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The Guardian Archive Longread.

I'm Patrick Barkham. I'm natural history writer for the Guardian.

And I'm the author of The Real David Attenborough, a long read that was published in 2019.

I've been a journalist for 20 years and people always ask me,

who's the most famous person you've interviewed?

And the answer, I've met plenty of prime ministers and I've met Charles and William and Harry,

but the answer's always David Attenborough.

And I'd always wanted to sit down and have a proper chat with him.

I went to meet him at his home in the spring of 2019.

And he answered the door and he looked much like any other freelancer working from home.

He was slightly dishevelled and wearing a big brown jumper.

And we sat for a couple of hours and had a conversation that formed the basis for this long read,

which is a profile of him, exploring his impact and his extraordinary life.

And of course the issue of how vigorously he's campaigned for measures to be taken against

the destruction of the natural world.

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