The national treasure doesn’t have a lot of regrets

The man’s a national treasure. (Dave Benett/Getty Images)

Attenborough said: “He knew which strings to pull and I could see things coming to a head.

“Eventually, we had a meeting and it was agreed I wouldn’t look at British natural history at all.

“Instead, I would go to Africa, South America and so on and [they] could deal with natural history in Britain. And I stuck to that until very recently.”

Well, even if he has the regret over this, there’s no denying the huge scale of what he’s been able to achieve.

Ocean: With David Attenborough premieres with a special cinema release on 8 May before landing on National Geographic, Disney+ and Hulu later this year.