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UNCOVERED: 23 | History Defined

New David Attenborough series about UK and Ireland likely to be his last on location

At 96, the nature presenter is set to return to TV screens for a landmark series on British and Irish natural history

The Guardian - UK

Extinct elephant birds were 3 metres tall and weighed 700kg. Now, DNA from fossil eggshells reveals how they lived

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record.

The Conversation

‘Try not to step on any toads!’: David Attenborough’s camera wizards on how to film Britain’s wildlife

They have shot previously extinct butterflies, soaring white-tailed eagles and the lesser spotted David Attenborough. Now the team behind some of the BBC’s best nature docs are training their lenses closer to home

The Guardian - UK

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Race to save £50m Reynolds painting showing early portrait of person of colour

Exclusive: There are just two weeks to save the £50m 18th-century Joshua Reynolds painting – one of the earliest portraits of a person of colour – or it could be lost to a foreign buyer

The Independent UK

David Attenborough admits his biggest regret of his 69 year career is working abroad

Nature documentary maker Sir David Attenborough has had a remarkable 69 year career, but still regrets spending so much time covering natural history overseas

Daily Mirror

Sir David Attenborough shares the one thing he regrets from seven decade career

The legendary broadcaster is still making nature programmes at the age of 96

Wales Online

Queen's hilarious joke about Donald Trump after awkward moment at Buckingham Palace

The late Queen was walking through the gardens of Buckingham Palace with environmentalist Sir David Attenborough when she cracked the joke about the former U.S President and his helicopter

Daily Mirror

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Sylvia Earle: ‘We are on the brink – a million species may be lost’

We are a species that is superb at killing, says veteran oceanographer, who calls for us to stop treating fish like crops and give them the respect they deserve

The Guardian - UK

‘Making pictures is a better high than sex and drugs’: David Hockney on painting into his eighties and creating the most ambitious show of his career

The artist reminisces with Geordie Greig and looks forward to the new immersive, cinematic experience of his work in London

The Independent UK

The Last of Us' horrifying zombie fungi is real - but humans have a worse threat

The Cordyceps brain infection, which turns humans into mushroom-headed zombies in HBO's The Last of Us, is based on a real-life fungus that takes over its victims' minds

Daily Mirror

Memories of the BBC’s innovative Open Door series

Letters: While producers gave participants control, there were some lines that couldn’t be crossed, says David Griffiths, while Tony Laryea emphasises the role of Rowan Ayers

The Guardian - UK

Strictly Come Dancing's Hamza Yassin's company falls £55,000 into debt

Strictly Come Dancing champion and wildlife documentary maker Hamza Yassin suffered a £55,000 loss to his business firm

Daily Mirror

Sir David Attenborough: ‘Internal BBC politics’ took my career abroad

The 96-year-old spoke to presenter Chris Packham for Winterwatch.

The Independent UK

The making of The Last of Us: from smash-hit video game to brilliant TV show

How David Attenborough helped spark a zombie revolution

Evening Standard

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Daily Record

Strictly's Hamza Yassin determined to carry on Sir David Attenborough's legacy

The adopted Scot and BBC cameraman is being tipped to be the next big TV naturalist.

Daily Mirror

Strictly winner Hamza Yassin determined to carry on Sir David Attenborough’s legacy

Strictly Come Dancing winner Hamza Yassin, who also works as a wildlife cameraman and CBeebies presenter, is determined to carry on David Attenborough’s legacy

ABC News

David Parer and Liz Parer-Cook: the husband-and-wife wildlife documentary-making team

David Parer and Liz Parer-Cook make award-winning natural history films that capture amazing footage of animals in the wild.

The Independent UK

Designer Dame Mary Quant gets top honour in New Year Honours list

Order of the Companions of Honour members include broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and actress Dame Judi Dench.

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The Guardian - AU

From Marilyn to Shakespeare: how well do you know history’s most bungled quotes?

The internet is full of wonky attributions and made-up catchphrases, from real life and pop culture. Can you tell your Attenborough from your Armstrong?

Daily Mirror

BBC Dynasties captures rare images of monkeys fighting for power after leader vanished

Rare footage shows the Barbary macaques battling for the role of 'chief monkey' in Africa's Atlas Mountains after realising their leader of seven years had disappeared

Evening Standard

Taking on the nurses is like punching David Attenborough — a truly awful look

Life inside a Whitehall department can be comically slow and sober — it makes a municipal library seem like the Berghain. When I worked in the Treasury yonks ago, the sleepy gentility of the place used to drive me a bit loopy.

Liverpool Echo

Cammell Laird records £4.4m losses after cutting 146 jobs

The Birkenhead business has posted a loss for a fifth consecutive year

Birmingham Post

RRS Sir David Attenborough builder racks up fifth year of losses after cutting 146 jobs

Over the year the company also carried out work on the RFA Tidesurge, BAE Systems' Dreadnought Submarine programme, HMS Dauntless and HMS Daring

ABC News

Bug wrangler Alan Henderson reveals tricks of the trade for making nature documentaries

Alan Henderson grew up idolising Sir David Attenborough. Now he works alongside him as a bug wrangler — and knows all the tricks of the trade.

The Guardian - UK

Hamza Yassin: Strictly winner being touted as next David Attenborough

Wildlife TV presenter tipped for success after capturing country’s heart on path to Strictly victory

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