Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster is a programme about happiness. I mean, ostensibly it’s a programme about the discovery, extraction and examination of the intact (in 150m year old fossil terms) skull of a pliosaur from a cliff face along the Jurassic coast. But really, it’s a study in joy.
Joy is everywhere. “Is there anything more beautiful than that?” says Attenborough in his introduction, while he cleaves a rock in two like he used to as a schoolboy fossil hunter (“You’re supposed to wear glasses these days”) to reveal an ammonite.
