Actors recite speeches made by King Charles to mark launch of environmental channel RE:TV
and are among the stars reciting the King's speeches as a new channel focussing on is launched. RE:TV was founded in 2020 by Charles and has since made more than 100 short films about sustainable solutions to help the environment. A new short film, The King's Speech, will be released today (Monday) to mark the arrival of the channel on YouTube. During his time as Prince of Wales, Charles made numerous speeches about the environment, beginning in February 1970 when he highlighted conservation issues. The King's Speech will feature actors and environmentalists reading lines from some of these speeches. One of the stars is Olivia Colman, who famously played the late Queen Elizabeth II on Netflix royal drama The Crown. The Oscar-winning actress is joined by 18 others in the short film, including Luther star Idris Elba. Also taking part are Fatal Attraction star Glenn Close and Zombieland actor Woody Harrelson. In a preview clip, while reciting a 2020 address by him in Davos, the voice of Charles is cut into Elba speaking today. They are heard saying parts of the following: 'Global warming, climate change, the devastating loss of biodiversity are the greatest threats that humanity has ever faced and one largely of our own creation.' The video is also interspersed with footage of the effects of climate change including flooding, drought and weather events and locations such as the glasshouses of Kew Gardens and ancient woodland of Burnham Beeches. BBC gardening presenter Danny Clarke; The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse author Charlie Mackesy; YouTube environmental campaigner Jack Harries; and climate activist Leah Thomas also appear. At the end of the clip, a video from the King from 2020 can be heard saying: 'There is real hope, but we've just got to get our act together.' RE:TV was launched during Climate Week three years ago as a content platform for short films with Charles as editor-in-chief. It was born out of his Sustainable Markets Initiative, which aims to accelerate the world's transition to a sustainable future, as a way to inform and inspire audiences. In 2020, the to the Countryside Steering Committee for Wales. At the age of 21, Charles delivered his first impassioned speech about his personal concern over oil pollution and single-use plastic. He also told how, as a teenager in the 1960s, he was concerned about the destruction of trees, wetlands and habitats as well as 'the white heat of progress and technology to the exclusion of nature and our surroundings'. In his 1970 address, Charles highlighted a problem that has become an illustration of humanity's threat to nature. Then he had said: 'When you think that each person produces roughly 2lb of rubbish per day and there are 55 million of us on this island using non-returnable bottles and indestructible plastic containers, it is not difficult to imagine the mountains of refuse that we shall have to deal with somehow.'