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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And one of the things No One in TV was doing was a global TV series that told the entire story of evolution.
Attenborough continued, the wonderful thing about making natural history documentaries is that there is something in any sequence for everybody at every conceivable level of age, education, and interest.
So he embarked upon Life on Earth, which began production 50 years ago.
It took more than three years to film, visiting 40 countries and capturing more than 600 species.
It was the way it was filmed, in part, that was so groundbreaking.
It used new lenses from Canon, new color film from Kodak, and experimented with new developments in film speeds, time lapse, and microphotography.
Life on Earth premiered on PBS in 1982 and was seen globally by over 500 million people in more than 100 territories.
This new special has Attenborough looking back on life on Earth, and literally looking at it as it's projected in a screening room.
He beams with pride and joy, and with good reason.
One sequence, perhaps the most famous of his career, has him in Rwanda, crouching a respectful distance from a mother gorilla and her offspring.
He's about to begin a prepared speech about the importance of opposable thumbs when the mother approaches and stares right into his face while her babies crawl on top of him affectionately.
In Life on Earth, Attenborough says this.
than any other animal I know.
And in this new special, looking back on that very sequence, he says this, obviously touched.
Attenborough's greatest adventure tells behind-the-scenes stories of the dangers Attenborough and his crew faced while filming Life on Earth.
Surprisingly, most of those dangers came not from wild animals, but from humans.
Poachers and soldiers, gunfire in Rwanda, and threatened imprisonment in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
It also tells the story of how some of its most amazing TV moments were filmed.
That's reason enough to seek out this special, which allows Attenborough to put his amazing career into perspective.
But there's also his closing message, which really got to me, and which I'll close with as well.
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