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  1. “What is your Instagram handle? Sue flood photography, or is it Sue Flood Photos? I'm just blanking. We'll put the right one in. Pretty easy to find.”

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  2. “Hey, thank you. Absolutely loved it and really appreciate the opportunity. And yeah, look forward to the Arctic next North Pole. Here we come.”

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  3. “Very, very intuitive as long as All for it, yeah, and there won't be a tent, there'll be a luxury icebreaker. I'm all over it. Don't worry.”

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  4. “Crawling around Come on, the little hand beckoning to get the wildlife because whether it's a You'll often catch some things' attention if you start talking to it. Or, you know, if you're in the water with a humpback whale or something, you can start singing down your snorkel or something where you're going to catch something's attention. So now, next thing we have to do is we have to go to the Arctic together. Then we can do a podcast about more polar best stories.”

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  5. “Whoa. I mean, the queen, good grief. And I did the world's worst curtsy, which was having watched American football on TV. It would not have looked out of place at an American football match or a rugby scrum in Wales. But anyway, it was a rare chance for me to wear a dress. That doesn't happen very often. And when I got married, I think was the last time.”

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  6. “She did say that, and she brought it up the other day. That is not my hand. Have constant imposter syndrome, constant, and so Hannah punished me by trying to get me to say three nice things about myself. But it's funny, you make me think, Tim, there was this event, I'm still astonished that I was invited to this event at Buckingham Palace to go and meet the queen as a result of my photography. And my first reaction when I got this was this was someone playing a joke on me. And it wasn't. And I just... Find that remarkable, and I've got one of my photos hanging on the wall of Buckingham Palace, which”

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  7. “Which was obviously a non sequitur. And a few years ago, I was invited back to my school to hand out prizes on Prize-Giving Day and give a speech in Chester Cathedral. So I was able to tell that story and say, you know, if you have a dream to pursue something, pursue it because, you know, I was never the smartest, I was never the hardest working, but I knew what I wanted to do. And I'm too stubborn to give up. So that's probably the secret of some of the success, but it's a privilege to A, get to do it, and B, talk to you about it. So thank you.”

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  8. “They don't talk back, yeah, something like that. And yeah, it's a lot easier to patient with a, I don't know, a polar bear or a leopard than some people. But yeah, thank you for that lovely comment. And, you know It's a massive privilege to do what I do for a job, and I never forget it. And, you know, the great thing is going back to full circle to when I was at school, because when I was about 15, I was asked by a teacher at school, what do you want to do when you leave school? And I said, I want to make wildlife films with David Attenborough and was told, nobody gets to do that. How about cooking?”

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  9. “Thank you. Thanks so much. But you know, my mum, Tim, she always used to say, how come you're so patient with animals and not with people?”

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  10. “They can find me on my lovely new website, which is just suflood.com, flood like lots of water, souflood.com, and then Twitter and Instagram, Sue Flood Photography or SueFlood Photos. And yeah, love to hear from you.”

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  11. “Footage of trying to get in absolutely people are fairly regularly killed by them but you know the first time we ever went to the Arctic I will never forget it as long as I live. So, you know, I've got pretty big feet. And I was able to stand and put both of my feet inside one pawprint.”

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  12. “On an iPhone. So I told Direction. Well, I'll tell you what, you sleep a lot better in a tent on the sea ice in the Antarctic than you do in the Arctic. Oh, I bet. There's a couple of occasions where we've been woken up in the tents by polar bears. In fact, Doug, my ex, who we heard about with the divorce whale, Doug was filming polar bears with an Inuit friend and they were in a tent around about March time and it was pretty chilly. So he's kind of huddled in his sleeping bag and his feet were pressed against the wall of the tent and he was woken up by a polar bear pouring his feet through the wall of the tent. So he woke up Andrew, our inuit friend and said, hey, we've got a Baron camp. And Andrew said, just open the tent and it'll run away. And he said, no, you open the tent. You open the tent.”

