England’s Glastonbury Festival returned to its home among the fields of Pilton, Somerset over the weekend, where fans flocked to the British countryside to enjoy performances from artists including The Cure, Tame Impala, Lauryn Hill, and hundreds more. While the multi-day event featured performances from a wide range of artists across the creative spectrum, one person who wasn’t included on the 2019 lineup poster, Sir David Attenborough, showed up to surprise fans at the Pyramid stage during a set changeover to thank the event for eliminating its use of plastic, in addition to introducing new natural BBC Earth history show, Seven Worlds: One Planet.
Attenborough’s surprise appearance began with the official trailer for the new show, which included music from Sia and Hans Zimmer. Following the airing of the show’s nature footage on the stage screens, Attenborough took the stage to wide applause to deliver a brief speech.
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“Those extraordinary marvelous sounds that you’ve just been listening to were the songs of the creatures that live in the sea, in the great oceans,” the beloved nature documentary narrator started in saying. “You may have heard some of them before in a series that went out two years ago called ‘Blue Planet 2’. There was one sequence in ‘Blue Planet 2’ which everyone seems to remember – it was one in which we showed what plastic has done to the creatures that live in the ocean. That had an extraordinary effect, and now this great festival has gone plastic free! That is more than one million bottles of water.”
Watch the entire speech and parts of the forthcoming nature series shared during the festival below.
David Attenborough Glastonbury Speech
[Video: BBC Earth]
[H/TÂ The Guardian]