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23/05/2009

John McCarthy talks to Sir David Attenborough about his early journeys abroad to film wildlife in the 1950s and how they compare with the modern travel experience.

Sir David Attenborough joins John McCarthy in conversation and tells him of the first journeys he made to film wildlife for the 大象传媒 and how travel has changed in the intervening years. They talk about Sir David's reaction on arriving in Freetown, Sierra Leone and his first glimpse of the local fauna - at the airport. There are tales of his encounters with headhunters where no European had gone before, being run aground by an arms smuggler on a coral reef and the appeal of the gamelan orchestra.

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30 minutes

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Sat 23 May 2009 10:00

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  • Sat 23 May 2009 10:00

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