Behind the scenes at the Springwatch Production Village
|11:28 UK time, Thursday, 27 May 2010
The weather might have cooled down a bit but things are getting very hot here at Pensthorpe. It's only four days to go until the first show and the Production Village is alive with activity, as these photos show.
Martin takes a seat in the director's chair in the shiny new gallery truck.
Busy bees buzzing in the production tent. 
The Production Village is largely made up of stairs and corridors between trucks
Busy bees buzzing in the production tent. The Production Village is largely made up of stairs and corridors between trucksThe live crew have a giggle setting up the studio.
Barns and cables. It takes over 70 kilometres of cable to keep the Springwatch Production Village running.
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At 15:11 27th May 2010, EnglishFolkfan wrote:Oooh shiny shiny indeed: deservedly SW should have use of the new truck! Glad to see some smiles surviving the build up pressure and the little green monitor 'hives' in use again. Thanks for the feed back on how it's all progressing, the tension is rising all over the UK & abroad in the run up to SW Lift Off.
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At 19:22 27th May 2010, snady lady wrote:Thanks for these pics,it's great to see the build up and what happens behind the scenes.Love the little tour that we've had on the past series' will we get one this time?
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At 19:25 27th May 2010, sue brewer wrote:Thank you, it's always fascinating to see what goes on behind the scenes, and makes us appreciate the programmes even more when we see all the people and effort involved. Good luck for the series!
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At 20:29 27th May 2010, jeztorrance wrote:@mahrahnee wohman we'll try our hardest to do one, but can't promise anything.
@skylarksue and @EnglishFolkfan thanks for the kind words. First rehearsal just finished and all's looking good.
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At 03:05 28th May 2010, the longhairedgit wrote:Amazing to see how much work and kit it takes to bring us springwatch. Very best of luck with the new season people, i'm really looking forward to it.
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At 10:16 28th May 2010, Ranger_Parus wrote:The new gallery truck looks halfway between Star Trek and Knight Rider!
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At 19:05 28th May 2010, jeztorrance wrote:Our friends at BBC Look East made this super film about the run up to the new series: https://news.bbc.co.uk/local/norfolk/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8710000/8710585.stm
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Comment number 8.
At 17:36 29th May 2010, redrobin wrote:I had a lovely day at Pensthorpe last Sunday and saw a couple of camera men around. They are the unsung heros of Springwatch as without them we, at home, would have nothing to watch!! Looking forward to another outstanding 3 weeks for myself and my children. Thank You to ALL involved.
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Comment number 9.
At 22:29 30th May 2010, 122abcdefghi wrote:No wonder it's called a village, - there must be many, many more people involved than what we, your audience, see/realise in order to get this programme on air to us all, guessing by the numbers of trucks and screens shown in these few snapshots! :)and Wow!!
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At 12:19 31st May 2010, Carl wrote:I was at Pensthorpe last Friday following miles of cable around the site. It was good to see how it all hangs together hats off to the cable guys that's a lot of work. We eagerly await the start . I expect we'll be going "been there"......"been there"......
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Comment number 11.
At 21:24 3rd Jun 2010, steve hildick wrote:Spring watch should be on for longer..!
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Comment number 12.
At 14:37 6th Jun 2010, Wildlife Filmer Adam wrote:Ahh, brill, cannot believe I missed this Blog post.
Oh how I'd love a tour.
Wildlife Filmer Adam
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Comment number 13.
At 08:09 3rd Oct 2010, Gaz wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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