At 96, the nature presenter is set to return to TV screens for a landmark series on British natural history
, which was filmed four years ago. Although his family and insiders say he is not retiring, he is understood to have stopped travelling internationally. A spokesperson for Attenborough said he had plenty of things in the pipeline and he was definitely not stepping down.Wild Isles
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 very involved in the script. He was sent it two weeks before recording and analysed every line, Fothergill said. “He is an absolutely extraordinary writer and always makes very significant improvements.”
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. While Attenborough loves being in the field, they had to be “very careful” filming on location and choose places that were accessible to him, he said. “But he approached everything with a smile and he still thrives on being out there in the field. He’s a joy to work with.”
“Because many of these stories were on our doorstep, within a day’s drive, we knew we could keep going back and improving those sequences. And so the bar just kept being raised. Each time we’d go away on location we’d think ‘OK, what would we do to improve it?’”
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