Brian Murphy

And Sir David Attenborough would end up sitting in the boat, you know, waiting on things to happen.

So it was very much Paddy Englishman, Paddy Irishman, Paddy Scotchman.

And we would tell relative stories in the boat.

So we had lots of fun together.

But the real gem of all of this, Ciarán, is that at the end of the week when we were finished filming, we were all out for that kind of final dinner.

As you do, it happened to be my daughter's 18th birthday, and she had just left school the year before and gone to China, and she was in Chengdu, which is where the pandas are, and she was struggling out there.

She was an 18-year-old, and she had bitten off more than she could chew, and her parents, me being one of them, had let her go, not really knowing what she was stepping into.

But she was having a difficult time in China.

And it was her birthday, and I said to, I was sitting at the table, the top table, fortunately, with David Attenborough, and I said to him, I said, my daughter's birthday, and she's in China.

I said, if I ring her now, I said, will you sing happy birthday to her?

And he said, of course I will.

So I phoned my daughter, Jenny, and said, hey, Jenny, how you doing?

Happy birthday, is that?

And she said, oh, hi, Dad, how you doing?

I said, there's somebody who wants to talk to you.

Hold on a second.

And I put the phone over, and David Attenborough introduced me.

And he sang happy birthday to Marlon.