| 100 not out 18:14 - May 7 with 2785 views | Paddyhoops |
Happy birthday to David Attenborough.
An absolute bona fida legend |  | | |  |
| 100 not out on 18:20 - May 7 with 2757 views | OakR |
Actually one person I wouldn't mind us building a statue for. (maybe he has one already)?
A bit like the Queen was, whether you liked the Royal Family or not, or in this case wildlife documentaries (and I do like them) he's been around for so much, well all of most people's lives. Part fo the furniture as such, and involved in some amazing programmes, for their time especially.
Many happy memories as a kid watching those documentaries, and as an adult in fairness. | |
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| 100 not out on 18:45 - May 7 with 2700 views | Northernr |
An absolute highlight of my career, probably life, was interviewing him at Kew Gardens around 2012 time.
He was promoting Kingdom of Plants that was on Sky and was doing a media round (essentially every journo gets ten minutes) and we were last (pesky W surname) which is never a good place to be in those things because the subject is usually tired and fed up by that point.
Genuinely the nicest most brilliant person I've ever met. Couldn't do enough for me. Spoke for half an hour, on all sorts of topics, answered every question thoughtfully, there was a line and a quote in everything he said. Just such enthusiasm for the subject, which at that point was the bloody plants in Kew Gardens, so much knowledge and wise thoughts on the BBC, the broadcast landscape...
I came away just completely uplifted and felt so much better about everything. You felt you were in the presence of somebody special.
Side note, we had a sixth former on work experience that week, so I took her along because when else is she gonna get that opportunity? She spent the whole journey there beside herself that we'd be going through Barnes Bridge on the train because that's where Robert Pattinson from Twilight lives. She sat through the interview completely non-plussed by the whole thing, talked about Robert Pattinson all the way back to the office and went home. Came back the following day and was like "that guy we met yesterday, my parents reckon he's a really big deal?" Derrrrr.
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| 100 not out on 18:47 - May 7 with 2690 views | Maggsinho |
I held a door open for him at Southampton University in 1992 and he said thank you very nicely. |  | | |
| 100 not out on 18:49 - May 7 with 2682 views | MrSheen |
He agreed to open the new primary school my kids attended in North Sheen in 2004, just because he lived round the corner. Stayed for a couple of hours. The kids loved him, the mums were too excited throwing their knickers at Zak Goldsmith, the local MP. [Post edited 7 May 18:51]
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| 100 not out on 18:57 - May 7 with 2652 views | numptydumpty |
What a life this man has had.
Incredible to get to this age anyhow, but understand he still is actively working on occasions and his mind is still sharp.
Happy 100th to the Master. |  |
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| 100 not out on 19:58 - May 7 with 2546 views | bosh67 |
| 100 not out on 18:45 - May 7 by Northernr |
An absolute highlight of my career, probably life, was interviewing him at Kew Gardens around 2012 time.
He was promoting Kingdom of Plants that was on Sky and was doing a media round (essentially every journo gets ten minutes) and we were last (pesky W surname) which is never a good place to be in those things because the subject is usually tired and fed up by that point.
Genuinely the nicest most brilliant person I've ever met. Couldn't do enough for me. Spoke for half an hour, on all sorts of topics, answered every question thoughtfully, there was a line and a quote in everything he said. Just such enthusiasm for the subject, which at that point was the bloody plants in Kew Gardens, so much knowledge and wise thoughts on the BBC, the broadcast landscape...
I came away just completely uplifted and felt so much better about everything. You felt you were in the presence of somebody special.
Side note, we had a sixth former on work experience that week, so I took her along because when else is she gonna get that opportunity? She spent the whole journey there beside herself that we'd be going through Barnes Bridge on the train because that's where Robert Pattinson from Twilight lives. She sat through the interview completely non-plussed by the whole thing, talked about Robert Pattinson all the way back to the office and went home. Came back the following day and was like "that guy we met yesterday, my parents reckon he's a really big deal?" Derrrrr.
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OMG Robert Pattinson lives in Barnes?
Lovely story about Sir David. I have never had then opportunity to meet him but people I know who have very much echo your experience. A proper legend and national treasure.
I often hear his hushed tones in my head saying... The QPR is a small reclusive creature that seldom comes out to win a football match during the harshness of the English Football Championship season. But when it does, it shines brightly for just a few moments, before scurrying away in defeat to the darkness of a cave until the next bleak set of 46 matches and two cup defeats arrive the following year. |  |
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| 100 not out on 20:11 - May 7 with 2519 views | Northernr |
| 100 not out on 19:58 - May 7 by bosh67 |
OMG Robert Pattinson lives in Barnes?
Lovely story about Sir David. I have never had then opportunity to meet him but people I know who have very much echo your experience. A proper legend and national treasure.
I often hear his hushed tones in my head saying... The QPR is a small reclusive creature that seldom comes out to win a football match during the harshness of the English Football Championship season. But when it does, it shines brightly for just a few moments, before scurrying away in defeat to the darkness of a cave until the next bleak set of 46 matches and two cup defeats arrive the following year. |
And here, once again, we see… they’re trying that fcking goal kick routine again.
Roughly one in a thousand of these will be successful. Today… is not their day. | | | |
| 100 not out on 20:25 - May 7 with 2476 views | HammersmithR |
A few of us from Rangers going to some do for him at The Royal Albert Hall tomorrow night. Think he lives in Chiswick. I’m sure we will get some ‘you Rssss’ in at some point. | | | |
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| 100 not out on 20:59 - May 7 with 2433 views | HAYESBOY |
A National treasure. |  |
| Smells like a trout farm in here |
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| 100 not out on 21:04 - May 7 with 2403 views | MrSheen |
| 100 not out on 19:58 - May 7 by bosh67 |
OMG Robert Pattinson lives in Barnes?
