As I began the process of finding interviewees, I was feeling very optimistic. I had already found a Professor of Apiculture to interview, but in the process of some pre-interview phone calls, something quite damaging to my documentary outline came to light: the bees are not in decline.

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That's right - Professor Ratnieks told me that there are more honey bees on Earth than there have ever been before, and they are one of over 20,000 different species worldwide. 

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This left me in a rather difficult spot story-wise - how on Earth was I going to use this new information in a documentary which was based on completely different information? 

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Thankfully, after discussion with my advisor, we decided that I would begin the documentary with a doom and gloom scenario, but would explain within the story that perhaps the state of the UK's bee population is a little dramatised.