BBC Archive | 1981: SAMMY, the SQUIRREL as TOUGH as a CAT | Squirrel on My Shoulder | BBC Archive @BBCArchive | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
It's 1981 and, in the Oxfordshire countryside, BBC producer John Paling discovers a baby grey squirrel abandoned by its mother.

Determined to help, John brings him home, where the tiny creature is adopted by John's cat, Beauty. He is dubbed Sammy Squitten, causes chaos and destruction, and leaves John with one or two scars.

But when the time comes to release him, John wonders if he is doing the right thing. Can Sammy make it on his own in the outside world?

Narrated by David Attenborough and John himself.

Clip from Wildlife on One: Squirrel on My Shoulder, originally broadcast on BBC One, Tuesday 4 August, 1981.





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