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Holmes - David Attenborough

Television (Excerpts) – 1991

I think that’s putting it a bit dramatically: I have a very nice time, and I have a very privileged time. I see amazing things, things that you would give your right arm to see really.
– Attenborough in response to whether he's driven
...all I have to do is sit at home in my study and I think what do I like to see? Killer whales in Patagonia. So I put: ‘long shot: killer whale approaches beach, narrator appears around boulder’. And I’ve got a ticket to the killer whales.
– Attenborough modestly describes his part in making programmes