Television
Few are fortunate enough to turn a lifelong aspiration into a Career reality. For Hayden, combining his love of Wildlife with a career as a Television Presenter happened as a result of a chance meeting.
Hayden had resigned his ten year job as Senior Keeper at Taronga Zoo, Sydney to visit Africa and work on volunteer Conservation Projects. Before leaving he took a party of VIPs on a behind the scenes tour. One of the group was Bryan Smith, General Manager of National Geographic Channel in Australia. Impressed by the passion and depth of knowledge Hayden displayed and struck by his unique presentation skills, Bryan asked him if he’d be interested in taking a Digital Video Camera to Africa to record his Adventures.
Hayden made an appearance in a Play School episode in 1993 as a zoo keeper when they visited the Taronga Zoo.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.”
—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)