![]() ![]() Myself and Bill in the jungle in Halmahera island. Put the dates in your calendar and tune in on the 21 Apr to see the first episode. More information about Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero, including some clips (two of which are footage which never made it in to the programme), can be seen on the BBC2 website. My wife Jan came out as well and we wrote a number of posts for this blog about our experiences, starting with this one. I had an amazing time: I experienced the first earthquake of my life (scary), got up close and personal with black macaques (one even used my back as a trampoline when I bent over to photograph an insect!), was enthralled by gremlin-like tarsiers, impressed by colossal coconut crabs, and blown-away by Wallace's standardwing birds of paradise displaying only about 10 metres away from me. In July last year I was lucky enough to spend 3 weeks working on the second programme with Bill and the BBC crew in Indonesia (Sulawesi, Ternate and Halmahera). Me admiring a nocturnal coconut crab (the world's largest terrestrial arthropod!) in Sulawesi. Due to constraints such as not being able to film on all the islands that the Producers would have liked to, and the need to simplify the story for television, a few minor inaccuracies remain that should only be noticed by a few real Wallace geeks. I was Series Consultant for the programme and my main jobs were to provide information about Wallace and to check all the facts to ensure that the script was as historically accurate as possible. Bill's personal passion for the subject is obvious. Bill's subtle and surreal humour works brilliantly to keep the viewer entertained, whilst not detracting from or trivialising the story. I have seen an almost finished version and I think it is excellent. Nothing like this has ever been made about Wallace before and I am hoping that it will increase interest in his life and work considerably. It is called Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero and the first episode will be shown on BBC2 at 20.00 on 21 April, and episode 2 on 28 April. Bill Bailey's two part TV series on Wallace is finally ready to be broadcast.
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