camera operator, a film producer and went on to present many TV shows, including Birdwatch and Beside the Sea.
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For those of us that remember him, he was a fixture on television and wildlife programme and of course because of his pioneering, wildlife programmes in the UK and the world would not be what that are today including the presenters who host them from from the newest to even David Attenborough himself, as well as the many wildlife we have been able to capture and show the world at large.
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Wikipedia:
Tony Soper was a British naturalist, author and broadcaster.
