TV LEGEND ATTENBOROUGH ON WHAT I’ve waited 50 years to film a golden snub nosed monkey and now I’ve finally done it

nervous gentoo penguins. Sir David said: “I would like the audience to appreciate how beautiful these things are. But also how they integrate with others and how we are dependent on them.

“Each continent has its own systems. Our i nfluence is everywhere and we’ve made a tragic, desperate mess of it so far.

“But at last nations are coming together and recognising we all live on the same planet.

“All these seven worlds are one and we are dependent on it for every bit of food we eat and every breath we take.” Sir David’s programmes have hugely influenced how people see their world. Blue Planet 2 was crucial in raising awareness about plastics in seas.

But the film crew are very careful about how they interact with the natural environment.

Sir David said: “In some circumstances when the animal is in isolation, like a penguin, if it gets into trouble maybe you can help it and that’s OK.

“But when you have a cheetah stalking a baby antelope, if you interfere with it you are likely to cause more trouble than not.

“If you frighten the cheetah away, you frighten the antelope. The cheetah will be without its food and it will go and find another one.

“So you end up causing more problems if you don’t let nature takes its course. Th baby cheetahs have to feed so y have got to be careful that y know what you’re doing.”

Sir David, who was knighted 1985, admitted he is finally slow down. For the new series travelled only to Kenya a Iceland. He said: “I am reasona active and I can walk around I can’t walk for five hours a with a heavy rucksack. I don’t th