{"id":562562,"date":"2026-05-02T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562562\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:02:08","slug":"filmmakers-dream-finding-sir-david-attenborough-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562562\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker&#8217;s &#8216;dream&#8217; finding Sir David Attenborough creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He wrote to Sir David who replied within the week, thanking him and admitting he was &#8220;very flattered&#8221; by the idea and wishing him luck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s gone on all these amazing adventures when he was younger,&#8221; Eddowes said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always wanted to do these things but having a disability made it very difficult but I feel like now is the time I can go and achieve those things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His first episode in the series, Attenborough&#8217;s Animals: An Accessible Adventure, will air <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1l7m7j6lzjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Friday, Sir David&#8217;s 100th birthday,<\/a> with the next episode to follow in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Normally he said he filmed on his own but his fiancee Lauren had become his camerawoman and was also flying their drone &#8220;a bit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wanted to showcase that, even with a disability, you can present, you can be out in the wild,&#8221; Eddowes smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He wrote to Sir David who replied within the week, thanking him and admitting he was &#8220;very flattered&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-562562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}