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Attenborough doubted she would allow a film crew anywhere near her gorillas. But weeks after
film-making, leading in 1979 to the 13-part series Life on Earth. In one acclaimed episode, he had an unexpectedly close encounter with an adult male gorilla in Rwanda. In an unruffled monologue
gorilla than any other animal I know," he tells the camera. ![Head of creative enterprise, Maddie Hall, watches hundreds of television screens with David Attenborough's face, from when he was a young broadcaster, projected
gorillas, which he later described as "one of the most exciting encounters of my life". The Bafta-nominated series was watched by up to 500 million people worldwide and set the template for what would