Vet at the end of the Earth
Vet Joe Hollins spent years living as a nomad travelling from place to place, until he found an unlikely home on a volcanic island and friendship with the world鈥檚 oldest animal.
Joe Hollins is a vet who's worked in some of the most remote places on Earth. After a childhood marked by the restrictions of an English boarding school, he headed first to the Australian outback. Since then he's worked in the Falklands, Tristan da Cunha and St Helena and has learned to live a life of isolation 鈥� unless of course you count the endless cast of animal characters he works with. His most beloved is a 192-year-old giant tortoise called Jonathan, who he reared for 6 years.
Irene Garc铆a Hern谩ndez longed to perform the 鈥楧anza de los Voladores鈥�, or Dance of the Flyers, a tradition dating back thousands of years in Mexico which is typically the preserve of men. A rebel by nature, Irene was set on becoming a flyer too. She鈥檇 overcome family barriers, and her fears, to become one of the few Mexican women to dance in the sky. This interview was first broadcast on 30th September 2023
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Joe Hollins has written about his experiences in Vet at the End of the Earth: Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic
(Photo: Joe and Jonathon the tortoise. Credit: Kevin Gepford)
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