{"product_id":"book-keog","title":"Not Just Funny Animal Voices (BBC Radio 4)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BBC Radio 4 documentary all about Johnny Morris of BBC TV's 'Animal Magic' fame, a household name and character who created charming, comic voices for the creatures in the show.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Not Just Funny Animal Voices’ presenter \u003cb\u003eTerry Nutkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Johnny’s TV side-kick, mentor and close friend until Johnny’s death in 1999), explores Johnny's life and work, and explains that what made him unique was not just ‘Animal Magic’, but a colourful life and broadcasting career stretching back to 1946.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne major event in Johnny's life, was when the show ended in 1983. For the first time the man who axed that programme, former head of the BBC Natural History Unit, \u003cb\u003eJohn Sparks\u003c\/b\u003e, speaks about making that decision and how he broke the news to Johnny. Also featuring interviews with \u003cb\u003eDesmond Hawkins\u003c\/b\u003e (founder of the Natural History Unit), who discovered Johnny in a pub; BBC producer \u003cb\u003eTony Soper\u003c\/b\u003e who describes the tension between them as he wanted to make 'straight nat-hist' films and wasn't keen on Johnny's anthropomorphic approach; and \u003cb\u003eMirielle Farrow\u003c\/b\u003e, a close friend of Johnny's who discusses his marriage to a much older woman and why he had a passion for cats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Karen Gregor.\u003cbr\u003eBroadcast on BBC Radio 4, 18 February 2011.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e©2011 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2011 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49487758721328,"sku":"BDkeog","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/683242-keog-Square.jpg?v=1737987650","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-keog","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}