You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

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.