Witness History
Witness History
David Attenborough's First Expedition
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7 April 2021
9 minutes
Available for over a year
**** Sir David Attenborough joins BBC Radio 4 Extra's 100 CLUB as he celebrates his 100th birthday on 8th May 2026
In 1954, the BBC broadcast a new TV programme in Britain.
It was called Zoo Quest and it launched the career of a man who has since brought the natural world into millions of homes around the world, the broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.
Louise Hidalgo has been listening back through the BBC archives to Sir David telling the story of the first natural history expedition for Zoo Quest, to Sierra Leone in West Africa.
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in April 2021.
