Pen Hadow nominates Sir Peter Scott

Great Lives

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History, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

"Make the boy interested in natural history," wrote Captain Scott from his tent in the Antarctic. He was talking about his son, three year old Peter Scott, whom he never saw again and who went on to found the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust and campaign against the hunting of whales. The son also designed the panda logo for the Wold Wide Fund for Nature and was its first chairman. David Attenborough called Scott the patron saint of conservation and he appears in this programme. Nominating him in studio is the adventurer Pen Hadow, whose father knew Scott and with whom he shared a nanny. The programme also features two of Scott's children, Dafila and Falcon, as well as some rarely heard archive.

From his early years as an arctic adventurer, Pen Hadow has developed into an ardent conservationist with the 90 North Foundation. He describes this programme as an enormous responsibility and wonders why Sir Peter Scott, the founder of Slimbridge, is not better known today.

The producer for BBC Audios Studio in Bristol is Miles Warde

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0:53.7	interested in natural history, wrote Captain Scott from his tent in Antarctica.
0:59.9	It's better than games. They teach it at some schools.
1:03.6	That boy is our subject today, little three-year-old Peter Scott, only son of Robert Falcon Scott, who died on his way back from the South Pole.
1:13.4	Peter was named after Peter Pan. He grew up to have many adventures, sailing in the war and
1:19.6	above all in the world of conservation. He founded the Slimbridge, Wildfowl and Wetland Centre,
1:25.4	and helped start the Worldwide Fund for Nature.
1:28.2	Take a listen to this.
1:32.2	My goodness, aren't they beautiful?
1:34.6	And I don't believe they're any less beautiful now
1:37.0	than they were the very first day I ever saw them to me.
1:39.3	I mean, I get this much kick and I think even more
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