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The family consisted of three sons David, Sir Richard and John and two daughters - the girls were fostered through the Refugee Children's Movement. His father, Frederick, was the headmaster of University College, Leicester - and so David was raised on the college campus and collected fossils, stones, and newts which he sold to the local college for threepence per newt, even though the pond they lived in was less than five metres from the college.

In , aged only ten, David was introduced to the concept of conservation, when he attended a lecture on the subject and was immediately inspired by the speaker, Archibald Belaney. Conservation continues to be a subject dear to David's heart even today. Later, David won a scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge in , studying geology and zoology.

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His BA degree was in natural sciences. He started out in the "Talks" Department, working on non-fiction broadcasts including quiz shows, then began working on programmes linked to natural history. Attenborough did not wish to move from London, and so created his own department, "Travel and Exploration Unit", [2] which made it possible for him to continue working on natural history programmes there.

In he resigned from the BBC in order to continue his education with a postgraduate degree - this time in social anthropology. Attenborough continued to climb up the promotion ladder, even being suggested for Director-General of the BBC. He did not take the position, however, and in resigned again to return to his first love: working on programmes.

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He began to work as a freelance broadcaster and, after returning from Indonesia on another project, he started working on "Life on Earth", which began production in This series became a benchmark in wildlife film-making and a star of the BBC's natural history programmes. It was so successful that it was followed by "The Living Planet", which looked at ecology, then "The Trials of Life", looking at animal behaviour.

A memorable moment from the series was that of a killer whale leaping out of the sea to eat a sea lion. In , David received a knighthood and became Sir David.