Robin Williams

He said, what would you do if you had the funds?

And I gave him the list, like National Science Week, internships, those sorts of things.

And that was costed.

And he gave us two million bucks.

I said, how'd you get that through the cabinet?

He said, John Howard listens to the program.

You know, you're dead right about the heart.

And the involvement.

It's all one connected plan for our future.

Professor Ian Chubb at the Academy of Science in Canberra.

The Science Show on Radio National.

And, Bill, before we hear from you about an exoplanet, here's birthday boy David Attenborough once more.

A reminder that he too did it all, not just in the field filming aardvarks, but in the BBC pioneering new ways of broadcasting about ideas, all of them.

I was most proud of the dynasty of things that started with civilization and went on to the ascent of man.

Those two, it seemed to me, inaugurated a new kind of television documentary, which have had a number of descendants, but in their time they were innovative, and I think they actually enriched people's lives.

And what more do you want?

You know, there's a whole generation watching now who never saw that magic moment in Borneo when you were underground in the cave full of bats.

The entire surface of it is covered with a glistening, moving carpet of cockroaches.

Well, I tell you, I stood at the top of that pile, choking with ammonia.

This cave, this particular part of it,