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Longleat in iTunes top ten hitlist
5:06pm Monday 6th October 2008
STAFF on the Longleat estate near Warminster are celebrating this week after their web series aimed at children topped 100,000 viewers.
The five-minute Junior Ranger shows put together by brother and sister duo Joe Smith, 12, and Annie, 10, is aired through iTunes and is regularly in the top 10 of the Kids and Family podcast section, peaking at number two.
The production, which focuses on the tourist attractions and safari park on the Longleat Estate, is a family collaboration filmed by their father Clive, an experienced TV cameraman.
Longleat's marketing manager, Jo Sparrow, said "I am absolutely delighted with the performance of Junior Rangers.
"Joe and Annie have become an integral part of the Longleat team and have shown remarkable dedication, bravery and sheer determination to the programme.
"They handled tarantulas and snakes; prepared fish for the sea lions; mucked out the rhinos; took a ferret for a walk; washed down the Safari Bus and so much more."
The series has been recommissioned for 2009 with Joe and Annie, who are from Andover, currently thinking up some exciting new stories for the programmes.
You can watch the Junior Ranger shows by visiting www.longleat.co.uk and clicking on Junior Rangers.
Theatre, Art & Cinema
This Week at The Arc, with theatre director Tracy Sullivan
Stand-up comedy returns to The Arc tonight with headline act Geoff Norcott.
Calendar Girls
Monday, November 17, Saturday, November 22, Theatre Royal Bath. Calendar Girls tours to the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday as part of a major national tour.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (18)
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Max Payne (15)
“I DON’T believe in heaven. I believe in pain, I believe in fear, I believe in death,” growls the titular, gun-toting hero in voiceover at the beginning of John Moore's tiresome video game-to-movie adaptation.
Where are all the hippies?
WESTBURY-based musician Leander Morales, one half of musical duo Morales Watts, has spoken to the Wiltshire Times and Chippenham News about their success as a support act for Cara Dillon and the rich historical heritage that shaped and influenced his artistic life.
Jazzing up world folk music
EXCITING new jazz-based music created by local composer Matthew Finch is on the menu at the Wiltshire Music Centre on November 30 at 7.30pm.
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