Leicester

City in the English East Midlands; in Life on Air the boyhood home where Attenborough began keeping animals.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Life on Air	David Attenborough	setting	The boyhood home where Attenborough began keeping animals.

Life on Air — David Attenborough (2002)

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We lived in Leicester where my father was Principal of the University College., a recently founded institution supported by local philanthropists, which under his care and leadership was to grow and become the city’s University.

• Role: setting
• In the book: Describing his lifelong animal keeping, Attenborough recalls the family house beside the former municipal Lunatic Asylum that housed the college, with a greenhouse where he kept his captures and tropical fish. He bred guppies and gouramis through his schooldays.
• Why it matters: The childhood home where his animal-keeping began, a brief flashback rather than a dwelt-on setting.