Seventy years after he first fronted a wildlife programme, Sir David Attenborough is keenly aware of the impact they can have.
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00:00Seventy years after he first fronted a wildlife programme, Sir David Attenborough is keenly
00:05aware of the impact they can have.
00:08The world would be in a far, far worse situation now had there been no broadcasting of natural
00:13history, he said.
00:15People have found it a source of fascination and beauty and interest, and this has become
00:20key to looking after the world.
00:22In September 2024, the BBC is marking 90 years of broadcasting from Bristol.
00:29We spoke exclusively to Sir David, who has presented many of the programmes made at BBC
00:34Bristol's Natural History Unit.
00:37When Sir David's broadcasting career began in 1954, just 3.2 million people had television
00:43licences in the UK.
00:46The goal of programmes like ZooQuest was to capture wild animals for zoo collections,
00:51the accepted practice at the time.
00:54Now, Sir David's programmes all carry a strong message that the natural world is at risk
00:59more than ever before.
01:01People are aware of the problems of conservation in a way which could not exist without broadcasting,
01:07he said.
01:08The perilous state that the natural world is in at the moment, these things are apparent
01:12to people all around the world.
01:15You don't watch a natural history programme, I hope, because you think it's going to be
01:19good for the natural world, you do so because it is rivetingly interesting, and complicated,
01:25and beautiful.