DAVID COBHAM, who has died aged 87, was a film producer and director, writer and conservationist whose output ranged from dramas such as an film adaptation of TH White’s The Goshawk to The Vanishing Hedgerows, the first conservation film made by the BBC, a drama-documentary about Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole, which won him a Bafta award in 1976, and children’s television serials.
From the 1970s Cobham, an active wildlife campaigner, was the brains behind numerous television nature films and for many years worked closely with David Attenborough for the BBC’s natural history unit. His approach influenced younger conservationists and film-makers, including the Springwatch...