He is truly one of a kind and has had a long and illustrious career to prove it. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black and white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolutions. Alastair Fothergill, a senior producer with whom Attenborough had worked on The Trials of Life and Life in the Freezer, was making The Blue Planet (2001), the Unit's first comprehensive series on marine life. I always advise you direct the session, so we get it just right. A miniature marsupial lion, Microleo attenboroughi, was named in his honour in 2016. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. In 2006, British television viewers were asked to vote for their Favourite Attenborough Moments for a UKTV poll to coincide with the broadcaster's 80th birthday. [76] Blue Planet II was broadcast in 2017, with Attenborough returning as presenter. He has been making nature documentaries from the 1950s until now. In 2018 while promoting Dynasties, he said that repeated messages on threats to wildlife in programming could be a "turn-off" to viewers. Matching phonetics and their sounds are adjoined. [89] He also narrated Wild Karnataka, a documentary about the Karnataka forest area. [82][83] In 2021 he presented the three part series Attenborough's Life in Colour,[84] and The Mating Game, a five part series.[85]. He replied simply, "no". [191] In September 2009, London's Natural History Museum opened the Attenborough Studio, part of its Darwin Centre development. Planet Earth 2-2016 (2017 release in US) He does not appear to be dubbed in Planet Earth 2 looking at both BBC America where this picture shows him carrying out the narration. [165], In a 2020 interview, Attenborough criticised excess capitalism as a driver of ecological imbalance, stating "the excesses the capitalist system has brought us, have got to be curbed somehow", and that "greed does not actually lead to joy", although he added "That doesn't mean to say that capitalism is dead". He has produced countless programs with the BBC as well and is famous around the world. Privacy Policy. Training the models for longer and increasing the Waveglow channels to 512 should improve the quality of the sound. [39], While in charge of BBC Two, Attenborough turned down Terry Wogan's job application to be a presenter on the channel, stating that there weren't any suitable vacancies. [53], Prompted by an enthusiastic ornithologist at the BBC Natural History Unit, Attenborough then turned his attention to birds. "[160] He expressed regret at some of the changes made to the BBC in the 1990s by its Director-General, John Birt, who introduced an internal market at the corporation, slimmed and closed some departments and outsourced much of the corporation's output to private production companies. The studio-bound programme featured animals from London Zoo, with the naturalist Julian Huxley discussing their use of camouflage, aposematism and courtship displays. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (/tnbr/; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author. [212] In 2015, a species of tree from Gabon (in the Annonaceae family) Sirdavidia Couvreur & Sauquet was named with his title. A voice that is undoubtedly imitating that of the renowned broadcaster, biologist, and voice of BBC's Planet Earth, Sir David Attenborough, jokingly explains how the Russian tank was put out to . His career as a natural history and broadcaster has spanned nearly seven decades. [67], In 2011, Fothergill gave Attenborough a more prominent role in Frozen Planet, a major series on the natural history of the polar regions; Attenborough appeared on screen and authored the final episode, in addition to performing voiceover duties. And when he goes on site to share the screen with one of his subjects, it's magical. A panel of seven academics, journalists and historians named him among the group of people in the UK "whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands". An Explorative Study on the Influence of a Documentary on the Public, Media and Political Agendas", "Has Blue Planet II had an impact on plastic pollution? There's little in this world more soothing than turning on a nature documentary and hearing David Attenborough's calm, steady voice. The models can be used to narrate other texts, here is David Attenborough reading the opening lines of Genesis. [225], In addition, he is the only person to have won BAFTA awards for programmes in black and white, colour, high-definition, 3D, and 4K. [13] In 1950, Attenborough married Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel. "[147], According to Attenborough, improving women's rights around the world is an effective way "to limit our birth rate. [105][106][107][108] However, the increased urgency of environmental messaging in films such as Extinction: The Facts, which depicts the continuing sixth mass extinction,[109] Climate Change The Facts and A Life on Our Planet from 2019 and 2020 received praise. It has been cut to the bone, if you divert licence fee money elsewhere, you cut quality and services. What is a theory is whether natural selection is the mechanism and the only mechanism. 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Attenborough thought that the story of evolution would be a natural subject for such a series. Later the same year he filmed elephants in Tanzania, and in 1969 he made a three-part series on the cultural history of the Indonesian island of Bali. The couple had two children, Robert and Susan. [188], Attenborough was named the most trusted celebrity in the UK in a 2006 Reader's Digest poll,[189] and in 2007 he won The Culture Show's Living Icon Award. 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Often, an eclectic mix was offered within a single evening's viewing. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. [18], Attenborough had a pacemaker fitted in June 2013 as well as a double knee replacement in 2015. In 1952 he joined the BBC full-time. It makes for the ultimate easy listening. Many will know David Attenborough for the famous Planet Earth series. But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, [a worm] that's going to make him blind. [173][174] In 1980, he was honoured by the Open University, with which he has had a close association throughout his career. [153] No nature documentary is the same without hearing Attenborough's lulling British accent. [70] The BBC also commissioned Atlantic Productions to make a three-part, Attenborough-fronted series Great Barrier Reef in 2015. . [221] In 2021 an extinct species of horseshoe crab was named Attenborolimulus superspinosus. Take some time to enjoy Sir David Attenborough's dulcet tones as we bring you some of his best narration from Galapagos 3D and Kingdom of Plants!Welcome to N. David Attenborough, in full Sir David Frederick Attenborough, (born May 8, 1926, London, England), English broadcaster, writer, and naturalist noted for his innovative educational television programs, especially the nine-part Life series. I wish Trump's voice had more training, this could get hilarious really fast! [58] In 1990, he worked on the BBC's Prisoners of Conscience series where he highlighted the case of Mahjoub Sharif. [51] This time, Attenborough built his series around the theme of ecology, the adaptations of living things to their environment. [25], Attenborough's association with natural history programmes began when he produced and presented the three-part series Animal Patterns. 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