David Attenborough's First Bird Sound

David Attenborough was the second most nerve-racking day of my life. The first was when I had a chance to interview Barack Obama and it's impossible to say that without sounding like some sort of name-drop and humble brag, but it's Barack Obama. And yeah, both of those days were completely surreal. My mum was also a very passionate environmental activist and she used to take my brother and I to protest outside the Heathrow Third runway. But clearly some of it rubbed off on me and so I grew up in a household where filmmaking and storytelling was a big part of my everyday life.

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