“If there is one thing I regret, and to be honest there isn’t a lot, it would be that I spent so much time doing overseas natural history,” he had previously told the Telegraph.
However, he was able to partially address it when Wild Isles was released in 2023, as Sir David praised “the wonders of British wildlife.”
According to his explanation in the interview, Sir David was supposed to concentrate on nature elsewhere since early in his career there was ‘a chap trying to build Bristol as a centre of natural history’.
Meanwhile, British nature would be the subject of the BBC’s Natural History Unit, which was founded in Bristol in 1957.
“I could see things coming to a head, and he knew which strings to pull,” Attenborough recalled.After a while, we met and decided that I would not study British natural history at all.
“Instead, [they] might engage with natural history in Britain, and I would travel to South America, Africa, and other places.
