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" It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it. "

David Attenborough

Spectrum

Interest

Responsibility

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" I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. "

" I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. "

" To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that. "

" The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. "

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