 David Attenborough's Life Stories

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David Attenborough's Life Stories

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Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural histories of creatures and plants

Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world

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David Attenborough's Life Stories: Series 1: Birds of Paradise

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Musings on the New Guinea residents, who fooled early explorers with their adornments.

Sir David muses on how New Guinea residents fooled early explorers with resplendent adornments and decorations. From 2009.

Sir David Attenborough talks about the Birds of Paradise.

This is a group of birds which evolved in the relative safety of New Guinea, allowing them to acquire adornments and feathered decorations so resplendent that they fooled the early explorers who discovered them.

Series of talks by Sir David  on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world. 

Producer: Julian Hector.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in August 2009.

David Attenborough's Life Stories: Series 1

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