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Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 196

Not a lot. That sounds a bit sort of arrogant, you know, it sounds as if, well, you know, everything I did was fine. It was a wonderful life. I wouldn’t change anything from a personal point of view and I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t have missed a moment of it. Read More

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If you could go back in time, what, if anything, would you have done differently?… Read More

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You’ve had a long and storied career. Read More

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Well, I think one of the ways of getting or audiences outside the zoo world to really understand what the, what the zoo world is trying to do is for not just directors, but also senior staff members within the zoo community to find a way to get involved with… Read More

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But even, you know, what I find go going around the state that even people that have never been to that zoo since childhood are very aware of it. And, and there is a sense of pride from what they hear that this is, this place is unusual and it’s… Read More

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What does that mean and has it been done often or not?… Read More

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Well, I think in the early days there was, you know, because the state had no, no u unlike most others, the, there was a huge sense and still is a huge sense of pride in, you know, in this zoo, you know, this is our zoo. And that has… Read More

Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 188

So yeah, they’re, they’re very valuable, but they’re not a complete, you know, I think it’s a mistake imagining that, you know, if you’ve got screens everywhere, and of course we are all using screens for various informational purposes, but that if you’ve got screens everywhere that somehow is gonna… Read More

Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 187

There’s Twitter, there’s Facebook remote cameras to draw attention to wildlife. Is that the upcoming thing or is it just part of Of broader Yeah, it’s part, it’s part of a, a broader sort of portfolio of, of, of information. I use the word deliberately information rather than education. Education… Read More

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And did you get the community, what were your strategies to get the community to embrace the North Carolina Zoo?… Read More

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How can, how do you feel new technology can assist in promoting zoos?… Read More

Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 185

’cause we, you know, we, we not so meant much at the moment, but we had a very good guy in the marketing department who was a very good presenter. And so he and I and other staff used to do, you know, regular TV programs talking about what we… Read More

Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 184

But you can imagine what all the millionaire neighbors sitting in houses overlooking Regions Park thought about that. So there was, and, and, and then of course you had this, this, this other problem of having so many buildings that were the first in the zoo. Well, so you had… Read More

Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 183

The the zoo, if you, it’s actually divided into three parts. The zoos, you’ve got a road running through the middle of it, the the outer circle re spot, and a canal running through another part. So you’ve actually got three bits. The canal is, is very popular from a… Read More

Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 182

Either more important things to do. So dealing with the media through that period of time, really the 10 years or so that I was in charge, or certainly supporting the in charge people dealing with the media was quite a challenge. It taught me a lot. But how to… Read More

Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 181

The fact that London, you know, any institution which is venerable and you know, very much in the public eye, but at a time when also there was, you know, a lot of, a lot of, you know, why, why should we fund London Zoo?… Read More

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Did you have a good relationship with the press and, and how did you nurture that relationship?… Read More

Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 180

Very different between London and North Carolina, because in London, London you were dealing with a pretty vicious media overall wasn’t helped of course, by the, by the anti zoo lobby figures like Zuckerman and others. Good, great though they were for the, for the society were controversial figures in… Read More

Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 178

You know, whoever, whoever or whatever that form of governance may be, they may decide on something different. Read More

Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 177

So that, that’s the only sense it’s being followed. There is, there is no, unless I’m outta date, and I don’t think I am the, for this, for this anyway, there is no set master plan. But in recent years, the building and Asia continent and then an Australian continent… Read More

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