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The Documentary Podcast

Sir David Attenborough

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As Sir David Attenborough celebrates his 100th birthday, we bring together conservationists and film-makers to discuss the impact of his long career, and the influence he has had on how we think about nature. We hear how his tv programmes and books have reached audiences around the world and the inspiration they have provided. Wendy Kirorei describes how growing up in Kenya, Sir David’s programmes were shown constantly on television, and led her to become a wildlife film-maker. “My dream was to do my first documentary in the Maasai Mara purely influenced by watching a lot of his work growing up.”

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0:35.3

Hello, I'm James Reynolds, and in BBC Conversations, we celebrate the 100th birthday of Sir David Attenborough.

0:43.3

David Attenborough began his broadcasting career as a BBC trainee in 1952, working in the then new medium of television, who thought it would last.

0:53.9

Within a couple of years, he was on screen

0:56.0

presenting a wildlife series called Zoo Quest. He travelled the world, filming encounters with

1:02.0

animals, including lemurs, birds of paradise and commodo dragons, bringing those exotic species

1:08.1

right to British audiences. It was a huge hit and the start of what's been

1:13.2

a seven-decade-long career, transforming how so many of us see the natural world. In 1978,

1:21.1

whilst making the groundbreaking series Life on Earth, he famously mesmerized audiences by

1:26.6

rolling around with baby gorillas and their mother in Rwanda.

1:30.5

She put a hand on the top of my head and turned my head towards her to look in one another's eyes.

1:38.6

And then she stuck her finger, which was huge.

1:42.3

I mean, like a great sort of articulated banana and opened my mouth,

1:47.1

put it in my mouth, lowered my jaw and looked inside my mouth. So it was, it was extraordinary.

1:56.5

Just one of those astonishing moments. I remember growing up and watching that clip again and

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