75 Years At Longleat on SBS and SBS on Demand S1E1 – Step behind the scenes of the world famous Longleat House and Gardens as it celebrates 75 years of being open to the public.
Lord and Lady Bath have granted unprecedented access to their stately home and safari park and a wide selection of the 600 people who work there – from animal keepers to cleaners, gardeners to cooks, historians to handymen, as they reveal what it takes to keep a grand estate open for up to one million annual visitors.
The series also highlights many of the 1,000 animals – from lions and rhinos, to red pandas and koalas; and joins in with the spectacular 75th anniversary celebrations.
Season One, Episode One:
In this episode, Ceawlin Thynn, the current Lord Bath, explains how his grandfather, Henry, the 6th Marquess of Bath, worked alongside Jimmy Chipperfield of Chipperfield Circus fame, to open up the world’s first safari park outside of Africa.
In 1966 Jimmy Chipperfield and the Marquess brought in 50 lions from as far away as Ethiopia and Kenya and released them into a one hundred acre fenced reserve.
Using amateur footage from the period never seen before on British television, the episode that whilst the public flocked to the safari park, not everyone was happy to see big game roaming freely in the Wiltshire countryside.
75 Years At Longleat on SBS and SBS on Demand – Season Premiere / Saturday 27 September at 8.25pm (3 Parts)
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75 Years At Longleat on SBS and SBS on Demand S1E1
