![]() Fry secured a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature. He had a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from two schools and spent three months in prison for credit card fraud. Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist. In that time he has offered enormous support to the organisation and attended numerous events, including our centenary celebrations in 2003 and our 110th anniversary event in 2013 during which he was interviewed by Radio 4’s Libby Purves on the challenges of conservation for the future. Sir David became a member of FFI in 1959 and has been a vice-president since July 1979. He also contributed a programme highlighting the plight of endangered species to the BBC's Saving Planet Earth project in 2007, the 50th anniversary of the Natural History Unit. In State of the Planet (2000), he assessed the impact of man's activities on the natural world, while The Truth about Climate Change (2006) examined global warming. His most recent project for the BBC is Blue Planet II, the long-awaited and spectacular follow-up to his earlier documentary.Ī number of Sir David’s documentaries have adopted a more overtly environmentalist stance. More recently he has been collaborating with Sky, working on programmes for its 3D network including Flying Monsters 3D (2010) Kingdom of Plants 3D (2011) and Galapagos 3D (2012). Sir David’s long collaboration with the BBC Natural History Unit includes many groundbreaking nature documentaries: The Blue Planet (2001), the unit's first comprehensive series on marine life Planet Earth (2006), the biggest nature documentary ever made for television and the first in high definition Life (2009), focusing on extraordinary animal behaviour The Frozen Planet (2011), a major series on the natural history of the polar regions, and the epic Africa (2013). He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has spanned more than 60 years. Sir David Attenborough OM FRS is a broadcaster and naturalist.
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