1990s
Year | Title | Duration | Subject | Credit(s) |
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1990 | The Trials of Life | 12x50min | The final part of the original Trilogy of Life deals with the animal behaviour, with each episode focusing on a particular stage of animals' lives | Writer and presenter |
1993 | Life in the Freezer | 6x30min | A collaboration with Alastair Fothergill, this was the first series devoted to the natural history of Antarctica | Writer and presenter |
1993 | Wildlife 100 | Unknown | To mark the 100th episode of Wildlife on One, Attenborough selected his favourite episodes from past series for this special | Narrator |
1994 | Heart of a Nomad | 1x60min | Attenborough interviews the British explorer and writer Wilfred Thesiger for a Channel 4 documentary | Presenter |
1995 | The Private Life of Plants | 6x50min | In the first of his more specialised Life series, Attenborough brought the world of plants to life using innovations such as timelapse photography | Writer and presenter |
1996 | Winners and Losers | 2x45min | A look at how the subjects of early wildlife filmmaker Eugene Schumacher's 1960s documentary The Rare Ones have fared in the intervening years | Narrator |
1996 | Q.E.D. "The Secret Life of Seahorses" | 1x45min | Attenborough lends his voice to an episode of BBC One's regular half-hour science series, featuring seahorses | Narrator |
1996 | Attenborough in Paradise | 1x50min | Attenborough fulfils a lifelong ambition in New Guinea, where he finally witnesses several birds of paradise species displaying | Writer and presenter |
1997 | BBC Wildlife Specials | 16x50min | After a pilot episode on the great white shark in 1995, the Wildlife Special format was developed into a six-part series to mark the Natural History Unit's 40th anniversary in 1997. Further programmes followed on an occasional basis over the following decade | Narrator |
1998 | The Life of Birds | 10x50min | For this series, infrared cameras were employed for the first time to film nocturnal birds such as kiwis and shearwaters | Writer and presenter |
1998 | The Origin of Species: An Illustrated Guide | 1x30min | Broadcast as part of a BBC season on evolution, this programme used library footage to help explain Charles Darwin's theory | Narrator |
1999 | Sharks - The Truth | 1x50min | A programme which seeks to dispel some of the received wisdom surrounding shark behaviour, broadcast as part of BBC One's Shark Summer season | Narrator |
1999 | They Said It Couldn't Be Done | 7x60min | On the eve of the millennium, Attenborough interviews a series of leading wildlife film-makers in front of an audience at the Royal Geographical Society to discover the secrets behind some of their most famous programmes | Presenter |
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