Ep. 502 - Steve Backshall
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Steve Backshall is a BAFTA-winning wildlife presenter, explorer and author. His hit BBC series Deadly 60, where he tracks down the world’s most remarkable predators, is a huge hit amongst kids and adults. A seasoned adventurer, he has led expeditions to some of the planet’s most remote and dangerous environments, including uncharted jungle rivers and unexplored cave systems. Steve has presented numerous wildlife and adventure documentaries for the BBC and Sky, including Expedition with Steve Backshall, Lost Land of the Jaguar, and Deadly Pole to Pole. He’s also a bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction, and holds honorary doctorates for his work in conservation and education. His latest project is the podcast That’s Just Wild, co-presented by wildlife biologist Lizzie Daly and journalist Sarah Roberts, they dive deep into the wonders of the natural world. From braving Arctic extremes to swimming with sharks, each episode begins with a bold superlative—Spiky, Freezing, Venomous—and unfolds into remarkable tales of the wild. Listen here now - https://thatsjustwild.lnk.to/podcastpu .
Steve Backshall is our guest in episode 502 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Listen to Steve’s podcast, That’s Just Wild, here - https://thatsjustwild.lnk.to/podcastpu .
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Look at you with your fancy pants job, sitting at your laptop all day, on your video meetings, saying things like, let's circle back on this, or can you drill down on that, or deep dive. |
| 0:15.1 | You know what you are, don't you? You're entitled, that's what? |
| 0:20.0 | That's right. |
| 0:24.0 | Most people who use a screen at work are entitled to claim free eye care. |
| 0:27.1 | Tell your boss to look into our corporate vouchers. |
| 0:29.9 | Should have reached out to my time capsule. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five |
| 0:50.2 | things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:53.6 | They pick four things they |
| 0:54.7 | cherish and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. And my very special guest in this |
| 0:59.7 | episode is Steve Baxhill, MBE. Steve is a natural history TV presenter, adventurer, public speaker, |
| 1:07.4 | author and now podcaster. He's a BAFTA award-winning wildlife expert who inspires people |
| 1:13.5 | of all ages with his enthusiasm for the natural world and his love of challenge and adventure. |
| 1:19.7 | Steve's extreme adventures include Lost Land of the Tiger, Lost Lad of the Volcano, and Lost Land |
| 1:25.3 | of the Jaguar for BBC One. He explored a sinkhole for the Emmy |
| 1:29.2 | nominated epic Expedition Borneo for BBC One and tracked to the heart of America's most inhospitable |
| 1:36.0 | terrain for Expedition Alaska. Steve has presented Britain's lost world, extreme caving, inside out, |
| 1:43.6 | The One Show, The Nature of Britain and The Really Wild Show, |
| 1:47.5 | as well as Blue Planet Live, deadly dinosaur, monster mountain, the hugely successful Wild Alaska Live, |
| 1:54.3 | and Hedgehog A&E with Brian May for Channel 5. |
| 1:58.3 | He's made Down the Mighty River with Steve Batchellhill and featured in the two-part series Extreme Mountain Challenge |
| 2:03.8 | and in fierce. |
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