Friends of Monkey World

Monkey Business is back for two episodes in June, covering the history of Monkey World.

The episodes will be shown on Meridian ITV1 at 19:30 on 05 June and 12 June.

There is some more detail in this article from the Bournemouth Echo, but note that the dates in the article appear to be wrong. The full article is well worth reading.

IT’S little more than a year since we mourned the passing of Jim Cronin, the inspirational founder of Monkey World rescue centre near Wool.

[June] sees the brief return of Monkey Business, the TV programme largely responsible for raising awareness of Jim’s work, in the first of two special editions to honour the man, his mission and what he has left behind.

Monkey Business: Jim’s Legacy (ITV1, 7.30pm) goes right back to the beginnings of Monkey World in 1987 when New Yorker Jim took on a derelict Purbeck pig farm and fought tooth and nail to establish a place in which exploited apes and monkeys from around the world could learn to be themselves again.

… a second programme will look at what Jim Cronin has bequeathed to the public and the future for Monkey World.

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