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Sir David Frederick Attenborough /ˈætənbʌrə/ OM CH CVO CBE FRS FLS FZS FSA Kt (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist.
He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on the planet. 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. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, and 3D.
Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not like the term. In 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. He is the younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
Attenborough was born in Isleworth, West London, but grew up in College House on the campus of the University College, Leicester, where his father, Frederick, was principal. He is the middle of three sons (his elder brother, Richard, became an actor and director and his younger brother, John, an executive at Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo). During World War II, through a British charitable programme known as Kindertransport, his parents also fostered two Jewish refugee girls from Europe.
Adele's Hello video gets the Sir David Attenborough voice over treatment on Greg James. Watch more from Radio 1 in the UK on BBC iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/radio1 You can watch more Sir David Attenborough in The Hunt on BBC 1.
From across YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, we've taken your comments during #AttenboroughWeek and made this video as a thank you to everyone who got involved. Click on the annotations to see each of the clips in full. Subscribe to BBC Earth: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=BBCEarth BBC Earth YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/BBCEarth BBC Earth Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bbcearth1 BBC Earth Twitter http://www.twitter.com/bbcearth Visit http://www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos This is a channel from BBC Worldwide who help fund new BBC programmes.
President Obama and Naturalist Sir David Attenborough sit to discuss and contemplate the natural world at the White House.
Some wise and honest words from Sir David Attenborough on the subject of God, Creation, Genesis 1-3 and Richard Dawkins (from In Confidence: An Interview by Laurie Taylor) www.purposeoflife.org.uk
And Matt Smith was stung by a wasp on the knackers... Subscribe for weekly updates: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=officialgrahamnorton
National treasure Sir David Attenborough offers to show Jessica Chastain his tailfeather. Lucky lady. Subscribe for weekly updates: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=officialgrahamnorton
Nat Geo Wild: Hummingbirds Jewelled Messengers w/ Sir David Attenborough - BBC Bird Documentary. This video is not Monetized, enjoy!
Sir David remembers how nervous he was when catching a python. Subscribe to BBC Earth: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=BBCEarth BBC Earth YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/BBCEarth BBC Earth Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bbcearth (ex-UK only) BBC Earth Twitter http://www.twitter.com/bbcearth Visit http://www.bbc.com/earth/world for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos This is a channel from BBC Worldwide who help fund new BBC programmes.
[New] HD - Documentary nature 2017 ►David Attenborough's Galapagos "Origin" FULL HD Episode 1 ► 1080
Check out BBC Earth on BBC online - http://www.bbc.com/earth/world For more brilliant natural history shows, exclusive to YouTube, head over to our brand-new channel Earth Unplugged! http://www.youtube.com/earthunplugged In this amusing and entertaining clip from the BBC's Life of Mammals, David Attenborough looks at the life of a sloth. The sloth has adapted to the lack of nutrition in its diet of leaves by hanging around not doing very much at all. We even get to see one moving at high speed! Watch more high quality videos on the BBC Earth YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/BBCEarth and visit http://www.BBCEarth.com for all the latest natural history exclusives and fantastic new wildlife videos.
David Attenborough returns in this landmark series to his most magical place on earth, the Great Barrier Reef. In this first episode, David descends beneath the waves at night in the state-of-the-art Triton submersible, the first of its kind to visit the reef. He meets some of the tiny coral animals that built the reef and helped to turn it into an underwater wonderland. He then takes to the skies to witness the vast scale of their endeavour, a living structure that provides a home for thousands of species. Using cutting-edge technology to generate computer scans of the sea floor, David learns that the Great Barrier Reef we know today is much younger than scientists ever imagined. He meets some of the people that have lived alongside it and who have told stories of its origins for thousa...
Flying Monsters Full Movie : 220 million years ago dinosaurs were beginning their domination of Earth. But another group of reptiles was about to make an extraordinary leap: pterosaurs were taking control of the skies. The story of how and why these mysterious creatures took to the air is more fantastical than any fiction. In Flying Monsters, Sir David Attenborough the world’s leading naturalist, sets out to uncover the truth about the enigmatic pterosaurs, whose wingspans of up to 40 feet were equal to that of a modern day jet plane.
