Famous Orienteer on TV

[SeanC]

If it ever came to a straight fight between Mr Tomahawk and a panther, I know who my money's on.

[EddieH]

It didn't portray the Arthur (or Sue) that I know. Well the BBC said they were portraying "male lonliness" and I don't believethat Arthus is lonely - he's definitely not a loner anyway. So it seems they were trying to force the wrong man into their mold.

I fear that many viewers will not have picked up that he does not kill any of the animals, and nowhere was his intense compassion for living things allowed to show.

[EddieH]

Oh, and the private detective. Can he really be quite as hopeless as he appeared?

[Mr Average]

Having known Arthur for some time, i certainly do no think you can describe him as a loner. A really friendly, interesting and intelligent man who maybe just has different views on what should/should not be eaten.

The appointment of the Private Investigator was in my opinion purely a TV exercise, that man couldn't detect a rocky outcrop on the moor, let alone the perpertrators of phone calls. Maybe he could get together the panther hunter and probably not locate the Beast of Bodmin.

An interesting programme, but I am not not sure about orienteering on Bodmin Moor anymore, who knows who will pop up from behind that knoll, although if the event is on a Sunday morning, all the men will be in Chapel !!!!

[Domhnull Mor]

Was this new footage (i.e. was it filmed recently) or was it recorded at the same time as the material shown on Swedish TV a couple of years ago? I don't remember that programme being quite as "detrimental" as it appears the one shown yesterday was, going by what has been said here.

[redpossum]

The trouble with television programmes like this is that they like to have an 'angle' and, unfortunately, the one taken in this particular one was of eccentric, sad, old men living in isolation on Bodmin Moor. It gave the impression that this was you were reduced to if you lived there which is, of course, palpably untrue. It did no favours to any of the people portrayed and, indeed, just poked fun at them.

Whatever you think of Arthur, his eating habits, although not what is considered 'normal', don't do any harm to anyone. The interviewer should have stated that everything that he ate was already dead and would only have been eaten by birds, rats or any other carrion animals.

As others have said I think that it was probably a good job that orienteering wasn't mentioned in the programme as the presenter would probably have made fun of that too.

[Gnitworp]

Might be worth dropping a line to 'Points of View', 'Radio Times' or similar; need to do it right away though.

[Roadkill]

Thanks for the kind comments. I have posted the "other side" on the Banter forum.