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  13. “Being affected by forest fires, and you think, what's that all about? But in the southern Hudson Bay population of polar bears, which are the most southerly population, unusually they'll dig, sometimes they'll be digging maternity dens into riverbanks where there are tree roots and so on, which will kind of hold the substrate together. But when there's a forest fire, then that will burn the tree and then that is affecting how well that den can hold together. Anyway, all sorts of interesting facts about polar bears and here we are in the Antarctic wrong pole.”

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  14. “Incredible. So, this volcano in the Philippines was directly linked to the success of those bears. It's not cool. I love that. And also, actually, polar bears that he came up with this great statistic that...”

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  15. “Erupted in the Philippines. And when that, you think, what the heck's that got to do with polar birth, right? So when Mount Pitubo erupted in the Philippines, it threw up That obviously stopped some of the solar radiation getting through. So the following spring, temperatures were about one and a half degrees cooler than normal. And that meant that the sea ice stayed longer than it would usually maybe an extra couple of weeks. And so that meant the polar bears, including free males, they were able to feed up a lot more on ring seals, put on more weight, so that when they went into those maternity dens, they were able to basically have more cubs or hang on to their cubs and the cubs were in healthier condition. So they actually called the bears that emerged that spring the Pinatubo bears. Isn't that...”

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  16. “Spot this quite how I'm not sure still and then the other thing is that they will as well as being pounding through the ice and as I mentioned you know there'll be a pregnant female when she goes into the maternity den when the ice breaks up she's going to be in that for a few months so they give birth to the cub and it'll be about the size of a guinea pig and she'll be in the maternity den with that cub for about three months before they emerge out in about march april time so she's got to have the subcutaneous fat for her to last that time and actually what there's a really cool fact i i managed to get this into this film i made about polar bears with ian stirling and and david attenborough so in 1990 oh gosh i think it was 93 it might be 98 mountubo”

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  17. “It's called a subnivian layer, so it's like a little lair under the snow. So they will come up from the ocean and there'll be a hole kind of into this little den, this little pocket. And then there's a, I think the word is Aglu, this little tiny little hole, which is open to the air where they can breathe. And both the Inuit and bears can...”

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  18. “Yeah, and so the ring seals will build a little snow layer under the ice and they'll be in there with their pup and then the polar bears will walk along and they'll be able to sniff the seal through the ice and then pound on that. But I mean the first...”

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  19. “Also, you've maybe seen footage of them in documentaries where they'll pound the ice and break through the ice to break into a seal there. So they can break through several inches of snow and ice. So they've got to be pretty hefty to do that.”

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  20. “Well, for starters, they have to be able to survive a few months without food. When the sea ice breaks up, because they need sea ice as a hunting platform to hunt for, amongst other things, ring seals, which are the most numerous seal in the world. That's their favourite prey, but they can also hunt other seals. Sorry, rustling a bit there because I'm sitting here in my parker in our. Oh, good. I'm going to put my car.”

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  21. “Called a magically enough polar bears, something like their ecology behavior, something like that by Ian Sterling and Ian is the world's leading polar bear biologist who is a fantastic person and I've had some amazing experiences with him going tagging polar bears and just yeah so that's another brilliant book and having worked a lot with the Inuit in the Canadian High Arctic I've got quite a large collection of books about Arctic stuff, whether it's wildlife or the innocent themselves or polar art and so on.”

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  22. “It is a magical book, and yeah, I gifted that to Ian, and I know he loved it. And that is a great read. You have to immediately dash off, well, perhaps not now, but when you get back to civilization, yeah, that's a really beautiful book. And I've brought that for quite a few people. There's also a fabulous book on polar bears.”

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  23. “I actually gifted one recently. A friend of mine, Ian Dawson, he trains mountain rescue people in Scotland, and he was working with me at the North Pole, and he'd never seen a polar bear before. He absolutely fell in love with the environment. And I gifted him a book called Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez.”

