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Chris Packham has movingly detailed the best day of his life.
The television presenter said he’d like to live the outing with his late father again, which took place back in 1988.
The 62-year-old said their special moment came after he spent a lot of time “on and off the dole”.
However, when his career picked up and he started doing The Really Wild Show, there was something special he wanted to do with his dad, who died in 2021.
The pair visited Popham Airfield in Hampshire and his loved one got to fly in a Spitfire.
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“If I could live one day again, I know exactly what it would be,” Chris told The Big Issue magazine in a recent interview.
“When I started doing The Really Wild Show, I made a small amount of money. Before that, I was on the dole on and off when I was doing camera work. So I had some money.”
He said his dad was “obsessed” with the aircraft, and would watch them taking off from the airport as a child.
Chris continued: “He’d lived through the war and they were a very symbolic and totemic part of that.”
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Recalling how the weather was clear and sunny on the day, he shared how his dad flew in the aircraft, used by the Royal Air Force before, during, and after World War II.
“It was the best day of my life,” Chris remarked poignantly.
“I still have the picture of him with his fighter pilot helmet on.
“I don’t have much sentimental stuff but if there was a fire, that’s what I’m saving. The poodles and then that picture.”
Chris had worked as a part-time camera assistant for wildlife filmmaker Stephen Bolwell in his early career.
At the start of the 80s, he was involved with the likes of The Living Planet, Ourselves and Other Animals.
He rose to fame fronting the BAFTA-winning BBC One children’s programme The Really Wild Show in 1986.
He went on to co-present BBC Two favourite Springwatch and its sister programmes and now has a long list of shows under his belt.
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