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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Good morning and welcome to The Daily Oz. It's Friday the 8th of May. I'm Emma Gillespie. I'm Lucy Tassel. The man who made you cry over a walrus, root for a penguin, reassess your relationship with plastics and taught you the true meaning of the circle of life turns 100 today.
Surely we have a responsibility to care for our blue planet, the future of humanity and And indeed all life on Earth now depends on us. It seems really very unfair that man should have chosen the gorilla to symbolize all that is aggressive and violent. And that's the one thing that the gorilla is not. and that we are. If we damage the natural world and reduce its value, we damage ourselves.
In today's episode, we are going to look at the life and legacy of Sir David Attenborough and what his century on Earth has meant for us all, including Australians. But first, you are going to hear a quick message from our fabulous producer, Orla.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday?
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So Emma, the century, the big 100 for the big man, Sir David Attenborough. This is a huge day in the context of the world, the natural world, the human world. What can you tell me? What's the bio? What do I need to know about Sir David Attenborough?
Yeah, it's a pretty big one. Sir He is, of course, a British broadcaster, natural historian, the most recognized voice in nature documentary filmmaking, and arguably one of the most recognized voices in the world, full stop. He has spent most of the last eight decades bringing the natural world into our living rooms, into our consciousness here in Australia, in Britain.
In every single part of the globe, he's just been this really consistent and credible voice. He's also emerged as a very prominent voice calling for urgent action on climate change as well.
How did he even get on this path? I mean, I can sort of trace his path from being a TV presenter to being kind of the face of conservation efforts. But how did he get on that path in the first place?
Well, he spent his childhood in nature collecting fossils, collecting artefacts, dried seahorses. He grew up near Leicester and that's in the East Midlands of England. That is an area known for being particularly rich In fossils, there's a lot of limestone rocks there, and that's the perfect environment for fossil preservation. So as a little boy, he was fascinated by that aspect of nature.
He went on to go to Cambridge University. He was awarded a scholarship there where he studied natural sciences. But his TV career almost happened by accident. It's a really interesting story that he saw an ad in the paper for a sound radio job. He applied for that, didn't get it, didn't even get to an interview stage.
But a short time later, he received a letter from the BBC and they had this new thing called television going on. He was interested. He was invited to attend a three month training course. He was paid about a thousand pounds for that course, which he said was three times more than he was earning per year at the time. Yeah, that's a lot of money. money. Exactly.
And so he kind of couldn't refuse that opportunity. So he went on, he did that training course, and then he joined the BBC as a producer. So he was working behind the scenes in television production in 1952. Two years later, he launched a series called Zoo Quest with a reptile curator, a guy called Jack Lester. And as part of that program, he traveled the world
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Chapter 3: What key moments defined David Attenborough's early career?
Maybe Attenborough can tell us. I can find out for you right now, Lucy, through our trusted friend Google. Thank you. According to Australian Geographic, a semi-slug is a gastropod mollusk representing an evolutionary intermediate between snails and slugs.
Oh, okay, okay. I wasn't with you until that absolute last moment. I was like gastropods sounds familiar.
Yeah, it wasn't helping. But I can tell you from the pictures they do look sort of like stunted snails, like snails that got halfway to growing a shell and then gave up.
Okay. What an honour for Sir David Attenborough who, speaking of, I want to hear more about his climate activism, but first we're going to hear a quick word from our sponsor.
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So David Attenborough has been a really loud, prominent voice on climate change, as you would expect from someone who spent his entire career investigating wildlife. What has his message been?
He's had really three core concerns at the centre of his messaging, and that's over consumption. So, you know, the consumption of humans of not just meat and animal products, but the
deforestation as a result of that consumption you know the impact on the natural world of producing the food things products and lifestyle that we are accustomed to in the 21st century he talks about environmental degradation that destroys protected natural areas so that ties into that kind of production but also overpopulation and destroying habitats and
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