You have to trust your instincts in a way.
We kind of learnt as we were going along. “I think we, by and large, got the balance right. “The subject matter may be a little difficult to assimilate, so you need to make sure that it is accessible, so that it doesn’t become too dry and academic.
BILL BAILEY BBC DOCUMENTARY ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE TV
When I mention Wallace to people, they immediately go, ‘Wallace and Gromit’?”īut like many presenters of natural history shows, Bailey found that the biggest challenge was trying to make sure the TV audience would understand the message he was trying to convey. “This was a personal quest in a way, to tell the story of someone whom I don’t think many people would have heard of, outside of the academic world. I go back to Malaysia and Indonesia about two or three times a year,” he said.įor Bailey, doing Jungle Hero was “a real labour of love”. “I’ve been trekking jungles throughout South-east Asia for the past 15 to 20 years. So it’s not because there are birds out there called tits? “It’s more than because there are birds called tits - although that probably comes along at some point.”īailey is no stranger to the rainforests in this part of the world either. It was just a thing we did, but I guess that’s given me a life-long love for the natural world.” So I got to know the names of birds and all that. “And my mum and dad would take us out to wildlife or bird sanctuaries - that was a family day out. “When I was kid, behind the house, there was a path with a river and I used to go play there after school,” he said over the phone from London.
How does one of Britain’s top comedians end up trudging through rainforests? Well, blame his childhood. It was Wallace who eventually encouraged Darwin to publish his own controversial theories on evolution. SINGAPORE - He’s best known for being a funny guy, but the next time you see comedian Bill Bailey on TV here, he’ll be deep in the jungles of South-east Asia for his documentary, Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero.īailey will be retracing the footsteps of Alfred Russel Wallace, the largely forgotten scientist who was a contemporary of Charles Darwin, and whose ideas on evolution were developed during a 12-year journey through what was then widely known as the Malay Archipelago.
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