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  24. “But you know, being able to do that kind of thing and help people see little bits of behaviour is a cool thing to do. Same when I'm taking people on safari. You know, if you see a leopard and you can anticipate what that leopard's going to do because I take people on safari to Zambia every year and watching marine mammals in Alaska, whatever it is, it's just trying to get the detail and trying to help them tell a story with their photos.”

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  25. “It's fantastic sound, and then the chicks are calling to the adults, and oh, it's just lovely. But, you know, you can see if that adult is with its chick, because when it is it'll snuggling close to it, and then you can see when it's about to feed it. So I'm able to say to people, look, you see that one over there, that's its chick. It's not a stranger, if you like. And then it will stand there and regurgitate its meal of fish, squared, krill to the chick, which is a lot more photogenic than I'm making”

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  26. “Something like emperors, you know, when you're watching them, so because I've been fortunate to photograph them so much, you can tell when an adult has paired up with its own chick. You know, it's coming back from feeding at the colony. It's walked now at the moment. We're about 10 miles from the edge of the ice. So it's walked about 10 miles to come and bring food to the chick. And they locate their chick amongst thousands of birds by calling to it and they will find their chick. That sort of thing, so much more poetic than that. It is.”

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  27. “So you can observe the animals and point those things out to them and try and get. Little moments that make a special photograph, not just it's standing there, but what is about the scene in front of you that you can capture and turn into a special moment?”

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  28. “That's one of the things actually that since I left the BBC that I've really enjoyed doing is teaching people and getting that feedback from people who watch these documentaries as opposed to just being with people who make them. And I realised that actually being with people and getting them to observe the natural world and tell them about animal behavior and help them capture it with their cameras or the iPhones or whatever, you know, that's something that I really, really enjoy doing, and that's led to a number of whether it's working for different travel companies or private individuals where I'm taking them on location and doing that for them or maybe making a book of their trip, that sort of thing. I love doing that and just trying to point out different bits of behavior. So because as a zoologist, you know, that's been very helpful getting to be a wildlife filmmaker or photographer.”

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  29. “Yeah, it was larger than the ship. It was amazing. It was incredible. So we were able to stand there photographing this mother and curb. Playing around in the snow, clambering over the ice, rolling, just behaving completely naturally, not affected by our presence. It was absolutely wonderful. So being able to sort of tweak the way you're doing your job is really important.”

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  30. “Lockdown has given me the chance to think about how I want to slightly change how I'm working. So flying lesk, you know, cutting my carbon footprint, which has obviously been very easy in the last year and a half because I've hardly been anywhere. But, you know, flying less and it was very cool in September a couple of months ago. I was asked to join a hybrid electric ship going to the North Pole. This is this amazing ship which new design and owned by Ponant, the French company so I'm going to be working with them the next couple of years. So it's really lovely to be able to find this hybrid electric ship running on liquefied natural gas and battery power and just doing things in a very different luxurious way. Hurrah.”

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  31. “Check you out absolutely Yeah, and there are very strict guidelines about how close you can approach them. So, you know, no closer than five meters, et cetera. But of course, if you sit still and wait, they'll come and check you out. And it's just a magical experience. I mean, one time I carried my camera bag out to the colony. And it was a really cold day. Oh, minus 22 centigrade. And I lay down, I put my head on the camera bag and was just listening to the chicks. And I actually fell asleep while I was listening to them. And my hand was stretched out on the snow. And I woke up, I know, 15, 20 minutes later. And my arms on the snow with my glove on, and there was this little Emperor Penguin chick with its little flipper stretched out on my hand right next to me. But yeah, going back to the icebreakers, I mean, I had seven trips on those.”

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  32. “So rather than running on Diesel or whatever it runs on nuclear power and the Russians have a number of, can you hear those emperor penguins in the background? Isn't that Normally here, this is right. I mean, the other night about three in the morning, there was one clearly standing right outside my tent.”

