An Animal Exodus – BBC World Service – Mix

I just mixed this lovely documentary produced by Monica Whitlock from the production company Storyscape. It documents the behind the scenes work of the Natural History Museum moving millions of specimens from its collections to a new building.

The Natural History Museum of London is getting ready to move 28 million of its precious specimens to a new state-of-the-art home. Imagine moving tens of millions of delicate animal and plant specimens, gathered from all across the world, over the centuries. Some are as big as a bus, some so tiny you need tweezers to pack them. Some are millions of years old. How to move 350 taxidermy tortoises? The biggest weigh half a tonne. Then there’s the ten-metre anaconda. The team may have to get him out through the lift shaft. What if moths get in? What if something gets lost?

Listen to the doc here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct9b7z