Packham is known for his work as a television presenter, which began in 1986 with the BAFTA-winning BBC1 children’s program The Really Wild Show[4] (1986–1995) and the nature photography series Wild Shots on Channel 4. He also wrote and presented the BBC One series The X Creatures and BBC Two’s Hands on Nature and Nature’s Calendar.
What has happened to Chris Packham?
On October 8th, I and the dogs went to bed, rather early for us at just before midnight, and then shortly after half past 12 there was an enormous explosion, that was the first I knew of the incident. The car had clearly exploded, and the bang was tremendous, I mean the dogs flew off the bed and started yelping and barking straight away.
Where I live we’re not prone to any sort of loud interruptive noises at night so it was quite startling, and then of course it came to pass that this vehicle had been parked outside the gate and was ablaze, thankfully attended by the fire service and the police of course, who managed to douse the flames.
It had by that stage destroyed the gates, and damaged a lovely old tree that’s by the gates there which obviously saddened me as well. But it wasn’t until the morning that we were able to fully assess the damage. The car was completely burned out, it got so hot the engine block had melted so it was quite an explosion.