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Harry Butler is handling a native mouse he’s found in the grasslands of northern Queensland. He explains what makes this creature different from the house mouse.
Curator’s notes
This nicely shot early morning sequence really puts us in the bush with Harry, and his natural tone in dealing with the animals makes us feel we are there with him.
Harry Butler once told the radio science producer Robyn Williams that he worked without a script on these In The Wild programs. He said, 'There’s no script. I’ve not the slightest idea what we’re going to say next. But you go into a country and when you come in you say to the cameraman and the sound man and director, look, this is the story as I see this piece of country, or this particular thing. If I pull off that piece of bark there’s going to be an animal underneath it. I’m not quite sure what sort of animal it is but it’ll be an animal. There will be one there, I can tell that so we’ll just have to suck it and see. So what you really need is a camera out here and another up close, whether it’s a big thing or a little thing I don’t know yet. And therefore I can’t tell you what I’m going to say because I don’t know what it is’. They don’t make presenters like that any more.
