Actors recite speeches by King Charles on the occasion of the launch of the environmental channel RE:TV

Olivia Colman and Woody Harrelson are among the stars delivering the King’s speeches as a new YouTube channel on climate change launches.

RE:TV was founded by Charles in 2020 and has since made more than 100 short films about sustainable solutions to help the environment.

A new short film, The King’s Speech, is being released today (Monday) to mark the channel’s arrival on YouTube.

During his time as Prince of Wales, Charles made numerous speeches on the environment, beginning in February 1970 when he focused on conservation.

In The King’s Speech, actors and environmentalists will read lines from some of these speeches.

RE:TV was founded in 2020 by King Charles (then the Prince of Wales). It has made more than 100 films about the environment

One of the stars is Olivia Colman, who famously played the late Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix royal drama The Crown.

The Oscar-winning actress is joined by 18 others in the short, including Luther star Idris Elba.

Fatal Attraction star Glenn Close and Zombieland actor Woody Harrelson also participate.

In a preview clip, while reciting a 2020 speech of his in Davos, Charles’ voice is cut into Elba today.

They are heard saying parts of the following: ‘Global warming, climate change, the devastating loss of biodiversity are the greatest threats humanity has ever faced and are largely a result of our own creation.’

The video is also interspersed with footage of the effects of climate change, including flooding, drought and weather conditions, and locations such as the greenhouses at Kew Gardens and the ancient woodland at Burnham Beeches.

BBC garden presenter Danny Clarke; The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse author Charlie Mackesy; YouTube environmentalist Jack Harrys; and climate activist Leah Thomas also appear.

At the end of the clip, a 2020 video of the king can be heard saying, “There is real hope, but we just need to get our act together.”

Actor Woody Harrelson (pictured) also appeared in the promotional short The King’s Speech

British horticulturist Danny Clarke is one of the celebrities helping environmentalists launch a new RE:TV YouTube channel

Actress Glenn Close (pictured, left) and environmentalist Jack Harries (pictured, right) are both involved in the project

Fatou Jeng (photo) is a young climate activist from Gambia. She is also one of the prolific people involved in RE:TV

RE:TV was launched three years ago during Climate Week as a content platform for short films with Charles as editor-in-chief.

It grew out of its Sustainable Markets Initiative, which aims to accelerate the world’s transition to a sustainable future, as a way to inform and inspire the public.

In 2020, the King admitted that people thought he was ‘grossed’ when he started speaking about the importance of environmental protection to the Countryside Steering Committee for Wales.

At the age of 21, Charles gave his first impassioned speech about his personal concern about oil spills and single-use plastics.

He also shared how, as a teenager in the 1960s, he worried about the destruction of trees, wetlands, and habitats, and about “the white heat of progress and technology to the exclusion of nature and our environment.”

In his 1970 speech, Charles highlighted a problem that has become an illustration of humanity’s threat to nature.

Then he had said, “When you consider that each person produces about 2 pounds of waste a day, and that with 55 million of us on this island, we use single-use bottles and indestructible plastic containers, it is not hard to imagine the mountains of waste we will be involved in one way or another.’