[206] Vertebrates have also been named after Attenborough, including a Namibian lizard (Platysaurus attenboroughi),[207] a bird (Polioptila attenboroughi),[207] a Peruvian frog (Pristimantis attenboroughi),[208] a Madagascan stump-toed frog (Stumpffia davidattenboroughi),[209] and one of only four species of long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi). [14] A year later, his adoptive sister Marianne gave him a piece of amber containing prehistoric creatures; some sixty years later, it would be the focus of his programme The Amber Time Machine. He has also narrated A majestic celebration: Wild Karnataka, India's first blue-chip natural history film, directed by Kalyan Varma and Amoghavarsha. Such good fortune. [26] Attenborough, like most Britons at that time, did not own a television, and he had seen only one programme in his life. [11], Attenborough spent his childhood collecting fossils, stones, and natural specimens. The film acts as Attenborough's witness statement, reflecting on his career as a naturalist and his hopes for the future. In 1990, The Trials of Life completed the original Life trilogy, looking at animal behaviour through the different stages of life. The destruction of a Russian tank in Ukraine has been turned into a hilarious voiceover spoof imitating the legendary Sir David Attenborough. The voice of the great broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has been seducing us as a nation since the 1950s. [120], In 2003, he launched an appeal on behalf of the World Land Trust to create a rainforest reserve in Ecuador in memory of Christopher Parsons, the producer of Life on Earth and a personal friend, who had died the previous year. In State of the Planet (2000), he used the latest scientific evidence and interviews with leading scientists and conservationists to assess the impact of human activities on the natural world. As they describe, Natural Instincts let you protect the environment and keep the balance! By the turn of the millennium, Attenborough's authored documentaries were adopting a more overtly environmentalist stance. [195], At least 20 species and genera, both living and extinct, have been named in Attenborough's honour. Even as a disembodied narrator, the 94-year-old presenter . Before, he would often note concerns in a final section of the work. His autobiography, Life on Air, was published in 2002, revised in 2009 and is one of a number of his works which is available as a self-narrated audiobook. [221] In 2021 an extinct species of horseshoe crab was named Attenborolimulus superspinosus. [61] In 1997, he narrated the BBC Wildlife Specials, each focussing on a charismatic species, and screened to mark the Natural History Unit's 40th anniversary. [114], In 2005 and 2006, Attenborough backed a BirdLife International project to stop the killing of albatross by longline fishing boats. [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. [205], The Monogenean Cichlidogyrus attenboroughi, a parasite from a deep-sea fish in the Lake Tanganyika, is probably the only parasite species named after him. [214][215] The fossil grasshopper Electrotettix attenboroughi was named after Attenborough. With a mission to make BBC Two's output diverse and different from that offered by other networks, he began to establish a portfolio of programmes that defined the channel's identity for decades to come. There's that smooth British accent. 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. The David Attenborough Voiceover Looking for an awesome David Attenborough voice impression on Planet Earth? Read on to find out more about the voice of the planet, David Attenborough. In 2009, he stated that the Book of Genesis, by saying that the world was there for people to control, had taught generations that they can "dominate" the environment, and that this has resulted in the devastation of vast areas of the environment. Stars: Oprah Winfrey, David Attenborough, Doug Allan, Justine Evans. [13] In 1950, Attenborough married Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel. [192], In 2012, Attenborough was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork the Beatles' Sgt. [2], Attenborough's contribution to broadcasting and wildlife film-making has brought him international recognition. [158], Attenborough expressed the view that there had often been people wanting to remove the BBC, adding "there's always been trouble about the licence and if you dropped your guard you could bet our bottom dollar there'd be plenty of people who'd want to take it away. [31], Attenborough became Controller of BBC 2 in March 1965, succeeding Michael Peacock. The last episode of The Living Planet, for example, focuses almost entirely on humans' destruction of the environment and ways that it could be stopped or reversed. His early projects included the quiz show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? [142][143] In a 2013 interview with the Radio Times, Attenborough described humans as a "plague on the Earth",[144][145] and described the act of sending food to famine-stricken countries as "barmy" for population reasons. He talks like he's revealing secrets and draws you in using such simple language that he's instantly understood, making his sense of wonder infectious. In 2020, he backed a Fauna and Flora International campaign calling for a global moratorium on deep sea mining for its impact on marine life. In 2018 while promoting Dynasties, he said that repeated messages on threats to wildlife in programming could be a "turn-off" to viewers. When he could, he was always on location with the rest of the filming crew, not only narrating but also writing. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. [212] In 2015, a species of tree from Gabon (in the Annonaceae family) Sirdavidia Couvreur & Sauquet was named with his title. Say goodbye to robotic sounding voices. [151] He said "It never really occurred to me to believe in God". They talk of this terrible tax of the licence fee. The video depicts a Russian. [78][79] The series is thought to have triggered a long-lasting increase in public, media and political attention to plastic pollution. "[24], After leaving the Navy, Attenborough took a position editing children's science textbooks for a publishing company. [196] Plants named after him include an alpine hawkweed (Hieracium attenboroughianum) discovered in the Brecon Beacons,[197] a species of Ecuadorian flowering tree (Blakea attenboroughi), one of the world's largest-pitchered carnivorous plants (Nepenthes attenboroughii), along with a genus of flowering plants (Sirdavidia). [218] A new species of fan-throated lizard from coastal Kerala in southern India was named Sitana attenboroughii in his honour when it was described in 2018. Attenborough considers himself an agnostic. He's not nearly as well known in the US. [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. [159], the BBC per minute in almost every category is as cheap as you can find anywhere in the world and produces the best quality. [55], At this point, Attenborough realised that he had spent 20 years unconsciously assembling a collection of programmes on all the major groups of terrestrial animals and plants only reptiles and amphibians were missing. Attenborough harboured a strong desire to present the series himself, but this would not be possible so long as he remained in a management post. Attenborough stated that he felt evolution did not rule out the existence of a God and accepted the title of agnostic saying, "My view is: I don't know one way or the other but I don't think that evolution is against a belief in God". [96] Further work for Netflix includes the documentary titled Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet, released on 4 June 2021. This is no comment whatsoever on Terry Wogan's talents. Part of a kickstarter campaign for a new Interactive Nature Documentary Sim. [161], Although he said Birt's policies had poor results, Attenborough also acknowledged "the BBC had to change. Guy Harris - Award winning British Male Voiceover - UK based - 2000 - 2022 VoiceoverGuy . No history items. [63] He decided not to use an on-screen presenter due to difficulties in speaking to a camera through diving apparatus, but asked Attenborough to narrate the films. When Attenborough arrived as controller, he quickly abolished the channel's quirky kangaroo mascot and shook up the schedule. [33], BBC Two was launched in 1964, but had struggled to capture the public's imagination. He has said that public service broadcasting "is one of the things that distinguishes this country and makes me want to live here",[158] and believes that it is not reducible to individual programmes, but "can only effectively operate as a network [] that measures its success not only by its audience size but by the range of its schedule". [149] When asked whether his observation of the natural world has given him faith in a creator, he generally responds with some version of this story, making reference to the Onchocerca volvulus parasitic worm: My response is that when Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. [59], Attenborough narrated every episode of Wildlife on One, a BBC One wildlife series that ran for 253 episodes between 1977 and 2005. [191] In September 2009, London's Natural History Museum opened the Attenborough Studio, part of its Darwin Centre development. possibilistic 3 yr. ago Thanks!! Sir David Attenborough is the voice of the planet, that is for sure. - JAB. [71][72], On radio, Attenborough has continued as one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4's Tweet of the Day, which began a second series in September 2014. [25] Although he was rejected for this job, his CV later attracted the interest of Mary Adams, head of the Talks (factual broadcasting) department of the BBC's fledgling television service. - Society for the History of Natural History", "AIB announces Winners of 2011 AIBs International Media Awards | AIB", "Naturalist Sir David Attenborough Awarded Individual Peabody", "Moscow Society of Naturalists official site", "Gold Medal-Award Recipients since its inception in 1972", "LI to honour Sir David Attenborough with the Landscape Institute Medal", "Davos 2019: Meet the Crystal Award winners", "David Attenborough: 'The Garden of Eden is no more'. [91][92] This was followed by Extinction: The Facts, which is partly based on the 2019 IPBES report on the decline of biodiversity. [140][146] He called for more debate about human population growth,[140] saying that since he "first started making programmes 60 years ago, the human population has tripled. In terms of being a voice talent for nature documentaries, he is truly peerless. [193] The same year, Attenborough featured in the BBC Radio 4 series The New Elizabethans to mark the diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The result was The Private Life of Plants (1995), which showed plants as dynamic organisms by using time-lapse photography to speed up their growth, and went on to earn a Peabody Award. 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[132][133] He supported Glyndebourne in their successful application to obtain planning permission for a wind turbine in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and gave evidence at the planning inquiry arguing in favour of the proposal. Because that doesn't seem to me to coincide with a God who's full of mercy'. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (/tnbr/; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author. [127][128] He is a patron of the Friends of Richmond Park and serves on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine. His next 3D project, Conquest of the Skies, made by the team behind the BAFTA award-winning David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive, aired on Sky 3D during Christmas 2014. [32] He had a clause inserted in his contract that would allow him to continue making programmes on an occasional basis. 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