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  33. “That and I was going to go and speak about polar bears and other Arctic wildlife because I just finished this film about polar bears. So that led to me doing seven trips to the North Pole by Nuclear Icebreaker and getting to have some wonderful experiences working on this ship.”

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  34. “And if I didn't succeed, at least I tried, you know, better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all kind of thing. And then same with this idea of the photography. So as you mentioned, I got a shot of a great white shark on the cover of the BBC Wildlife magazine. And then I got it on the cover of a national geographic magazine. And then I had another shot on the back cover of the National Geographic Magazine. And I thought, well, you know, I'm getting a bit closer here, so let's give it a go. If it doesn't work out, at least I tried. I won't be sitting here wondering if I just succeeded. So I handed him my notice and I had a really good bit of luck the next day, although the old thing of you make your own luck, right? So I was asked the following day, did I want to join this Russian icebreaker that was going to the North Pole? And they asked me, did I want to do this?”

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  35. “Yeah, and I guess well, you know, in the same way that as a kid I thought if I don't give it a go to try and work with David Attenbrew and that was what going back to that operation rally project in Australia what that gave me was the confidence to at least try”

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  36. “I've been doing photography as part of my job, so I've been promoted to assistant producer, associate producer, then producer and director. And I thought, you know what, I'm actually enjoying photography more than being a producer. So I decided to see if I could make a go of that.”

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  37. “Oh, absolutely. Just with smaller biceps. Possibly. Yeah, no, I did. It was just such an amazing experience. And by now I'd had 11 years working on these David Attenborough series. And this had been my absolute dream as a child. I just thought, well,”

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  38. “Yeah. So, but that was super rare. And that was this polar bear's hunting beluga whales thing. So you have to be prepared to put up with discomfort. But then the really cool thing about my job now is since I decided to leave the BBC, because I wanted to go out on a high after planet Earth.”

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  39. “That's an interesting one, isn't it? I think that for me, it definitely works better being married to someone who's the opposite than doing someone who's got similar passions because it's the sort of job where you have to be very driven. You can't think, oh, I'm going to stay in the tent today when the polar bears off doing something exciting outside. The longest we had in one spell filming was 36 hours because there was this interesting behavior going on. So you need to be 30.”

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  40. “Lockdown, so we've been at home together for almost a couple of years, and amazingly he seemed to have enjoyed spending that time with me. But yeah, I'm going to be away a lot probably the next couple of years trying to make up for a bit of lost time and revenue. But, you know, it's what I do for a job and I need to be able to go to these places and do these things because it's what makes me tick. So it actually works out really, really well because it's funny someone was joking about having a home husband and a work husband because, you know, I like working in the cold and have friends I can do that with and then Chris likes being back home in front of the log fire in North Wales.”

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  41. “My husband Chris, he and I were at primary school together, so we met we were 10, then didn't see each other for 37 years. A dear friend of mine, Judith Owen, she's a fabulous singer, songwriter, and I'd been to stay with her and her husband, Harry Shearer in Santa Monica, and photograph Judith's album Chris had seen a post I'd made about this and then he said, you know, wow, that's what an amazing voice this woman's got and we had got back in touch. I invited him to go to the gig and that's how we remet after all this time. But he is not good in the cold. Whereas Doug was the world's leading polar cameraman. So bit of a contrast there. So I think he wishes he'd married the tropical specialist, but he absolutely loves being at home. He loves being at home. And of course, we've just had...”

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  42. “That category, you need to walk a fine line between being determined. But not too pushy. No one wants to pain in the ass. Hopefully I'm not. But you need to want to do that job more than anything else in the world because it is absolutely all consuming and I don't have kids and there are a very small number of people who have made a success of this career who do have kids but it is a very small number. But yeah, you just have to want to do it to the exclusion of practically everything else. But I did. I did want to do that and it's just been a fabulous life getting to do what I absolutely love”

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  43. “So we are divorced for a number of reasons, but that I think was a nail in the coffin. But we do get on much better now. I'll get my own back one of these days.”

