Overview
- Scheduled for David Attenborough’s 100th birthday week in May, the season combines new commissions with curated broadcasts from his archive.
- The three new titles are Making Life on Earth: Attenborough’s Greatest Adventure, Secret Garden, and David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth.
- The Royal Albert Hall celebration will air live on BBC One and iPlayer, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and special guests.
- Making Life on Earth revisits the 1979 landmark series with new interviews and production stories, including a coup in the Comoros, gunfire in Rwanda, and threats from Saddam Hussein’s forces in Iraq.
- Secret Garden is a five‑part BBC One series exploring wildlife in UK gardens, highlighting practical steps for viewers to help species, with context that gardens nationwide cover more area than national nature reserves.