Lucy Tassell
speaker
622 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Sep
Lucy Tassell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That is an area known for being particularly rich
In fossils, there's a lot of limestone rocks there, and that's the perfect environment for fossil preservation.
So as a little boy, he was fascinated by that aspect of nature.
He went on to go to Cambridge University.
He was awarded a scholarship there where he studied natural sciences.
But his TV career almost happened by accident.
It's a really interesting story that he saw an ad in the paper for a sound radio job.
He applied for that, didn't get it, didn't even get to an interview stage.
But a short time later, he received a letter from the BBC and they had this new thing called television going on.
He was interested.
He was invited to attend a three month training course.
He was paid about a thousand pounds for that course, which he said was three times more than he was earning per year at the time.
Yeah, that's a lot of money.
money.
Exactly.
And so he kind of couldn't refuse that opportunity.
So he went on, he did that training course, and then he joined the BBC as a producer.
So he was working behind the scenes in television production in 1952.
Two years later, he launched a series called Zoo Quest with a reptile curator, a guy called Jack Lester.
And as part of that program, he traveled the world
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