A veteran BBC wildlife television presenter, author, and naturalist has died at the age of 95.
Tony Soper co-founded the BBC’s Natural History Unit, which began in Bristol in 1957 and has since produced innumerable wildlife documentaries around the world.
Mr Soper was born in Southampton in 1929 and raised in Plymouth, where he began his career with the company as a trainee engineer in 1947.
He worked as a wildlife camera operator and film producer before presenting various TV shows, including Birdwatch and Beside the Sea.
Speaking to BBC Radio Devon in 1995, Mr Soper stated that the team who established the section “had to be very resourceful” in its early years.
“Our cutting room set up was a projector and a splicing machine, which we bought from the local camera shop – we lusted after having a camera so we could shoot our own film,” he told me.
According to his website, he began working as a freelancer in 1963 to live near the sea in Devon.
He went on to guide wildlife cruises to the Arctic and Antarctica, as well as write numerous books about wildlife in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Mr Soper is survived by his wife Hilary, sons Tim and Jack, and five grandkids.
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