He was a favourite of mine when I was a child.
His enthusiasm, and animated motions of glee when he spoke about whatever bug, bird, flowers, or mammal that he was on the television telling us about, always enchanted me.
I wanted to be just like David Bellamy, I used to do impressions of him, stroking my pretend beard and gesticulating wildly in front of the family dog. (Who would stare back in bewildered confusion with his head tilted slightly to one side!)
I had a few of his books too, and I seem to recall an 'I Spy' annual related to him as well. He was in fact, a perfect childrens wildlife presenter.
Where did he go? He just disappeared from our lives in the late nineties didn't he?
I put it down to the fact that children's wildlife programmes were less popular now, for whatever reason.
Part of me even wondered if he had passed away...
Well, thanks to Steve at The Daily Referendum, I have been reunited with my childhood friend, alive and well, and still just as enthusiastic about his science, which he believes is the reason he is no longer with us on our televisions;
Two media colleagues, Julian Pettifer and Robin Page, were publicly sacked by the BBC — in essence, because they could no longer be viewed as non-biased in their opinions.
I can only only assume that, to them, I also fell into that category — because from that point on my career on TV came to an abrupt end. Despite my resume of approximately 400 TV shows. more: 5th December 2009...
I am genuinely thrilled to have him back! Seriously!
I can still learn much from him, and he's still talking about things that I want to hear about, just as he did when I was a child.
There is no evidence of carbon dioxide being a poison, or that it is capable of causing a warming Armageddon.
What follows is a summary of the proof — straight from real science, peer-reviewed over the past 232 years by legions of physicists, thanks to Newton’s Principia. more: 12th December 2009.
Mr Bellamy, welcome back Sir!
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