Lovely story about Sir David. I have never had then opportunity to meet him but people I know who have very much echo your experience. A proper legend and national treasure.
I often hear his hushed tones in my head saying... The QPR is a small reclusive creature that seldom comes out to win a football match during the harshness of the English Football Championship season. But when it does, it shines brightly for just a few moments, before scurrying away in defeat to the darkness of a cave until the next bleak set of 46 matches and two cup defeats arrive the following year. |
Robert Pattinson went to the Harrodian School in Barnes, Alma mater of former QPR Yoot sensation, Romeo/Brooklyn Beckham. | | | |
| 100 not out on 21:08 - May 7 with 2375 views | Northernr |
| 100 not out on 20:25 - May 7 by HammersmithR |
A few of us from Rangers going to some do for him at The Royal Albert Hall tomorrow night. Think he lives in Chiswick. I’m sure we will get some ‘you Rssss’ in at some point. |
He lives on Richmond Hill, unless he’s moved. | | | |
| 100 not out on 21:17 - May 7 with 2347 views | MrSheen |
| 100 not out on 21:08 - May 7 by Northernr |
He lives on Richmond Hill, unless he’s moved. |
Yes, rhapsodising Richmond Park in his recent London film. Our kids’s school was at the bottom of the hill. | | | |
| 100 not out on 21:31 - May 7 with 2314 views | Superhoops2808 |
| 100 not out on 18:45 - May 7 by Northernr |
An absolute highlight of my career, probably life, was interviewing him at Kew Gardens around 2012 time.
He was promoting Kingdom of Plants that was on Sky and was doing a media round (essentially every journo gets ten minutes) and we were last (pesky W surname) which is never a good place to be in those things because the subject is usually tired and fed up by that point.
Genuinely the nicest most brilliant person I've ever met. Couldn't do enough for me. Spoke for half an hour, on all sorts of topics, answered every question thoughtfully, there was a line and a quote in everything he said. Just such enthusiasm for the subject, which at that point was the bloody plants in Kew Gardens, so much knowledge and wise thoughts on the BBC, the broadcast landscape...
I came away just completely uplifted and felt so much better about everything. You felt you were in the presence of somebody special.
Side note, we had a sixth former on work experience that week, so I took her along because when else is she gonna get that opportunity? She spent the whole journey there beside herself that we'd be going through Barnes Bridge on the train because that's where Robert Pattinson from Twilight lives. She sat through the interview completely non-plussed by the whole thing, talked about Robert Pattinson all the way back to the office and went home. Came back the following day and was like "that guy we met yesterday, my parents reckon he's a really big deal?" Derrrrr.
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This sounds fab - Something you are allowed to post here? Or a link or something - Find the guy amazing |  | | |
| 100 not out on 21:40 - May 7 with 2265 views | MrSheen |
I think he’ll get over it. | | | |
| 100 not out on 21:53 - May 7 with 2239 views | Northernr |
| 100 not out on 21:31 - May 7 by Superhoops2808 |
This sounds fab - Something you are allowed to post here? Or a link or something - Find the guy amazing |
My company has redone its website since so I suspect it’s lost but I’ll try find tomorrow. | | | |
| 100 not out on 22:24 - May 7 with 2190 views | colinallcars |
A marvelous man alright. His older brother Richard was my favourite film actor as I had a thing for British war films.
He was superb as the strict RSM in Guns at Batasi.
When that film came out, the local 'erberts called it Guns at Battersea.
Great film. |  | | |
| 100 not out on 06:53 - May 8 with 1984 views | Metallica_Hoop |
I cannot watch a nature program unless he's doing the commentary.
Absolute legend in the truest sense.
I think someone told a story on here; his brother Sir Dickie, was diving away from Stamford Bridge and his roller was surrounded by Chelsea and he got abuse all sorts because the denizens of the Bridge thought he was Ken Bates  |  |
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| 100 not out on 07:56 - May 8 with 1933 views | hubble |
I listened to 'Attenborough at 100: a World of Animals' on Sunday, possibly not for everyone, but I thought it was absolutely wonderful. If you want a sublime hour off from the hustle and bustle of daily life, here's the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/p
And here's a taster of what it contains:
Music, poetry and prose inspired by animals: from sloths, hawks and crocodiles, to wolves, elephants and snakes, alongside an archive recording of Attenborough himself reading from Life Stories, his memoir of seventy years of world-class nature broadcasting.....
In Memoriam (extract) by Alfred Tennyson
H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald
Life Stories – archaeopteryx by David Attenborough
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Life Stories – sloths by David Attenborough
Sonnet on a Monkey by Marjory Fleming
Crocodile by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Leaving Times by Jodi Piccoult
The Old Lizard (extract) by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Life Stories – monstrous flowers by David Attenborough
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver
Song of Myself (extract) by Walt Whitman
Between Us And by Anne Carson
White Fang by Jack London
The Pangolin by Fleur Adcock
Life Stories – coelocanth by David Attenborough
Blueback by Tim Winton
The Explorer's Daughter by Kari Herbert
At the Zoo by AA Milne
Paradise by Isabel Allende
Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
Kindness to Animals by Wendy Cope
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Tyger (extract) by William Blake
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Green Bee Eater by Pascale Petit |  |
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