David Attenborough’s 100th birthday has allowed a significant download of his back catalogue on the BBC IPlayer.
It is an impressive body of work (not just Attenborough but all the camera crew,techies and support staff) and dating back to the 1970s is now, at least the earlier decades, social history.
It includes the first natural world TV in colour, Life on Earth, and amazing shots of animals in their natural habitats as the technology developed.
One interesting detail is Attenborough’s voice. He was brought up in Leicestershire but has lived for many years in south-west London. He was responsible for running BBC2 from its launch in 1965 and then by 1970 had control of all the BBC’s TV output.
During this period his voice is of the standard Reithian Received Pronunciation delivery. It was of course designed to be classless, although in fact mostly spoken by those of the middle and upper classes.
In more recent decades Attenborough’s voice, still clear, has moved away from RP, to what might be assumed to be his ‘natural’ and instantly recognisable day to day voice. Arguably as someone who might be called a ‘people’s broadcaster’ that represents progress in history..
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An amazing popularizer but not an activist. I’m not sure what he has really done for eco politics. Caroline Lucas has done so much more. Hopefully Zack Polansky will help achieve the Zeitgeist