David Attenborough’s Planet (We Just Live on It)

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 19 January 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

David Attenborough’s films for the BBC—impeccably researched, ambitiously filmed, and executed with style and imagination—have set a high bar for nature documentaries in our time. Over sixty years, his films have taught generations of us about the extraordinary diversity of life on the planet. His latest project is a seven-part survey of the world’s oceans, called “Planet Earth: Blue Planet II,” which débuts this week on BBC America. The series uses every technological advance, including drone-mounted and submersible cameras, to bring us closer to nature’s extremities. Attenborough talks with David Remnick about breaking precedent to give the film an overtly environmental message; about his determination at age ninety-one to keep working; and about the only creatures he really can’t stand. Plus, a look at how the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver finds spiritual meaning in the natural world.

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0:13.0	This really subversive, strange thing, in rap especially, and see what their lives are like on both sides of the border.
0:19.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour,
0:24.0	a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:28.7	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:30.5	I'm David Remnick.
0:32.4	I take up my hearing aids and put on the cans.
0:37.0	Yes, and they're on the line for you now.
0:39.2	They're there now.
0:40.2	They're there now.
0:43.9	Okay, well, I can hear.
0:45.8	Is anybody there?
0:47.0	Sir David, it's David Remnick from the New Yorker magazine.
0:49.7	How are you?
0:50.3	How nice to meet you?
0:51.3	How are you?
0:52.2	I'm terrific and all the better for talking to you. I just,
0:56.4	I'm just thrilled to be talking to you. And if you don't already recognize who that voice
1:01.8	belongs to, it's David Attenborough. He's been documenting the world and its creatures for 60 years,
1:08.7	and in Britain, he's often called a national treasure.
1:13.6	In a far corner of Southeast Asia lies the coral triangle, a cluster of the richest coral reefs in the world.
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