Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is The Guardian.
Tomorrow is Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday. It's astonishing to imagine how different the world was when he was born and the changes he's witnessed. If you'd have gone onto the streets of London, you would have seen men in bowler hats and flat caps, horse-drawn carriages, and perhaps heard jazz floating out from a nearby gramophone.
And in the countryside, calls of nightingales and cuckoos echoing through the woodlands. The BBC, where Attenborough eventually found his home, launched its first ever regular television service when he was 10 years old. He's lived through the Second World War, the invention of the nuclear bomb, the swinging 60s, Watergate, the space race, the internet and the rise of computers.
Over the past century, we've transformed our planet and in doing so, reshaped the natural world.
The world depends upon plants and we treat them with so little thought and so little care and exterminate them without little thought or care and we will pay the price.
Attenborough has spent seven decades bringing the beauty and majesty of life on earth to our screens.
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Chapter 2: What significant changes in the natural world has David Attenborough witnessed over his lifetime?
These engaging chicks are so inquisitive that you only have to sit down to their own level for them all to gather around you. There is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than any other animal I know.
His shows continue to inspire millions and more than ever implore us to remember we have a world worth saving.
I mean, we have a responsibility. And if there's only a fragment of hope left, you have a responsibility to do something about it.
So today, 100 years on Earth with David Attenborough. From The Guardian, I'm Madeleine Finlay and this is Science Weekly. Patrick Barkham, you're a natural history writer and you've been lucky enough to meet and interview David Attenborough. So what is he like?
Well, I guess the impression I come away with is just of his amazing intelligence. I spent a good couple of hours with him at his home a few years ago now. his mind is way quicker than mine still. And he's now obviously turning 100. And he's a brilliant storyteller, a great raconteur, and someone who's just endlessly curious about the world.
You know, it was very much like interviewing another journalist in that he ends up asking me lots of questions. And I'm like, hang on, I've got nothing of interest to say to you, you know, but... there he was, curious about the world and what I knew about it.
So tell me a little bit about his early life and how his interest in the natural world began.
So David grew up in a family of teachers on the edge of Leicester and it was in that era where small boys and girls roamed the countryside and that's what David did and he kept tanks of tropical fish at home and he cycled for miles and miles in search of fossils. My favourite place was... was a woodland in the middle of England. And it had rocks around it, which are full of fossils.
And sometimes you could hit a rock. Sometimes they were sitting out there and you just turned over the rock and there it was. And it was, you were the first person ever to see that. And it hasn't seen the sun for maybe 150 million years.
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