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Arwen Attridge, 14, with her dad Eliot Attridge, with their letters from David Attenborough, 37 years apart.
Two letters received 37 years apart from a British broadcasting icon, now hold special significance for one Blenheim family.
In 1985, Eliot Attridge, then aged 15, wrote a letter to David Attenborough, and Attenborough wrote one back.
Earlier this year, his daughter Arwen Attrudge, 14, did the same thing, and once again, the famous man replied. She didn’t even tell her dad about writing her own letter before sending it in the mail.
Arwen said she was “really, really shocked” to receive a handwritten reply two or three weeks later.
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“It changes your life,” she said.
Attenborough had been Arwen’s “hero” since she started watching his nature documentaries from a young age, so Arwen said she decided to write to him for career advice.
“I wanted to know about future jobs that I could do either helping to fix climate change, or anything to do with helping animals,” she said.
The Marlborough Girls College student said since receiving a letter back, she’d “definitely been a lot more interested” in courses she could do in the future that would help her get a job the areas of zoology, veterinary science or environmental science.
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Arwen’s letter from Attenborough, left, and Eliot’s, received in 1985, right, were even written on similar paper.
“He suggested that if I’m fascinated by animals, then I could take a degree in zoology or something like vetting, and he said that it wouldn’t be a waste,” she said.
Arwen said It took “lots of research” to find his London address, and said she didn’t expect him to read it, let alone reply, as it was her first time writing to somebody who’s famous.
“I just remember being really nervous when we actually ended up sending it – I didn’t know whether it would get there,” she said.
Arwen thought getting a reply made Attenborough seem like “less of a fictional character” and more of a “real person” that people actually could write to.
“I wrote a paragraph about how he probably won’t get back to me, and I basically just told him that I want to help save the world,” she said.
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Arwen said Attenborough had been a “hero” of hers since a young age.
Although she’d thought about writing to other famous people who were also advocates for taking action against climate change, Arwen said she probably wouldn’t be sending any more letters to Attenborough.
“I don’t think I want to waste his time when he could be answering other people for the first time,” she said.
Her dad, Eliot, had written to many famous when he was younger, including authors and actors, and said writing letters had been “like a hobby”.
His collection included signed pictures from Harrison Ford and Anthony Hopkins. He said former United States president Bill Clinton never responded.
Eliot said he was surprised Attenborough had written back to Arwin nearly 40 years after responding to him.
“I was a bit amazed actually,” he said.
“What it tells me is that he’s someone who really cares about getting the message across and inspiring others.”
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