“He was sick. His head is gently cradled on my shoulder by the man who rescued Marlon, saved his life and completely changed mine,” he says.

It was 1983, Dick was a 30-something-year-old BBC filmmaker. Marlon’s savour was Len Baker, the man who, six years earlier, had founded the Swan Rescue Service in Norfolk.

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The story of The Dying Swan is the first in a series of 20 looking at documentary films made for the BBC in the East by Dick and his team in a new book 20|20 Vision.

And it sets the tone so well for what follows as we turn the pages, meeting the people involved around the world, and read about what went on before, during, and after filming.

It was in the 1970s when Len founded the Swan Rescue Service in Norfolk. “He was a driven, obsessive and outspoken man. I came to believe he loved these great white birds more than life itself,” says Dick.

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