Attenborough in Paradise
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Attenborough in Paradise is a BBC
television documentary
written and presented by David Attenborough
. It was first transmitted in 1996 and is part of the Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages
collection of seven documentaries.
In this program Attenborough fulfills a childhood ambition, developed after reading a book as a nine year old, to see the Greater Bird-of-paradise in display; and records the spectacular birdlife of the New Guinea
forest, in particular the various birds-of-paradise.
by Alfred Russel Wallace
.
53 min 15 sec
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
television documentary
Television documentary
Documentary television is a genre of television programming that broadcasts documentaries.* Documentary television series, a television series which is made up of documentary episodes....
written and presented by David Attenborough
David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...
. It was first transmitted in 1996 and is part of the Attenborough in Paradise and Other Personal Voyages
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.- Attenborough in Paradise :...
collection of seven documentaries.
In this program Attenborough fulfills a childhood ambition, developed after reading a book as a nine year old, to see the Greater Bird-of-paradise in display; and records the spectacular birdlife of the New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
forest, in particular the various birds-of-paradise.
Quotes
In the final piece to camera for this documentary David Attenborough introduces quotes from the 1869 book The Malay ArchipelagoThe Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch...
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...
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53 min 15 sec