From his home, Attenborough shows viewers 'A Perfect Planet'

LONDON (AP) — Sir David Attenborough is a globetrotter, discovering far-flung lands and exotic species for TV audiences since the 1950s. The pandemic may have kept him at home for much of 2020, but it hasn’t stopped the legendary host from continuing his work to get the world to act on climate change.

Attenborough recorded one of his trademark voiceovers — warm, calm and full of contagious fascination for the natural world — for the new BBC and Discovery series “A Perfect Planet,” which arrives in early January.

Staying home hasn’t completely cut Attenborough, 94, off from nature.

“I’ve seen the world go by in the natural world in my garden with a continuity and intensity that I haven’t been able to give it for, almost forever, really.”

He’s only left the house twice, to go to the dentist.

Recording “A Perfect Planet” required some redecorating of the dining room at Attenborough's west London home.

Comforters or duvets were hung around the walls to muffle any echo and a technical set up allowed Attenborough to view the footage, while Executive Producer Alastair Fothergill advised him, from over 100 miles away in Bristol.

The microphone cable went out the window so the sound could be recorded by a crew member in the garden.

“He’s now got a caboose because the winter came, we got a hut for him. But in the summer he was sitting out in the rain and he was listening to what I was saying and recording it,” Attenborough said.

This wasn’t the only remote-controlled achievement on the series.

The musical soundtrack — accompanying anything from thousands of flamingos nesting in the hostile salt lakes of Central Africa to Christmas Island’s red crabs migrating from the forest to the Indian Ocean — was also recorded at a distance.

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