Life on air

Amused and amusing, these are the working memoirs of one of the most influential, admired, and best-liked figures in English television.

At 26, he applied for a job at BBC Radio and was promptly turned down.

But someone asked if he would like to try television, he did, and fifty years later he is still at it.

Elegantly told, and often very funny, here is his story.

In the experimental stages of TV, ideas were needed, and the young Attenborough was not short of those He suggested that he should spend parr of each year abroad finding and filming exotic animals.

So his book covers both a hectic half-century in television, as well as expeditions to some very wild parts of the world.