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What would you do if I said “paging inspector sands”?

Not op obviously but I work in a not dissimilar field of television production.

You have the perfect educational background for getting into that field. But honestly any science degree is fine. Even a non related degree works.

Next step is getting work experience at a company that does science/nature docs. You do this by sending your cv or trying to get on a dedicated internship scheme that broadcasters like channel 4 and larger independent production groups such as All 3 and EndemolShine run.

If that fails, look up the production companies that make your favourite docs and write to the head of production or head of development asking for an internship.protip you have no experience so watch their stuff and write an excellent covering letter saying what you liked.

If you get an internship, prepare to work super hard, do anything that’s asked, no matter how dull and try and learn.

At the end, start applying v for runner jobs. At this point, don’t worry if they aren’t nature docs. 6-12 months of being a runner. Then you’ll be applying for researcher jobs. A couple of years of this, you’ll start applying for Assistant producer jobs. 3-5 years later, congrats, you’re now probably a producer.

Natural history is very specialised. So you need to pick and choose jobs.

Essentially tv is pretty hard work, not great pay for the first 5 years or so. It’s unglamorous and lots of hours, but it’s not by any means an impossible field to get into.

Sounds like LuckyJenny not been getting so lucky of late...

This will get buried but...

I am also obsessed with trying weird fruits abroad, I'm so happy I found your videos. I thought I was the only weirdo that got excited by it :)

I now grow weird fruit (and veg) my favourite being the Chilean guava. I'm guessing you have tried this but if not please hunt it out. It's actually a berry and tastes like bubblegum and strawberries. It was queen Victoria's favourite fruit. It grows happily in my garden in the uk!

I also grow kaffir lime, grape sized hairless kiwis, cucamelons, white, wild and Mara des Bois strawberries, and some other unusual things like oca, physalis and yacon.

Right I'm going to watch more fruit reviews and plan a holiday round them now :)

Ha ha ha! Not the answer I was expecting but a good one nonetheless!