A KIND-hearted Okehampton resident came to the aid of a television producer who must have been ?going wild? after losing her mobile phone.
Fiona Pitcher was in West Devon as executive producer on the BBC?s Britain Goes Wild series. She lost her mobile phone in the town last week but it was returned to her the next day by Okehampton resident Philip Platt.
Fiona said: ?I must have left my mobile phone on the roof of my car when I was in Okehampton and it fell off when I drove away.
?To lose your mobile phone in the middle of three weeks of live television is very inconvenient.?
Philip, 56, a lorry driver for Jewsons, originally from Telford in Shropshire, but who has been living in Okehampton for the last three years, picked it up when he spotted in on the road.
He used the numbers on the phone to trace it back to Fiona, delivering it to her in person at the production village set up at the Fishleigh Estate, in Hatherleigh where the BBC?s live outside broadcasts have been taking place.
Fiona said she wanted to thank Philip publicly for his kind act.
Philip said he was one of the millions of people who had been tuning in to see the programme, which has been broadcast Monday to Thursdays at 8pm on BBC2.
The programme presented by Bill Oddie from a barn studio at the estate, features live footage of wildlife taken with hidden cameras from sites across the estate and at other locations.
Fiona said everyone involved with the programme was delighted with how successful it had been. ?Everyone in Devon has been really supportive. The Polly Wagtails have become local as well as national celebrities,? she said.
?It has been a huge success. On Thursday, the audience was up to 3.7million which is huge for this time of year on BBC2. The audience has been building as we?ve gone on, it?s a nice alternative to all these other reality show, it?s just about fantastic wildlife.?