[New] HD - Documentary nature 2017 ►David Attenborough's Galapagos "Origin" FULL HD Episode 1 ► 1080
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David Attenborough Kingdom Of Plants S01E02
Along the east and west coasts of Saudi Arabia are two seas that contain a treasure of marine life that few knew existed -- and even fewer had ever seen. The Arabian Gulf was formed at the end of the last Ice Age, some 10,000 years ago, and the Red Sea's history goes back even further. And now, thanks to Saudi Aramco, for the first time millions of viewers across the globe are able to marvel and see up close the exotic marine life that populates these two bodies of water. Saudi Aramco teamed up with award winning British documentary makers Icon Films to produce Desert Seas, a 60 minute natural history production that took more than a year to produce. The film's objective was clear: to expose the world to the wondrous subsurface realms of the Kingdom's waters.
Two hundred years after Charles Darwin set foot on the shores of the Galápagos Islands, David Attenborough travels to this wild and mysterious archipelago.
President Obama and Naturalist Sir David Attenborough sit to discuss and contemplate the natural world at the White House.
Programme website: http://bbc.in/1ry1jsa Interview with world renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Attenborough at 90.
Sheffield Doc/Fest was absolutely thrilled to welcome world-renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough to the Festival for the first time in 2016. Long established as the world’s leading natural history documentarian and presenter, Sir David’s long and celebrated career has also included the highest-level work off screen, as Controller of BBC2, and Director of Programmes across the BBC. He has been responsible for commissioning many innovative titles over the years, including the 13 part documentary television series The Ascent of Man. In 1966 he oversaw the introduction of colour television to Britain and in 1969 was responsible for clearing the BBC schedule for the moon landing. Sir David discussed his long and illustrious career and talked about the future of television and media with ...
Some wise and honest words from Sir David Attenborough on the subject of God, Creation, Genesis 1-3 and Richard Dawkins (from In Confidence: An Interview by Laurie Taylor) www.purposeoflife.org.uk
Sir David Attenborough grew up in College House on the campus of the University College, Leicester, where his father, Frederick, was principal. In this interview David talks about his memories of family life on the campus and his journey to become an educationalist just like his father. This film was produced by External Relations, University of Leicester. Filmed and Edited by Carl Vivian Produced by Jon Shears
National treasure Sir David Attenborough offers to show Jessica Chastain his tailfeather. Lucky lady. Subscribe for weekly updates: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=officialgrahamnorton
Watch the Planet Earth II trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aFcHFu8QM&index;=1&list;=PLtra-MWzIvZG5bgcXUvX25lzfOBJU3h4V **The series will be broadcast on BBC One in the UK this Sunday at 8pm and on BBC America from January 28th** The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaua%CA%BBi_%CA%BB%C5%8D%CA%BB%C5%8D For more on langauge-origin theories, this book is very good: https://www.amazon.com/First-Word-Search-Origins-Language/dp/0143113747 music from http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com
Sir David Attenborough remembers filming perhaps one of the most ground breaking and well loved nature documentaries in the world, 'Life on Earth'. Great video from Michael Palin's interview with Attenborough and his colleagues filmed for BBC show 'Life on Air'.
Sir David Attenborough talks to Andrew Marr about his career in television, including his time as controller of BBC Two, his work as a naturalist, and his thoughts on the future. Unfortunately due to technical problems the sound quality fluctuates in parts.
Adele's Hello video gets the Sir David Attenborough voice over treatment on Greg James. Watch more from Radio 1 in the UK on BBC iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/radio1 You can watch more Sir David Attenborough in The Hunt on BBC 1.
From across YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, we've taken your comments during #AttenboroughWeek and made this video as a thank you to everyone who got involved. Click on the annotations to see each of the clips in full. Subscribe to BBC Earth: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=BBCEarth BBC Earth YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/BBCEarth BBC Earth Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bbcearth1 BBC Earth Twitter http://www.twitter.com/bbcearth Visit http://www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos This is a channel from BBC Worldwide who help fund new BBC programmes.
President Obama and Naturalist Sir David Attenborough sit to discuss and contemplate the natural world at the White House.
