Phil Drabble
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Revision as of 18:41, 30 July 2007
Biography
Erstwhile presenter of the BBC2 television coverage of watching sheep in a field (some even jumping over fences) for nearly 20 years. Left the heavy industry of Staffordshire's Black Country at the age of 47 to become a nature writer and conservationist. With his wife Jess, he set up a 90-acre woodland nature reserve next to which planners subequently threatened to build a 300,000-capacity leisure village for campers.
He died in 2007, aged 93.
Trivia
He used to earn 45 shillings a week.
