Attenborough in Paradise
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Genre | Documentary |
Written by | David Attenborough |
Narrated by | David Attenborough |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
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Release | 1996 (1996) |
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Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages |
Attenborough in Paradise is a BBC television documentary written and presented by David Attenborough. It was first transmitted in 1996 and is part of the Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages collection of seven documentaries.
In this program Attenborough fulfills a childhood ambition, developed after reading a book as a nine-year-old, to see the greater bird-of-paradise in display; and records the spectacular birdlife of the New Guinea forest, in particular the various birds-of-paradise.
In 2015, the BBC released a new episode of the series shot at a Sheikh's private aviary in Qatar.[1][2]
Quotes
In the final piece to camera for this documentary David Attenborough introduces quotes from the 1869 book The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace.
53 min 15 sec
Wallace's emotions on discovering such marvels must surely be echoed by all of us who follow him. This is what he wrote:
- "I thought of the long ages of the past during which the successive generations of these things of beauty had run their course. Year by year being born and living and dying amid these dark gloomy woods with no intelligent eye to gaze upon their loveliness, to all appearances such a wanton waste of beauty. It seems sad that on the one hand such exquisite creatures should live out their lives and exhibit their charms only in these wild inhospitable regions. This consideration must surely tell us that all living things were not made for man, many of them have no relation to him, their happiness and enjoyment's, their loves and hates, their struggles for existence, their vigorous life and early death, would seem to be immediately related to their own well-being and perpetuation alone"
Indeed so.
References
- From DVD
External links
- Attenborough in Paradise at IMDb
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- filmography
- things named after
- Life on Earth (1979)
- The Living Planet (1984)
- The Trials of Life (1990)
- Life in the Freezer (1993)
- The Private Life of Plants (1995)
- The Life of Birds (1998)
- The Life of Mammals (2002)
- Life in the Undergrowth (2005)
- Life in Cold Blood (2008)
- Planet Earth (2006)
- Planet Earth II (2016)
- Planet Earth III (2023)
and programmes
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One-off programmes |
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- David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities (episodes) (2013–17)
- When Björk Met Attenborough (2013)
- Our Planet (2019)
- Wild Karnataka (2019)
- David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
- Breaking Boundaries (2021)
- Prehistoric Planet (2022)
and films
- Flying Monsters 3D (2010)
- The Penguin King (2011)
- Kingdom of Plants 3D (2012)
- Galapagos 3D (2013)
- David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive (2014)
- David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D (2015)
- Attenborough in Paradise (2005)
- The Life Collection (2005)
- Life on Land (2008)
- David Attenborough's Life Stories (2009–11)
- Tweet of the Day (2013–14)
- A Life on Our Planet (2020)
- Frederick Attenborough (father)
- Richard Attenborough (brother)
- John Attenborough (brother)
- Michael Attenborough (nephew)
- Jane Attenborough (niece)
- Charlotte Attenborough (niece)
- Tom Attenborough (great nephew)
- Will Attenborough (great nephew)
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