Ned Sparry, and his Amazing World of Dangerous Animals, should be vaguely recognisable to anyone who has watched television in the last fifteen years or so. The ne plus ultra of bear-poking TV naturalists, Ned is frank about the outcome he wishes from his encounters with the natural world. His catch phrase is "It's ripped me aam off!" Then, of course, life went and imitated comic (and suddenly not-so-comic) art, since when production of Ned has gone a bit quiet...