Jane Goodall

And if we were perceived by them to be part of the group, they'd probably all treat all of us the way Frodo treats me.

Well, from the age of eight or nine, I wanted to go to Africa, live with animals and write books about them.

And that was because I fell in love with Tarzan and was terribly jealous of Tarzan's Jane.

And I thought she was a wimp and I'd have been much better as a mate for Tarzan myself, which is true.

I would have been.

And, you know, everybody laughed at me.

How could I go to Africa?

We didn't have any money.

It was during the Second World War.

There were no jets going over with tourists.

And we just heard rumors about, you know, poisoned arrows and sinister drumbeat messages and things like that.

But my mother never laughed.

So I left school and didn't go to university because at that time in England, unless you were good in a foreign language, you couldn't get a scholarship.

And I was always hopeless in foreign languages.

And so my mother said, well, if you are set on going to Africa or some other foreign place, if you learn secretarial work, then you can get a job anywhere in the world, which, of course, was a brilliant idea because that's exactly what I did.

I had my first job with Louis Leakey as his secretary.

How did you get a job as a secretary?

How did you even meet him?

Well, I was in London and I had this wonderful job with documentary films and it was... As a secretary?

Well, secretary, not really.