The following interview is taken from the best of Andrew Denton's award-winning Enough Rope series, ranking among the most penetrating discussions from the 2000s with celebrities, larger-than-life personalities and average Joes. If you spliced the genes of Sir David Attenborough with those of the cartoon Tasmanian Devil, you'd come up with something like Steve Irwin - an Australian conservationist whose high-decibel, over-the-top personality made him, with 200 million viewers in 35 countries - count them - perhaps the most famous Australian in the world in his day.