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Coming home to roost

Wild Isles returns that ancient and much beloved creature, the Sir David Attenborough, to his natural element. While the many shows he’s made in recent years have mainly kept him studio-bound or caged in the voice-over booth, the new series has the man who won’t be put out to pasture back in the field.

He hasn’t been out in the wild much of late. After all, he’s 96. The last time he was out in the field, that field was probably still a forest. One full

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