"It's 8.30pm and David Attenborough 99 years young, in customary short-sleeved blue shirt and chinos is on the hunt for Tottenham's most elusive resident. He gets settled on a camping chair. Waits. Emits a tiny rhapsodic gasp as the creature in question appears. It's a fox. It's still a huge thrill to see one suddenly emerging from the bushes, he whispers to camera of a sight so bog-standard most Londoners wouldn't bother looking up from their phones. A totally wild creature! Attenborough holds out a hand. Murmurs a delighted hello."
"For those at the precarious stage of the holidays where a poultice for the heart is urgently required, I give you Wild London. An exquisitely cheerful, beautifully produced, unexpectedly moving special, captured over Attenborough's centennial year, in which he seeks out the wildlife of the capital and we discover that the secret to a good life isn't actually a parasite cleanse or a facial for your vagina it's appreciating what's on your own doorstep."
David Attenborough, aged 99, explores London's wildlife across allotments, stations and streets, seeking encounters with foxes, pigeons and other urban animals. He sits quietly in allotments and experiences a close fox encounter, then reacts joyfully to a pigeon riding the tube. The programme Wild London was filmed during Attenborough's centennial year and presents cheerful, beautifully produced vignettes of nature thriving amid urban density. The city is described as a megacity of 9 million people, 2.6m cars and 607 square miles of built environment hosting surprisingly abundant wildlife. The programme emphasizes appreciating local nature as a source of well-being.
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