David Attenborough is 100 years old

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Today, a man whose spent more than 70 years showing us the wonders of our planet turns 100.

David Attenborough has taken generations from their living rooms into jungles, oceans and the wildest corners of Earth — and in doing so, changed how we see our place in it.

HOT1027’s Tara Penny reports…
7 May English South Africa Entertainment News · Documentary

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