Jane Goodall
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943 appearances
6 recordings
6 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 24 Apr
Jane Goodall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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me and my sister to be in the nest forever.
At the same time, she encouraged me to go off to Africa.
But when I first raised the money, I saved up the money, I worked as a waitress, I got out to Africa.
I met the famous paleontologist Louis Leakey.
Amazingly, he offered me the opportunity to go and study chimpanzees.
I had no degree.
First of all, it was tough to get money.
He got money for six months.
Secondly, the authorities of what was then British Tanganyika, Tanzania now, in those days it was part of the British colonial empire, a young girl out in the forest with potentially dangerous animals by herself, impossible.
But eventually they said, all right, if she brings a companion, we'll allow her to go.
So who volunteered?
Same amazing mother.
Nothing to do with Charlize.
She wasn't even born.
Yes, and she was amazing.
She set up a little clinic for the local people with things like aspirin and Band-Aids.
And she boosted my morale because the chimps all ran away in those early days.
You know, they'd never seen a white ape before.
And I'd get back in the evening all depressed, and she'd say, but Jane, think what you are learning.
And, you know, she'd list out all the things I actually was.
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