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Animal Park is a BBC television documentary series about the lives of keepers and animals at Longleat Safari and Adventure Park, Wiltshire, England. The show is presented by Kate Humble, Ben Fogle and Megan McCubbin, with appearances by members of Longleat staff and the landowners, the Thynn family.

As of August 2025, there have been 21 series of the programme as well as three special series, usually shown during school holidays and broadcast on weekdays in the daytime as daily episodes.

Content

Programmes show the animals, keepers, and day-to-day running of the safari park. Some of the animals captured the hearts of the viewing public, including the tiger 'Kadu', rhinos 'Babs' and 'Winston', and Europe's oldest male silverback gorilla, 'Nico'.

Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, owner of the Longleat estate until his death on 4 April 2020, appeared regularly in the show. Animal Park also documents the running of Longleat House and the ongoing preservation of its historic contents.

History

Predecessors

The Lions of Longleat is a 1967 BBC One documentary about the newly opened safari park with commentary by Lord Bath and Jimmy Chipperfield.[1] Another series, Lion Country, aired between 1998 and 1999 with a total of 55 episodes.

Original series

The first series of Animal Park, originally broadcast in 2000 on BBC One, was presented by Kate Humble and Paul Heiney.[2] In series two, Heiney was replaced by Ben Fogle. Altogether, there were nine series and 150 episodes of Animal Park, with the last episode originally airing on 25 March 2009.

Spin-offs

There have been two spin-offs from the main series. Animal Park: Wild in Africa was originally broadcast in 2005 on BBC Two.[3] Set in Namibia, it documented the work of wildlife conservationists.

Another spin-off, Animal Park: Wild on the West Coast, had a similar format in California, and was originally broadcast in 2007 on BBC Two.[4]

2016 revival

In 2016, the BBC announced that Animal Park would return for a tenth series to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Longleat Safari Park.[5] This series aired for five episodes in August 2016 in a daytime slot. The show was renamed Animal Park: Summer Special and was presented by Kate Humble and Ben Fogle, with Jean Johansson as a reporter.

An eleventh series was broadcast in 2017. Five episodes aired during Easter, with a further ten airing during the summer.[6]

Animal Park: Summer Special, series twelve, was aired in August 2018.[7] Episode 3 celebrated the life of the gorilla 'Nico', who died in January 2018 at the age of 56.[8][9] Episode 7 featured wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas, who used his remote-control BeetleCam to take a series of close-up photographs of the animals.[10]

Humble and Fogle continued as presenters for the 2019 and 2020 series.

Series fourteen, episode 4 (first aired in August 2020) celebrated the life of the former owner of the Longleat estate, Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, who died in April 2020.[11][12] His son Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess and his wife Emma have since appeared on several episodes.

Series fifteen, aired in December 2020, had a Christmas theme.[13] In 2021, wildlife cameraman Hamza Yassin joined the presenting team.[14]

Series seventeen aired in August 2022, with Megan McCubbin replacing Johansson.[15]

Transmissions

Main series

Some episodes from series six and eight have been re-edited into 15, 25, 30 and 45-minute programmes to be repeated and used as schedule fillers.

Animal Park: Wild in Africa

Animal Park: Wild on the West Coast

References

  1. ↑"The Lions of Longleat – BBC One London – 12 November 1967". The Radio Times (2296). BBC Genome: 15. 9 November 1967. Archived from the original on 18 February 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  2. ↑"Animal Park - BBC One London - 20 July 2000". BBC Genome. Archived from the original on 9 February 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  3. ↑"Animal Park - Wild in Africa - BBC Two England - 5 April 2005". BBC Genome. Archived from the original on 9 February 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  4. ↑"Animal Park: Wild on the West Coast - BBC Two England - 23 July 2007". BBC Genome. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  5. ↑"Take part in Animal Park series 10". BBC. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  6. ↑Murray, Robin (3 March 2017). "Animal Park to return to Longleat with new major series". Wiltshire Times. Archived from the original on 3 March 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  7. ↑Archer, Kate (5 August 2018). "When is Animal Park Summer Special on? Who are the presenters? Where is it filmed?". BT TV. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  8. ↑"Animal Park Summer Special 2018 - episode 3". Animal Park. 8 August 2018. BBC One.
  9. ↑"Nico the Gorilla". Longleat. 9 January 2018. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "BeetleCam ofrece una vista desde el punto de vista de un insecto de los Cuatro Grandes de Longleat" . Archivado del original el 1 de septiembre de 2018. Consultado el 31 de agosto de 2018 .
  11. ↑ «Lord Bath fallece tras contraer coronavirus» . BBC News. 5 de abril de 2020. Archivado del original el 5 de abril de 2020. Consultado el 20 de agosto de 2020 .
  12. ↑ Animal Park - Verano 2020: Episodio 4 , archivado del original el 9 de febrero de 2022 , consultado el 20 de agosto de 2020
  13. ↑ "BBC One - Animal Park, especial de Navidad - Guía de episodios" . Archivado del original el 4 de febrero de 2021. Consultado el 31 de enero de 2021 .
  14. ↑ "BBC One - Animal Park, verano de 2021, episodio 1" . BBC . 25 de julio de 2022. Consultado el 6 de diciembre de 2022 .
  15. ↑ "La zoóloga Megan McCubbin se une al equipo de presentadores de Animal Park de BBC One" . Centro de Prensa de la BBC . 22 de julio de 2022. Consultado el 6 de diciembre de 2022 .
  16. ↑ "BBC Two - Animal Park: Salvaje en África - Guía de episodios" . Archivado del original el 2 de junio de 2021. Consultado el 30 de mayo de 2021 .
  17. ↑ "Índice de Programación de la BBC" . Archivado del original el 20 de mayo de 2022.
  18. ↑ "Índice de Programación de la BBC" . Archivado del original el 20 de mayo de 2022.
  19. ↑ "BBC Two - Animal Park: Salvaje en la Costa Oeste - Guía de episodios" . Archivado del original el 3 de junio de 2021. Consultado el 30 de mayo de 2021 .
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