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It's a wonderful life, according to David Attenborough

By Michael Bond

14 December 2002

David Attenborough joined the BBC in 1952, when television was an experiment. He has never really left. His documentaries have taken him from the mountains of Rwanda to the South Atlantic and just about everywhere in between in search of creatures rare or unfilmed. He also helped set up the World Wide Fund for Nature and has been involved with several other conservation organisations, including Flora and Fauna International and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. He still writes all his own scripts.

You have a passion for the natural world and also for telling people about it.…

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