Some wise and honest words from Sir David Attenborough on the subject of God, Creation, Genesis 1-3 and Richard Dawkins (from In Confidence: An Interview by Laurie Taylor) www.purposeoflife.org.uk
And Matt Smith was stung by a wasp on the knackers... Subscribe for weekly updates: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=officialgrahamnorton
National treasure Sir David Attenborough offers to show Jessica Chastain his tailfeather. Lucky lady. Subscribe for weekly updates: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=officialgrahamnorton
Nat Geo Wild: Hummingbirds Jewelled Messengers w/ Sir David Attenborough - BBC Bird Documentary. This video is not Monetized, enjoy!
Sir David remembers how nervous he was when catching a python. Subscribe to BBC Earth: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=BBCEarth BBC Earth YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/BBCEarth BBC Earth Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bbcearth (ex-UK only) BBC Earth Twitter http://www.twitter.com/bbcearth Visit http://www.bbc.com/earth/world for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos This is a channel from BBC Worldwide who help fund new BBC programmes.
[New] HD - Documentary nature 2017 ►David Attenborough's Galapagos "Origin" FULL HD Episode 1 ► 1080
Check out BBC Earth on BBC online - http://www.bbc.com/earth/world For more brilliant natural history shows, exclusive to YouTube, head over to our brand-new channel Earth Unplugged! http://www.youtube.com/earthunplugged In this amusing and entertaining clip from the BBC's Life of Mammals, David Attenborough looks at the life of a sloth. The sloth has adapted to the lack of nutrition in its diet of leaves by hanging around not doing very much at all. We even get to see one moving at high speed! Watch more high quality videos on the BBC Earth YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/BBCEarth and visit http://www.BBCEarth.com for all the latest natural history exclusives and fantastic new wildlife videos.
Nat Geo Wild: Hummingbirds Jewelled Messengers w/ Sir David Attenborough - BBC Bird Documentary. This video is not Monetized, enjoy!
President Obama and Naturalist Sir David Attenborough sit to discuss and contemplate the natural world at the White House.
[New] HD - Documentary nature 2017 ►David Attenborough's Galapagos "Origin" FULL HD Episode 1 ► 1080
David Attenborough's planet earth: Giraffe. Everyone loves giraffes, but what do we really know about them? Dr Julian Fennessy starts to reveal their secrets - the most important being that they are disappearing. In an urgent and daring mission, with a determined Ugandan team, he plans to round up 20 of the world's rarest giraffe to take across and beyond the mighty Nile River. The stakes are high, but if they succeed the reward will be a brighter future for an animal we have somehow overlooked. Watch planet earth online, watch planet earth More from this series: Cheetahs Growing Up Fast - David Attenborough : s://youtu.be/gtci0PGsEbY Giraffes: Africa's Gentle Giants - David Attenborough : s://youtu.be/8VVpB4omhtY Giraffes: Africa's Gentle Giants (BBC 1080p) Nature Documentary hosted by...
In May 2015 Sir David Attenborough Hon FSB captivated an audience of almost 500 guests at the Science Museum in London and helped the Society of Biology to raise nearly £20,000 to support its charitable aims. In conversation with TV paleopathologist Professor Alice Roberts FSB, Sir David spoke of the importance of natural history filmmaking in connecting people to the plight of the world’s biodiversity and climate. Clips cannot be shown here due to BBC copyright. Clip 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00db1jf Clip 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWSGqNBT1gc Read more: bit.ly/1QaaILw See photos: on.fb.me/1fthJfk
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Billy Connolly & Sir David Attenborough interviewed by Michael Parkinson in 1998
Along the east and west coasts of Saudi Arabia are two seas that contain a treasure of marine life that few knew existed -- and even fewer had ever seen. The Arabian Gulf was formed at the end of the last Ice Age, some 10,000 years ago, and the Red Sea's history goes back even further. And now, thanks to Saudi Aramco, for the first time millions of viewers across the globe are able to marvel and see up close the exotic marine life that populates these two bodies of water. Saudi Aramco teamed up with award winning British documentary makers Icon Films to produce Desert Seas, a 60 minute natural history production that took more than a year to produce. The film's objective was clear: to expose the world to the wondrous subsurface realms of the Kingdom's waters.
Sir David Attenborough grew up in College House on the campus of the University College, Leicester, where his father, Frederick, was principal. In this interview David talks about his memories of family life on the campus and his journey to become an educationalist just like his father. This film was produced by External Relations, University of Leicester. Filmed and Edited by Carl Vivian Produced by Jon Shears