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TV & RADIO

March 2009

CHANNEL 5 - THE LION CUBS FROM HARRODS (24 03 09) 
TV Documentary about the incredible story of Christian the lion, reunited with his former owners in the wilds of Africa, comes to Five following extraordinary popularity on YouTube that saw close to 11 million people watch documentary footage of the touching meeting. Includes interviews with Born Free founder Virginia McKenna
To view programme online please visit:  http://demand.five.tv/Episode.aspx?episodeBaseName=C5146010001 
http://demand.five.tv/Series.aspx?seasonBaseName=TheLionCubFromHarrodsSeason1
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BBC NEWS CHANNEL                           07:40AM (26 03 09)
TV interview with Ace and John discussing Christian the Lion, included a clip with Virginia McKenna from the documentary on Channel 5 on Tuesday 24 March.
The interview can be viewed here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/7965435.stm and Virginia's clip is 0.38 second into the film.

February 2009

GMTV – LIVE INTERVIEW WITH WILL TRAVERS (27 02 09)          06.50AM & 08.20AM 
Live television interview with Will Travers and Chris Barltrop spokesperson from The Great British Circus. 

MORE4 – TEAR JERKERS (07 02 09)      
Programme mentions the Born Free movie, includes interviews with Virginia McKenna and BF celebrity Patron Rachael Hunter both talking about BF

January 2009

UN unveils new projects to save Africa’s rarest ape http://www.terracurve.com/2009/01/15/un-unveils-new-projects-to-save-africas-rarest-ape/

GORILLAS ON THIN ICE (03 01 09)
Press release about Gorillas on Thin Ice event in London on Thursday 15th January, includes a quote by Ian Redmond OBE, YoG Ambasador
http://www.filmmakersforconservation.org/news-events/1-latest-news/155-gorillas-on-thin-ice.html?tmpl=component&print=1&page=
http://www.rexfeatures.com/storytext/live/2009/01/15/Donal%20MacIntyre%20launches%20'Year%20of%20the%20Gorilla',%20Natural%20History

Ian Redmond being interviewed by MSN:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-gb 
Go to ‘Gorillas skate on thin ice’ to view

TV3
Donal skates with the Gorilla's http://www.tv3.ie/article.php?article_id=6874&locID=1.65.288

VIRGINMEDIA.COM –GORILLA POPULATIONS ‘ON THIN ICE’
http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/news/environment/2009/01/15/gorilla_
populations_on_thin_ice

Projects to Save Africa's Rarest Ape Unveiled by UN and Wildlife Groups
http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=556&ArticleID=6038&l=en
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For archives of TV & Radio coverage in 2008 click here