The QI host has a lovely tone of voice, but very nearly fumbles the ‘national treasure’ baton – by lapsing into non-sequiturs during wildlife footage we’ve seen before
Stephen Fry’s impersonation of David Attenborough starts unpromisingly. “It’s hard to describe,” he says from his wintry perch in the Arctic Circle, “how still it is on a glacier surrounded by a fresh blanket of snow.” Then you must try harder, Mr Fry, given that you’re presenting a programme that celebrates the wilderness in its few remaining minutes before being repurposed as luxury flats.
To be fair, at the outset of A Year on Planet Earth (ITVX), Fry perfectly nails the tremulous throb of awe at nature’s glorious wildness. It’s like watching Frozen Planet III narrated by a different national treasure. But then Fry has to sully these achievements with his second sentence. He follows his inability to describe glacial stillness with: “Which makes the fact that I am moving at over 490,000 miles an hour more extraordinary.” No, it doesn’t. His struggles to offer adjectives about snow really have nothing to do with how extraordinary his velocity is. David Attenborough’s script editors would have spotted that non-sequitur before broadcast.
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