Lions At Longleat
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Michele Brown goes on an African safari this week in the heart of the English countryside. At Longleat in Wiltshire the family home of the Marquess of Bath she tours Britain’s oldest safari park, meeting lions, hippos, cheetahs and rhinos in the care of two game managers from Tanzania who have come to England to study Africa’s own wild animals.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes a short interview with Lord Bath. NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Animals; Scenery and travel
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/809
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Director
- Charles Leigh-Bennett
- Presenter
- Esmeralda Reyna
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Support services
- Jane Taylor
- Cutter
- Maurice Tarling
- Presenter
- Michele Brown
- Producer
- Tony Hinton
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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