Sir David Attenborough Interview - Presenting the 1973 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
Sir David Attenborough looks back almost four decades to the week in 1973 when he took up the mantle of Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer. Billed as the "One hundredth and forty-fourth...
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My name is David Attenborough and I gave the Christmas Lectures on animal behavior in 1973. You might think that the orangutan would be a very good subject to try and teach to talk. Actually, not so, and for quite interesting reasons. But the orangutan is, in the wild, a very solitary animal. This is a mantis. And he says beware by putting up his forelegs. His forelegs have got barbs on them. You see? Would you like a bit of a grape? Yes. I think the Royal Institution champion ear-waggler for 1973 is - [SHOUTING] - Good Lord! So he, too, is ferocious. Now... there we are. Now I regret to have to tell you - ow! In those days, they were all live. I found it an extremely difficult thing to do, partly because I tried to remain true to the tradit...
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My name is David Attenborough and I gave the Christmas Lectures on animal behavior in 1973. You might think that the orangutan would be a very good subject to try and teach to talk. Actually, not so, and for quite interesting reasons. But the orangutan is, in the wild, a very solitary animal. This is a mantis. And he says beware by putting up his forelegs. His forelegs have got barbs on them. You see? Would you like a bit of a grape? Yes. I think the Royal Institution champion ear-waggler for 1973 is - [SHOUTING] - Good Lord! So he, too, is ferocious. Now... there we are. Now I regret to have to tell you - ow! In those days, they were all live. I found it an extremely difficult thing to do, partly because I tried to remain true to the tradit...
