Buying your David Attenborough DVDs online is the easiest way to grab his DVDs. Attenborough was born in 1926 and went to Cambridge and has 2 children, Robert and Susan. Sadly his wife Elizabeth died in 1997 after 47 years of marriage. He started work for the BBC way back in 1950 as a radio producer and for a time ran BBC2 in the UK. His most famous work came in 1979 with his Life on Earth series followed 5 years later by The Living Planet. After 60 years of broadcasting he's still going strong with an huge body of work, constantly coming out.