I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.

For the 1971 film A Blank on the Map he joined the first Western expedition to a remote highland valley in New Guinea to seek out a lost tribe. A second film The Bachelor King 3D followed a year later and further collaborations are planned. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (pron.

He is also a former senior manager at the BBC having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (pron. : /ˈætənbərə/) OM CH CVO CBE FRS FZS FSA (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist.