David Attenborough
speaker
99 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 1 Jul
David Attenborough’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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is his deliberate distortion and destruction of NATO and his choosing Putin over American allies, or the fact that he's diminished our standing in the eyes of the world more than any president in history has.
It's not just his vanity projects, tearing down the east wing of the White House, making room for his ballroom.
Come on, folks.
Putting his name on a Kennedy Center.
Building an arch.
His own honor.
Everyone hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool.
Oh, my God.
Life on Earth.
For more than 70 years, David Attenborough has been exploring the planet and its living inhabitants, filming and marveling at a world full of natural treasures.
In the process, he's become a natural treasure himself.
As host and as narrator, his whispery, enthusiastic voice is instantly recognizable.
And his nature series over the decades have been widely popular, from The Trials of Life and The Life of Birds to The Planet Earth, The Blue Planet, and this year's Ocean with David Attenborough.
His first on-camera work was in the mid-1950s as host of the BBC nature series Zoo Quest.
That program wasn't shown in the United States, but a taste of it is available in the new documentary, Life on Earth, Attenborough's Greatest Adventure.
Here he is on ZooQuest as a very young man.
Eventually, he gave up traveling the world with a film crew to become an administrator for the BBC.
He commissioned such ambitious and pivotal projects as Kenneth Clark's 13-part Civilization series.
But his concept of TV eventually drove him out from behind the desk and back into the field.
I interviewed him for a book in 1991, and he said then, of his BBC executive approach, quote, it was our responsibility to say, what haven't we done and why aren't we doing it, unquote.
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