Newsmaker: As India fetes David Attenborough, a look at an incredible career
Hindustan TimesIf it feels like David Attenborough’s always been on our TV screens, it’s because he has been. Attenborough has been knighted, honoured and awarded around the world for doing more than perhaps any other individual, as one panel put it, to reveal the wonders of the natural world to us. Attenborough holds another distinction — year after year, he’s been voted one of the most trusted public figures in the UK. “When Life on Earth came out in 1979, and The Living Planet five years later, I was concerned about the fact that this wasn’t a place I recognised,” the naturalist Richard Mabey told Patrick Barkham, the natural history writer for The Guardian. He said, very simply: ‘We wouldn’t have got the viewers, they would have turned off.’” At the BBC, Attenborough was taught early on that his role was to engage an audience.
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