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Article: A Sunday lie-in with Uncle Dave
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- New Statesman
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- August 17, 2009
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Radio
David Attenborough is a perfect successor to the late, great Alistair Cooke
The radio can't go on too early on Sunday mornings for fear of stumbling across the unspeakably irritating wishy-washyness of Something Understood (6.O5am, Radio 4) or, worse still, a burst of churchy warbling. But listening comfortably in bed to David Attenborough' s Life Stories (8.5oam, Radio 4) has become the definition of a proper lie-in. Those warm tones are as familiar and soothing as a favourite uncle's, and what wouldn't we give to have lovely Uncle Dave as a real-life relative?
But something else has happened as this series has bedded in: with little fanfare, and in a remarkably short time, ...