David Attenborough - older than god and flipping fantastic

[Stigmata]

According to IMDB:

50 years of natural history programme making series has made him the most travelled person in human history, except for astronauts.

What a legend.

 

[jms]

he might be older than god but he isn't older than patrick moore

but partick more gives you the feeling he was even born aged 40

Monacles'll do that for you.

 

[May Kasahara]

Well its not like a formal parkinson interiew is it? JP, kows it, DA knows, it so does everyone else, its just some light hearted fun, Im sure DA will be on parkie soon to fulfill your high brow form interview needs

It's not like I'm expecting them to start unravelling string theory or anything, just to have a normal chat about an interesting subject with Ross making incessant shit unfunny jokes at the expense of any insight. Also, as someone has already pointed out, Parky is a twat and his show is bin juice - I'd expect more highbrow comment from my one year old nephew.

 

[rubbershoes]

OK, where can I find... moderate quantities of batshit?

that cave in borneo on last night's programme had a pile of batshit 100 metres high

is that enough for whatever you want it for?

 

[beeboo]

My mum first fell for my Dad cos she thought he had legs like David Attenborough

Is he really top mates with Palin? - that is cool, I love him too.

 

[Greebozz]

Sorry to bring the tone down here but David Attenborough, is such a well loved figure, I thought it would be really funny if he was caught in a compromising position with a chimpanzee, can you imagine the scandal and fall from grace, you would have to laugh.

 

[Greebozz]

I really know how to kill a thread don't I.

 

[Badgers]

1970: BAFTA Desmond Davis Award
1974: Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1980: BAFTA Fellowship
1983: Fellow of the Royal Society
1985: Knighthood
1991: Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
1991: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1996: Companion of Honour
1998: International Cosmos Prize
2003: Michael Faraday Prize awarded by the Royal Society
2004: Descartes Prize for Outstanding Science Communication Actions
2004: Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum
2005: Order of Merit
2005: Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest
2006: National Television Awards Special Recognition Award
2006: Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management
2006: The Culture Show British Icon Award
2007: British Naturalists' Association Peter Scott Memorial Award
2009: BAFTA Specialist factual award for Life In Cold Blood
2009: Prince of Asturias Award
2010: Fonseca Prize
2010: Queensland Museum Meda
2011: International Honour for Excellence

Needs more awards

 

[fredfelt]

I was wondering who could possibly replace him - or at least stand in. Then along comes Stephen Fry - I like his natural history narration very much.

 

[gentlegreen]

I was wondering who could possibly replace him - or at least stand in. Then along comes Stephen Fry - I like his natural history narration very much.

Thou surely jesteth !

 

[gabi]

i fucking hate stephen fry. smug prick.

there must be someone else to replace david attenborough out there. even brian cox is preferable.

 

[fredfelt]

Thou surely jesteth !

No. I like his voice. He narrates 'Nature's Giants' which is on at the moment and I find his voice and style suitably smoothing.

DA was probably a lot more involved in the creation and content of many of the programs he narrated - but purely in terms of narration Stephen Fry does it well.

Here's a special treat for natural history fans. David Attenbourgh narrating and expressing suitable wonder at the mating rituals of the leopard slug. Watch this 5 minutes of slug on slug action on this wet Tuesday morning to be truly amazed

 

[Badgers]

Fry is a good orator but in terms of nature he would be a voice over compared to Attenborough. Where Attenborough has given his life to the subject of nature, Fry has been focused on entertainment. Not saying he does not have a good understanding but not even close.

 

[Cid]

Also, watching the recent series about 'ocean giants' (which should really be titled 'Ocean Cetaceans that aren't porpoises'), he's unbearably sentimental.

 

[discokermit]

i'm sick of all these rich, middle class pricks going on jollies at the licence payers expense.

 

[discokermit]

fuck him. and fry. and palin.

 

[Badgers]

i'm sick of all these rich, middle class pricks going on jollies at the licence payers expense.

Worth it for Attenborough. There are others I struggle with bit the cost of what he has produced has been more than fair

 

[Mungy]

fuck him. and fry. and palin.

an orgy at license payers expense. somewhat disturbing viewing i would imagine.

 

[Orang Utan]

i heard he beats his servants

 

[Cid]

i'm sick of all these rich, middle class pricks going on jollies at the licence payers expense.

The BBC's not a non-profit organisation you tit, it generates additional revenue through the wholly owned BBC Worldwide and Attenborough's programmes sell particularly well. Quite apart from the enormous number of people he's inspired to get into the sciences.

 

[gentlegreen]

i'm sick of all these rich, middle class pricks going on jollies at the licence payers expense.

0/10

 

[Zabo]

I'm with gentlegreen. There's just no comparison whatsoever. Attenborough has been committed to wildlife all his life and his sincere about his subject and the environment. No bandwagon for him.

For the past few years Fry has been searching for his own little niche. He started off with his bi-polar flounce from the theatre, then he did a few programmes on the subject as if nobody else had ever suffered - made a remarkable recovery Stephen didn't you? And then we had all the shite about how lovely and sexy is Apple. And then the Q series. I mustn't forget his stunning expertise on the great poets. And then the stuff on genealogy. Must I go on - sighs.

In a word a whore. An over inflated, self-aggrandising whore. Never will he achieve the same special status as the 'most trusted person in the media' as Attenborough.

 

[Orang Utan]

danny dyer would be a great replacement. imagine him with trying to whisper next to a bunch of gorillas.
FACK ME! these gorillas are WELL HARD

 

[littlebabyjesus]

What the hell are these ridiculous comparisons?

What Attenborough does, aside from being fantastic tv, is real science. He is a teacher.

 

[weltweit]

Funnily enough I thought of Fry when I noticed this thread.

I saw monsters of the deep or something on TV recently and it was Fry's voice narrating.

Plus he did the last chance to see programmes where he actually went and saw.

However Attenborough is a naturalist, he knows about what he speaks, Fry is just a polymath [1]

[1] I hope that word is right, I haven't used it in years and am not completely sure what it means

 

[Ivana Nap]

danny dyer would be a great replacement. imagine him with trying to whisper next to a bunch of gorillas.
FACK ME! these gorillas are WELL HARD

Danny Dyer is not good for anything.

 

[Orang Utan]

Funnily enough I thought of Fry when I noticed this thread.

I saw monsters of the deep or something on TV recently and it was Fry's voice narrating.

Plus he did the last chance to see programmes where he actually went and saw.

However Attenborough is a naturalist, he knows about what he speaks, Fry is just a polymath [1]

[1] I hope that word is right, I haven't used it in years and am not completely sure what it means

he's not really a polymath. he just gets paid to read shit out.
i don't think he's published any academic papers, he's just written a few mediocre novels and a couple of well-written memoirs.

 

[Orang Utan]

Danny Dyer is not good for anything.

go back to sleep, he's awesome in his cruddiness

 

[weltweit]

he's not really a polymath. he just gets paid to read shit out.
i don't think he's published any academic papers, he's just written a few mediocre novels and a couple of well-written memoirs.

Yes his memoirs though - are well written - I recently read Moab is my ... and could not put it down.

 

[Stigmata]

There are a load of paintings in the National Maritime Museum that were formerly hanging in MoD offices in Whitehall, but Attenborough demanded that they be displayed to the public that had paid for them. Top geezer.