BBC 2 ..David Attenborough.. First Life..9.00pm

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2 Part Fossil programme started now..

[theboyfold]

And brilliant it is too.

I've never known natural history shows to be done by anybody else. No idea what's going to happen when he retires

[jmorgan]

Always found the time that lot took mind boggling.

[Killer2005]

theboyfold said:

And brilliant it is too.

I've never known natural history shows to be done by anybody else. No idea what's going to happen when he retires

There was a program 2 weeks ago about his work within the bbc and its natural history unit, and he said this was the series he really wanted to make.

[Eric Mc]

Back in 1989 he made a three part series of half hour programmes on fossils called "Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives".
I videotaped it at the time and later bought the DVD. That was excellent - but this one looks like it's going to be even better. Quite a lot of new information about early life has been uncovered in the two decades since the earlier show - and CGI means that these creatures can be brought to life more realistically.

[Zod]

I'm 43. For the whole of my life, natural history programmes have been presented by David Attenborough.

The statistics about the amount of time life has been on the planet are difficult to take in, particularly when you consider that homo sapiens has been around for 500,000 years and we only really got started 10,000 years ago.

[Eric Mc]

We tend to try to measure everything on a "human" scale - which is natural, I suppose. Nature and the univesrse works to a completely different, and much grander scale. Like virtually every other species that has lived, or will ever live, the human race is hust "passin' through".

[pphillpot]

A good analogy I heard is to hold out your arm and imagine that life on earth begins at your shoulder and extends to the tip of your finger. There's nothing but bacteria until the middle of your forearm, dinosaurs are somewhere around the end of your wrist and the whole of human history can be wiped out with a single stroke of a finger nail file.

[Silver Smudger]

Killer2005 said:

theboyfold said:

And brilliant it is too.

I've never known natural history shows to be done by anybody else. No idea what's going to happen when he retires

There was a program 2 weeks ago about his work within the bbc and its natural history unit, and he said this was the series he really wanted to make.

His autobiography "Life on Air" is excellent too. He has had an amazing career and done loads of things I hadn't heard about in broadcasting. Quite a bit of interesting BBC history in there too, seeing as he was involved in a lot of it!

And

pphillpot said:

A good analogy...

Very good - Hard to conceive that much time

[Eric Mc]

He was the original director general of BBC 2 when it first went on air in 1964.

[Westy Pre-Lit]

Zod said:

The statistics about the amount of time life has been on the planet are difficult to take in, particularly when you consider that homo sapiens has been around for 500,000 years and we only really got started 10,000 years ago.

Yet apparently Homo sapiens was able to make this place out of Diorite and granite circa 14,000 years ago. Some of which we are unable to do/very hard to make even today using modern machinery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPZpOAEm7mQ&fea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hp2Qgxr30o&fea...

Just thought I'd go O/T a little and chuck in a hand grenade.

Edited by Westy Pre-Lit on Monday 8th November 18:40