Did BBC axe Attenborough’s film on rewilding over backlash fear?

THE BBC is embroiled in a fresh impartiality row over the decision not to put a David Attenborough film on television.

Sir David, pictured, will narrate Wild Isles, a five-part documentary on nature in the British Isles to air on their primetime Sunday night slot.

But yesterday it was claimed a follow-up film, named ‘Saving Our Wild Isles’, which focuses on the destruction of nature, as well as the controversial subject of rewilding, will only be made available on iPlayer over fears of a backlash from Right-wing politicians. The decision has angered programme-makers, who fear the BBC has bowed to pressure from lobbying groups with ‘dinosaurian ways’, The Guardian said. The BBC insists the show was only acquired for iPlayer.