YOUNGSTERS put some questions to a celebrated cameraman live on air.

The Westfield Arts College students secured a radio interview with Doug Allen of Frozen Planet fame.

The four teens from the Weymouth special school interviewed Doug for their school’s community radio station All Inclusive Radio (AIR).

It gave them a chance to ask Doug about his work on BBC documentaries Frozen Planet, Human Planet and Ocean Giants.

Carl Greenham, radio station manager and media manager, said: “The students really enjoyed it.

“It’s been great for them to speak to someone like Doug and doing something like this is huge for their personal development skills.

“All of the kids have watched Frozen Planet and it’s nice to bring that back to their own lives.

“To speak to Doug on air is a great experience for the kids.

“This will be all they will be talking about all day.”

Scots-born Doug conducted the phone interview while on his ‘Life Behind the Lens’ tour.

During his tour, he has been taking audiences up close and personal with animals that live in the wildest places on earth and called into Weymouth to talk at the Pavilion.

He said: “The tour has been going very well. I’ve had very good attendance and very good reactions from people and they seem to be enjoying themselves.”

The interview by students Courtney Martell, 14, Jessica Haighton, 15, Fergus Shipperley, 15, and Dan Waters, 15, was relayed live to the school assembly.

Doug was asked how he became interested in wildlife filming and where his favourite and worst places were to do wildlife filming.

Performing arts teacher Dave James, who helped to conduct the interview, asked Doug if he ever had to go against the flow to get where he is now.

He said: “Everyone is unique.

“I’ve managed to get to the top of my tree but I got there because of following my heart and following my passion and I think that everyone inside them has a passion.

“It doesn’t have to be for wildlife filming, it could be anything at all, but the secret of success is to give in to that passion and that will take you to the best things in life.”

Mr Greenham said AIR will hear from Ofcom this month on whether it has secured an FM licence.

Youngsters from local schools regularly host their own shows on the station and Mr Greenham runs an invitation only youth club every Thursday night to teach youngsters radio skills.

He said: “Weymouth has a real market for a community station.

“We are an all inclusive radio station and we won’t alienate anyone from being a part of it.”