The 96-year-old broadcaster fronts landmark Wild Isles documentary
The show’s producers, who affectionately refer to Attenborough as “SDA”, said he agreed to narrate Wild Isles from the start and was later approached about presenting it. “We felt he had a unique perspective because of his age, on how the British countryside has changed in his lifetime,” series producer Alastair Fothergill, who has been working with Attenborough for 35 years, said.
Other locations he visited last year during filming included a hay meadow in Dorset and Richmond Park, near his home in southwest London. As well as appearing on screen, he was involved in the script. They also used drones and slow-motion cameras to film inside a gannet colony at Bass Rock in Scotland as they came in off the sea to feed.
“If you look at the natural history of Britain and Ireland, it has changed enormously over his lifetime and so it’s very powerful when he talks about that.” There’s something very special about having David Attenborough present a series about the wildlife of Britain and Ireland. Because it is personal
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