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Radio 4,23 May 2009,30 mins

23/05/2009

Excess Baggage

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Sir David Attenborough joins John McCarthy in conversation and tells him of the first journeys he made to film wildlife for the BBC and how travel has changed in the intervening years. They talk about Sir David's reaction on arriving in Freetown, Sierra Leone and his first glimpse of the local fauna - at the airport. There are tales of his encounters with headhunters where no European had gone before, being run aground by an arms smuggler on a coral reef and the appeal of the gamelan orchestra.

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