Sir David Attenborough praises the 'beauty' created by the BBC in its natural history shows.
Seventy years after he first fronted a wildlife programme, Sir David Attenborough is keenly aware of the impact they can have.
"The perilous state that the natural world is in at the moment, these things are apparent to people all around the world. Bristol's association with wildlife programming goes back to the mid 1940s, when The Naturalist was produced on the Home Service by Desmond Hawkins from the city. The switchboard at the Lime Grove studios was jammed with viewers ringing in to find out more, and it gave the BBC the nudge to set up the Natural History Unit in Bristol in 1957.In 1979, Sir David presented Life on Earth, a landmark television programme made in Bristol, which attracted around 15 million viewers."It started this with radio, and when television came along, Peter Scott and Desmond Hawkins continued that tradition.
"I've tried to film Orangutan, and they do absolutely nothing - they just sit in the trees, and they're very difficult to see.
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