Animal Magic (TV series) Animal Magic (TV series) Animal Magic was a BBC children's television series which ran from 1962 to 1983 from BBC Bristol. It began fortnightly and was transmitted weekly from 1964. The presenter was the avuncular Johnny Morris. His charismatic style and genuine fondness for animals made the show an instant hit with children and adults alike. The show combined jovial voiceovers applied to various animals from Bristol Zoo with some basic educational features. Morris' co-presenters over the years were: Gerald Durrell, Tony Soper, Keith Shackleton, Roger Tabor, Sheila Young, David Taylor and Terry Nutkins. When Nutkins joined the show in
Political Animals and Animal Politics to the political turn in animal ethics. Though he claimed that it was likely to be superseded, he argued that "Political Animals and Animal Politics" should be "welcomed for its trailblazing". Subsequent collections identified in reviews of the literature in the political turn include Garner and O'Sullivan's "The Political Turn in Animal Ethics" and Andrew Woodhall and Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade's "Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues". Another publication identified in these reviews is the open access journal "Politics and Animals"; this published its first issue in 2015 with an "editorial collective" consisting of Boyer, Svärd, Katherine Wayne