Sir David reveals lapses in memory
SIR David Attenborough has told how he sometimes struggles to remember names as he approaches his 91st birthday.
The memory lapses mean it is taking him longer than usual to write the script for BBC series Blue Planet II.
And while the natural history broadcaster says he’s “coming to terms” with these difficulties, he admits they have made him “run into problems”. On a recent filming trip to Switzerland, he found that he couldn’t recall the name of a flower.
He said: “There were these searing yellow fields and I can’t think of the name. It wasn’t until we got close to Geneva that I thought, ‘Of course, oil seed rape’.”
He will appear in Blue Planet II the same number of times he appeared in last year’s Planet Earth II – twice.