After Dinner Speakers: David Attenborough, Richard Holmes, Eddie Izzard

Sir David is, by common consent, the world’s master wildlife documentary presenter. His power of story telling is legendary. Nobody who knows his work over 40 years could doubt that he is one of Britain’s foremost broadcasters, and one of the last of the great on-screen presenters. In Britain he is a household name, and, among those who are not royalty, movie, music or sports stars or politicians, one of the few people to be recognised in the street. Modesty is one of his endearing qualities. His “little knowledge” is equivalent to most people's “great learning”. All his series’ are written to his own words and put together largely as he has planned. His rare skill is being able to compress often complex behaviour into a succinct and understandable sequence, and deliver it to a script that is a model of precision.