David Attenborough
David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FLS FZS FSA is an English broadcaster and naturalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth8 May 1926
CityIsleworth, England
broadcast committed public series somebody sponsored states tapes tour various
If I do a series or tapes for the States and it's sponsored by somebody for the public broadcast system, I am committed to going on tour around various stations.
airline animals asked food staff
I asked the airline staff what I was going to do with all the animals as I didn't have any food for them. They were very unhelpful.
environmental example hardly richmond
I'm especially involved, for example, in the Richmond Environmental Centre. That's one of those things you can hardly say no to.
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I joined the BBC as a trainee. At first, the television service had no money and it was regarded as a rather raffish arm of the BBC.
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I mean, one is living an amazingly privileged life. It's only been the last 20 or so years that one could have possibly gone to all the places you and I go to.
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You were never quite sure which were pickpockets or loose ladies.
awful axe good grinding
I do an awful lot of appearances, and to have one person always grinding the same axe would not be a good idea.
I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition...
real our-society economics
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.