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NOW aged 85, David Attenborough has been making natural history programmes since the early 1950s.
His latest programme is The Bachelor King, which will air on Sky 3D at 8pm on New Year's Eve. It charts the lifespan of a penguin living in South Georgia. How did you get involved in the Bachelor King?: Anthony Geffen of Atlantic Films and I had made a 3D film together, which I suppose was one of the first 3D films made that wasn't for the cinema. It was about pterosaurs, flying prehistoric reptiles, and it did very well. The question was, what can we do next? I came up with the idea of going to South Georgia because it's full of penguins, elephant seals, albatross and sea lions, all of which are very approachable, but all of which live very dramatic lives. It sounds like it could almost be a human story: In as much as things are born, eat, reproduce and die, yes. Yes, we're telling a story, but it's not anthropomorphised. What it is is a story of what a typical king penguin does, what it eats, how it finds its mate, lays its eggs and rears its chick.See the full content of this document
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