Clare Frauds presents the ftrst of two special World About Us programmes in which expedition film-makers compete for The Mick Burke Award
This trophy is given by the BBC and the Royal Geographical Society in memory of the BBC cameraman who died on Everest in 1975. The judges:
Wally Herbert , explorer
Bill Travers , actor and maker of wildlife films
Dr Marjorie Sweeting of the Royal Geographical Society
Bob Saunders, BBC World About Us television producer
They will be looking for the best of six films made by amateur teams under difficult, exacting conditions. Tonight the first films take us to:
The mountains of North Alaska The Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia and The Okavango Swamps, Botswana, in search of the rare and elusive Red Letchwe deer.
Film editor JOHN NASH
Studio director mike cathehwood Producer patsicia WOOD
(Part 2; including pretentation of the trophy tomorrow at 7.55 pad
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