"When Attenborough joined the , in 1952, what were then called “animal programs” were presented by the superintendent of the London Zoo, a Mr. George Cansdale. Once a week, Mr. Cansdale would bring a selection of more or less compliant creatures to the BBC studio. He “put them on a table covered with a doormat,” Attenborough remembers in the preface to his new book, Adventures of a Young Naturalist, “where they sat blinking in the intense lights.”"
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George Cansdale
(29 November 1909 – 24 August 1993) was a British zoologist, forester, conservationist, author, and in the 1950s and 1960s a famous television personality in the UK. From 1947 to 1953 he was Superintendent of the .
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