2025-10-21
2 分钟Hello, it's Lauren Laverne and this is Desert Island Discs Postcards,
a selection of some of our most memorable moments from some of the thousands of people we've cast away to our imaginary Desert Island.
Today's cast away is broadcasting legend Sir David Attenborough.
He spoke to Kirsty Young in 2012 for the 70th anniversary of Desert Island Discs.
Sir David told Kirsty about his passion for fossils which began as a child and inspired his love of the natural world.
The romance of it was very vivid.
The possibility that there is in front of you there's a rock the size of a football and there's quite a good chance that that will contain a shell.
A perfect,
perfect shell which nobody in the world has ever seen before and which the light of the sun hasn't shone on for 350 million years.
You are the first person to see that.
That's thrilling.
How old were you when you set up your own little...
Well, it was a sort of museum, wasn't it?
Well, I've collected things.
I mean, kids do collect things.
Certainly by the age of 10 or 12.
What was in your little museum?
There were lots of ammonites and fossil, and belomites and various...
and brachyopods and various things from the Leicestershire Jurassic Upper Lyres.
Oh, there were bits of Roman pottery.