For those not familiar withBBC Archive , it ’s a service that dutifully disperse off some of the forgotten muffin tucked deep within the BBC ’s plenteous broadcasting chronicle to give up throwbacks that are dripping in nostalgia . Highlights have let in a visit to the principality ofSealandandthis older womanwho bang up a whisky - brandy taste test .
latterly , it brought back into the foreground a condom video from the UK safari common Longleat , which incline to this day on the late Lord Bath ’s estate in Wiltshire . The green ’s lion enclosure is and was open to the public on the condition that they infix ( and , crucially , remained ) inside their car .
With 42 animals housed within the drive - through showing , it was n’t a place you ’d want to go wandering when the ( veryBrass Eye ) safety briefing was recorded in 1987 . Despite this , Roger Cawley , who was a manager at Longleat Safari Park , excuse that visitor to the lion enclosure had left their vehicles to check their engines and empty their bladders . One radical , Cawley explains , even attempted to set up a child’s play while within , plainly not realizing that were one to take place it would be them on the menu .
Clearly , tourists of late-80s Britain were in need of a serious wake - up call . Luckily for them , Longleat Safari Park had a pretty hard - polish off demonstration up their arm to really forge the message home .
face with two mannequins dressed in very eighty attire , the lions are at first quite suspicious of the two “ tourer ” standing so boldly alfresco of their machine . “ When the animate being did move in , the result was terrifying , ” scan the news newsperson as the booby dubbed “ Daniel ” is whisked aside by one of the Lion , limb popping off as it runs . Danielle , Daniel ’s wife , meets a similarly grisly end , toppling over in fear only for her drumhead to fly off on impact . One can only question what that picnic chemical group might say had they witnessed the bloodshed .
Over three decades on and it seems we still have much to learn about refuge in zoo . In March , a parent was collar on misgiving of child endangerment after clear several prophylactic barrier to nobble himself and his 2 - year - old girl into the elephant enclosure at theSan Diego Zoo . Though an elephant did charge the interloper , fortunately , neither party was wound as a termination of the prophylactic breach .
