[274], David Attenborough's work as an author has strong parallels with his broadcasting career. "[167] In 2021, Attenborough told the leaders of the 47th G7 summit that "tackling climate change was now as much a political challenge as it was a scientific or technological one" and urged more action. In 2018 while promoting Dynasties, he said that repeated messages on threats to wildlife in programming could be a "turn-off" to viewers. [66] In January 2009, the BBC commissioned Attenborough to provide a series of 20 ten-minute monologues covering the history of nature. The destruction of a Russian tank in Ukraine has been turned into a hilarious voiceover spoof imitating the legendary Sir David Attenborough. [271][272], David Attenborough's television credits span eight decades. NPR review of Attenborough's Journey' Salutes The Broadcaster With A Passion For Nature. [71][72], On radio, Attenborough has continued as one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4's Tweet of the Day, which began a second series in September 2014. He wrote an accompanying volume to each of his nine Life documentaries, along with books on tribal art and birds of paradise. Please use the form below. The video depicts a Russian tank looking seriously beat up, with a voice that is intentionally sharing a likeness to BBC nature documentaries, narrating its path from life to death. [74] A second film, The Penguin King 3D, followed a year later. [127][128] He is a patron of the Friends of Richmond Park and serves on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine. The video depicts a Russian. A miniature marsupial lion, Microleo attenboroughi, was named in his honour in 2016. [156], Attenborough has joined the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and other top scientists in signing a campaign statement co-ordinated by the British Humanist Association (BHA). The award-winning 94-year-old British naturalist is well-known for narrating nature documentaries. They talk of this terrible tax of the licence fee. [273] He narrated every episode of the long-running BBC series Wildlife on One. It uses your browser's built-in voice synthesis technology, and so the voices will differ depending on the browser that you're using. [86][87], In 2019, Attenborough narrated Our Planet, an eight-part documentary series, for Netflix. 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[171], By January 2013, Attenborough had collected 32 honorary degrees from British universities,[172] more than any other person. Later the same year he filmed elephants in Tanzania, and in 1969 he made a three-part series on the cultural history of the Indonesian island of Bali. The fake audio replicates the speech pattern of the real voice but it is still noisy. [198], Several Arthropods are named after Attenborough including a butterfly, Attenborough's black-eyed satyr (Euptychia attenboroughi),[199] a dragonfly, Attenborough's pintail (Acisoma attenboroughi),[200] a millimetre-long goblin spider (Prethopalpus attenboroughi), an ornate Caribbean smiley-faced spider (Spintharus davidattenboroughi),[201][202] an Indonesian flightless weevil (Trigonopterus attenboroughi),[203][204] a Madagascan ghost shrimp (Ctenocheloides attenboroughi), and a soil snail (Palaina attenboroughi). It resulted in the 1973 series Eastwards with Attenborough, which was similar in tone to the earlier Zoo Quest; the main difference was the introduction of colour. [210], In 1993, after discovering that the Mesozoic reptile Plesiosaurus conybeari did not belong to the genus Plesiosaurus, the palaeontologist Robert Bakker renamed the species Attenborosaurus conybeari. In reference to the programme, Attenborough stated that "People write to me that evolution is only a theory. He shared his idea with Christopher Parsons, a producer at the Natural History Unit, who came up with a title Life on Earth and returned to Bristol to start planning the series. Attenborough harboured a strong desire to present the series himself, but this would not be possible so long as he remained in a management post. He talks like he's revealing secrets and draws you in using such simple language that he's instantly understood, making his sense of wonder infectious. The series marked the 10th project for Attenborough and Atlantic, and saw him returning to a location he first filmed at in 1957. This is no comment whatsoever on Terry Wogan's talents. His long and prolific career has cemented him as the gold standard voice talent for nature documentaries. [225], In addition, he is the only person to have won BAFTA awards for programmes in black and white, colour, high-definition, 3D, and 4K. "[147], According to Attenborough, improving women's rights around the world is an effective way "to limit our birth rate. He wrote and presented a series on man's influence on the natural history of the Mediterranean Basin, The First Eden, in 1987. [99], Attenborough was a key figure in the build-up to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), and gave a speech at the opening ceremony. When Attenborough arrived as controller, he quickly abolished the channel's quirky kangaroo mascot and shook up the schedule. [26] Attenborough, like most Britons at that time, did not own a television, and he had seen only one programme in his life. I wish Trump's voice had more training, this could get hilarious really fast! He has been described as a "British" Indiana Jones for the way he would hack through brush and jungle with a machete. He remained silent on the issue until 2006. Well, it is not a theory. [123] He later became patron of the World Land Trust. [90] In 2019, Attenborough's one-off film documentary about