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The Song Of The Earth
''The Song of the Earth: A Natural History of Music'' is a BBC documentary presented by David Attenborough and written and directed by Grant Sonnex. It was first transmitted in 2000 and is part of the Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages ''Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages'' is a DVD collection of seven David Attenborough BBC documentary specials. Documentary Summaries ''A Blank on the Map'' (1971) The central area of New Guinea was thought to be uninhabit ... collection of 7 documentaries. References *From DVD External links * BBC television documentaries Documentaries about music {{documentary-tv-prog-stub ...
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Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are Educational film, educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very Informational listening, informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social media platfor ...
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David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, the nine natural history documentary series forming the ''Life'' collection, a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. Attenborough was a senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. First becoming prominent as host of ''Zoo Quest'' in 1954, his filmography as writer, presenter and narrator has spanned eight decades; it includes ''Natural World'', ''Wildlife on One'', the ''Planet Earth'' franchise, ''The Blue Planet'' and its sequel. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black and white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolutions. Over his life he has collected dozens of honorary degrees and awards, including 3 Emmy Awards for ...
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Life On Air
''Life on Air: David Attenborough's 50 Years in Television'' is a BBC documentary film that recounts David Attenborough's television career. It is presented by Michael Palin and produced by Brian Leith. The BBC first transmitted the documentary in 2002 and is part of the ''Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages ''Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages'' is a DVD collection of seven David Attenborough BBC documentary specials. Documentary Summaries ''A Blank on the Map'' (1971) The central area of New Guinea was thought to be uninhabit ...'' collection of 7 documentaries. It includes interviews with Attenborough and several of his former colleagues, along with archival footage. There is also an autobiographical book of the same title. Quotes 45 min 10 sec 55 min 0 sec References BBC television documentaries Documentary films about nature {{bio-documentary-film-stub ...
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Attenborough In Paradise And Other Personal Voyages
''Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages'' is a DVD collection of seven David Attenborough BBC documentary specials. Documentary Summaries ''A Blank on the Map'' (1971) The central area of New Guinea was thought to be uninhabited until aerial photographs showed signs of human habitation. Attenborough accompanies an expedition into the interior to find and make contact with these people and map the area. ''Attenborough in Paradise'' (1996) Attenborough achieves a childhood ambition of finding and filming the birds-of-paradise described by Alfred Russel Wallace in his book, ''The Malay Archipelago''. He visits New Guinea and surrounding islands to track down these breath-takingly beautiful birds. Their plumage, colours and mating dances are spectacular. The environment is so benign that the female birds can build their nests and raise their young without the help of males, so the females choose a mate on the basis of his beauty and dancing ability alone. As a ...
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Grant Sonnex
Grant Sonnex is a furniture designer and former BBC radio presenter. Background Sonnex worked for 20 years as a wildlife radio producer with the BBC Natural History Unit, he also presented documentary programmes on BBC Radio 4, several of which are available in RealAudio format from the BBC website. In 1998 he received a Glaxo Wellcome ABSW Science Writers' Award for best contribution to a radio programme on a science subject. He left the BBC and retrained as a furniture designer, setting up a studio in Gloucestershire. In 2013 he moved to St Davids, Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire ( ; cy, Sir Benfro ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and the rest by sea. The count ... and is now designing and hand-making furniture in his workshop. He makes tables and sideboards and, in January 2014, a table he had made unexpectedly appeared on an ep ...
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