Robin Williams
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I think I was smoking a cigarette in that picture.
You were.
I'm trying to record frogs in Sierra Leone in a swamp.
I've got this in one hand, this huge thing the size of a suitcase hanging over it, which was the first mobile tape recorder.
And this, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I still use it.
And I use it because it's so reliable.
Yeah.
Crikey, you're a strong man.
That is a microphone.
Yeah, it is, and a half, and it's pretty bashed, too.
Yeah, but when you drop it, it improves.
The point of showing you this is, of course, the extent to which technology has changed incredibly, very much in your field.
I know you've talked about that in Australia before, ways in which you can invade the privacy of these tiny animals as they're doing intimate things.
Yes.
Does it still astonish you how much can be done with new technology?
Yes, what astonishes me is how little can't be done, if you see what I mean.
You really do anything now.
You're hard-pushed to it to try and think what would be unfilmable.