--- description: "We are about to witness one of the great phenomena of the natural world" title: Watch Sir David Attenborough Narrate Adele's 'Hello' Video image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Sir David Attenborough Narrate Adele's 'Hello' Video by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 3, 2015 5:04 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 3, 2015 5:04 PM CUT By now, you must have watched Adele’s “Hello” [video](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/22/adele-hello-25-single "undefined") a thousand times, but we invite you to watch it once more — this time, narrated by Sir David Attenborough. BBC Radio 1 invited the legendary nature documentary broadcaster to narrate the beginning of Adele’s wildly popular video. At first, he’s skeptical. “Really?” he asks. “Won’t Adele be cross with me?” But soon, he agrees to give it a go. And the result is priceless. “Battling against strong winds and the weight of expectation, she’s convinced that now is her time to strike,” Attenborough says in his signature voice. “She, like all pop stars, needs to hunt to survive. But there’s a problem. The signal is poor and she hasn’t upgraded her handset since 1999\. Hashtag flip phone.” Enjoy. _Read next:_ [_Rick Ross Remixed Adele’s ‘Hello’ and It Surprisingly Works_](http://time.com/4092621/rick-ross-adele-hello-remix/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4098228/adele-hello-david-attenborough-narration/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4098228/adele-hello-david-attenborough-narration/"},"headline":"Watch Sir David Attenborough Narrate Adele's 'Hello' Video","datePublished":"2015-11-03T17:04:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:35.038Z","description":"\"We are about to witness one of the great phenomena of the natural world\"","url":"https://time.com/4098228/adele-hello-david-attenborough-narration/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4098228/adele-hello-david-attenborough-narration/","name":"Watch Sir David Attenborough Narrate Adele's 'Hello' Video"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Wait Is Over: Adele Says 'Hello' With New Single","description":"After an agonizing four years, Adele has released a new single called","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/nzXF2bAJ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-10-23T17:17:07.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nzXF2bAJ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4098228/adele-hello-david-attenborough-narration/","duration":"PT1M12S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4098228/adele-hello-david-attenborough-narration/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```