climate change for BBC One called Climate Change The Facts was aired; the tone of the documentary was significantly graver than previous work for the BBC. [213], The Materpiscis fossil is believed to be the earliest organism capable of internal fertilisation. In brief A tech savvy Reddit dweller has trained a machine-learning model to mimic David Attenborough's world-famous plummy voice.. [114], In 2005 and 2006, Attenborough backed a BirdLife International project to stop the killing of albatross by longline fishing boats. Attenborough stated that he felt evolution did not rule out the existence of a God and accepted the title of agnostic saying, "My view is: I don't know one way or the other but I don't think that evolution is against a belief in God". He later turned to the issues of global warming (The Truth about Climate Change, 2006) and human population growth (How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?, 2009). That is a theory. [27], He accepted Adams' offer of a three-month training course. [67], In 2011, Fothergill gave Attenborough a more prominent role in Frozen Planet, a major series on the natural history of the polar regions; Attenborough appeared on screen and authored the final episode, in addition to performing voiceover duties. No nature documentary is the same without hearing Attenborough's lulling British accent. [124], During the COVID-19 pandemic, Attenborough advocated on behalf of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and its conservation efforts, which have been impacted by the economic fallout from the pandemic. As he was neither an birdwatcher nor a bird expert, he decided he was better qualified to make The Life of Birds (1998) on the theme of behaviour. My name is Rowan Welch, and I'm eager to provide you with a high quality David Attenborough voiceover for your youtube videos and more. [33], BBC Two was launched in 1964, but had struggled to capture the public's imagination. [10] He is the middle of three sons; his elder brother, Richard (died in 2014), became an actor and director, and his younger brother, John (died in 2012), was an executive at Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo. [61] In 1997, he narrated the BBC Wildlife Specials, each focussing on a charismatic species, and screened to mark the Natural History Unit's 40th anniversary. [64], In 2009, he co-wrote and narrated Life, a ten-part series focussing on extraordinary animal behaviour,[65] and narrated Nature's Great Events, which showed how seasonal changes trigger major natural spectacles. The couple had two children, Robert and Susan. and Song Hunter, a series about folk music presented by Alan Lomax. [31], Attenborough became Controller of BBC 2 in March 1965, succeeding Michael Peacock. [179] In 2010, he was awarded Honorary Doctorates from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and Nottingham Trent University. [41], In 1969, Attenborough was promoted to director of programmes, making him responsible for the output of both BBC channels. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [121] The same year, he helped to launch ARKive,[122] a global project instigated by Parsons to gather together natural history media into a digital library. There's that smooth British accent. However, one of its research sub-sea vehicles was named "Boaty" in recognition of the public vote. "[101], In 2022, the United Nations Environment Programme recognised Attenborough as a Champion of the Earth "for his dedication to research, documentation, and advocacy for the protection of nature and its restoration". [91][92] This was followed by Extinction: The Facts, which is partly based on the 2019 IPBES report on the decline of biodiversity. [60] He has narrated over 50 episodes of Natural World, BBC Two's flagship wildlife series. In terms of being a voice talent for nature documentaries . The same team reunited for Planet Earth (2006), the biggest nature documentary ever made for television and the first BBC wildlife series to be shot in high definition. The series established many of the hallmarks of the BBC's natural history output. [165], In a 2020 interview, Attenborough criticised excess capitalism as a driver of ecological imbalance, stating "the excesses the capitalist system has brought us, have got to be curbed somehow", and that "greed does not actually lead to joy", although he added "That doesn't mean to say that capitalism is dead". [13] In 1950, Attenborough married Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel. Stream Sir David Attenborough Voice Impersonation - by Guy Harris by VoiceoverGuy on desktop and mobile. But I'm not. [153] The series contains a number of memorable two shots of Attenborough and his subjects, which included chimpanzees, a blue whale and a grizzly bear. Entitled David Attenborough's Life Stories, they were broadcast on Radio 4 on Friday nights. Although appearing as the on-screen presenter, he restricted his time on camera to give more time to his subjects. [97] In October 2020, Attenborough began filming in Cambridge for The Green Planet. His early projects included the quiz show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? [187], Attenborough has been featured as the subject of a number of BBC television programmes. [163] Attenborough was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in the 2014 referendum on that issue. [188], Attenborough was named the most trusted celebrity in the UK in a 2006 Reader's Digest poll,[189] and in 2007 he won The Culture Show's Living Icon Award. The source, which he did not reveal at the time, was a pond right next to the department. 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