Chris Packham: “I was 26 going on 16. I’d just started working on The Really Wild Show in Bristol for the BBC but prior to that I’d been a very angry and antisocial young man. I remember sitting on the train in winter, looking out at grey days, scuttling up the tracks to Bristol, and listening to the Jesus & Mary Chain and feeling that it really did reflect my entire outlook. Not only the damaged, vicious, uncomfortable lyrics but the sound that went with them – that wailing wall of feedback – and the whole Mary Chain persona: insular violence. Doing Springwatch last year I mentioned the Mary Chain, and Jim Reid sent me three T-shirts with a little note. To get a letter out of Jim Reid was a high point of my life.”

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