Sir Peter Scott and Sir David Attenborough: the ultimate communicators of the natural world
Today, a team from the BBC Natural History Unit have been filming Sir David Attenborough at Slimbridge. WWT Chief Executive Martin Spray welcomed Sir David to the studio overlooking the Bewick's swans on the Rushy Pen, famous as the set for Sir Peter Scott's Look programmes.
Martin Spray writes:
The 16th November 2011 will forever be a momentous memory in my life. Two heroes came together in a way I never envisaged.
To many including me, Sir Peter Scott and Sir David Attenborough are the ultimate communicators of the natural world. Peter Scott’s programmes were the earliest recollection I have of nature on television and radio.
On my last day at university, with friends discussing their aspirations for the future, I recall saying that the job I wanted had already been taken, by David Attenborough. Both men have been an enormous inspiration to so many people in their own distinct ways.
Never as a child, fascinated by nature, could I have ever imagined that I would one day meet either of them and yet I have had the privilege of meeting both. Neither would I have ever thought that I would one day be at the helm of WWT, having visited Slimbridge as a child with my parents as so many have over the years.
So to sit in Peter’s iconic studio room at Slimbridge with Sir David is an occasion and experience which I will never forget.
