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Life on Air

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By (author): David Attenborough

David Attenborough is one of the most influential and admired figures in English television. When 26, he applied for a job in the BBC which then meant radio and was promptly turned down. But someone saw his rejected application and asked, would he like to try television? He would, and sixty years later, he is still at it. Elegantly told, often very funny, here is his story.

At home there is his rise to controlling BBC2, introducing colour television to Britain, encounters with Montgomery, Anthony Eden, singers, athletes, explorers, the Queen, Benjamin Britten. Abroad there are people just as remarkable, journeys up tropical rivers, to the interior of New Guinea or the Australian outback, dragons, birds of paradise, flying snakes and walls of cockroaches.

Now updated to cover his work since 2009, Life on Air is a remarkable account of David Attenboroughs passion for the natural world and his lifelong quest to understand it. .

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Product Details
  • Weight: 1136g
  • Dimensions: 163 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Oct 2014
  • Publisher: Ebury Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781849908528

About David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly seven decades.His first job - after Cambridge University and two years in the Royal Navy - was at a London publishing house. Then in 1952 he joined the BBC as a trainee producer and it was while working on the Zoo Quest series (1954-64) that he had his first opportunity to undertake expeditions to remote parts of the globe to capture intimate footage of rare wildlife in its natural habitat.He was Controller of BBC 2 (1965-68) during which time he introduced colour television to Britain then Director of Programmes for BBC Television (1969-1972). In 1973 he abandoned administration altogether to return to documentary-making and writing and has established himself as the world's leading Natural History programme maker with severallandmark BBC series includingLife on Earth (1979) The Living Planet (1984) The Trialsof Life (1990) The Private Life of Plants (1995) Life of Birds (1998)The Blue Planet (2001)Life of Mammals (2002)Planet Earth (2006) and Life in Cold Blood (2008).Sir David was knighted in 1985 and received the Order of Merit in 2005. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and stands at the forefront of issues concerning the planet's declining species and conservation.

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