Television
In 2009 he was approached by ITV to present a planned revival of its long-running nature documentary series Survival. The resulting three-part series was rebranded Survival with Ray Mears and broadcast on ITV1 in 2010. Each episode followed Mears as he used his tracking skills to locate bears, wolves and leopards. In a Radio Times interview to promote the series, Mears complained of being typecast by the BBC. This series was followed by Wild Britain with Ray Mears, also broadcast by ITV.
In the series below he has visited locations all over the globe (Tanzania, Namibia, Australia, India, Russia, Canada, U.S.A, Britain, Norway, Sweden, the Amazon rainforest, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Mongolia, and more).
In October 2012 he appeared in the Go Compare TV advertisement where Gio Compario is caught in an animal net-trap that had been set by Ray.
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“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child’s pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
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—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)