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  44. “Yeah, because I was filming at the time, this was all caught on camera and it just really felt like I'd been hit with a sledgehammer and I thought straight away I've broken my leg. So I stuck my head above the water and shouted to Doug, I've broken my leg. Normally I would clip the video camera on before I get in the water. But this day I hadn't because we'd gotten the water very quickly so I was just holding the video camera. That was slightly negatively buoyant so it had started sinking. Anyway, given the choice between rescuing me with the potential broken leg or the camera, sadly there was no contest. So I was not in any doubt before the incident that Doug preferred his camera to me but I was definitely left in no doubt at all after that event. So I always joke and call that the divorce wheel.”

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  45. “And I was quite close and I looked over the top of the camera and realised I was way closer to the cuff because I was on a very wide angle lens. And the calf was kind of flopping around because it didn't have the control that the mum had. And, you know, the mum's 45 feet long, 15 meters long, and the calf was about 15 feet, 5 meters, weighing about a ton. And this calf basically bumped into me with its tail. I mean, certainly not being aggressive or anything, just because it didn't have the control the mother did.”

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  46. “Which is definitely my favorite shoot from my time with the BBC. And we spent 10 weeks filming humpbacks. And the humpback whales are in the southerly latitudes when the winter approaches in the Antarctic, they're going to move to northerly climbs to have their calves. So places like Tonga where you've got shallow, warm, protected waters. Anyway, we weren't filming them and we were both in the water. He's filming the mum and calf and I'm filming him filming the mum and calf for the sequence for discovery.”

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  47. “The divorce whale. Oh dear God. Well, so Doug, who I mentioned earlier, Doug Allen, Doug is a fantastic documentary cameraman. But as I always tell him, not such a fantastic husband. But anyway, he proposed to me when we were adrift on a piece of ice in the Canadian High Arctic during the making of the blue planet with the classic line, if we get rescued, will you marry me? As I always tell him, probably he thought he was going to die to do that. But then some considerable time later when we were working on planet Earth, we were filming humpback whales in Tonga in the South Pacific.”

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  48. “I would like to photograph them but then equally it's nice to not have a camera and just sit and observe them because as I say they no one has been killed by one and we did have the intention when we were filming the Monterey Bay sequence that we'd get in the water but then we decided not to do that because they were really kind of thrashing around when they were hunting the grey whales and I think there's probably a very good chance you might have got injured just in the melee.”

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  49. “I love this. So there's a cameraman called Andrew Pennika in New Zealand who worked on this Killerwell film with me. And he was telling a story about his friend diving in the Poonight Islands in New Zealand, which is this absolutely brilliant dive spot. And this guy's swimming around. And then all of a sudden snags his leg, as he thought, and he thought he'd caught it on some, you know, fishing gear or something like that. And he turns around. And there's this orker, this killer whale that's basically holding his calf between its jaws and just gently squeezing his wetsuit with its teeth. And just let him go. But yeah, that would be a, I think you'd probably feel quite wide awake after that experience.”

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  50. “There's never been a case of a person being killed in the wild by Anoka. I mention that place near Tarifa in Spain where they're coming out of the med after spawning. And one of the stories that I just loved was they'll have these great big pens where they're catching, the fishermen are catching their tuna and if they're not in great condition, they'll put them into the pens to kind of fatten them up, if you like, for later in the season. And this guy's his job was to repair these nets, make sure they're in good condition, no holes and someone's caught it on their propeller or something. And he was there in the water in his dive gear sort of sewing up this net with a bit of rope. And he became aware that someone's watching him and he turned and looked over his shoulder. And there's this killer whale just sitting at his shoulder watching him repair this net, which, yeah, that would give you a nutspook.”

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