Explorer Steve on what to expect when Deadly Live! comes to town

WILDLIFE PRESENTER AND ADVENTURER IS GOING TO EXTREME LENGTHS

- By SOFIE JACKSON

FOR most performers, preparing for a tour might involve getting fit and learning lines.

But wildlife presenter and adventurer Steve Backshall is going to extreme lengths for Deadly Live!, so it is as visually spectacular as possible.

The tour, based on the hugely popular CBBC series, will see Steve tell the story of the world's most formidable predators, from dinosaurs and sharks to birds of prey and big cats. It will be brought into life with the help of huge screens, high-tech experiments and cutting-edge audio effects.

Deadly Live! is coming to Connexin Live during half-term at 2pm on Sunday, November 2. "If we're going to arenas, there's got to be a reason for doing it there and we've got to make use of the space," Steve said.

"So there's going to be a giant screen filled with the most beautiful aesthetic wonders that our natural world has to offer, an amazing sound system so that you can hear and even feel the vibrations of the footsteps of a T-rex pounding over the ground, and life-sized animatronic dinosaurs striding about the stage.