100 years of Sir David Attenborough
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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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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.
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